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Essays on Labor Economics
En aquesta tesi, analitzo les causes i conseqüències del desajust entre les habilitats de treballadors i les habilitats requerides per la seva ocupació. També investigo els factors que determinen l’èxit de fertilització ...
Essays on labor market dynamics and policies
Aquesta tesi estudia les interaccions entre les dinàmiques del mercat laboral i l’estructura de les famílies, i com aquestes interaccions afecten les polítiques públiques. Als EUA, s’observen patrons molt diferents pel ...
Essays on labor markets
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first addresses the recent decline in worker mobility between jobs and links it to changes in demand for jobs along the skill distribution. I present a novel theoretical ...
Essays on Labor Markets and Institutions
Esta tesis estudia dos factores clave para el funcionamiento adecuado del mercado de trabajo: la movilidad geográfica y los procesos de selección. Relacionado con el aspecto de movilidad geográfica, la cuestión es por ...
Essays on labor markets and macroeconomic policy
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of the labor market and economic policy. Chapter 1 analyzes whether the presence of human capital depreciation during unemployment calls for policy intervention. I ...
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 Learning Theory for time series
This thesis comprises three essays on statistical learning theory for time series. In the first chapter, joint with Christian Brownlees, we propose an alternative specification of a dynamic conditional correlation model ...
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 on liquidity and risk
In Chapter 1 I investigate the economic importance of correlation in mutual fund flows for funds with overlapping portfolio positions. I illustrate theoretically that commonality in trading by funds due to flow correlation ...
Essays on Liquidity in Financial Markets
This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of liquidity in financial markets. Relying on the latest proxies for liquidity and TAQ benchmark data, this dissertation investigates liquidity in financial markets ...
Essays on liquidity, stress and interventions in interbank markets
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured lending, relative ...
Essays on local labor markets
This thesis is composed of three essays in which I analyze how heterogeneity in productivity, either on the worker or on the firm side, interacts with the size of local labor markets and a set of outcomes of interest. In ...
Essays on location and development of subsidiary R&D strategic role: A matter of dual network embeddedness
The integration of subsidiaries into international networks is altering the scholarly conception of the Multinational Corporation (MNC), forcing us to see subsidiaries as differentiated nodes of the internal corporate ...
Essays on location patterns of creative industries
Aquesta tesi analitza i identifica quins són els factors que faciliten la localització i aglomeració de les indústries creatives a nivell local i les compara amb les de la resta d’activitats econòmiques. Aquesta tesi ...
Essays on long-run economic development and political economy
In the first chapter, I study how human populations adapt to ethnically diverse societies. Using new data on a natural experiment from Peru’s colonial history, the results show that ethnic diversity need not spell poor ...
Essays on long-term care
This thesis analyses the effects of expanding public Long-Term Care (LTC) benefits in Spain, using three different approaches. In the first chapter, I estimate the impact of public LTC allowances on the mortality of the ...
Essays on Machine Learning for Risk Analysis in Finance, Insurance and Energy
[eng] This thesis provides research catalogued in the area of risk assessment. Specifically, it contributes to the fields of international finance and asset pricing in finance, and risk assessment in energy economics and ...
Essays on Macroeconometrics
Esta tesis es una colección de ensayos empíricos, con aplicación macroeconómica. En el primer capítulo, se investigan los efectos de política monetaria, previstos y no previstos. La idea básica es que los mercados forman ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Dynamics
El objetivo de esta tesis es la de explorar el comportamiento de los agentes económicos en un entorno cambiante, desarrollando modelos que son estructuras dinámicas genuinas, construidas sobre sólidos fundamentos ...
Essays on macroeconomic effects of credit market fluctuations
This dissertation includes three chapters on the macroeconomic effects of the financial system, particularly the credit market. In the first chapter, I show a causal link between household credit supply and economic ...
