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Essays on marital sorting and fertility

Goñi i Tràfach, Marc (Date of defense: 27-04-2015)
This thesis examines the interactions between marital patterns, inequality, and fertility. In the first chapter I analyze the impact of search frictions on marital assortative matching. I exploit a temporary interruption ...
Essays in applied microeconomics

Amodio, Francesco (Date of defense: 11-06-2015)
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 at the workplace. ...
Essays on competition, financial structure and productivity

Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Date of defense: 16-02-2018)
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has increased interest in ...
Essays on emerging markets

Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 18-11-2015)
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic pseudo panels, the ...
Essays on volatility networks and uncertainty

Rossi, Luca (Date of defense: 11-04-2018)
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 volatilities. We propose ...
Essays on firm dynamics and financial markets

Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 11-12-2017)
This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game condition in a model with ...
Essays in empirical banking and financial stability

Khametshin, Dmitry (Date of defense: 18-12-2017)
In the first two chapters of this thesis, I study the effects of financial stability policies on bank behavior. Thus, in the first chapter, I analyze whether liquidity provision mechanisms may have unintended redistributive ...
Essays in organizational economics

Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 22-06-2015)
New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation ...
Essays in labor market economics

Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 23-02-2015)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay unemployed and wait ...
Essays on learning, information, and expectations in macroeconomics and finance

Ambrocio, Gene (Date of defense: 29-09-2015)
This dissertation focuses on learning and expectations formation in Macroeconomics and Finance and the role of information production in shaping macroeconomic fluctuations. The first chapter provides a theory of information ...