Williams, Tomás (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of international capital flows and how they affect financial markets and economic activity, with a focus on capital flows from benchmarked investors. ...
Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first ...
Stahl, Jörg Rolf (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
This thesis explores the interactions between the political and corporate environment. In the first chapter, I examine the high concentration of headquarters in capital cities and the incentives for ...
Hans, Christina (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
This thesis investigates various aspects of systemic risk in nancial networks. Chapter 1 explores the existence of a contagion channel to security returns given that banks are connected via overlapping ...
Khametshin, Dmitry (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
In the first two chapters of this thesis, I study the effects of financial stability policies on bank behavior. Thus, in the first chapter, I analyze whether liquidity provision mechanisms may have ...
Matranga, Andrea (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
This thesis looks at the interplay of nomadism and settlement in two different periods of history. In the first two chapters I develop a theory for the Neolithic Revolution, the transition form nomadic ...
Gánics, Gergely Ákos (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
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 ...
Huber, Stefanie J. (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
This thesis sheds light on certain macroeconomic aspects of the housing market. Chapter 1 explores a novel channel for house price bubble formation: the demand for housing consumption. I argue that the ...