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Laureys, Lien (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of the labor market and economic policy. Chapter 1 analyzes whether the presence of human capital depreciation during unemployment calls for policy intervention. I ...
Surovtseva, Tetyana (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
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, ...
Llorens-Terrazas, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)
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 ...
Ambrocio, Gene (Date of defense: 2015-09-29)
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 ...
Umlauft, Roland (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
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 ...
Garvin, Nicholas (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
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 ...
Daniele, Federica (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
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 ...
Artiles, Miriam (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
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 ...
Hernández-Pizarro, Helena M. (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
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 ...
Tripathy, Jagdish (Date of defense: 2016-11-22)
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 ...
Ou, Shengliang (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
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 ...
Martín Vilató, Zoel (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
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 ...
Goñi i Tràfach, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-04-27)
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 ...
Pescatori, Andrea (Date of defense: 2006-12-18)
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 ...
Pappa, Evi (Date of defense: 2001-11-22)
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 ...
Evans, Christopher Michael (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
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 ...
Manea, Cristina (Date of defense: 2020-04-30)
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''). ...
Zhang, Donghai (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
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. ...
Kanngiesser, Derrick (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
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 ...
Diz, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2019-10-03)
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 ...