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Title:Essays in applied macroeconometrics Author(s):WATZKA, SebastianDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:My thesis consists of three independent chapters. Each of them is an empirical study using time series techniques to learn something about the macroeconomy. Hence the title "Essays in Applied Macroeconometrics". Whilst the ...
Title:Essays in applied macroeconomics Author(s):MERTENS, KarelDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract: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 macroeconomics Author(s):GAZZANI, Andrea Giovanni Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis studies the interaction between the real economy and assets like housing and bonds, and provide a new methodology to assess more accurately the spillovers from financial markets to the real economy. The first ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconometrics : fertility, nutrition, and gender representation Author(s):CAVALLINI, Flavia Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis is composed of three independent essays in applied microeconomics. The first contributes to the field of labor and health economics and analyzes the effect of local unemployment rates on fertility rates, abortion ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconometrics : household and firm investment Author(s):LAMP, StefanDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:The thesis contains three chapters relating to household and firm investment. The first chapter, coauthored with Silvia Albrizio, investigates the relationship between fiscal consolidation, business plans, and firm investment. ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics Author(s):HERNÆS, ØysteinDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:Abstract The first chapter analyzes the effects of commercial television in Norway. Matching data on cable television networks with individual-level administrative register data, we find that the expansion of commercial ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics Author(s):JANDAROVA, Nurfatima Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis consists of four essays in applied microeconomics. Chapter 1 studies the effects of parental job loss on various outcomes of children and provides new evidence on the heterogeneity of these effects along the ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics Author(s):CAPRINI, Giulia Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis consists of three essays in political economy studying the influence of Media on political attitudes. Chapter 1 introduces a method to measure the news’ “visual partisanship”, namely the distinctiveness of the ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics Author(s):GAARDER, IngvilDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:The first chapter of this thesis examines the incidence and distribution effects of VAT. The context of the study is a sharp change in the VAT policy on food items in Norway. I examine the direct impact of the policy ...
Title:Essays in applied microeconomics and finance Author(s):IANCU, Emanuela MariaDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract: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):GUERIN, PierreDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract: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 ...
Title:Essays in behavioral economics and development Author(s):MEYER, Christian J. Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation presents three independent chapters that study labor markets in low-income countries and charitable giving. In the first chapter, I investigate whether present bias correlates with savings and job search ...
Title:Essays in cointegration and monetary analysis Author(s):PAESANI, PaoloDate:2005Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD Thesis
Title:Essays in Competition Economics Author(s):LANGUS, GregorDate:2008Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:No abstract available
Title:Essays in development and applied economics Author(s):BERNARDINO FIGUEIREDO, Dalila Adriana Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the first chapter, I study the effect of a conditional cash transfer program in Mexico on early marriage. I estimate the impact of the program leveraging its staggered implementation. The program provides monetary ...
Title:Essays in development economics Author(s):GONZALEZ-TORRES FERNANDEZ, Ada Isabel Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation studies the nexus between weak institutions, epidemic disease and conﬂict. In the ﬁrst chapter I provide descriptive evidence of an empirical pattern found across countries that introduces the two main ...
Title:Essays in economic development Author(s):MOTT, GrahamDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:The difficulties and obstacles faced by the poorer nations of the global economy on the path to development are extremely diverse. It is the aim of this thesis to address some of the interesting questions related to the ...
Title:Essays in Economic Policy Author(s):CIARI, LorenzoDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:No abstract available.
Title:Essays in economic theory Author(s):ESCUDÉ, Matteo Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Version:Chapter 3 ‘Strictly strategy-proof auctions' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Strictly strategy-proof auctions' (2020) in the journal ‘Mathematical social sciences'Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the first chapter, entitled ‘Communication with partially verifiable endogenous information’ I study the following problem. An expert can covertly acquire information about the state of the world before communicating ...
Title:Essays in economics : what can we infer from the data? Author(s):KONSTANTINOU, Panagiotis T.Date:2003Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2003Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD Thesis