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Browsing Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis by Issue Date
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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)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)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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(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)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)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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(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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(2020-06)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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(2020-06-14)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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(2020-07)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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(2020-07)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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(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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(2020-08-26)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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(2021-06)We undertook an ex-post analysis of a 2013 Agreement in the Netherlands to close five aging coal power plants in 2016 and 2017. First, we evaluate the Authority for Consumers and Markets’ (ACM) assumption that the plant ...
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(2021-06)The reform of the European fiscal framework is a live debate and a need recently recognized by the European Commission. Surges in public debt as a result of the COVID-19 crisis intensify the debate, while the structural ...
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(2021-06-07)Shocks to the European Central bank’s unconventional monetary policy trigger Dutch pension funds to search for yield: A structural VAR analysis shows that the pension funds reallocate their asset holdings from bonds towards ...
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