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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Goñi i Tràfach, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-04-27)
This thesis examines the interactions between marital patterns, inequality, and fertility. In the first chapter I analyze the impact of search frictions on marital assortative matching. I exploit a ...
Wei, Jianxing (Date of defense: 2018-06-25)
This thesis focuses on the issue of bank funding structure and its implications for financial instability. The first chapter investigates how the dynamic interaction between the regulator and banks can ...
Figueiredo, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education ...
Soyer, Emre (Date of defense: 2012-06-14)
This thesis incorporates three studies that analyze how information is presented in various contexts, how these different modes of presentation affect decision makers’ perceptions and how to improve ...
Daniele, Federica (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
This thesis is composed of three essays in which I analyze how heterogeneity in productivity, either on the worker or on the firm side, interacts with the size of local labor markets and a set of outcomes ...
Huber, Stefanie J. (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
This thesis sheds light on certain macroeconomic aspects of the housing market. Chapter 1 explores a novel channel for house price bubble formation: the demand for housing consumption. I argue that the ...