Figueiredo, Ana (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 ...
Karapandza, Rasa (Date of defense: 2009-04-17)
El primer capítol, titulat "PROMETENT FRACÀS: Retòrica Política i Empresatial com a Determinant de l'Èxit" estableix una relació negativa entre el número de promeses fetes per polítics i companyies i ...
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 ...
Hosseini, Rahil (Date of defense: 2020-09-09)
In this thesis, I explored three topics, each addressing a different aspect online search for products and people. In chapter one, we investigated whether consumers’ response to online product reviews ...
Maliar, Lilia (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)
The thesis studies quantitative implications of the real business cycle models with heterogeneous agents. The questions I ask are: First, Can the studied models not only replicate the aggregate time ...
Gavalyugova, Dimitria (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian ...
Weinke, Lutz (Date of defense: 2005-03-31)
La tesis estudia la relación entre las inversiones y la inflación. El primer capitulo muestra que esta relación es más simple (en el contexto de un modelo del tipo neo-keynesiano) de lo que la literatura ...
Liaudinskas, Karolis (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial ...
Huber, Stefanie J. (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
This thesis sheds light on certain macroeconomic aspects of the housing market. Chapter 1 explores a novel channel for house price bubble formation: the demand for housing consumption. I argue that the ...