Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Type "Thesis"

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Title:Essays in sovereign debt and sovereign credit ratings Author(s):GIBERT RIVAS, AnnaDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: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 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 ...
Title:Essays in macro-finance Author(s):ARAGON, NicolasDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis deals with the economics of crises, within the macro-finance literature. The first chapter, coauthored with Rasmus Pank, deals with how crises emerge. Particularly, we are interested in how confidence affects ...
Title:Essays in international macroeconomics Author(s):VICONDOA, AlejandroDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis studies the effects of external shocks on emerging economies and proposes a novel methodology to assess the spillovers from financial markets to the real economy. The first chapter analyzes how anticipated and ...
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 on financial stability Author(s):VOURDAS, JohnDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis consists of two essays concerning how banking regulations may promote financial stability. The first chapter investigates the competition-concentration-stability nexus from a novel perspective, by considering ...
Title:Essays on contests and conflicts Author(s):ANTSYGINA, AnastasiaDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis focuses on contests and conflicts with heterogeneous participants where the asymmetries arise from players’ preferences, skills, or resource constraints. The work consists of two chapters. Each section proposes ...
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 PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: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 health economics Author(s):FACCHINI PALMA, Gabriel AlejandroDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This aims at better understanding the drivers behind the volume-outcome rela- tionship found in many studies in the medical and health-economics literature. In the first chapter I investigate the relationship between ...
Title:Essays on local labor markets Author(s):MALGOUYRES, ClémentDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis studies empirically several issues regarding the functioning of local labor markets. In Chapter 1, I follow the methodology developed by Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013) to estimate the impact of Chinese imports ...
Title:Bank regulation in a post-financial crisis landscape : essays of the interaction between financial institutions Author(s):WERGER, CharlotteDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis is a nexus of three topics; financial stability, banking regulation and financial influence. In four separate chapters, this work examines how financial institutions interact with their regulators, in particular ...
Title:Three essays in labour economics Author(s):GAMA NOGUEIRA, AndréDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis investigates labour market policies and the way they interact with labour market frictions. The first chapter of this thesis is dedicated to the introduction of a new method to measure skills mismatch in the ...
Title:Essays in international finance and applied econometrics Author(s):RACZKO, MarekDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The thesis consists of three essays in the fields of international finance and applied econometrics. The first chapter analyzes the co-movement of market premia for rare adverse events, addressing the important issue of ...
Title:Three essays on reputation, household debt, and monetary policy Author(s):FERREIRA MAYORGA, Clodomiro F.Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This dissertation is composed of three separate and self-contained chapters on two different areas: (i) reputation building and competition in on-line markets, and (ii) the heterogeneous transmission of monetary policy to ...
Title:Essays on political economy Author(s):ARENAS JAL, AndreuDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:In this thesis I use the ban of a political party – Batasuna - as a natural experiment to answer three questions in political economics. The first chapter is about whether vote choices are instrumental or expressive. After ...
Title:Essays in applied econometrics of high frequency financial data Author(s):ARCHAKOV, IlyaDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:In the first chapter, co-authored with Peter Hansen and Asger Lunde, we suggest a novel approach to modeling and measuring systematic risk in equity markets. We develop a new modeling framework that treats an asset return ...
Title:Three essays in international macroeconomics Author(s):ROTH, Moritz AlexanderDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis sheds light on three questions in international macroeconomics. The first chapter investigates why business cycle correlations are state-dependent and higher in recessions than in expansions. I suggest a mechanism ...
Title:Expectations formation and optimal taxation Author(s):ROJAS, Luis E.Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis is composed of three essays that propose macroeconomic theories to answer empirical questions and guide policy design. The focus is on expectations formation, learning and optimal taxation. In the first chapter ...
Title:Essays in political economy and macroeconomics Author(s):MENDES PEREIRA VICENTE, Ricardo AlfredoDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: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 on macroeconomic policy Author(s):SAJEDI, RanaDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis looks at the interactions between fiscal, monetary and structural policies along three dimensions. The first paper looks at the dynamic effects of structural reforms when monetary policy is constrained. Structural ...