Since the Great Recession, macroeconomic literature has highlighted the role of agents’ expectations in determining real economic dynamics. The aim of this paper is to study the role of media coverage of negative economic ...

2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis led to European debt crisis leaving the periphery of euro zone with very high borrowing costs compared to core countries. When Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis hit the economies, unconventional ...

We identify contemporaneous and Granger-causal linkages between the 86 biggest companies, representing both the financial and real sectors, of the Eurozone economy that serve as paths of shock transmission. Network analysis ...

In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, central banks throughout the world engaged in unprecented amounts of monetary policy aimed at stimulating their respective economies. One frequent comment from ...

Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design we estimate the effect of a country-wide free tuition policy on university enrollment and attrition in Chile. Exploiting an administrative dataset of the 2019 cohort of applicants ...

This thesis explores the intersection of mental health and economics through a review of the literature on five key subtopics: economic fluctuations, inequality, lockdowns, narratives and social media. The empirical evidence ...

In order to analyse whether financial conditions are relevant downside risk predictors for the 5% Growth at Risk conditional quantile, we propose a Dynamic Factor- GARCH Model, comparing it to the two most relevant approaches ...