Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa

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Recent Submissions

Essays in non-market strategies 

Zhou, Feng (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

This dissertation consists of three papers examining the implications of non-market strategies in corporations and mutual funds. The first chapter quantifies the importance of political connections to congressional ...

Essays on Emotions and Consumer Behavior in Culinary Contexts 

Kaya, Sandra (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

This dissertation sheds light on the impact of emotions on consumer behavior within culinary contexts. Comprising three chapters, the research presents a holistic exploration through lab experiments and field studies. ...

Three Essays on Information and Learning in Financial Decisions 

Szabó, Barna Elek (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)

This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I build a sequential trading model to analyze the dynamics ...

Essays in Macroeconometrics 

Einarsson, Bjarni F. (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)

This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 presents a method for online evaluation of the optimality of the current stance of monetary policy given the most up to date data available. ...

Essays on Learning Theory for time series 

Llorens-Terrazas, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)

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 Macroeconomics and Textual Analysis 

Martín Vilató, Zoel (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)

Aquesta tesi conté tres assaigs sobre macroeconomia i anàlisi textual. En el primer capítol, estudio l’impacte de la polarització política sobre les polítiques mediambientals utilitzant propostes de llei de les ...

Essays on agent heterogeneity in macroeconomics 

Smirnov, Danila (Date of defense: 2023-06-12)

In my Ph.D. thesis, I study the subjects of monetary economics, heterogeneity of households and firms, and optimal policy. I solve models with rich heterogeneity and use statistical models to work with time series macro ...

Essays in macroeconomics and economic geography 

Mantovani, Cristiano (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)

This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution ...

Essays on trade agreements 

Ptashkina, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)

This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel empirical method used ...

Essays in monetary economics 

Ohanyan, Narek (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)

This thesis studies the optimal conduct of monetary policy in the presence of nominal and informational frictions. The first chapter studies the optimal policy in a small open economy model with external asset holdings. ...

Essays in macroeconomics and agents' heterogeneity 

Morazzoni, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)

In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows that student loans ...

Essays in game theory and mechanism design 

Gavan, Malachy James (Date of defense: 2023-05-29)

This thesis aims to understand negotiations over the behaviour agents will take in a game and, separately, robust implementation. Chapter 1 examines the binding agreements that result from a negotiation over what to ...

Essays on behavioral economics 

Puig Pomés, David (Date of defense: 2023-04-04)

This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article (Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically well-documented driver ...

Essays in industrial organisation 

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 ...

Essays on inequalities in economics of labor and education 

Baertsch, Laurenz (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)

This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options in paid parental ...

Mirrors with unflattering reflections: moral rebels as fuel for social inertia or social change? 

Brouwer, Claire (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

Individuals who deviate from majority practices based on moral objections can be crucial catalyzers of social change. However, according to prior work, these “moral rebels” are commonly met with defensiveness. Therefore, ...

Essays in safe assets: trends, drivers and implications for financial stability 

Castells Jauregui, Madalen (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)

This dissertation consists of three chapters centred on safe assets, shedding light on different aspects of the growing literature on the subject. Chapter 1 introduces the set of assets that falls under the safe category, ...

Essays in time series econometrics 

Flores, Jairo (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)

This doctoral thesis develops new methods for time series analysis and applies these to prominent empirical problems in macroeconomics. It contains three chapters. Chapter one proposes a new non-parametric generalized method ...

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 international trade and economic geography 

Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)

This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction in trade costs ...

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