Mauersberger, Felix (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)
En esta tesis estudio cómo los agentes económicos forman creencias en situaciones de interacción estratégica repetida. En economía, los modelos de formación de creencias suelen ser deterministas en el ...
Soupre, Matthieu (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic ...
Rossi, Luca (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)
This thesis empirically investigates different aspects of time-varying volatility. Chapter 1 estimates a large TVP-FAVAR and recovers a dynamic directed network of connections between European stock ...
Sajons, Gwendolin Beatriz (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
This thesis examines the relationships among managerial justice and employee attitudes, emotions and behaviors to re-conceptualize the traditional causal frameworks of the justice literature. In the ...
Koudijs, Peter Arie Eliza (Date of defense: 2011-06-06)
The three chapters of this thesis revolve around the trade in English stocks in the Amsterdam market during the 18th century. In the first chapter I use the primitive communication technology of that ...
Heusch, Niklas (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness ...
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 ...
Cairó, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-06-11)
This thesis investigates the role of human capital in understanding recent developments in the U.S. labor market. Chapter 1 provides novel empirical evidence suggesting that an increasing importance of ...
Rodríguez Tous, Francesc (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
This thesis revolves around banking behavior and its implications for financial stability. The first chapter examines how banks buy and sell securities during the crisis, and we find that some banks ...
Fernández Bazán, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-06-12)
In the first chapter, I analyze the consequences of increased prenatal exposure to marijuana on infant health in the US. I combine individual-level information on birth outcomes with novel data on the ...