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Title:Essays in applied game theory Author(s):KIRYSHEVA, IrinaDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:My thesis covers different aspects of applied game theory. The first paper looks at a two-sided asymmetric information game where agents make a collaborative decision not knowing each others' types. In the model, an ...
Title:Essays in applied macroeconometrics Author(s):WATZKA, SebastianDate:2007Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:My thesis consists of three independent chapters. Each of them is an empirical study using time series techniques to learn something about the macroeconomy. Hence the title "Essays in Applied Macroeconometrics". Whilst the ...
Title:Essays in applied macroeconomics Author(s):MERTENS, KarelDate:2007Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The first chapter, 'How the Removal of Deposit Rate Ceilings Has Changed Monetary Transmission in the US: Theory and Evidence' is concerned with US monetary history and the impact of institutional changes in the late 1970s ...
Title:Essays in applied macroeconomics Author(s):GAZZANI, Andrea GiovanniDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis studies the interaction between the real economy and assets like housing and bonds, and provide a new methodology to assess more accurately the spillovers from financial markets to the real economy. The first ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconometrics : household and firm investment Author(s):LAMP, StefanDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The thesis contains three chapters relating to household and firm investment. The first chapter, coauthored with Silvia Albrizio, investigates the relationship between fiscal consolidation, business plans, and firm investment. ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics Author(s):HERNÆS, ØysteinDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:Abstract The first chapter analyzes the effects of commercial television in Norway. Matching data on cable television networks with individual-level administrative register data, we find that the expansion of commercial ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics Author(s):GAARDER, IngvilDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The first chapter of this thesis examines the incidence and distribution effects of VAT. The context of the study is a sharp change in the VAT policy on food items in Norway. I examine the direct impact of the policy ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics and finance Author(s):IANCU, Emanuela MariaDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The topics covered in this paper cover a broad range of subjects, from a reputation system in a discrete and infinite time model over to a three period game on a network and concluding with the optimal default decision in ...
Title:Essays in Applied Time Series Econometrics Author(s):GUERIN, PierreDate:2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:In the first chapter of this thesis, I estimate Markov-switching models with time-varying transition probabilities to predict the US business cycle regimes. In particular, I evaluate the predictive power of real and ...
Title:Essays in cointegration and monetary analysis Author(s):PAESANI, PaoloDate:2005Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Economics
Title:Essays in Competition Economics Author(s):LANGUS, GregorDate:2008Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:No abstract available
Title:Essays in Economic Development Author(s):MOTT, GrahamDate:2010Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The difficulties and obstacles faced by the poorer nations of the global economy on the path to development are extremely diverse. It is the aim of this thesis to address some of the interesting questions related to the ...
Title:Essays in Economic Policy Author(s):CIARI, LorenzoDate:2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:No abstract available.
Title:Essays in economics : what can we infer from the data? Author(s):KONSTANTINOU, Panagiotis T.Date:2003Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2003Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Economics
Title:Essays in economics of education and elections Author(s):ŚPIEWANOWSKI, PiotrDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:How economic agents can make sense from imperfect information is a central challenge in economic theory. In this thesis, I first explore how voters try to infer the quality of their government based not only on the information ...
Title:Essays in empirical labor economics Author(s):BOSSAVIE, LaurentDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The aim of this PhD thesis is to provide a better understanding of the determinants of observed educational outcomes internationally, by focusing on two potentially important vectors of educational attainment: classroom ...
Title:Essays in empirical labor economics Author(s):BAMIEH, OmarDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:In the first chapter of my thesis I study the effect of firing costs and labor reallocation. Exogenous variation of expected firing costs is offered by the random allocation of judges to trials involving firms in a large ...
Title:Essays in empirical macroeconomics Author(s):KOZLUK, TomaszDate:2007Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:On the Ist of January 1999 eleven European Union (EU) members fixed their currencies to form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In the run-up to the formation of the euro area candidate countries had to fulfil a set ...
Title:Essays in empirical macroeconomics Author(s):MEIER, AndréDate:2006Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Economics
Title:Essays in financial economics Author(s):BAUMERT, JeanineDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis addresses two phenomena, which are commonly observed in the financial markets but so far have received relatively little attention in the literature. By putting these issues into a theoretical framework I provide ...