Santamaría, Marta (Santamaría Monturiol) (Date of defense: 2019-09-09)
This thesis explores how different types of trade costs shape trade patterns and the distribution of economic activity across space. In the first chapter, I study how the choice of transport infrastructure ...
Tripathy, Jagdish (Date of defense: 2016-11-22)
This dissertation includes three chapters on the macroeconomic effects of the financial system, particularly the credit market. In the first chapter, I show a causal link between household credit ...
Brutti, Filippo (Date of defense: 2010-02-11)
Income growth is much more volatile in developing countries than in developed ones. One argument is that weak legal and political institutions exacerbate macroeconomic shocks precipitating the economy ...
Faltermeier, Julia (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
This thesis presents new facts on the aggregate return to capital and shows their implications for underlying drivers of investment and the efficiency of the alloca-tion of capital. The first chapter ...
Linarello, Andrea (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)
This thesis investigates various aspects of international trade. In the first chapter, I study the effect of exporting on firms productivity. Specifically, I examine the extent to which export shocks ...