Rossi, Luca (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)
This thesis empirically investigates different aspects of time-varying volatility. Chapter 1 estimates a large TVP-FAVAR and recovers a dynamic directed network of connections between European stock ...
Sajons, Gwendolin Beatriz (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
This thesis examines the relationships among managerial justice and employee attitudes, emotions and behaviors to re-conceptualize the traditional causal frameworks of the justice literature. In the ...
Koudijs, Peter Arie Eliza (Date of defense: 2011-06-06)
The three chapters of this thesis revolve around the trade in English stocks in the Amsterdam market during the 18th century. In the first chapter I use the primitive communication technology of that ...
Heusch, Niklas (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness ...
Merino Castelló, Anna (Date of defense: 2003-10-15)
A pesar de las ventajas económicas que a priori ofrecen los medicamentos genéricos, su tasa de penetración en el territorio nacional no alcanza de cuota de mercado de los correspondientes productos de ...
Brutti, Filippo (Date of defense: 2010-02-11)
Income growth is much more volatile in developing countries than in developed ones. One argument is that weak legal and political institutions exacerbate macroeconomic shocks precipitating the economy ...
Jagadits, András (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
This thesis studies questions at the intersection of labor economics and the literature of structural change. The first chapter empirically assesses the impact of emigration on structural change. ...
Cairó, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-06-11)
This thesis investigates the role of human capital in understanding recent developments in the U.S. labor market. Chapter 1 provides novel empirical evidence suggesting that an increasing importance of ...
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 ...
Ferroni, Filippo (Date of defense: 2009-05-25)
Esta tesis presenta tres diferentes experimentos de política utilizando estimaciones Bayesianas de modelos DSGE. En la primera parte, se quiere demostrar que una política fiscal contracíclica es un ...