Title:An Economic Analysis of the Regulation of Pharmaceutical Markets
Author(s):SAURÍ, LluísDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Regulation in pharmaceutical markets is pervasive in most countries, especially in Europe. The nature of existing regulations is diverse, as they serve a number of purposes: guaranteeing safety, efficacy and security of ...
Title:Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Author(s):KITZMUELLER, MarkusDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and how can we explain the phenomenon from an economic perspective? Is there a business case for CSR and was Milton Friedman right when writing in the New York Times in 1970 ...
Title:Empirical Essays on Occupations, Reallocation and Wage Differentials
Author(s):ISAOGLU, AysenDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis I aim to contribute to the labor economics literature by casting more light on i) measurement errors regarding data on occupational affiliations, ii) worker mobility across occupations and iii) wage differentials ...
Title:Essays in applied macroeconometrics
Author(s):WATZKA, SebastianDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:no abstract available
Title:Essays in applied macroeconomics
Author(s):MERTENS, KarelDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The first chapter, 'How the Removal of Deposit Rate Ceilings Has Changed Monetary Transmission in the US: Theory and Evidence' is concerned with US monetary history and the impact of institutional changes in the late 1970s ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics and finance
Author(s):IANCU, Emanuela MariaDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The topics covered in this paper cover a broad range of subjects, from a reputation system in a discrete and infinite time model over to a three period game on a network and concluding with the optimal default decision in ...
Title:Essays in Applied Time Series Econometrics
Author(s):GUÉRIN, PierreDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the first chapter of this thesis, I estimate Markov-switching models with time-varying
transition probabilities to predict the US business cycle regimes. In particular, I evaluate
the predictive power of real and ...