Pozo Sánchez, Jorge (Date of defense: 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 (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 ...
Pirc, Mitja (Date of defense: 2008-11-10)
En esta tesis se trabajan tres temas de investigación relacionados con los procesos de evaluación y toma de decisión (ETD) de los consumidores, y en particular sobre la lealtad. En los trabajos se asume ...
Anguera Torrell, Oriol (Date of defense: 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 ...
López, Rafael (Date of defense: 2005-04-15)
This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2) focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility model of Individual ...
Scherrieble, Willy (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)
This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in ...
Colomé, Rosa (Date of defense: 2002-05-17)
L'objectiu bàsic d'aquesta tesis doctoral és la incorporació dels models de preferència revelada d'elecció del consumidor en els models de localització competitiva en entorns discrets que tenen com a ...
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 ...
Wei, Jianxing (Date of defense: 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 ...
Kastrau, Philipp (Date of defense: 2022-05-30)
This thesis consists of three independent chapters which all utilize primary data from Sierra Leone. The first chapter uses a field experiment to show that financial incentives maximize output in an ...