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 ...
Milán, Pau (Date of defense: 2016-06-16)
This thesis explores various economic environments where the structure of social interactions across individuals determines outcomes. In the first chapter, I study mutual insurance arrangements restricted ...
Baertsch, Laurenz (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)
This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options ...
Eksi, Ozan (Date of defense: 2010-06-29)
This thesis is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I identify and explore the fundamental relationship between income inequality and GDP volatility. I give theoretical insight of this ...
Shelegia, Sandro (Date of defense: 2009-06-11)
Esta tesis consta de tres capítulos en donde analizo mercados con fricciones. En los dos primeros capítulos, estas fricciones surgen debido a la carencia información completa acerca de los precios por ...
Pozo Sánchez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2019-12-11)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, I develop a two-period small open economy with banks. The interaction of the limited liability faced by banks and the bank deposit ...
Surovtseva, Tetyana (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
In Part I of this thesis, I show that, when immigrants’ host and home countries engage in trade, labor market returns to cultural capital specific to the trading partner increase. Using two trade ...
Pirc, Mitja (Date of defense: 2008-11-10)
En esta tesis se trabajan tres temas de investigación relacionados con los procesos de evaluación y toma de decisión (ETD) de los consumidores, y en particular sobre la lealtad. En los trabajos se asume ...
Anguera Torrell, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-06-23)
This thesis is composed of three self-contained chapters. In the first chapter, I propose a theoretical model that shows that trusting strangers is one of the channels through which institutions determine ...
López, Rafael (Date of defense: 2005-04-15)
This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2) focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility model of Individual ...