Morron Salmeron, Adrià (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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. (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 ...