Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa: Recent submissions
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The Economic impact, location choices and assimilation of immigrants
This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a search model with non-random hiring that is parameterized ...
Competitive intelligence analytics for operations managers
This thesis incorporates three studies that revolve around competitive intelligence of a firm, available data sources and improvement of operations through data-informed decision-making. The studies cover a range of topics ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first two chapters study the impact of pharmaceutical promotion of opioid analgesics in the US. In the first chapter, we find that counties, where sales representatives of ...
Essays in network modelling
This thesis consists of two chapters on time series modelling. The first chapter introduces a class of vector autoregressive (VAR) models with a community structure for large panels of time series. In the model, the series ...
Essays on liquidity, stress and interventions in interbank markets
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured lending, relative ...
Essays on monetary economics and applied macroeconomics
This thesis consists three chapters on topics in monetary economics and applied macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where the central bank has private information about future economic conditions. ...
Essays in applied macroeconomics
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large effects in good ...
Essays on the bank lending channel
This thesis contributes to the understanding of how banks shift their supply of credit when confronted with uncertainty, regulatory supervision and macroprudential policies. The first chapter proposes a new index to detect ...
Thompson sampling and noisy decision-making
En esta tesis estudio cómo los agentes económicos forman creencias en situaciones de interacción estratégica repetida. En economía, los modelos de formación de creencias suelen ser deterministas en el sentido de que las ...
Essays in macroeconomics and financial markets
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first two chapters are on the topic of asset bubbles. In the first chapter, I study the interactions between rational asset bubbles and product market competition. ...
Essays on banking and financial instability
This thesis focuses on the issue of bank funding structure and its implications for financial instability. The first chapter investigates how the dynamic interaction between the regulator and banks can endogenously lead to ...
Essays on volatility networks and uncertainty
This thesis empirically investigates different aspects of time-varying volatility. Chapter 1 estimates a large TVP-FAVAR and recovers a dynamic directed network of connections between European stock volatilities. We propose ...
Essays on competition, financial structure and productivity
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has increased interest in ...
Categories, variability, and inferences : essays on human judgement
The three chapters of this thesis explore how previous experience and mental categories shape human judgments. Chapter One provides a sampling explanation for the in-group heterogeneity effect - a tendency of people to ...
Essays on mutual funds and their impact on financial stability
This dissertation consists of two chapters that explore some of the financial stability issues that concern mutual funds. The first chapter demonstrates that the massive sale by US funds of Mexican equity in 2008 triggered ...
Essays in financial econòmics
This thesis consists of three chapters contributing to the broad field of financial economics. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model of bank bail-ins in order to analyze the effects of the implementation ...
Essays in empirical banking and financial stability
In the first two chapters of this thesis, I study the effects of financial stability policies on bank behavior. Thus, in the first chapter, I analyze whether liquidity provision mechanisms may have unintended redistributive ...
Essays on firm dynamics and financial markets
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 condition in a model with ...
Essays on firm behavior and productivity
This thesis investigates different aspects of firm behavior. In the first chapter I study if the quality of civil justice affects the firms’ participation to Global Value Chains. I find that firms subject to less efficient ...
Essays on long-term care
This thesis analyses the effects of expanding public Long-Term Care (LTC) benefits in Spain, using three different approaches. In the first chapter, I estimate the impact of public LTC allowances on the mortality of the ...
