Schöll, Nikolas Bahati (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
This dissertation investigates how new technologies such as social media, digitalizing workplaces, and robotization change society and politics. The first chapter focuses on new technologies affecting ...
Zhou, Feng (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation consists of three papers examining the implications of non-market strategies in corporations and mutual funds. The first chapter quantifies the importance of political connections ...
Tesei, Andrea (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
This thesis investigates different social and political aspects of modern economies. The first chapter contributes to the natural resource curse debate, by showing that the impact of resource windfalls ...
Ellingsen, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2021-06-28)
This thesis studies the role of policies aimed at facilitating communication on economic and political development. In the first chapter, I explore the relationship between long-term spatial persistence ...
Pinotti, Paolo (Date of defense: 2009-06-09)
La tesi consisteix en quatre assaigs sobre les causes i conseqüències de la intervenció del govern en l'economia, i un assaig sobre els efectes de la immigració en el país amfitrió. El primer capítol ...
Ge, Erqi (Date of defense: 2020-09-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters about political economy in China. The first chapter focuses on the interregional trade. Taking advantages of direct allocations of regional leaders by central ...
Djourelova, Milena (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ...
Artiles, Miriam (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
In the first chapter, I study how human populations adapt to ethnically diverse societies. Using new data on a natural experiment from Peru’s colonial history, the results show that ethnic diversity ...
Imbet Jiménez, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
This dissertation studies the role of uncertainty and information in financial markets, and its consequences for firms’ and investors’ capital allocation decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter ...
Werner, Konstantin (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
In this dissertation, first, I study the effects of broadband internet on individual and regional outcomes. Second, I provide an overview of the political espionage activities of the former East German ...