Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
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 ...
Kantorovitch, Ilja (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I develop a macroeconomic model in which ...
Mantovani, Cristiano (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model ...
Pappa, Evi (Date of defense: 2001-11-22)
The thesis consists of three chapters: Chapter 2 investigates, in the context of a two-country model with monopolistic competition and price stickiness, the implications for macroeconomic stability and ...
Flores, Jairo (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
This doctoral thesis develops new methods for time series analysis and applies these to prominent empirical problems in macroeconomics. It contains three chapters. Chapter one proposes a new non-parametric ...
Maliar, Serguei (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)
La tesis se centra en las aplicaciones macroeconómicas del consumidor representativo. El primer capítulo analiza la posibilidad de agregación en economías con varios bienes y varios periodos. Desarrollo ...
Smirnov, Danila (Date of defense: 2023-06-12)
In my Ph.D. thesis, I study the subjects of monetary economics, heterogeneity of households and firms, and optimal policy. I solve models with rich heterogeneity and use statistical models to work ...
Maliar, Lilia (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)
The thesis studies quantitative implications of the real business cycle models with heterogeneous agents. The questions I ask are: First, Can the studied models not only replicate the aggregate time ...