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Essays on the allocation of talent
This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education returns has an ...
Essays on the art museum experience: a cultural sociology perspective
Ensayos sobre la experiencia de ver arte en museos: un análisis desde la sociología cultural se estructura entorno a dos trabajos de investigación sobre las dimensiones emocional y social de ...
Essays on the bank lending channel
This thesis contributes to the understanding of how banks shift their supply of credit when confronted with uncertainty, regulatory supervision and macroprudential policies. The first chapter proposes a new index to detect ...
Essays on the banking sector: capital, structure, productivity and bank restructuring
[eng] This dissertation thesis analyzes the determinants of the capital ratio of banks and also the dynamics of the leverage ratio, exploring the driving forces of the issuance of debt and capital instruments. My thesis ...
Essays on the behavior and regulation of insiders
This thesis consists of three essays on the behavior of corporate insiders and the optimal regulation of insider trading. The first of these three essays examines the welfare effects of insider trading and its attributes ...
Essays on the consequences of banking shocks
This thesis revolves around banking behavior and its implications for financial stability. The first chapter examines how banks buy and sell securities during the crisis, and we find that some banks -the ones specialized ...
Essays on the credit market and macroeconomic policy
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for the credit market ...
Essays on the digital divide
Durant l’última dècada, Internet s’ha convertit en un aspecte crucial de les xarxes basades en les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació, trencant les barreres de comunicació entre cultures en permetre l’accés a ...
Essays on the ECB Monetary Policy's Impact on Non-Financial Firms
In recent years, one of the main problems the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been facing is slow economic growth stemming, in part, from subdued investments despite interest rates falling below the zero-lower ...
Essays on the Economic History of the family
This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and fertility. I use a combination ...
Essays on the economic psychology of well-being
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct ...
Essays on the Economics of Crime: Determinants of Crime in an Urban Context
In this thesis, I draw on these theoretical models from the criminological literature and on the empirical tools from the field of economics to analyze crime from the perspective of economics. I use the city of Barcelona, ...
Essays on the economics of culture and identity
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ects the assimilation ...
Essays on the economics of development, education and violence
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter, I study the impact of violence on human capital investments, focusing mainly on the relationship between male-biased violence and ...
Essays on the economics of family formation, dissolution and bargaining
This thesis sheds light on several aspects of the economics of marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining. The first chapter focuses on the relationship between divorce law and family wellbeing, and shows that lowering ...
Essays on the Economics of Obesity
This thesis comprises five chapters in total, starting with a general introduction that raises the issue of obesity as well as a brief description of the basic research questions of the dissertation, three main chapters ...
Essays on the Economics of Social Dilemmas
The purpose of this dissertation is to study specific cases of all those aforementioned questions in a number of different settings, all of which share one common characteristic of particular economic relevance. The settings ...
Essays on the Effect of International Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Europe
Besides introduction and conclusions, the thesis is composed by three empirical chapters that investigate the impact of immigration on three different outcomes of the native population, namely employment, wages and human ...
Essays on the external validity of social preference games
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible to make lab games much ...
Essays on the formation of social networks from a game theoritical approach
This thesis aims to contribute to a fundamental objective of Network Economics: to provide based incentives explanations of real social network topologies. By using game theoretical tools, the three papers of this thesis ...
