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Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis
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Master Theses authored by students of the Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis, a program jointly organized by UAB-UPF and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
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(2020-07-14)This paper explores the role of soft skills in the U.S. labor market. According to the previous literature, these skills – also called non-cognitive- are crucial as they allow firms to lower coordination costs by trading ...
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(2020-06)How does a sudden migrant crisis affect criminal activity, and through which mechanisms does this effect take place? We approach this topic by studying the effect of Venezuelan migration on crime rates in Colombia, in the ...
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(2020-06-12)We employ a dynamic panel fixed effects model to assess the macroeconomic consequences of natural disasters in Africa and the effectiveness of debt relief in promoting post-disaster recovery. Our results show that floods ...
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(2020-06)This paper examines the wages and career prospects of employees in flexible work arrangements (FWAs). Using the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the effect being in a FWA has on hourly wages and the likelihood ...
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(2020-07)Using microeconomic data from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES), we investigate whether conventional and unconventional monetary policies played a role in explaining the evolution of British inequality over time. By ...
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(2020-07)The potential liberalization of the Chilean retail electricity market has raised important uncertainty regarding the effects of retail prices on inequality. This work models the price effects after liberalization and ...
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(2020-06-14)The Global Financial Crisis prompted central banks to adopt unconventional monetary policies such as the asset purchase programmes. In our thesis, we analyse whether securities purchases carried out by the ECB have had an ...
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(2020-08-26)Asymmetric pricing in the retail fuel market describes the situation in which retail prices are adjusted quickly in case of positive shocks in the wholesale costs, whereas the adjustment is much slower in case of negative ...
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(2020-07)The Spanish Free to air TV industry is a two-sided market in which viewers demand TV programs and advertisers demand spots whose price depend mainly on audience. We specify Viewers Demand through a logit model and Advertisers ...
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(2019)This paper studies how policy uncertainty and political connection has affected Venezuelan banks’ performance and lending activities. We use monthly microdata from the Venezuela’s Superintendence of Banks and we construct ...
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(2019)This research arises in a context of strong debate on the effectiveness of merger control and how competition authorities assess the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers. In order to contribute to the discussion, ...
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(2019)Using household survey data from rural Bangladesh, we explore determinants of domestic violence. We propose two hypotheses: first, women suffer more domestic abuse as a result of marrying young; and second, women who are ...
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(2019)The following research project aims at comparing across often used and unconventional models on forecasting currency crises. The methods chosen to compare include the Binary Probit model as seen in Berg and Pattillo (1999), ...
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(2019)This thesis studies the impacts of flooding on income and expenditures of rural households in northeast Thailand. It explores and compares shock coping strategies and identifies household level differences in flood resilience. ...
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(2019)Whereas monetary policy in the euro area is conducted by one single authority, the European Central Bank (ECB), the real effects of these decisions provoke different reactions among the set of targeted countries. An ...
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(2019)Has economic analysis in EU merger control advanced as policymakers promised since the modernization in 2004? Based on a novel data set obtained by web scraping and optical character recognition, I find that there was ...
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Political connections, decentralization and economic growth : evidence from Colombian municipalities(2019)The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of political connections on fiscal outcomes and economic growth. Using municipal electoral data, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design, which gives more weight to ...
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(2018)Given the increased use and dependence of peer-to-peer markets on algorithmic optimisation processes, the problems biased algorithms may bring about for individuals have been gaining significance. With the emergence of the ...
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(2018)Regarding competition policy, there has been a concern about the use of algorithms to commit anticompetitive acts. As it is proven, the use of algorithms facilitates agreements, but at the same time, authorities may have ...
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(2018)The goal of this paper is to assess quantitatively the impact that the emergence of China in the international markets during the 1990s had on the U.S. economy (i.e. the so-called China Shock). To do so, I build a model ...
