Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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In Part I of this thesis, I show that, when immigrants’ host and home countries engage in trade, labor market returns to cultural capital specific to the trading partner increase. Using two trade liberalization episodes, ...
This thesis comprises three essays on statistical learning theory for time series. In the first chapter, joint with Christian Brownlees, we propose an alternative specification of a dynamic conditional correlation model ...
This dissertation focuses on learning and expectations formation in Macroeconomics and Finance and the role of information production in shaping macroeconomic fluctuations. The first chapter provides a theory of information ...
In Chapter 1 I investigate the economic importance of correlation in mutual fund flows for funds with overlapping portfolio positions. I illustrate theoretically that commonality in trading by funds due to flow correlation ...
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured lending, relative ...
This thesis is composed of three essays in which I analyze how heterogeneity in productivity, either on the worker or on the firm side, interacts with the size of local labor markets and a set of outcomes of interest. In ...
In the first chapter, I study how human populations adapt to ethnically diverse societies. Using new data on a natural experiment from Peru’s colonial history, the results show that ethnic diversity need not spell poor ...
This thesis analyses the effects of expanding public Long-Term Care (LTC) benefits in Spain, using three different approaches. In the first chapter, I estimate the impact of public LTC allowances on the mortality of the ...
This dissertation includes three chapters on the macroeconomic effects of the financial system, particularly the credit market. In the first chapter, I show a causal link between household credit supply and economic ...
This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomic policy and business cy-cles. In chapter 1, I estimate a time-varying structural VAR to study the effects of government spending shocks on a number of U.S. macroeconomic ...
Aquesta tesi conté tres assaigs sobre macroeconomia i anàlisi textual. En el primer capítol, estudio l’impacte de la polarització política sobre les polítiques mediambientals utilitzant propostes de llei de les ...
This thesis examines the interactions between marital patterns, inequality, and fertility. In the first chapter I analyze the impact of search frictions on marital assortative matching. I exploit a temporary interruption ...
The thesis is divided into three chapters.<br/><br/>1) I study how monetary policy should be optimally designed when households show financial wealth heterogeneity.<br/>Main results: thanks to its ability to affect interest ...
The thesis consists of three chapters: Chapter 2 investigates, in the context of a two-country model with monopolistic competition and price stickiness, the implications for macroeconomic stability and the welfare ...
This thesis consists of three chapters on monetary economics. In the first chapter, I explore if a benchmark Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model fits the heterogeneous response of monetary policy shocks observed ...
In my PhD thesis, I extend the basic New Keynesian (NK) model (Galí (2015), Woodford (2003)) on three distinct dimensions. (i) In the first chapter, I introduce endogenous money creation by private banks (``inside-money''). ...
This thesis consists three chapters on topics in monetary economics and applied macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where the central bank has private information about future economic conditions. ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key externalities are ...
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. The first chapter investigates the redistributive role minimum wages can play over the cycle and the implied effects on macroeconomic stability. To this end, I develop ...
Mi tesis se basa en los resultados de least squares learning, que modela agentes individuales como econometricos: los agentes funcionan como regresiones, usan datos disponibles para formar sus expectativas. En el primer ...
