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Morron Salmeron, Adrià (Fecha de defensa: 2017-05-30)
The existence of transportation costs gives labor markets a local dimension. In particular, the well-documented existence of agglomeration economies creates a positive correlation between a city's size ...
Stoerk, Thomas (Fecha de defensa: 2017-04-24)
This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate environmental policy questions from an empirical point of view. Chapter 1 examines the trustworthiness of official air pollution data sources for ...
Zou, Yimei (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-05)
This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of endogenous production networks, defined as the collection of input-output linkages in the economy. In the first chapter, I develop a model of ...
Luthi, Eva (Fecha de defensa: 2010-07-02)
This thesis studies tax competition from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. In chapter 1 we develop a dynamic two-country optimal taxation model to study tax competition. We find that ...
Duchini, Emma (Fecha de defensa: 2016-10-05)
This thesis examines the role of public policies and institutions in fostering human capital formation and utilization. In the first chapter, I analyze the impact of college remedial courses on students’ ...
Lucena, Abel Ernesto (Fecha de defensa: 2011-02-25)
The adoption of open innovation models has been widely recognized as an effective strategy to be successful in knowledge creation. This holds true since a joint adoption of internal and external ...
Kolev, Gueorgui I. (Fecha de defensa: 2009-12-11)
Esta tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el primero, documentamos la correlación imaginaria entre las decisiones de compensación de los ejecutivos (CEO) al demostrar que el hándicap de los ejecutivos que ...
Zhang, Donghai (Fecha de defensa: 2018-07-02)
This thesis consists three chapters on topics in monetary economics and applied macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where the central bank has private information about future ...
Bauducco, Sofia (Fecha de defensa: 2009-07-03)
Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura de política fiscal y monetaria óptima. Primero analizo cómo el resultado de tasas impositivas suaves, que habitualmente se obtiene en modelos de política fiscal ...
Sereevinyayut, Piya (Fecha de defensa: 2013-09-25)
This dissertation examines how people aggregate quantitative advices to reach their own estimates. Each chapter explores a different situation that could affect how advices are evaluated, and consequentially ...