Janezic, Katharina A. (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and ...
Woiczyk, Thomas Karl Alfred (Date of defense: 2020-05-25)
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and categories. In particular, I show how the implications are affected by the level of aggregation; both ...
Puig Gabau, Jordi (Date of defense: 1998-09-21)
En la tesis se analiza empíricamente el consumo en bienes no duraderos para la economía española mediante la construcción de unas preferencias que permiten relajar los supuestos de separabilidad débil ...
Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)
This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction ...
Albert, Christoph (Date of defense: 2018-09-27)
This dissertation consists of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a search model with non-random hiring that ...
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 ...
Brouwer, Claire (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)
Individuals who deviate from majority practices based on moral objections can be crucial catalyzers of social change. However, according to prior work, these “moral rebels” are commonly met with ...
Hedtrich, Christoph (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first addresses the recent decline in worker mobility between jobs and links it to changes in demand for jobs along the skill distribution. I present a ...
Savino, Carlo (Date of defense: 2008-11-18)
En el primer capítulo de la tesis se estudian las propiedades dinámicas de un contrato de crédito sostenible # es decir, robusto a episodios de insolvencia # entre una institución financiera y deudores ...
Jimenez-Martin, Sergi (Date of defense: 1994-11-02)
Throughout all the chapters we have considered some union variables (particularly the proportion of workers representatives belonging to a given union) to capture any difference in bargaining power ...