Browsing FGV EPGE - Teses, Doutorado em Economia by Issue Date
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Hypothesis testing in econometric models
2015-12-11This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter considers tests of the parameter of an endogenous variable in an instrumental variables regression model. The focus is on one-sided conditional t-tests. Theoretical ... -
Essays on health care reform, wealth inequality, and demography
2016-01-13This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter uses a general equilibrium framework to simulate and compare the long run effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and of health care costs ... -
Essays on health economics
2016-04-11Essa tese de doutorado se divide em três artigos. O primeiro artigo tem como objetivo analisar o impacto das restrições ao fumo nos EUA na qualidade dos nascimentos. Por qualidade dos nascimentos entende-se saúde do recém ... -
Essays on credit, durable goods and public debt in an incomplete market framework
2016-06-10This thesis is an essay composed of three articles, each of them representing a chapter, about quantitative macroeconomics in an environment of incomplete markets. In all chapters the United States economy is used as a ... -
Three essays on the estimation of asset pricing models
2016-09-23The thesis consists in three articles about the estimation of asset pricing models. The first paper analyses small sample properties of Generalized Empirical Likelihood estimators for the risk aversion parameter in CRRA ... -
Essays in industrial organization
2016-09-29This thesis is composed of three articles, each one corresponding to a chapter. In the first chapter I analyze the extent to which the negative correlation between funds minimum initial application and fees can be explained ... -
Essays on multi-country economic growth and sectoral total factor productivity
2016-11-03Nesta tese, oferecemos uma abordagem alternativa - e talvez mais apropriada - para a estimação da produtividade total dos fatores (PTF) setorial. Nossa economia artificial utiliza insumos produzidos por diferentes setores ... -
Essays on macroeconomics and banking
2016-11-26Essa tese é composta por dois capítulos. No primeiro, desenvolvo um modelo para quantificar o papel da heterogeneidade setorial, em relação ao acesso a crédito, na determinação dos efeitos da integração financeira. Fricções ... -
Connecting income distribution to market power and debt default with different degrees of inputs substitutability
2016-12-16This dissertation is composed of two articles in applied economics. The first intends to develop a better understanding of how economies’ income distribution relates to pricing decisions of firms with market power. The ... -
Essays on growth, structural transformation and education
2016-12-20This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter studies the emergence of slums as a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro ... -
Stock lending market, short-selling restrictions, and the cross-section of returns
2017Essa tese é composta por três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo é dedicado a estudar o impacto causal de restrições de venda a descoberto sobre retorno de ações. A base de dados utilizada neste trabalho possui todas as ... -
Essays on monetary theory
2017-01-30Nesta tese aplicamos métodos numéricos para estudar alguns modelos em que moeda é essencial. Seguimos uma abordagem de desenho de mecanismo em teoria monetária e procuramos por configurações em que as pessoas possam desfrutar ... -
Essays in empirical finance
2017-03-16This thesis is a collection of essays in empirical finance mainly focused on term structure models. In the first three chapters, we developed methods to extract the yield curve from government and corporate bonds. We measure ... -
Three essays on macro-finance: robustness and portfolio theory
2017-07-28This doctoral thesis is composed of three chapters related to portfolio theory and model uncertainty. The first paper investigates how ambiguity averse agents explain the equity premium puzzle for a large group of countries ... -
Essays on monetary theory
2017-08-14In this thesis, we use mechanism design approach in order to study economies in which optimal mechanism bears some resemblance to actual monetary system. More precisely, we study optimal monetary policy in models in which ... -
Essays in applied economics: inequality and voting decision in Brazil
2017-08-18Essa tese contém três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo estuda a relação entre o programa brasileiro de transferência condicional de renda Bolsa Família e os resultados das eleições de 2010. Nós procuramos estimar esse efeito ... -
Essays on taxation and regulation: variational approach, couples taxation, and dynamic procurement
2017-09-20Esta tese coleciona 3 dos projetos por mim desenvolvidos durante meu período de doutoramento na Escola de Pós Graduação em Economia da Fundação Getulio Vargas. No primeiro capítulo apresento um artigo que nasce da percepção ... -
Essays on Education and Labor Economics
2018Esta tese contém três artigos que investigam problemas relacionados à Economia do Trabalho, Desenvolvimento Econômico e Economia da Educação. -
Essays on economic development and education
2018-03-09This thesis is a collection of three essays in economic development mainly focused on education. In the first two chapters, we study the effects that educational policies may have on a macroeconomic environment where ... -
Economic and behavioral effects of safety net programs
2018-03-16This thesis contains three independent but interrelated articles. Essentially, in this work, I empirically investigate the economic and behavioral effects of safety net programs. To do so, I use econometrics techniques ...
