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Essays on the economic psychology of well-being
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct ...
Essays on the Economics of Crime: Determinants of Crime in an Urban Context
In this thesis, I draw on these theoretical models from the criminological literature and on the empirical tools from the field of economics to analyze crime from the perspective of economics. I use the city of Barcelona, ...
Essays on the economics of culture and identity
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ects the assimilation ...
Essays on the economics of development, education and violence
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter, I study the impact of violence on human capital investments, focusing mainly on the relationship between male-biased violence and ...
Essays on the economics of family formation, dissolution and bargaining
This thesis sheds light on several aspects of the economics of marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining. The first chapter focuses on the relationship between divorce law and family wellbeing, and shows that lowering ...
Essays on the Economics of Obesity
This thesis comprises five chapters in total, starting with a general introduction that raises the issue of obesity as well as a brief description of the basic research questions of the dissertation, three main chapters ...
Essays on the Economics of Social Dilemmas
The purpose of this dissertation is to study specific cases of all those aforementioned questions in a number of different settings, all of which share one common characteristic of particular economic relevance. The settings ...
Essays on the Effect of International Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Europe
Besides introduction and conclusions, the thesis is composed by three empirical chapters that investigate the impact of immigration on three different outcomes of the native population, namely employment, wages and human ...
Essays on the external validity of social preference games
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible to make lab games much ...
Essays on the formation of social networks from a game theoritical approach
This thesis aims to contribute to a fundamental objective of Network Economics: to provide based incentives explanations of real social network topologies. By using game theoretical tools, the three papers of this thesis ...
Essays on the Industrial Organization of Telecommunications
La tesis consiste en tres diferentes ensayos que analizan de forma teórica distintos temas relacionados con la organización industrial de las telecomunicaciones. El primer ensayo trata de competencia oligopólica en los ...
Essays on the influence of schooling on artisanal fishing in Colombia
En general, la falta de oportunidades de ingresos alternativos es un problema que afecta a la pesca en pequeña escala, tanto marina como continental. Debido a esto, los pescadores intensifican el esfuerzo pesquero. Por ...
Essays on the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case
En el primer capítulo se analizan los factores que afectan la decisión de estar empleado en el sector formal o informal teniendo en cuenta que existe un racionamiento de puestos de empleo formales y por tanto una cola de ...
Essays on the internationalisation process of Spanish companies in China
L’objectiu de la present tesis es identificar les formes d’entrada de l’empresa espanyola a la Xina, les barreres que hi troben, així com els factors determinants de l’èxit de la seva inversió a l’exterior. S’utilitza una ...
Essays on the labor market
El mercado laboral es un tema importante e interesante en para el análisis económico. En esta tesis me propongo aumentar marginalmente nuestro conocimiento del mercado de trabajo. En particular, me centro en el desempleo ...
Essays on the Liquidity Trap, Oil Shocks, and the Great Moderation
The thesis studies three distinct issues in monetary economics using a common dynamic general equilibrium approach under the assumptions of rational expectations and nominal price rigidity.<br/> The first chapter deals ...
Essays on the macroeconomics of labor markets
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. The first chapter focuses on the impact of dual labor markets on human capital investment. Using a large dataset of the Spanish Social Security the ...
Essays on the macroeconomics of labor markets
This thesis investigates several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. First chapter finds that in the US more educated individuals experience lower and less volatile unemployment due to a lower hazard rate of losing ...
Essays on the Mexican stock market
This thesis can be seen as a collection of three papers analyzing several facets of the Mexican stock market, each of them with their own objectives, hypothesis and methodology. The objective of the first chapter is to ...
Essays on the optimal choice of exchange rate regime in emerging countries
This thesis comprises three empirical studies about the consequences of full dollarization for three major economic factors: (1) the exchange rate pass-through, (2) fiscal sustainability, and (3) bond market behavior. The ...
