Antelo Muñiz, Fátima (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
This thesis is structured in three chapters. In chapter 1, I address managerial opportunism towards workers. I present a theoretical model and test it. Results suggest that outside opportunities are ...
Dallari, Pietro (Date of defense: 2014-06-16)
This thesis adopts DSGE and PVAR models to examine three questions in macroeconomics. The first chapter singles out some pitfalls that DSGE models face when a fraction of rule-of-thumb consumers is ...
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 ...
Schmitz, Tom (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
In this thesis, I show that macroeconomic models which take into account firm- and industrylevel heterogeneity provide a more precise understanding of productivity growth dynamics than models with ...
Fabiani, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
Do financial intermediaries influence firms’ (real and financial) outcomes? Are there interactions with monetary and macroprudential policy? This thesis tackles those questions from multiple perspectives. ...
Guasch Mercadé, Martí (Date of defense: 2019-10-10)
This thesis focuses on the use of accounting information to mitigate the severe information asymmetries existing between young firms and capital providers. The first chapter studies the importance of ...
Jimenez-Martin, Sergi (Date of defense: 1994-11-02)
Throughout all the chapters we have considered some union variables (particularly the proportion of workers representatives belonging to a given union) to capture any difference in bargaining power ...
Amodio, Francesco (Date of defense: 2015-06-11)
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of externalities and social interaction mechanisms in various settings. In the first chapter, I show how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers ...
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 ...
Brückner, Markus (Date of defense: 2010-11-15)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines empirically the relationship<br/>between foreign aid and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries. Instrumental<br/>variables ...