Title:Three Essays in Household Finance
Author(s):FAGERENG, AndreasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis contains three chapters relating to the field of household finance. In the first chapter household life cycle investment behaviour is investigated using a panel of Norwegian administrative data and tax records. ...
Title:Three Essays in Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance
Author(s):TARANTINO, EmanueleDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Soft bankruptcy allows a poor performing entrepreneur to renegotiate the terms of outstanding financial contracts, but at the same time it allows lenders to increase recovery rates. Hinging on this basic trade-off, the ...
Title:Three essays in international economics
Author(s):BALTEANU, IrinaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is a collection of three empirical papers in international economics. The first paper discusses the suitability of fixed-basket price indexes to provide accurate macroeconomic description in countries where the ...
Title:Three Essays in International Macroeconomics
Author(s):RABITSCH, KatrinDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis deals with a number of different topics in the field of international macroeconomics. It proposes theoretical models of the open economy to think about and analyze questions such as the effects of financial ...
Title:Three Essays in International Macroeconomics
Author(s):PANCARO, CosimoDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis focuses on three macroeconomic issues in the process of cross-border integration in real and financial markets.
The first chapter develops an asymmetric two-country international real business cycle model to ...
Title:Three Essays in Macro Labor Teory
Author(s):FACCINI, RenatoDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis presents three papers in macro labor theory. All of them share the particular approach to the theory of unemployment pioneered by Dale Mortensen and Chris Pissarides. In these models unemployment is frictional, ...
Title:Three Essays in Macroeconomics
Author(s):UUSKULA, LennoDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Chapter 1: Traditional models of monetary transmission such as sticky price and limited partic- ipation abstract from firm creation and destruction. Only a few papers look at the empirical effects of the monetary shock on ...
Title:Three Essays in Macroeconomics
Author(s):SÁNCHEZ-MARTÍNEZ, MiguelDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis comprises three thorough investigations into different important economic issues. The common nexus between them is the long-horizon nature of the subjects covered, in which economic growth plays a central role. ...
Title:Three Essays in Time Series Econometrics
Author(s):KASCHA, ChristianDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis deals with different topics in time series econometrics that belong, broadly speaking, to the area of macroeconometrics. That is, topics and methods are investigated which are of interest to applied researchers ...
Title:Three essays on applied microeconometrics
Author(s):MURAVYEV, AlexanderDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis, which provides an account of research conducted at the European University Institute between 2002 and 2006, is an application of microeconometric analysis to testing models suggested by economic theory. It ...
Title:Three Essays on Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Author(s):ASCIONE, AuroraDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:No abstract available
Title:Three Essays on Frictional Labor Markets
Author(s):DUERNECKER, GeorgDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The labor market is central to many issues in economics, including business cycles, unemployment, inequality, education, and growth. Moreover, it is the largest single market in most economies and it is fundamental in ...
Title:Three essays on frictional labour markets
Author(s):POTHIER, DavidDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis contributes to the understanding of how socio-economic factors affect the functioning of modern labour markets. It belongs to the strand of academic literature that departs from the standard Walrasian model of ...