Title:Uncertainty, expectations, and the business cycle
Author(s):LANG, Jan HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis adds to the recent quantitative literature that considers variations in uncertainty as impulses driving the business cycle. In chapter one a flexible partial equilibrium model that features heterogeneous firms, ...
Title:Understanding Individuals' Beliefs
Author(s):GRANADOS ZAMBRANO, PaulinaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:We live in a world surrounded by uncertainty and within this uncertainty human beings have to decide every action, every turn of life. When individuals take decisions the true value of parameters relevant for that decision ...
Title:Understanding the Size and Profitability of Firms: The Role of a Biological Factor
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; RUSTICHINI, AldoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We collect information on prenatal testosterone in a large sample of entrepreneurs by measuring the length of their 2th to 4th fingers in face to face interviews. Entrepreneurs with higher exposure to prenatal testosterone ...
Title:Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?
Author(s):FACCINI, RenatoDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char-
acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...