Rivera Castiñeira, Maria Berta (Date of defense: 2000-04-05)
En esta tesis, trataremos de examinar la relación existente entre recursos sanitarios, fundamentalmente gasto sanitario, estado de salud y sus efectos sobre la productividad. Así, postulamos que la ...
Lerche, Adrian (Date of defense: 2019-10-08)
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters that empirically evaluate the influence of capital costs and occupational regulation on labor demand. In the first chapter, I study the effects of ...
Evans, Christopher Michael (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
This thesis consists of three chapters on monetary economics. In the first chapter, I explore if a benchmark Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model fits the heterogeneous response of monetary ...
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 ...
Tikhonenko, Dmitrii (Date of defense: 2020-12-07)
Due to the emergence of new technologies, algorithm-assisted drivers are close to becoming a reality. In this thesis, different aspects of managing such drivers in a blocked-lane scenario are discussed. ...
Heineken, Janko (Date of defense: 2021-10-15)
My dissertation consists of three essays with the common theme of analyzing economic models of financial assets markets featuring heterogeneous market participants and testing the predictions of these ...
Giarda, Mario (Date of defense: 2021-09-28)
This thesis contributes to understanding how inequality affects the transmission of aggregate fluctuations through aggregate demand. First, we document how labor earnings inequality (between skilled ...
Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first ...
Ptashkina, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel ...
Morazzoni, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows ...