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    Essays in macroeconomics and agents' heterogeneity 

    Morazzoni, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2023-06-02)

    In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows that student loans ...

    Essays in game theory and mechanism design 

    Gavan, Malachy James (Fecha de defensa: 2023-05-29)

    This thesis aims to understand negotiations over the behaviour agents will take in a game and, separately, robust implementation. Chapter 1 examines the binding agreements that result from a negotiation over what to ...

    Essays on behavioral economics 

    Puig Pomés, David (Fecha de defensa: 2023-04-04)

    This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article (Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically well-documented driver ...

    Essays in industrial organisation 

    Ilango, Akhil (Fecha de defensa: 2023-04-13)

    This thesis contains three chapters, each developing a theory and providing evidence on a unique and novel determinant of firms’ outcomes in the emerging and developed economies of 21st century. The first chapter examines ...

    Essays on inequalities in economics of labor and education 

    Baertsch, Laurenz (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-20)

    This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options in paid parental ...

    Mirrors with unflattering reflections: moral rebels as fuel for social inertia or social change? 

    Brouwer, Claire (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-17)

    Individuals who deviate from majority practices based on moral objections can be crucial catalyzers of social change. However, according to prior work, these “moral rebels” are commonly met with defensiveness. Therefore, ...

    Essays in safe assets: trends, drivers and implications for financial stability 

    Castells Jauregui, Madalen (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-02)

    This dissertation consists of three chapters centred on safe assets, shedding light on different aspects of the growing literature on the subject. Chapter 1 introduces the set of assets that falls under the safe category, ...

    Essays in time series econometrics 

    Flores, Jairo (Fecha de defensa: 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 generalized method ...

    Essays on the credit market and macroeconomic policy 

    Rojas Zea, Youel (Fecha de defensa: 2022-05-13)

    This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for the credit market ...

    Essays on international trade and economic geography 

    Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-24)

    This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction in trade costs ...

    Three essays in applied econometrics 

    Werner, Konstantin (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-13)

    In this dissertation, first, I study the effects of broadband internet on individual and regional outcomes. Second, I provide an overview of the political espionage activities of the former East German secret service, ...

    Essays on board of directors composition and firm outcomes 

    Manini, Raffaele (Fecha de defensa: 2023-01-20)

    This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk ...

    Essays in learning uncertainty 

    Ghifrani, Erfan (Fecha de defensa: 2022-10-26)

    Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ ...

    Essays in macroeconomics and firm dynamics 

    Chiavari, Andrea (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-01)

    This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel quantitative firm dynamics ...

    Essays in financial economics 

    Gisbert i Rodríguez, Josep (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-04)

    This dissertation studies financial technology adoption, learning from financial information, and inter-temporal decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter one examines the impact of bank branch closures on ...

    Essays in labor economics and structural change 

    Jagadits, András (Fecha de defensa: 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. Exploiting plausibly ...

    Essays on high-dimensional bayesian inference 

    Torrens i Dinarès, Miquel (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-26)

    This thesis studies the capabilities of Bayesian estimators in high-dimen-sional generalised linear models, with a particular focus on treatment effect estimation. The first of four chapters provides the necessary ...

    Essays on statistical inference in non-regular semiparametric models 

    Lee, Adam (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-29)

    This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in semiparametric models which ...

    Essays in behavioral economics 

    Rui, Guan (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-28)

    This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the first chapter, I show formally that, in a limited attention framework, the choices made by a decision maker who considers ...

    Essays in the economics of information 

    Donati, Dante (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-27)

    This dissertation consists of three essays that empirically test economic theories on the causal effect of information on individuals and firms. The first chapter studies the consequences of lower consumer search costs ...