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Essays in Development and Environmental Economics
Fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community at the start of the 21st century (United Nations, 2015). One aspect that will be crucial in this ...
Essays in Development Economics
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and crime economics. This ...
Essays in development economics
En esta tesis doctoral, utilizo estrategias empíricas en economía aplicada para proporcionar evidencias cuantitativas que pueden ayudar a mejorar las políticas de bienestar en los países en desarrollo. Mi principal objetivo ...
Essays in development economics
This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness in Ghana, and study ...
Essays in development economics
This thesis consists of three independent chapters which all utilize primary data from Sierra Leone. The first chapter uses a field experiment to show that financial incentives maximize output in an hierarchical organization ...
Essays in development, environmental, and health economics
This thesis is composed of three independent essays. In the first chapter, I analyze the effect of a biofuel-favorable policy in the U.S. on fetal health. I show that the policy led to an expansion in the production of ...
Essays in economic forecasting
This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. Survey-based predictions ...
Essays in economic forecasting
This dissertation consists of two independent chapters on economic and financial forecasting. The first chapter introduces a nonlinear forecasting framework that combines forecasts of the sign and absolute value of a ...
Essays in Economic Theory
This thesis is composed of 3 independent essays on economic theory. Each essay is meant to be read separately, including footnotes and appendices. In particular, essays 2 and 3 include specific bibliography. The general ...
Essays in economics of education
En esta tesis se analiza cómo el sistema educativo actual afecta el desarrollo del capital humano de los estudiantes. En el primer capítulo se explora la función de las escuelas; en el segundo, el sistema de puntuación, y ...
Essays in education and health economics
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first chapter, I perform a ...
Essays in Education, Fertility, and the Welfare State
In countries in the developed world, income inequality is increasing, while technological and societal changes open labour market opportunities for women. At the same time they are undergoing an important demographical ...
Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Aquesta tesi pretén descobrir, de manera empírica, nous aspectes de la secció transversal dels rendiments del capital i oferir explicacions teòriques i empíriques de les seves conclusions principals. La tesi documenta nous ...
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 in Empirical Industrial Organization, Finance Market and Public Policies
Debido a la preocupación por la estabilidad del sistema financiero los reguladores han adoptado diversas políticas regulatorias, algunas estructurales como también orientadas al comportamiento de los consumidores. Dichas ...
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 environmental economics
This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate environmental policy questions from an empirical point of view. Chapter 1 examines the trustworthiness of official air pollution data sources for Beijing when compared ...
Essays in experimental economics: some macroeconomic issues
This dissertation uses an experimental approach to analyze the behavior of people in controlled environments based in different theoretical issues of relatively recent discussion in macroeconomic theory. The first chapter ...
Essays in Fair Allocation Rules
Aquesta tesi estudia regles d’assignació justes i els seus problemes associats: què són, com implementar-les i com aplicar-les en entorns econòmics. Al capítol 1, introduïm les reduccions sense valor (v-f), que són operadors ...
Essays in Financial Behaviour: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding
La present tesi consta de tres capítols empírics, tenint com a objectiu investigar les intencions dels inversors a equity crowdfunding (ECF), cadascun aplicant una teoria diferent sobre l’exploració dels factors que afecten ...
