Djourelova, Milena (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ...
Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has ...
Pagà Peris, Roger (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)
The present thesis focuses on three topics within the domain of consumer behavior: self-regulation, the psychological consequences of money, and consumption rituals. The first chapter, devoted to ...
Gerardino Gutiérrez, María Paula (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter, I study the impact of violence on human capital investments, focusing mainly on the relationship between male-biased ...
Sessa, Luca (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)
This thesis tackles three different issues of relevance for economic policy, with an explicit reference to the Euro area. Does the inclusion of monetary targeting in a monetary policy strategy improve ...
Pina, Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing ...
Wang, Xinghua (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible ...
Kanngiesser, Derrick (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key ...
Soto, Paul Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
This thesis contributes to the understanding of how banks shift their supply of credit when confronted with uncertainty, regulatory supervision and macroprudential policies. The first chapter proposes ...
Mele, Antonio (Date of defense: 2009-07-30)
Esta tesis elabora una caracterización teórica de problemas de agencia dinámicos, basada en métodos recursivos duales. Respecto a las actuales estrategias de solución, la mayor ventaja de mi método es ...