Title:A Threatening Horizon? Social concerns, the welfare state and public opinion towards Europe
Author(s):BEAUDONNET, LaurieDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:European integration challenges the social boundaries of nation states and this phenomenon is not without consequences for individual attitudes. Within public debate, the impact of European integration on the welfare states ...
Title:Three Empirical Essays on Trade Reform in Post Apartheid South Africa
Author(s):SHENDY, RihamDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation examines the trade reform experience in South Africa's (SA) manufacturing sector during the first post apartheid decade, from 1994 until 2004. During this period SA implemented an intensive trade reform ...
Title:Three Essays in Applied Economics
Author(s):COVIELLO, DecioDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of this dissertation is to answer three real life economic questions with the following three chapters. Chapter 1, (joint with Matteo Bobba), deals with the problems of weak instruments in identifying the effects ...
Title:Three Essays in Competition and Banking
Author(s):LEONELLO, AgneseDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:No abstract available
Title:Three Essays in Competition and Consumer Policy
Author(s):AGUZZONI, LucaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis is made up of three chapters: The first chapter estimates the effects of antitrust investigations on the market value of the investigated firms. This analysis offers insights on the performance of competition ...
Title:Three Essays in Competition Policy
Author(s):MAGOS, DimitriosDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis focuses on different aspects of Competition Policy and analyses questions related to market power, collusion and the European Commission's fining policy. The first chapter provides a theoretical setting to study ...
Title:Three essays in competitive bidding
Author(s):PEZANIS-CHRISTOU, PaulDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
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):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 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 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 ...