Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Essays on labor markets
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first addresses the recent decline in worker mobility between jobs and links it to changes in demand for jobs along the skill distribution. I present a novel theoretical ...
Essays on heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics
Limited asset market participation is a well-known stylized fact and a widespread phenomenon even in developed economies. While existing models have already examined the effects of social security and its reforms on ...
Managerial opportunism, US conveyancing and blockchain
This thesis is structured in three chapters. In chapter 1, I address managerial opportunism towards workers. I present a theoretical model and test it. Results suggest that outside opportunities are key to hinder or ...
Essays on monetary policy and labor markets
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. The first chapter investigates the redistributive role minimum wages can play over the cycle and the implied effects on macroeconomic stability. To this end, I develop ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters that empirically evaluate the influence of capital costs and occupational regulation on labor demand. In the first chapter, I study the effects of investment tax credits ...
The Economics of financial information in young firms
This thesis focuses on the use of accounting information to mitigate the severe information asymmetries existing between young firms and capital providers. The first chapter studies the importance of debt in early stage ...
Essays on infraestructure and economic growth
This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent decades. In the first chapter, I study the impact of infrastructure, i.e, highway construction, on China’s participation in ...
Essays on international trade, geography and borders
This thesis explores how different types of trade costs shape trade patterns and the distribution of economic activity across space. In the first chapter, I study how the choice of transport infrastructure after the division ...
Essays on macroeconomic policy and business cycles
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 of U.S. macroeconomic ...
Essays on political economy of development
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in development economics. In the first chapter, I study the impact of family planning policies on gender-specific outcomes. I find positive impacts of the FPP on improv-ing ...
Essays in health and development economics
In the first chapter, I analyze the consequences of increased prenatal exposure to marijuana on infant health in the US. I combine individual-level information on birth outcomes with novel data on the location and opening ...
The Return to capital: new facts and interpretation
This thesis presents new facts on the aggregate return to capital and shows their implications for underlying drivers of investment and the efficiency of the alloca-tion of capital. The first chapter analyzes aggregate ...
Essays in applied microeconomics and behavioral finance
This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate how promo-tion incentives affect the performance of high-skilled public employees. I study a centralized evaluation process awarding the eligibility ...
Essays on economic uncertainty
These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty that allows ...
Essays on monetary economics and financial stability
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key externalities are ...
Essays in economic forecasting
This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. Survey-based predictions ...
Essays on local labor markets
This thesis is composed of three essays in which I analyze how heterogeneity in productivity, either on the worker or on the firm side, interacts with the size of local labor markets and a set of outcomes of interest. In ...
The Macroeconomic implications of endogenous production networks
This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of endogenous production networks, defined as the collection of input-output linkages in the economy. In the first chapter, I develop a model of international trade to ...
Essays on the allocation of talent
This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education returns has an ...
Essays in development economics
This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness in Ghana, and study ...
