Listagem FGV EESP - CDEE: Teses, Doutorado em Economia de Empresas por data do documento
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Essays on trade and innovation
2016-07-29The wide availability of data at the firm level in the past twenty years has opened a new range of opportunities for testing important economic theories. In this thesis we aim to explore the complementarity between ... -
Long-term asset allocation based on stochastic multistage multi-objective portfolio optimization
2016-08-19Multi-Period Stochastic Programming (MSP) offers an appealing approach to identity optimal portfolios, particularly over longer investment horizons, because it is inherently suited to handle uncertainty. Moreover, it ... -
Essays on political economy and institutions
2016-08-19This thesis presents two theoretical models. The first shows how the cost of doing business associated with red tape arises as a response to institutional failure, namely, a failure of the legal system. It shows that, when ... -
Eletrificação rural: um estudo sobre o Programa Luz para Todos
2016-08-19The recent focus on the importance of infrastructure to growth and economic development combined with the importance given to the issue of poverty and its reduction have been causing discussions on rural electrification ... -
Três ensaios em regulação e organização industrial
2016-09-12This thesis studies three topics on the effects of regulation and policies on prices, quality and sustainability. The first chapter analyses the incentives that fuel stations have as they choose whether to supply a low-quality ... -
Impactos econômicos e financeiros de notícias
2017-04-18Devido à crescente evolução tecnológica das últimas décadas, eventos locais, econômicos ou não, são divulgados de forma praticamente instantânea de forma global. Muitos destes eventos têm o poder de influenciar os preços ... -
Essays on forward-looking indicators and the yield curve
2017-04-19This thesis presents three chapters about forward-looking indicators. In the first two chapters, we propose a factor augmented VAR that combines Nelson and Siegel yield curve factors and principal components extracted from ... -
Coordination failures in business cycles
2017-05-11Coordination failures are often said to play an important role in business cycles. If agents’ incentives of taking a given action depend on the amount of other agents expected to take the same action, coordination failures ... -
Three essays on the economics of crime
2017-05-19Prevention is commonly recognized as the best way to go in the fight against delinquency. Yet, working out sound policies is an extremely challenging task. The first two essays in this thesis contribute to the pursuit of ... -
Ensaios em economia da educação
2017-05-22The aim of this study is to provide rigorous evidence of the impact of a brazilian vocational education and training program on its beneficiaries. For this, we took advantage of the selection criteria for the program, in ... -
Ensaios em economia industrial e comportamental
2017-05-23Paper I – The paper shows that in bundle markets, when a monopolist faces sizeable constraints on supply capacity, implementing a two-part tariff is the optimal strategy for the firm. This contractual design allows the ... -
Essays in econometric theory
2017-05-25The two papers in this work, chapters 2 and 3, regard hypothesis testing but address different issues. Chapter 2, entitled 'Improvements for external validity tests in fuzzy regression discontinuity designs', shows conditions ... -
Three essays on vocational education in Brazil
2017-07-29O ensino profissionalizante vem sendo apontado cada vez mais como uma solução alternativa no combate ao desemprego juvenil, especialmente àqueles que saem da escola direto para o mercado de trabalho. As evidências empíricas, ... -
Transparência na política monetária: teoria, empírico e projeção
2017-10-02Over the last few years we have seen a huge evolution in the way central banks communicate around the World. Besides providing information to all, transparency allows agents to coordinate and is considered important in the ... -
Essays on fiscal policy and public debt
2017-11-28This thesis is composed of three essays related to fiscal policy and public debt. The first chapter analyses quantitatively the relevance of different fiscal policy responses to a debt restructuring episode, taking into ... -
Essays on heterogeneous agent models with entrepreneurship
2018-04-12This thesis is composed of three essays related to heterogeneous agent models with entrepreneurship. The first chapter adds aggregate uncertainty in a heterogeneous agent model with entrepreneurship and financial frictions, ... -
Essays on health at birth, financial literacy and educational outcomes
2018-05-11This thesis consists of three essays related to microeconomics applied to health and education. The first chapter analyses a large-scale experimental impact evaluation of a financial education pilot program for students ... -
Essays in labor economics using Brazilian data
2018-05-21This thesis is composed of three essays in applied microeconomics. In all essays, we investigate different aspects related to the Brazilian formal labor market using data from the Relação Anual de Informações Sociais - ... -
Essays on conglomerate mergers
2018-05-21This thesis takes advantage of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the Brazilian higher education industry to provide evidence on the potential effects of conglomerate mergers, particularly market extension mergers. The ... -
Essays on imperfect common knowledge in macroeconomics
2018-05-22This dissertation study the implications of strategic uncertainty induced by imperfect common knowledge for macroeconomic models and economic policy. In the first chapter, I evaluate whether central bank’s transparency ...
