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    Essays on social pressure: choice and dis(honesty) 

    Okcuoglu, Dilan (Date of defense: 2017-10-09)

    Human behavior is strongly affected by social factors such as norms or social pressure, and economic decision making is not an exception. The impact of self and social image considerations is well documented in decisions ...

    Essays on Sovereign Debt Crises and Macroeconomic Volatility 

    Brutti, Filippo (Date of defense: 2010-02-11)

    Income growth is much more volatile in developing countries than in developed ones. One argument is that weak legal and political institutions exacerbate macroeconomic shocks precipitating the economy into widespread crises. ...

    Essays on sovereign debt markets 

    Lanau Grau, Sergi (Date of defense: 2008-10-22)

    Aquesta tesis anal.litza les Clausules d'Acció Col.lectiva i les Clàusules de Precedència quan: 1) el repagament és endogen i depèn d'un esforç de lobbying dels creditors. 2) el litigi és purament redistributiu. Hi ha una ...

    Essays On Spatial Panel Econometrics 

    Miranda Gualdron, Karen Alejandra (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)

    Aquesta tesi proposa una metodologia per identificar i estimar externalitats espacials associades als efectes inviduals en models per a dades de panell. La clau d'aquest nou enfocament és l'ús d'una especificació d'efectes ...

    Essays on statistical inference in non-regular semiparametric models 

    Lee, Adam (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)

    This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in semiparametric models which ...

    Essays on sticky prices, aggregate investment and monetary policy. 

    Weinke, Lutz (Date of defense: 2005-03-31)

    La tesis estudia la relación entre las inversiones y la inflación. El primer capitulo muestra que esta relación es más simple (en el contexto de un modelo del tipo neo-keynesiano) de lo que la literatura anterior ha ...

    Essays on structural transformations: remittances, fertility and informality 

    Garofalo, Arianna (Date of defense: 2023-02-06)

    [eng] The thesis is composed of an introduction, conclusions, and three chapters that investigate three characteristics of developing countries: structural change, fertility, and informality. In Chapter 2, co-authored ...

    Essays on Sustainable Consumption 

    Aral, Öykü H. (Date of defense: 2022-05-24)

    El clima està canviant, i les accions humanes en són les principals responsables. Per tant, comprendre la naturalesa dels comportaments ambientals dels consumidors ajudarà a dissenyar millors polítiques ambientals per a ...

    Essays on Tail Risks in Macroeconomics 

    Garrón Vedia, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)

    [eng] This thesis contributes to two problems identified in the literature: i) How do US financial conditions impact funding markets (credit and stocks) in a large set of countries around the world under different scenarios ...

    Essays on Tax Administration 

    Salvadori, Luca (Date of defense: 2015-04-27)

    Tax administration is central to the working of any tax system. This thesis focuses on the Spanish case and proves the existence of two kind of externalities that might arise in tax administration policies when decentralized. ...

    Essays on the allocation of talent 

    Figueiredo, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)

    This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education returns has an ...

    Essays on the art museum experience: a cultural sociology perspective 

    Pérez Rubiales, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-12-04)

    Ensayos sobre la experiencia de ver arte en museos: un análisis desde la sociología cultural se estructura entorno a dos trabajos de investigación sobre las dimensiones emocional y social de ...

    Essays on the bank lending channel 

    Soto, Paul Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)

    This thesis contributes to the understanding of how banks shift their supply of credit when confronted with uncertainty, regulatory supervision and macroprudential policies. The first chapter proposes a new index to detect ...

    Essays on the banking sector: capital, structure, productivity and bank restructuring 

    Llorens Llorens, Vanesa (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)

    [eng] This dissertation thesis analyzes the determinants of the capital ratio of banks and also the dynamics of the leverage ratio, exploring the driving forces of the issuance of debt and capital instruments. My thesis ...

    Essays on the behavior and regulation of insiders 

    Sureda Gomila, Antoni (Date of defense: 2010-10-28)

    This thesis consists of three essays on the behavior of corporate insiders and the optimal regulation of insider trading. The first of these three essays examines the welfare effects of insider trading and its attributes ...

    Essays on the consequences of banking shocks 

    Rodríguez Tous, Francesc (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)

    This thesis revolves around banking behavior and its implications for financial stability. The first chapter examines how banks buy and sell securities during the crisis, and we find that some banks -the ones specialized ...

    Essays on the credit market and macroeconomic policy 

    Rojas Zea, Youel (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)

    This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for the credit market ...

    Essays on the digital divide 

    Sukphan, Jakkapong (Date of defense: 2021-05-21)

    Durant l’última dècada, Internet s’ha convertit en un aspecte crucial de les xarxes basades en les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació, trencant les barreres de comunicació entre cultures en permetre l’accés a ...

    Essays on the ECB Monetary Policy's Impact on Non-Financial Firms 

    Cohen, Lior (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)

    In recent years, one of the main problems the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been facing is slow economic growth stemming, in part, from subdued investments despite interest rates falling below the zero-lower ...

    Essays on the Economic History of the family 

    Puerta, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2011-06-03)

    This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and fertility. I use a combination ...