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Title:Essays in monetary and financial economics Author(s):FISCHER, Johannes Jacob Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis investigates how central bank policies affect the economy. The core of central banking is of course monetary policy. However, more recently, central banks have also introduced a wider range of regulatory policies ...
Title:Essays in networks and applied microeconomic theory Author(s):HUREMOVIC, KenanDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis contains three papers which examine the role of networks and social structure in different modes of socio-economic interactions. The first chapter focuses on purely competitive strategic bilateral interactions ...
Title:Essays in political economy Author(s):LAZARIC, Filip Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:The thesis is composed of three chapters on political economy. each chapter tries to answer policy relevant questions by extending seminal models. each part is introduced with a detailed abstract of that particular chapter, ...
Title:Essays in political economy Author(s):CINTOLESI, Andrea Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the first chapter, I study whether the introduction of primary elections induces more or less political polarization. Before 1976, only representatives from Indiana had to pass through the primaries, whereas the reform ...
Title:Essays in political economy Author(s):CORNILS, Sylta Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis studies the effect of rent-seeking behavior on entrepreneurial activity, regulation and policy choices. The first chapter investigates the impact of corruption on entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurial ...
Title:Essays in political economy Author(s):ANDREOTTOLA, Giovanni Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:My thesis is centred on the question of how information asymmetries affect elections. In particular, I am interested in how electoral concerns shape policy choices and in the consequences of institutional arrangements aimed ...
Title:Essays in political economy Author(s):DE MORAGAS SÁNCHEZ, Antoni-Ítalo Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the first chapter, I study the effect of disclosing the private interests of decision-makers on the quality of the decisions that are eventually taken. I focus on a delegation relationship where decision makers motivated ...
Title:Essays in political economy and macroeconomics Author(s):MENDES PEREIRA VICENTE, Ricardo Alfredo Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:In this thesis I develop two models that bring together macroeconomics and political institutions; these models allow me to draw conclusions about the impact of institutions on economic outcomes, and about the effect of ...
Title:Essays in political economy, migration, and public economics Author(s):BROBERG, Nikolaj Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis in four chapters focuses on political economy, migration, and public economics. The first chapter, joint with Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud, investigates the effects of campaign finance rules on electoral ...
Title:Essays in public economics and empirical banking Author(s):WINKLER, Andreas Sebastian Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis studies questions from the fields of public economics and empirical banking. The first chapter studies the question of how the design of pension system affects household labour supply incentives. The effective ...
Title:Essays in public economics and financial macroeconomics Author(s):BARBOSA, Rafael Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Version:Chapter 2 ‘Tax Housing or Land? Distributional Effects of Property Taxation in Germany' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as CESifo Working Paper, 2019/8039Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:The first chapter of the thesis is entitled A Brief History of Land Value Taxation in Economic Theory. The issue of land rents and their taxation through a land value tax (LVT) was as a hotly debated topic in economic ...
Title:Essays in public finance Author(s):SKIPKA, Simon Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis consists of three independent essays in public finance. While differing in methodology and scope, the essays are unified by their topicality in the policy discussion The first chapter discusses the interaction ...
Title:Essays in quantitative macroeconomics Author(s):KASE, Hanno Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis consists of three essays in quantitative macroeconomics. In Chapter 1, joint with Leonardo Melosi and Matthias Rottner, we leverage recent developments in machine learning to develop methods to solve and estimate ...
Title:Essays in quantitative macroeconomics : income, inequality, income risk and optimal redistribution Author(s):GRÜBENER, Philipp Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis contains four independent essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics. They explore the sources of income inequality and income risk and study the optimal design of public redistribution and insurance. The ...
Title:Essays in Recursive Macroeconomics Author(s):RENDAHL, PontusDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis contains several lines of research conducted during my four years at the European University Institute. It deals with two distinct topics in the area of recursive economies, developed in three chapters. The ...
Title:Essays in social economics Author(s):ÁLVAREZ PEREIRA, BraisDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Version:Chapter 3 ‘Waving goodbye? : the determinants of autonomism and secessionism in Western Europe' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Waving goodbye? : the determinants of autonomism and secessionism in Western Europe' (2017) in the journal ‘Regional studies’Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis consists of three microeconomic essays that depart from the perfectly informed and self-interested agent to analyze important socioeconomic problems which do not find a fully satisfactory explanation under more ...
Title:Essays in sovereign debt and sovereign credit ratings Author(s):GIBERT RIVAS, Anna Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis consists of two chapters regarding the transmission of information in the sovereign debt market. The first one looks into the signaling role of the choice of debt by the sovereign and the second one focuses ...
Title:Essays in the econometrics of asset pricing and public health Author(s):SCHMIDTBLAICHER, Matthias Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Version:Chapter 2 ‘A dynamic model of vaccine compliance : how fake news undermined the Danish HPV vaccine program' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'A dynamic model of vaccine compliance : how fake news undermined the Danish HPV vaccine program' (2019) in the journal ‘Journal of business & economic statistics’
Chapter 3 ‘Resilience of HPV vaccine uptake in Denmark : decline and recovery' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Resilience of HPV vaccine uptake in Denmark : decline and recovery ‘ (2020) in the journal ‘Vaccine’Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:In this thesis, I employ techniques from time series econometrics to study the detection of asset price bubbles and the measurement of vaccine uptake. In Chapter 1, I analyse some commonly used bubble detection tests that ...
Title:Essays in the econometrics of macroeconomic models Author(s):TRYPHONIDES, Andreas Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:The thesis has focused on issues related to the use of external information in the identification, estimation and evaluation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models, and comprises three papers. The first ...
Title:Essays in the economics and econometrics of networks and peer effect Author(s):WANG, Zheng Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis contributes to the understanding of peer effects, both methodologically and empirically. The endogeneity of network formation has been a major obstacle to the study of peer influence. The first and the second ...