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    Essays in non-market strategies 

    Zhou, Feng (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

    This dissertation consists of three papers examining the implications of non-market strategies in corporations and mutual funds. The first chapter quantifies the importance of political connections to congressional ...

    Essays in organizational economics 

    Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)

    New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation ...

    Essays in political economy and finance 

    Stahl, Jörg Rolf (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)

    This thesis explores the interactions between the political and corporate environment. In the first chapter, I examine the high concentration of headquarters in capital cities and the incentives for firms to locate in close ...

    Essays in safe assets: trends, drivers and implications for financial stability 

    Castells Jauregui, Madalen (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)

    This dissertation consists of three chapters centred on safe assets, shedding light on different aspects of the growing literature on the subject. Chapter 1 introduces the set of assets that falls under the safe category, ...

    Essays in structural macroeconometrics 

    Pérez Forero, Fernando José (Date of defense: 2013-06-18)

    This thesis is concerned with the structural estimation of macroeconomic models via Bayesian methods and the economic implications derived from its empirical output. The first chapter provides a general method for estimating ...

    Essays in the economics of health and wellbeing 

    Schwandt, Hannes (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)

    The three chapters of this thesis investigate different aspects of the economics of health and wellbeing. The first chapter tests the rationality of life satisfaction forecasts. Contrary to the rational expectations ...

    Essays in the economics of information 

    Donati, Dante (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)

    This dissertation consists of three essays that empirically test economic theories on the causal effect of information on individuals and firms. The first chapter studies the consequences of lower consumer search costs ...

    Essays in the economics of migration 

    Willis, Sébastien (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)

    This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I ...

    Essays in theory of the firm and indivisual decision making experiments 

    Ursino, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2009-10-28)

    Esta tesis se compone de dos partes separadas y sin relación entre ellas. El primer capítulo, coautorado con el Profesor Greg Barron, es un experimento en toma de decisiones individuales. Este capítulo se construye a partir ...

    Essays in time series econometrics 

    Flores, Jairo (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)

    This doctoral thesis develops new methods for time series analysis and applies these to prominent empirical problems in macroeconomics. It contains three chapters. Chapter one proposes a new non-parametric generalized method ...

    Essays in volatility estimation based on high frequency data 

    Sun, Yucheng (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)

    Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. The first chapter ...

    Essays on agent heterogeneity in macroeconomics 

    Smirnov, Danila (Date of defense: 2023-06-12)

    In my Ph.D. thesis, I study the subjects of monetary economics, heterogeneity of households and firms, and optimal policy. I solve models with rich heterogeneity and use statistical models to work with time series macro ...

    Essays on banking and financial instability 

    Wei, Jianxing (Date of defense: 2018-06-25)

    This thesis focuses on the issue of bank funding structure and its implications for financial instability. The first chapter investigates how the dynamic interaction between the regulator and banks can endogenously lead to ...

    Essays on banking, international finance and monetary policy 

    Gülsen, Eda (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)

    This thesis contributes to the empirical literature that analyses the link between banking, international finance and monetary policy. It studies several micro-level supervisory databases, each crucial for identification. ...

    Essays on bayesian and classical econometrics with small samples 

    Jarocinski, Marek (Date of defense: 2006-06-15)

    Esta tesis se ocupa de los problemas de la estimación econométrica con muestras pequeñas, en los contextos del los VARs monetarios y de la investigación empírica del crecimiento. Primero, demuestra cómo mejorar el análisis ...

    Essays on behavioral economics 

    Sánchez Moscona, Daniel (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)

    This thesis consists of three independent essays on behavioral economic theory. The rst article (Chapter 2) builds a framework of rational decision-making with conformity. The approach in this chapter is axiomatic. I ...

    Essays on behavioral economics 

    Puig Pomés, David (Date of defense: 2023-04-04)

    This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article (Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically well-documented driver ...

    Essays on board of directors composition and firm outcomes 

    Manini, Raffaele (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)

    This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk ...

    Essays on causal performance measurement models 

    Kasperskaya, Yulia (Date of defense: 2007-03-21)

    La tesis trata de los modelos de gestión modernos de naturaleza causal, entre los que destaca el Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI). En primer lugar, se presenta un análisis conceptual su supuesto central, las relaciones ...

    Essays on child health and family economics 

    Costa Ramón, Ana (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)

    This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the effect of children’s health shocks on children’s and parent’s wellbeing. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of C-sections on newborn health. ...