Romero, Damián (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)
This thesis contributes to the understanding of the effect and transmission of commodity price shocks in commodityexporting economies. The first chapter studies the role of domestic production linkages ...
Akin, Özlem (Date of defense: 2013-07-11)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, we analyze bank insiders' trading in the securities of their own bank in the run-up to the 2007-08 financial crisis. We show that on average ...
Brouwer, Claire (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)
Individuals who deviate from majority practices based on moral objections can be crucial catalyzers of social change. However, according to prior work, these “moral rebels” are commonly met with ...
Yamamoto, Shohei (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation to time), how decisions are influenced by subtle behavioral interventions called nudges, and under ...
Caprioli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2009-07-03)
Esta tesis trata sobre cómo la autoridad fiscal debe fijar los impuestos distorsivos de manera óptima. El capítulo 1 analiza el problema de la política fiscal cuando el gobierno tiene un incentivo a ...
Tesei, Andrea (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
This thesis investigates different social and political aspects of modern economies. The first chapter contributes to the natural resource curse debate, by showing that the impact of resource windfalls ...
Perdomo Strauch, Alvaro Andrés (Date of defense: 2017-02-01)
This dissertation uses an experimental approach to analyze the behavior of people in controlled environments based in different theoretical issues of relatively recent discussion in macroeconomic theory. ...
Gnocchi, Stefano (Date of defense: 2008-02-05)
Los modelos Neo-Keynesianos se han impuesto en el análisis de las políticas monetaria y fiscal óptimas. Esta literatura no considera la interacción estratégica entre los agentes económicos y las autoridades ...
Sowerbutts, Rhiannon Cathy (Date of defense: 2009-10-05)
El tema de esta tesis es Banca, concentrándose específicamente en el tema de Crisis Bancarias. El Capitulo 1 estudia las crisis bancarias que ocurren debido a problemas de asimetría de información entre ...
Odendahl, Florens (Date of defense: 2018-10-08)
This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. ...