Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
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 ...
Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic ...
Puerta, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2011-06-03)
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 ...
Berger, Stefan (Date of defense: 2010-09-16)
This thesis consists of three essays on the regulation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and trade in open economies. The rst chapter investigates the di erences in Intellectual Property ...
Brassiolo, Pablo A. (Date of defense: 2012-05-03)
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 ...
Aktar, Ipek (Date of defense: 2011-03-21)
This thesis builds on the literature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication. The following three chapters study the potential impacts of disclosing voluntarily negative information in a ...
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa (Date of defense: 2010-07-01)
This thesis deals with different aspects of the Spanish Labor Market. The first chapter explores the impact of product market competition on job instability. Empirical results show that job instability ...
Oc, Burak (Date of defense: 2014-05-30)
This thesis includes three articles focusing on the dynamic interplay between leaders and followers. The first article revisits traditional areas of the leadership literature and builds on the emerging ...
Ou, Shengliang (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
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 ...
Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)
This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game ...