Zymek, Robert (Date of defense: 2011-07-20)
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of international and domestic goods trade during the last three decades. The first chapter investigates the causes of the growth of world trade ...
Geng, Yining (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in development economics. In the first chapter, I study the impact of family planning policies on gender-specific outcomes. I find positive impacts of ...
Schwandt, Hannes (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate different aspects of the economics of health and wellbeing. The first chapter tests the rationality of life satisfaction forecasts. Contrary to the rational ...
Todeschini, Federico A. (Date of defense: 2010-06-15)
Even though unhealthy habits, drinking, smoking and overeating, are among the most expensive burdens for the health system, much research is still needed to understand how individuals form them, how do ...
Stojić, Hrvoje (Date of defense: 2017-01-17)
This thesis consists of three studies investigating the strategy selection problem and the role of function learning in human decision making. Chapter 1 examines how people learn which decision strategy ...
Antelo Muñiz, Fátima (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
This thesis is structured in three chapters. In chapter 1, I address managerial opportunism towards workers. I present a theoretical model and test it. Results suggest that outside opportunities are ...
Dallari, Pietro (Date of defense: 2014-06-16)
This thesis adopts DSGE and PVAR models to examine three questions in macroeconomics. The first chapter singles out some pitfalls that DSGE models face when a fraction of rule-of-thumb consumers is ...
Schmitz, Tom (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
In this thesis, I show that macroeconomic models which take into account firm- and industrylevel heterogeneity provide a more precise understanding of productivity growth dynamics than models with ...
Guasch Mercadé, Martí (Date of defense: 2019-10-10)
This thesis focuses on the use of accounting information to mitigate the severe information asymmetries existing between young firms and capital providers. The first chapter studies the importance of ...
Amodio, Francesco (Date of defense: 2015-06-11)
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of externalities and social interaction mechanisms in various settings. In the first chapter, I show how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers ...