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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’ ...