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Essays on Industrial Organization

Liu, Qianshuo (Date of defense: 2022-10-24)

Aquesta tesi consta de tres capítols que aborden diferents qüestions de recerca sobre l’organització industrial inspirades i motivades per qüestions del món real en l’organització de la ciència, el procés d’innovació i les ...

Essays on Industrial Policy, Structural Change, and International Trade

Hollstein, Till Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the impact of patterns of trade on the structural composition of an economy. We show that trade affects an economy’s productivity by shifting labor across broad sectors and ...

Essays on industry dynamics and misallocation

Liu, Shangyu (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)

This thesis explores the linkages among resource allocation, industry dynamics, and asset price bubbles in China. In the first chapter, I break the source of misallocation into four groups: uncertainty, ownership difference, ...

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 ...

Essays on inequality and intergenerational mobility

Rauh, Christopher (Date of defense: 2014-06-18)

En aquesta tesi s'analitza com les desigualtats econòmiques sorgeixen i persisteixen. La desigualtat ha augmentat en el món desenvolupat durant les últimes dècades. La tesi no només es centra en la desigualtat de resultats ...

Essays on inflation dynamics and monetary policy

Höynck, Christian (Date of defense: 2021-01-07)

This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are connected through ...

Essays on Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy in Currency Areas

Cecioni, Martina (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)

Esta tesis extiende el modelo estándar Neo Keynesiano con el propósito de contestar dos preguntas: ¿cómo debe ser diseñada la política monetaria en uniones monetarias heterogéneas? y ¿cuál es el efecto de presiones ...

Essays on Inflation Expectations, Heterogeneous Agents, and the Use of Approximated Solutions in the Estimation of DSGE models

Ormeño Sánchez, Arturo (Date of defense: 2011-09-21)

In this thesis I evaluate the departures of three common assumptions in macroeconomic modeling and estimation, namely the Rational Expectations (RE) hypothesis, the representative agent assumption and the use of first-order ...

Essays on Inflation, Real Stock Prices, and extreme macroeconomic events

Pereira Garmendia, Diego (Date of defense: 2011-09-05)

La presente tesis estudia la correlación negativa entre inflación y precios reales de las acciones. En primer lugar, muestro evidencia de que la inflación impone costos reales en la economía, en particular al disminuir los ...

Essays on informal labor markets

Vega Núñez, Adriana Patricia (Date of defense: 2018-10-18)

The dissertation deals with the analysis of informality in developing countries considering both the worker’s and the firm’s perspective. Within a context of a strong presence of this phenomenon in the majority of South ...

Essays on information and competition in banking and service industries

Petriconi, Silvio (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)

This thesis investigates the relation between information and competition in two particular settings. In the first chapter, I ask which screening and lending choices banks make if their loan offers can be observed by ...

Essays on information frictions in macroeconomics

Chan, Jenny (Date of defense: 2019-12-03)

This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in macroeconomics and information frictions. In the first chapter, I relax the complete information assumption in the standard New Keynesian framework to ...

Essays on infraestructure and economic growth

Yang, Guohao (Date of defense: 2019-09-03)

This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent decades. In the first chapter, I study the impact of infrastructure, i.e, highway construction, on China’s participation in ...

Essays on innovation in manufacturing environments: strategy and production

Llach Pagès, Josep (Date of defense: 2010-02-02)

La present tesi doctoral és un recull de cinc articles científics que analitzen l'ús d'innovacions dins l'àmbit manufacturer. Entenent el concepte innovació en un sentit ampli, no només tecnològic. La tesi està estructurada ...

Essays on innovation, productivity and knowledge flows: evidence for Spanish firms

Goya Carrillo, Esther (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)

This dissertation aims to further understand the relationship between innovation and productivity in Spain taking into account the impact of knowledge flows. To this end, Spanish firms from both manufacturing and services ...

Essays on Innovation, Productivity and Labor Economics

Korchowiec, Bartosz (Date of defense: 2020-06-16)

A la següent tesi, estudio com afecta la innovació als mercats laborals: com s’ origina i quines són les seves conseqüències per a la població activa.. En els dos primers capítols, la font d’ un augment de la productivitat ...

Essays on institutional quality, macroeconomic stabilization, and economic growth in International Monetary Fund member countries

Javed, Omer (Date of defense: 2015-09-10)

This study is motivated by the overall poor performance of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs in recipient countries in terms of economic growth consequences, and tries to explore the relevance of institutional ...