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    Essays on economic uncertainty 

    Soupre, Matthieu (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)

    These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty that allows ...

    Essays on emerging markets 

    Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)

    This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic pseudo panels, the ...

    Essays on Emotions and Consumer Behavior in Culinary Contexts 

    Kaya, Sandra (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

    This dissertation sheds light on the impact of emotions on consumer behavior within culinary contexts. Comprising three chapters, the research presents a holistic exploration through lab experiments and field studies. ...

    Essays on experimental economics: preference Reserval and networks 

    Gunes, Serife Basak (Date of defense: 2009-10-02)

    Esta tesis utiliza un enfoque experimental para comprender las interacciones dentro de redes y percibir las decisiones causando inversión de preferencia (IP). El Capítulo 1 experimentalmente introduce comunicaciones no ...

    Essays on finance and development 

    Ponticelli, Jacopo (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)

    This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter I study the effect of financial reform on firms. In particular, I study to what extent this effect depends on enforcement's quality. I ...

    Essays on financial intermediation and risk 

    Scherrieble, Willy (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)

    This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in the German manufacturing ...

    Essays on firm behavior and productivity 

    Petrella, Andrea (Date of defense: 2017-11-06)

    This thesis investigates different aspects of firm behavior. In the first chapter I study if the quality of civil justice affects the firms’ participation to Global Value Chains. I find that firms subject to less efficient ...

    Essays on firm dynamics and financial markets 

    Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)

    This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game condition in a model with ...

    Essays on gender, development and human capital investment 

    Gavalyugova, Dimitria (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)

    This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian garment industry on ...

    Essays on heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics 

    Caracciolo, Giacomo (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)

    Limited asset market participation is a well-known stylized fact and a widespread phenomenon even in developed economies. While existing models have already examined the effects of social security and its reforms on ...

    Essays on high-dimensional bayesian inference 

    Torrens i Dinarès, Miquel (Date of defense: 2022-07-26)

    This thesis studies the capabilities of Bayesian estimators in high-dimen-sional generalised linear models, with a particular focus on treatment effect estimation. The first of four chapters provides the necessary ...

    Essays on human capital and labor market dynamics 

    Cairó, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-06-11)

    This thesis investigates the role of human capital in understanding recent developments in the U.S. labor market. Chapter 1 provides novel empirical evidence suggesting that an increasing importance of on-the-job human ...

    Essays on indexability of stochastic sheduling and dynamic allocation problems 

    Ruíz Hernández, Diego (Date of defense: 2007-04-13)

    In this Thesis, we first deploy Gittins index theory to establish the indexability of inter-alia general families of restless bandits that arise in problems of stochastic scheduling with switching penalties and machine ...

    Essays on individual choice 

    López, Rafael (Date of defense: 2005-04-15)

    This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2) focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility model of Individual Intertemporal Choice: ...

    Essays on individual decision making 

    Yamamoto, Shohei (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)

    This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation to time), how decisions are influenced by subtle behavioral interventions called nudges, and under which circumstances the ...

    Essays on industry dynamics and misallocation 

    Liu, Shangyu (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)

    This thesis explores the linkages among resource allocation, industry dynamics, and asset price bubbles in China. In the first chapter, I break the source of misallocation into four groups: uncertainty, ownership difference, ...

    Essays on inequalities in economics of labor and education 

    Baertsch, Laurenz (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)

    This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options in paid parental ...

    Essays on inflation dynamics and monetary policy 

    Höynck, Christian (Date of defense: 2021-01-07)

    This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are connected through ...

    Essays on Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy in Currency Areas 

    Cecioni, Martina (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)

    Esta tesis extiende el modelo estándar Neo Keynesiano con el propósito de contestar dos preguntas: ¿cómo debe ser diseñada la política monetaria en uniones monetarias heterogéneas? y ¿cuál es el efecto de presiones ...

    Essays on Inflation Expectations, Heterogeneous Agents, and the Use of Approximated Solutions in the Estimation of DSGE models 

    Ormeño Sánchez, Arturo (Date of defense: 2011-09-21)

    In this thesis I evaluate the departures of three common assumptions in macroeconomic modeling and estimation, namely the Rational Expectations (RE) hypothesis, the representative agent assumption and the use of first-order ...