Title:Three Essays on International Trade
Author(s):SALA, DavideDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:International trade and trade liberalization is the logical nexus through this thesis. Not only trade volumes have largely expanded after World War II, but - perhaps less known - also the number of developing and underdeveloped ...
Title:Three Essays on International Trade
Author(s):STÖLTING, SarahDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The three chapters included in this thesis all touch upon very different aspects of the disciplines of international trade and economics. The first chapter shows that trade liberalization can lead to a permanent increase ...
Title:Three essays on labor markets
Author(s):BARRABES SOLANES, ClaraDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The three chapters presented in the following apply the concept of general equilibrium to topics related to labor markets. The first chapter "Decentralization of wage bargaining" focuses on the changes in collective ...
Title:Three essays on the econometric analysis of high frequency financial data
Author(s):OOMEN, Roel C. A.Date:2003Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is motivated by the observation that the time series properties of financial security prices can vary fundamentally with their sampling frequency. Econometric models developed for low frequency data may thus ...
Title:Three essays on the economics of public utilities
Author(s):BARONE, AndreaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Public utilities provide fundamental services both to households and firms. Continuous, adequate, and reasonably priced supplies of water, electricity and gas are essential for healthy living in every modern society. ...
Title:Three essays on the oil-macroeconomy relationship
Author(s):MARAVALLE, AlessandroDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Oil represents a key commodity in the world energy market and it is not a surprise that its price is largely viewed as one of the leading indicator of the global economic health. Therefore, the recent soaring up of the ...
Title:Trade Finance, Bank Bail-outs and Profit Taxation in an Interconnected World
Author(s):SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR, TimDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Countries are increasingly linked internationally. The three models developed in this thesis shed light on how firms and governments respond to the increasing interconnectedness of the world economy, analyzing profit ...
Title:Uncertainty, expectations, and the business cycle
Author(s):LANG, Jan HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis adds to the recent quantitative literature that considers variations in uncertainty as impulses driving the business cycle. In chapter one a flexible partial equilibrium model that features heterogeneous firms, ...
Title:Understanding Individuals' Beliefs
Author(s):GRANADOS ZAMBRANO, PaulinaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:We live in a world surrounded by uncertainty and within this uncertainty human beings have to decide every action, every turn of life. When individuals take decisions the true value of parameters relevant for that decision ...