Title:Essays on Risk-Sharing and Development
Author(s):HOANG-VU EOZENOU, PatrickDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Individuals living in developing economies are subject to a wide variety of risks. Moreover, since private and public formal institutions designed to help individuals coping with risks tend to be weaker and narrower than ...
Title:Essays on Social and Economic Networks
Author(s):HILLER, TimoDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis consists of three papers in the field of social and economic networks. In the first, called "Peer Effects in Endogenous Networks", I build a model of endogenous net- work formation in the presence of peer ...
Title:Essays on Sovereign Default and the Link with the Domestic Economy
Author(s):ANDREASEN, EugeniaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis studies the causes and consequences of sovereign defaults focusing on non traditional links between sovereign default and the domestic economy: the impact of sovereign defaults on the external financial conditions ...
Title:Essays on the Cost of Debt Capital for Private Firms
Author(s):VALENZUELA, PatricioDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Since corporate investment is a key driver for economic growth, it is very important to find out what are the drivers of the cost of financing for private firms. In particular, this thesis studies the determinants of spreads ...
Title:Essays on Time-Consistent Fiscal Policy
Author(s):PEREIRA, JoanaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis consists of an analysis of different aspects of optimal fiscal policy in dynamic economies, with a special emphasis on the consequences of dropping the assumption of full commitment to future policies: the Third ...
Title:Essays on wage inequality from a macroeconomic perspective
Author(s):FORSTNER, SusanneDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis contains two chapters on the sources of residual wage inequality. The first chapter contributes to attempts to explain the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market over the past few decades. I address ...