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Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Fecha de defensa: 2018-02-16)
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has ...
Pagà Peris, Roger (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-02)
The present thesis focuses on three topics within the domain of consumer behavior: self-regulation, the psychological consequences of money, and consumption rituals. The first chapter, devoted to ...
Gerardino Gutiérrez, María Paula (Fecha de defensa: 2014-12-17)
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 ...
Sessa, Luca (Fecha de defensa: 2011-07-27)
This thesis tackles three different issues of relevance for economic policy, with an explicit reference to the Euro area. Does the inclusion of monetary targeting in a monetary policy strategy improve ...
Pina, Gonçalo (Fecha de defensa: 2013-01-21)
This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing ...
Kanngiesser, Derrick (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-16)
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key ...
Soto, Paul Eduardo (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Fouka, Vasiliki (Fecha de defensa: 2015-06-20)
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 ...
Ziegenbein, Alexander (Fecha de defensa: 2018-07-04)
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large ...
Sun, Yucheng (Fecha de defensa: 2017-03-16)
Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. ...