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    Essays in health and development economics 

    Fernández Bazán, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-06-12)

    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 ...

    Essays in health and gender economics 

    Rodríguez, Ana (Rodríguez González) (Date of defense: 2020-06-04)

    This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that avoidable unplanned ...

    Essays in health and labour economics 

    Bartoll, Xavier (Date of defense: 2019-09-26)

    The main objective of the thesis, organised along four different research chapters, is to analyse how labour market conditions are associated with different health outcomes and how the economic crisis has affected this ...

    Essays in Health Economics 

    Armijos Bravo, Grace Victoria (Date of defense: 2023-05-22)

    [eng] Health across the life cycle is an important component of well-being and quality of life. Bad health is linked to negative child and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes such as educational achievement, future health, ...

    Essays in immigration economics and political economy 

    Sajons, Jörg Christoph (Date of defense: 2012-02-20)

    This thesis revolves around two themes. The first is whether granting citizenship to immigrant children at birth affects their parents’ return migration decisions and integration into the host-country society. Evaluating ...

    Essays in industrial organisation 

    Ilango, Akhil (Date of defense: 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 in inflation expectations, monetary economics, and asset pricing 

    Sánchez Martín, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)

    Es conocido que las expectativas juegan un papel importante en las decisiones de los agentes y son una característica fundamental en macroeconomía. Típicamente, en los modelos utilizados en macroeconomía es asumido que ...

    Essays in information and asset pricing 

    Sangiorgi, Francesco (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)

    Esta tesis estudia las características de la formación y del equilibrio de los precios de los activos financieros cuando los agentes que participan en los mercados están informados de forma asimétrica. En el primer capítulo ...

    Essays in international and comparative corporate governance 

    Kabbach de Castro, Luiz Ricardo (Date of defense: 2012-06-18)

    El gobierno corporativo se refiere a como los proveedores de recursos de las empresas pueden tener un retorno de su inversión. En este sentido, Aoki (2001) define el gobierno corporativo como una “estructura que organiza ...

    Essays in International Economics 

    Krznar, Ivo (Date of defense: 2009-09-16)

    Esta tesis consiste en tres ensayos independientes. Aunque unidos bajo un título, varían en los temas considerados y método escogido. El primer ensayo presenta un modelo de ciclos reales internacionales con rigideces reales ...

    Essays in international finance 

    Pina, Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)

    This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing economies. I present ...

    Essays in International Macroeconomics and Trade 

    Gruber, Diego (Date of defense: 2013-03-11)

    La tesis se divide en tres capítulos: En el capítulo 1 trato dos características de los modelos de ciclos económicos internacionales reales (IRBC) que chocan con lo que observamos en los datos: 1) correlaciones débiles ...

    Essays in labor and education economics in Korea 

    Choi, Hoon (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)

    This thesis provides an analysis of the problems associated with the dual labor market structure and credentialism in Korea. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the effectiveness of an education policy in Korea that regulates operating ...

    Essays in labor and organizational economics 

    Black Henriques, Inês (Date of defense: 2018-06-06)

    En esta tesis doctoral, he explorado el rol de las características no observados de los recursos humanos en la definición de la productividad organizacional. La literatura económica ha establecido que existen diferenciales ...

    Essays in labor economics 

    Filatov, Alexey (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)

    Aquesta tesi persegueix els objectius següents. En primer lloc, estudia els factors que impulsen el creixement constant tant en la participació de la mà d'obra com en les hores per treballador de persones majors, persones ...

    Essays in labor economics 

    Hafner, Flavio (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)

    This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility can improve the labor ...

    Essays in labor economics and structural change 

    Jagadits, András (Date of defense: 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 in labor market economics 

    Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)

    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 law and economics 

    Okulicz, Danisz (Date of defense: 2019-09-09)

    En esta tesis se investigará el rol de la información asimétrica en el mercado de los servicios legales. En particular, se estudiará cómo los agentes individuales desinformados interactúan con abogados y agentes corporativos ...

    Essays in learning uncertainty 

    Ghifrani, Erfan (Date of defense: 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’ ...