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

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Title:Three essays on networks and trade Author(s):JAKUBIK, AdamDate:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis comprises three chapters that contribute to the fields of industrial organisation and international trade. The first chapter presents an application of network games to modelling the complex market structures ...
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 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 political economy Author(s):ANDREOTTOLA, GiovanniDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: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-ÍtaloDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: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:Three essays in monetary and macroprudential policies Author(s):KOLB, Benedikt MarioDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis focuses on recent monetary and macroprudential policies addressing the Financial Crisis. Chapter 1 stresses the role of central-bank communication. In particular, shocks derived from movements in federal funds ...
Title:Macro-financial linkages and the role of unconventional monetary and macroprudential policy Author(s):BLUWSTEIN, KristinaDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Version:Chapter 1 'Beggar-thy-neighbor? : the international effects of ECB unconventional monetary policy measures' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article (2016) in the journal 'International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB)'
Chapter 2 'Asymmetric macro-financial spillovers' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as a working paper 'Asymmetric macro-financial spillovers' (2017) in Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper SeriesType:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis investigates the relationship between the macroeconomy and the financial sector. As shown by the Financial Crisis, large shocks in the financial system can have a significant impact on the real economy. In ...
Title:Macroeconomics of bargain hunting Author(s):PYTKA, KrzysztofDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:In most macroeconomic models prices for consumption goods are competitive and consumers are treated as price-takers, which gives rise to the law of one price. However, as the empirical literature documents, prices for the ...
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 ...