Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Essays on banking, international finance and monetary policy
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 for identification. ...
Essays in the economics of migration
This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I ...
Essays on inflation dynamics and monetary policy
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 connected through ...
Managing algorithmic drivers in a blocked-lane scenario
Due to the emergence of new technologies, algorithm-assisted drivers are close to becoming a reality. In this thesis, different aspects of managing such drivers in a blocked-lane scenario are discussed. The first chapter ...
Essays on financial intermediation and risk
This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in the German manufacturing ...
Essays on monetary economics
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 policy shocks observed ...
Essays on industry dynamics and misallocation
This thesis explores the linkages among resource allocation, industry dynamics, and asset price bubbles in China. In the first chapter, I break the source of misallocation into four groups: uncertainty, ownership difference, ...
Essays on the political economy of development
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 government in China, ...
Browsing through products and people: online review, ratings, and swiping
In this thesis, I explored three topics, each addressing a different aspect online search for products and people. In chapter one, we investigated whether consumers’ response to online product reviews depends, not only on ...
Essays on behavioral economics
This thesis consists of three independent essays on behavioral economic theory. The rst article (Chapter 2) builds a framework of rational decision-making with conformity. The approach in this chapter is axiomatic. I ...
Essays in financial intermediation
Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial intermediaries ...
Essays on child health and family economics
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the effect of children’s health shocks on children’s and parent’s wellbeing. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of C-sections on newborn health. ...
Essays on individual decision making
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation to time), how decisions are influenced by subtle behavioral interventions called nudges, and under which circumstances the ...
Essays on the external validity of social preference games
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible to make lab games much ...
Essays in health and gender economics
This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that avoidable unplanned ...
Essays in macroeconometrics
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 performance. To this ...
Categories and levels of aggregation: essays on judgment and decision making
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and categories. In particular, I show how the implications are affected by the level of aggregation; both for human judgment ...
Essays on monetary economics
In my PhD thesis, I extend the basic New Keynesian (NK) model (Galí (2015), Woodford (2003)) on three distinct dimensions. (i) In the first chapter, I introduce endogenous money creation by private banks (``inside-money''). ...
Essays on information frictions in macroeconomics
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in macroeconomics and information frictions. In the first chapter, I relax the complete information assumption in the standard New Keynesian framework to ...
Bank risk-taking, small open economy and macroprudential policy
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, I develop a two-period small open economy with banks. The interaction of the limited liability faced by banks and the bank deposit insurance results in ...
