Title:Network Structure Matters: Applications to R&D collaboration, collusion, and online communication networks
Author(s):KORKMAZ, GizemDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis studies the interplay between network structure and strategic decision making given the backdrop of economic and social networks. The first two chapters study how firms’ incentives to invest in costly R&D are ...
Title:North-South Trade and Growth: The Role of Product Quality
Author(s):BOROTA, TeodoraDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The traditional trade models, which rely on a comparative advantage based on regions’ technology or endowments, or the new trade theory, designed to explain trade between the countries at a similar level of development, ...
Title:On asymmetric information and health
Author(s):KARLSSON, MartinDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:no abstract available
Title:On Sanctions and Signals: How formal and informal mechanisms produce compliance
Author(s):VAN DER WEELE, JoelDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why people comply with rules, why they contribute to public goods and why they behave prosocially in general is a fundamental question of social science. In the tradition of Gary Becker and the chicago school, economists ...
Title:On the macroeconomics of firm entry and exit
Author(s):GABLER, AlainDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis straddles two seemingly quite distinct fields within macroeconomics, namely endogenous growth and business cycle theory. The unifying element of the thesis is the fundamental role played by firm entry and exit ...
Title:On the Measurement of Welfare, Happiness and Inequality
Author(s):RYNKO, MajaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses welfare measurement issues, with an emphasis on the measurement of happiness and inequality. It contributes to the economic literature in both methodological and empirical terms, with the empirical ...
Title:Ownership structures and firm performance
Author(s):SERRANO-VELARD, NicolasDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:No abstract available