Aktar, Ipek (Date of defense: 2011-03-21)
This thesis builds on the literature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication. The following three chapters study the potential impacts of disclosing voluntarily negative information in a ...
Einarsson, Bjarni F. (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 presents a method for online evaluation of the optimality of the current stance of monetary policy given the most up ...
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa (Date of defense: 2010-07-01)
This thesis deals with different aspects of the Spanish Labor Market. The first chapter explores the impact of product market competition on job instability. Empirical results show that job instability ...
Hoesch, Lukas (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 develops a hypothesis test to evaluate economic models and their forecasts robust to instabilities. The test is ...
Pinotti, Paolo (Date of defense: 2009-06-09)
La tesi consisteix en quatre assaigs sobre les causes i conseqüències de la intervenció del govern en l'economia, i un assaig sobre els efectes de la immigració en el país amfitrió. El primer capítol ...
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 ...
Oc, Burak (Date of defense: 2014-05-30)
This thesis includes three articles focusing on the dynamic interplay between leaders and followers. The first article revisits traditional areas of the leadership literature and builds on the emerging ...
Ou, Shengliang (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomic policy and business cy-cles. In chapter 1, I estimate a time-varying structural VAR to study the effects of government spending shocks on a number ...
Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)
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 ...
Janezic, Katharina A. (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and ...