Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first ...
Imbet Jiménez, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
This dissertation studies the role of uncertainty and information in financial markets, and its consequences for firms’ and investors’ capital allocation decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter ...
Puig Gabau, Jordi (Date of defense: 1998-09-21)
En la tesis se analiza empíricamente el consumo en bienes no duraderos para la economía española mediante la construcción de unas preferencias que permiten relajar los supuestos de separabilidad débil ...
Höynck, Christian (Date of defense: 2021-01-07)
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are ...
Ponticelli, Jacopo (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter I study the effect of financial reform on firms. In particular, I study to what extent this effect depends on ...
Ge, Erqi (Date of defense: 2020-09-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters about political economy in China. The first chapter focuses on the interregional trade. Taking advantages of direct allocations of regional leaders by central ...
Pandolfi, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2018-01-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters contributing to the broad field of financial economics. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model of bank bail-ins in order to analyze the effects of ...
Pereira Garmendia, Diego (Date of defense: 2011-09-05)
La presente tesis estudia la correlación negativa entre inflación y precios reales de las acciones. En primer lugar, muestro evidencia de que la inflación impone costos reales en la economía, en particular ...
Giusti, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2014-11-14)
This thesis is composed of three essays. In the first essay (joint with Janet Jiang and Xiping Xu) we study asset price bubbles in a laboratory experiment. By introducing interest payments on cash we ...
Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. ...