Palacios Fenech, Javier (Date of defense: 2011-10-07)
Diffusion of 31 durable goods in 70 countries over a period of 32 years is analyzed using principal component analysis biplots. While marketers have focused on adoption of innovations, studying ...
Ghifrani, Erfan (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, ...
Pirla Lopez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2022-05-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived ...
Rojas Zea, Youel (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for ...
Morazzoni, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows ...
Gutiérrez-Daza, Ángelo (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
Empirical evidence suggests that consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other words, they learn by shopping. This dissertation studies the implications of ...
Kaya, Sandra Sinem (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation sheds light on the impact of emotions on consumer behavior within culinary contexts. Comprising three chapters, the research presents a holistic exploration through lab experiments ...
Ptashkina, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel ...
Chiavari, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel ...
Pravosud, Makar (Date of defense: 2024-03-01)
In this thesis we study the asymptotic behaviour of the at-the-money skew and the level of the implied volatility of a European, an Asian, Inverse and Quanto Inverse call options under a general stochastic ...