Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Three essays on information in financial markets and the macroeconomy
This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I develop a macroeconomic model in which financial markets ...
Essays in commodity price shocks in small open economies
This thesis contributes to the understanding of the effect and transmission of commodity price shocks in commodityexporting economies. The first chapter studies the role of domestic production linkages between the ...
Essays in firm dynamics and misallocation
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the drivers of misallocation of resources and its macroeconomic implications. The first chapter highlights the importance of the caste system in India in ...
Essays on the political economy of mass media
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ban on the politically ...
Essays in macro-finance and wealth inequality
This thesis investigates how asset markets affect macroeconomic outcomes and inequality. In the first chapter, I study the contribution of return heterogeneity for wealth inequality. First, I document that wealthier U.S. ...
Essays in empirical macro-finance
Do financial intermediaries influence firms’ (real and financial) outcomes? Are there interactions with monetary and macroprudential policy? This thesis tackles those questions from multiple perspectives. The first chapter ...
Essays in behavioural economics
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and an experimental ...
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 ...
