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Essays in labor economics
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility can improve the labor ...
Essays in labor economics and structural change
This thesis studies questions at the intersection of labor economics and the literature of structural change. The first chapter empirically assesses the impact of emigration on structural change. Exploiting plausibly ...
Essays in labor market economics
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay unemployed and wait ...
Essays in law and economics
En esta tesis se investigará el rol de la información asimétrica en el mercado de los servicios legales. En particular, se estudiará cómo los agentes individuales desinformados interactúan con abogados y agentes corporativos ...
Essays in learning uncertainty
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ ...
Essays in macro-finance and wealth inequality
This thesis investigates how asset markets affect macroeconomic outcomes and inequality. In the first chapter, I study the contribution of return heterogeneity for wealth inequality. First, I document that wealthier U.S. ...
Essays in Macroeconometrics
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 presents a method for online evaluation of the optimality of the current stance of monetary policy given the most up to date data available. ...
Essays in macroeconometrics
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 proposes a method to analyze the relationship between models’ in-sample fit and their out-of-sample density forecasting performance. To this ...
Essays in macroeconometrics
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 provides a novel estimator of combination weights which delivers well-calibrated density forecasts. In an empirical example of forecasting ...
Essays in macroeconomics
Aquesta tesi és el resultat del treball desenvolupat durant els meus estudis de doctorat al Departament d’Economia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Consta de tres Capítols relacionats amb tres temes diferents de ...
Essays in macroeconomics
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 develops a hypothesis test to evaluate economic models and their forecasts robust to instabilities. The test is particularly powerful in ...
Essays in Macroeconomics
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines empirically the relationship<br/>between foreign aid and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries. Instrumental<br/>variables techniques are used ...
Essays in macroeconomics and agents' heterogeneity
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows that student loans ...
Essays in macroeconomics and economic geography
Esta tesis estudia cómo las barreras y distorsiones en el mercado de trabajo y el mercado inmobiliario afectan la productividad de una economía. El capítulo 1 de la tesis, “El Aumento de la Regulación en Mercados ...
Essays in macroeconomics and economic geography
This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution ...
Essays in macroeconomics and financial markets
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first two chapters are on the topic of asset bubbles. In the first chapter, I study the interactions between rational asset bubbles and product market competition. ...
Essays in macroeconomics and firm dynamics
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel quantitative firm dynamics ...
Essays in Market Microstructure
This thesis covers three topics in Market Microstructure. Chapter 1 demonstrates that market access frictions may play a significant role in the competition between trading platforms. Analyzing a recent dataset of the ...
Essays in monetary and fiscal policy
Aquesta tesi contribueix a la literatura que analitza conjuntament la política fiscal i monetària. Des de l'inici de la crisi econòmica mundial al 2007-2008, moltes economies desenvolupades han experimentat notables ...
Essays in monetary economics
This thesis studies the optimal conduct of monetary policy in the presence of nominal and informational frictions. The first chapter studies the optimal policy in a small open economy model with external asset holdings. ...
