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Title:Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.
; TAS, Bedri Kamil Onur
Date:2022Citation:
- Small business economics, 2022, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 383–402
Type:ArticleAbstract:This study investigates the relationship between regulatory policies governing public procurement and participation by small and medium enterprises (SMEs), using a large dataset on European procurement. We find that better ...



Title:Essays in monetary and financial economics Author(s):FISCHER, Johannes Jacob
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis investigates how central bank policies affect the economy. The core of central banking is of course monetary policy. However, more recently, central banks have also introduced a wider range of regulatory policies ...


Title:Essays on macroeconomics and development Author(s):MANALIS, Georgios
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:Land Rights and risk sharing in rural West Africa: Despite arduous efforts of advancing land rights in Africa, most of the continent experiences low levels of formally recognized property. I propose a novel contextualisation ...


Title:To reform or to replace? : institutional succession in international organizations Author(s):EILSTRUP-SANGIOVANNI, Mette
; VERDIER, DanielDate:2021Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSC; 2021/20Abstract:We construct and test a model explaining why states sometimes replace existing international institutions. Recent literature in International Relations has theorized the conditions in which states reform existing institutions, ...


Title:Financial crises and shadow banks : a quantitative analysis Author(s):ROTTNER, Matthias Christian
Date:2021Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2021/02Abstract:Motivated by the build-up of shadow bank leverage prior to the Great Recession, I develop a nonlinear macroeconomic model that features excessive leverage accumulation and show how this can cause a bank run. Introducing ...


Title:Essays in macroeconomics and nonlinear dynamics Author(s):ROTTNER, Matthias Christian
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis investigates topics in macroeconomics with nonlinear dynamics as their inherent feature. It aims to further the understanding of the connection between the financial sector and economic fluctuations, challenges ...


Title:Inequality of opportunity, inequality of effort, and innovation Author(s):SPIGANTI, Alessandro
Date:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2020/02Abstract:Is inequality good or bad for innovation? I study an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents; due to credit frictions, inequalities in wealth lead to misallocation of talent. A more unequal reward scheme incentivises ...


Title:Essays on risk sharing in economic unions Author(s):SIMPSON-BELL, Chima
Date:2020Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2020
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: with Ramon Marimon and Alessandro Ferrari, returns somewhat to the theme of Chapter 1. We address a gap in the theoretical literature on optimal transfers in currency unions, which fails to account properly for the ...

Title:Loyalty discounts and price-cost tests Author(s):CALZOLARI, Giacomo
; DENICOLÒ, VincenzoDate:2020Citation:
- International journal of industrial organization, 2020, Vol. 73, Art. 102589, OnlineOnly
Type:ArticleAbstract:We analyze, by means of a formal economic model, the use of the discount-attribution test to assess the competitive effects of loyalty discounts. (The discount-attribution test is a variant of the price-cost test, where ...


Title:Essays in international macroeconomics Author(s):FERRARI, Alessandro
Date:2020Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2020
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:In the first chapter I investigate the role of position in global value chains in the transmission of final demand shocks and the cyclicality and volatility of trade. Relying on a production network model with propagation ...
