Wang, Yiru (Date of defense: 2020-06-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 proposes a method to analyze the relationship between models’ in-sample fit and their out-of-sample density forecasting ...
Costa Ramón, Ana (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the effect of children’s health shocks on children’s and parent’s wellbeing. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of C-sections on ...
Yegorov, Yuri (Date of defense: 1999-02-23)
This thesis consists of five chapters, based on four different articles. All of them are devoted to different aspects of spatial heterogeneity and its impact on economic equilibrium in space. The concept ...
Rodríguez Tous, Francesc (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
This thesis revolves around banking behavior and its implications for financial stability. The first chapter examines how banks buy and sell securities during the crisis, and we find that some banks ...
Schöll, Nikolas Bahati (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
This dissertation investigates how new technologies such as social media, digitalizing workplaces, and robotization change society and politics. The first chapter focuses on new technologies affecting ...
Manea, Cristina (Date of defense: 2020-04-30)
In my PhD thesis, I extend the basic New Keynesian (NK) model (Galí (2015), Woodford (2003)) on three distinct dimensions. (i) In the first chapter, I introduce endogenous money creation by private banks ...
Fernández Bazán, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-06-12)
In the first chapter, I analyze the consequences of increased prenatal exposure to marijuana on infant health in the US. I combine individual-level information on birth outcomes with novel data on the ...
Faltermeier, Julia (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
This thesis presents new facts on the aggregate return to capital and shows their implications for underlying drivers of investment and the efficiency of the alloca-tion of capital. The first chapter ...
Corominas Bosch, Margarida (Date of defense: 1999-10-13)
Esta tesis está centrada en el estudio de mercados bilaterales en los cuales la comunicación no es completa, sino que viene dada por una red de comunicación. Las principales preguntas formuladas en la ...
Farooqui, Shikeb Arslan (Date of defense: 2009-11-20)
This thesis is a collection of three principal chapters split into two parts. The first part presents chapter 1 on network design when effort decisions are global substitutes but communication through ...