Imbet Jiménez, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
This dissertation studies the role of uncertainty and information in financial markets, and its consequences for firms’ and investors’ capital allocation decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter ...
Höynck, Christian (Date of defense: 2021-01-07)
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are ...
Ge, Erqi (Date of defense: 2020-09-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters about political economy in China. The first chapter focuses on the interregional trade. Taking advantages of direct allocations of regional leaders by central ...
Gülsen, Eda (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)
This thesis contributes to the empirical literature that analyses the link between banking, international finance and monetary policy. It studies several micro-level supervisory databases, each crucial ...
Souza, André B. M. (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)
This dissertation consists of two independent chapters on economic and financial forecasting. The first chapter introduces a nonlinear forecasting framework that combines forecasts of the sign and ...
Goraya, Sampreet Singh (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the drivers of misallocation of resources and its macroeconomic implications. The first chapter highlights the importance of the caste system ...
Evans, Christopher Michael (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
This thesis consists of three chapters on monetary economics. In the first chapter, I explore if a benchmark Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model fits the heterogeneous response of monetary ...
Ellingsen, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2021-06-28)
This thesis studies the role of policies aimed at facilitating communication on economic and political development. In the first chapter, I explore the relationship between long-term spatial persistence ...
Jagadits, András (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
This thesis studies questions at the intersection of labor economics and the literature of structural change. The first chapter empirically assesses the impact of emigration on structural change. ...
Wang, Yiru (Date of defense: 2020-06-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 proposes a method to analyze the relationship between models’ in-sample fit and their out-of-sample density forecasting ...