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Milán, Pau (Fecha de defensa: 2016-06-16)
This thesis explores various economic environments where the structure of social interactions across individuals determines outcomes. In the first chapter, I study mutual insurance arrangements restricted ...
Eksi, Ozan (Fecha de defensa: 2010-06-29)
This thesis is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I identify and explore the fundamental relationship between income inequality and GDP volatility. I give theoretical insight of this ...
Pozo Sánchez, Jorge (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-11)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, I develop a two-period small open economy with banks. The interaction of the limited liability faced by banks and the bank deposit ...
Surovtseva, Tetyana (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Anguera Torrell, Oriol (Fecha de defensa: 2016-06-23)
This thesis is composed of three self-contained chapters. In the first chapter, I propose a theoretical model that shows that trusting strangers is one of the channels through which institutions determine ...
Goñi i Tràfach, Marc (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Wei, Jianxing (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Figueiredo, Ana (Fecha de defensa: 2018-09-28)
This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education ...
Soyer, Emre (Fecha de defensa: 2012-06-14)
This thesis incorporates three studies that analyze how information is presented in various contexts, how these different modes of presentation affect decision makers’ perceptions and how to improve ...
Daniele, Federica (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...