Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has ...
Kanngiesser, Derrick (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
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 ...
Soto, Paul Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
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 ...
Ziegenbein, Alexander (Date of defense: 2018-07-04)
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large ...
Odendahl, Florens (Date of defense: 2018-10-08)
This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. ...
Zou, Yimei (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of endogenous production networks, defined as the collection of input-output linkages in the economy. In the first chapter, I develop a model of ...
Zhang, Donghai (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
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 ...
Albert, Christoph (Date of defense: 2018-09-27)
This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a search model with non-random hiring that ...
Konovalova, Elizaveta (Date of defense: 2018-01-31)
The three chapters of this thesis explore how previous experience and mental categories shape human judgments. Chapter One provides a sampling explanation for the in-group heterogeneity effect - a ...
De Jesus, Miguel Karlo (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
This dissertation consists of two chapters that explore some of the financial stability issues that concern mutual funds. The first chapter demonstrates that the massive sale by US funds of Mexican ...