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Essays on macroeconomic effects of credit market fluctuations
This dissertation includes three chapters on the macroeconomic effects of the financial system, particularly the credit market. In the first chapter, I show a causal link between household credit supply and economic ...
Essays on macroeconomic forecasting
Esta tesis es una colección de tres ensayos empíricos con un enfoque en la previsión. El primer capítulo se centra en una importante tarea de política como previsión de la inflación. El trabajo tiene como objetivo ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Policies and Redistribution
The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the distributive effects of macroeconomic policies. In particular, the thesis assesses the distributional impact of fiscal policy, conventional and unconventional ...
Essays on macroeconomic policy and business cycles
This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomic policy and business cy-cles. In chapter 1, I estimate a time-varying structural VAR to study the effects of government spending shocks on a number of U.S. macroeconomic ...
Essays on macroeconomic policy over the business cycle
Esta tesis consta de tres capítulos vagamente conectados, cada uno de ellos analizando una cuestión de particular interés para los legisladores de políticas macroeconómicas relacionadas con las fluctuaciones del ciclo ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Theory: Technology Adoption, the Informal Economy, and Monetary Policy
It is well known that cross-country diferences in income per worker are very large. For example, the average per-capita income of the richest ten percent of countries of the Penn World Tables in 1996 is about thirty times ...
Essays on Macroeconomics and Textual Analysis
Aquesta tesi conté tres assaigs sobre macroeconomia i anàlisi textual. En el primer capítol, estudio l’impacte de la polarització política sobre les polítiques mediambientals utilitzant propostes de llei de les ...
Essays on marital sorting and fertility
This thesis examines the interactions between marital patterns, inequality, and fertility. In the first chapter I analyze the impact of search frictions on marital assortative matching. I exploit a temporary interruption ...
Essays on microfinance in east-Africa
Microfinance has found itself at the center of development agenda for many a developing economy struggling to reduce poverty and spur economic growth by containing unemployment. This is based on the assumption that if ...
Essays on microfinance institutions and human capital
El primer capítol examina la mesura que l'accés al crèdit i el racionament del crèdit estan influenciats pel tipus de microfinances basat en els principals factors que determinen les micro, accés de les petites i mitjanes ...
Essays on migration, altruism, and intergenerational mobiilty
Esta tesis es una colección de ensayos centrados en la economía del desarrollo. La primera parte está dedicada al análisis de las tarifas de transacción sobre el comportamiento de las remesas y cómo la existencia de los ...
Essays on Mobility and Environmental Policies in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Europe's cities – home to 70% of the EU population and generating over 80% of the Union's GDP - are connected by one of the world's best transport systems (European Commission Regional Policy, 2011). The Barcelona metropolitan ...
Essays on Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Esta tesis estudia cuestiones de política monetaria y fiscal en macroeconomías con fricciones financieras. <br/>El Capítulo 1 analiza numéricamente el funcionamiento de reglas de política monetaria en economías con y sin ...
Essays on monetary and fiscal policy
The thesis is divided into three chapters.<br/><br/>1) I study how monetary policy should be optimally designed when households show financial wealth heterogeneity.<br/>Main results: thanks to its ability to affect interest ...
Essays on monetary economics
The thesis consists of three chapters: Chapter 2 investigates, in the context of a two-country model with monopolistic competition and price stickiness, the implications for macroeconomic stability and the welfare ...
Essays on monetary economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on monetary economics. In the first chapter, I explore if a benchmark Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model fits the heterogeneous response of monetary policy shocks observed ...
Essays on monetary economics
In my PhD thesis, I extend the basic New Keynesian (NK) model (Galí (2015), Woodford (2003)) on three distinct dimensions. (i) In the first chapter, I introduce endogenous money creation by private banks (``inside-money''). ...
Essays on monetary economics and applied macroeconomics
This thesis consists three chapters on topics in monetary economics and applied macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where the central bank has private information about future economic conditions. ...
Essays on monetary economics and financial stability
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key externalities are ...
Essays on Monetary Policy and Digital Currencies
Aquesta tesi consta d’un assaig teòric i dos empírics sobre temes d’actualitat en l’àmbit de la política monetària i les monedes digitals. En particular, s’estudia la relació entre les polítiques monetàries no convencionals ...
