Fouka, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2015-06-20)
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ...
Buono, Inés (Date of defense: 2008-10-29)
This thesis deals with the integration of firms into export markets when trade barriers decrease. It consists in three chapters.<br/><br/>The first chapter focuses on how cross-industry differences in ...
Ziegenbein, Alexander (Date of defense: 2018-07-04)
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large ...
Sun, Yucheng (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. ...
Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay ...
Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic ...
Puerta, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2011-06-03)
This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and ...
Woiczyk, Thomas Karl Alfred (Date of defense: 2020-05-25)
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and categories. In particular, I show how the implications are affected by the level of aggregation; both ...
Berger, Stefan (Date of defense: 2010-09-16)
This thesis consists of three essays on the regulation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and trade in open economies. The rst chapter investigates the di erences in Intellectual Property ...
Brassiolo, Pablo A. (Date of defense: 2012-05-03)
This thesis sheds light on several aspects of the economics of marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining. The first chapter focuses on the relationship between divorce law and family wellbeing, and ...