Tekin, Müge (Date of defense: 2018-09-17)
This thesis incorporates three studies that revolve around competitive intelligence of a firm, available data sources and improvement of operations through data-informed decision-making. The studies ...
Queirós, Francisco (Date of defense: 2018-06-26)
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first two chapters are on the topic of asset bubbles. In the first chapter, I study the interactions between rational asset bubbles and product ...
Zejcirovic, Dijana (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first two chapters study the impact of pharmaceutical promotion of opioid analgesics in the US. In the first chapter, we find that counties, where sales ...
Gudmundsson, Gudmundur Stefan (Date of defense: 2018-07-11)
This thesis consists of two chapters on time series modelling. The first chapter introduces a class of vector autoregressive (VAR) models with a community structure for large panels of time series. In ...
Pandolfi, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2018-01-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters contributing to the broad field of financial economics. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model of bank bail-ins in order to analyze the effects of ...
Nieddu, Marco Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate how promo-tion incentives affect the performance of high-skilled public employees. I study a centralized evaluation process ...
Garvin, Nicholas (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured ...
Mauersberger, Felix (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)
En esta tesis estudio cómo los agentes económicos forman creencias en situaciones de interacción estratégica repetida. En economía, los modelos de formación de creencias suelen ser deterministas en el ...
Soupre, Matthieu (Date of defense: 2018-11-12)
These essays propose different measures of economic uncertainty and evaluate its impact at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The first essay in Chapter 2 proposes a measure of macroeconomic ...
Rossi, Luca (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)
This thesis empirically investigates different aspects of time-varying volatility. Chapter 1 estimates a large TVP-FAVAR and recovers a dynamic directed network of connections between European stock ...