Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Essays on uncertainty, monetary policy and financial stability
In the first chapter, I examine both theoretically and empirically how income uncertainty affects the effectiveness of monetary policy. I consider income risk from potential unemployment, and find that monetary policy has ...
The Social economics of networks and learning
This thesis explores various economic environments where the structure of social interactions across individuals determines outcomes. In the first chapter, I study mutual insurance arrangements restricted on a social ...
The dynamic interplay between followers and leaders
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 followership literature ...
Three essays in competition policy
The three chapters of this thesis investigate different topics in competition policy. The first chapter empirically analyzes the consequences of the subsidies that were granted to some coalfields during the first years of ...
Relationship between earnings management and corporate strategies: social responsibility and enterprise risk management
This thesis revolves around financial transparency and its relationship with social transparency (CSR disclosure) and risk management at the managerial level. The first chapter identifies regulatory (10K) reports as the ...
Three essays in banking, financial fragility and CEO compensation
This dissertation investigates two issues: (1) banks' funding liquidity risk and its implications, and (2) the optimal design of CEO compensation contracts. The first chapter analyzes the interaction between banks' funding ...
Essays on emerging markets
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic pseudo panels, the ...
The Macroeconomic impact of firm-level heterogeneity
In this thesis, I show that macroeconomic models which take into account firm- and industrylevel heterogeneity provide a more precise understanding of productivity growth dynamics than models with just one firm or ...
Essays on the consequences of banking shocks
This thesis revolves around banking behavior and its implications for financial stability. The first chapter examines how banks buy and sell securities during the crisis, and we find that some banks -the ones specialized ...
Essays on learning, information, and expectations in macroeconomics and finance
This dissertation focuses on learning and expectations formation in Macroeconomics and Finance and the role of information production in shaping macroeconomic fluctuations. The first chapter provides a theory of information ...
Essays in development and applied economics
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. I exploit the introduction of genetically ...
Essays on the economics of culture and identity
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ects the assimilation ...
Three essays in long-term economic persistence
This dissertation investigates economic persistence in the Americas. The first chapter shows the positive long-term economic impact of the Guarani Jesuit Missions in South America. I find that municipalities in Argentina, ...
Essays on labor markets, migration and trade
In Part I of this thesis, I show that, when immigrants’ host and home countries engage in trade, labor market returns to cultural capital specific to the trading partner increase. Using two trade liberalization episodes, ...
Essays on marital sorting and fertility
This thesis examines the interactions between marital patterns, inequality, and fertility. In the first chapter I analyze the impact of search frictions on marital assortative matching. I exploit a temporary interruption ...
Essays in labor market economics
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay unemployed and wait ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of externalities and social interaction mechanisms in various settings. In the first chapter, I show how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers at the workplace. ...
Essays in organizational economics
New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation ...
Essays on individual choice
This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2) focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility model of Individual Intertemporal Choice: ...
Organizational justice and leadership : expanding the causal framework
This thesis examines the relationships among managerial justice and employee attitudes, emotions and behaviors to re-conceptualize the traditional causal frameworks of the justice literature. In the first chapter, I propose ...
