Faltermeier, Julia (Date of defense: 2019-05-02)
This thesis presents new facts on the aggregate return to capital and shows their implications for underlying drivers of investment and the efficiency of the alloca-tion of capital. The first chapter ...
Spargoli, Fabrizio (Date of defense: 2013-07-04)
This thesis revolves around financial instability and banking regulation. The first chapter examines whether the disclosure of information about banks maximizes welfare in times of crisis. Contrary to ...
Caprettini, Bruno (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. I exploit the ...
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 ...
Morro, Joan (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)
Schumpeter understands Creative Destruction as the essential fact about capitalism, i. e., the genuine experience in the capitalist civilization. This is the resulting of the modernization processes, ...
Cecioni, Martina (Date of defense: 2010-01-22)
Esta tesis extiende el modelo estándar Neo Keynesiano con el propósito de contestar dos preguntas: ¿cómo debe ser diseñada la política monetaria en uniones monetarias heterogéneas? y ¿cuál es el efecto ...
Hoffmann, Peter (Date of defense: 2011-07-13)
This thesis covers three topics in Market Microstructure. Chapter 1 demonstrates that market access frictions may play a significant role in the competition between trading platforms. Analyzing a recent ...
Linarello, Andrea (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)
This thesis investigates various aspects of international trade. In the first chapter, I study the effect of exporting on firms productivity. Specifically, I examine the extent to which export shocks ...
Gissler, Stefan (Date of defense: 2014-09-22)
Do market frictions influence asset prices? The first part examines whether financial intermediaries’ balance sheet capacity, their funding liquidity, can influence market liquidity, volatility, and ...