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Managing risk under climate change in Kenya: Multiple shocks, poverty, gender, and potential for group-based approaches
(2017-09-14)
Climate change and related shocks are major challenges facing agricultural performance, poverty reduction efforts, and economic growth in developing economies. Managing risks is vital because climate change and shocks lead ...
Biomass Energy Economics and Rural Livelihoods in Sichuan, China
(2017-07-05)
This study investigates the influences of household biomass energy use on rural livelihoods in Sichuan Province of China. Of the 556 surveyed households, 432 (77.7%) households still use traditional solid biomass energy ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Policies in Developing Countries
(2017-07-28)
This thesis consists of three explorations on macroeconomic policies in developing countries.
The first essay evaluates the desirability of public capital investment, taking China as the study subject. Based on an ...
The first essay evaluates the desirability of public capital investment, taking China as the study subject. Based on an ...
Essays in Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics
(2017-07-03)
This thesis contributes to macroeconomics and macroeconometrics. Chapters 2-4 study the role of producer heterogeneity for business cycles and macroeconomic development. Chapters 5-6 provide inference for structural vector ...
Asymmetries in Contests and Women in Academia
(2017-10-30)
This doctoral thesis is devided in three chapters. In chapter one, reference dependence is intruduced in an unfair tournament. Using a standard distribution, two equilibria can be shown that are not considered in liturature ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2017-07-25)
This dissertation consists of four chapters.
In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ...
In the first chapter, I analyze strategic underreporting of market risk for a sample of North American and European Banks from 2002 to 2014. In particular, the chapter ...
Essays in Economic Theory
(2017-02-21)
This thesis consists of three chapters.
The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ...
The first chapter studies the trade-off between realizing match values early and waiting for good matches that arises in a dynamic matching model with discounting. We consider ...
Three essays in International Macroeconomics: Developments in the euro area crisis
(2017-07-25)
With the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, the euro area has plunged into its deepest crisis since its inception in 1999. Ten years on, the effects are still visible: euro-area GDP in 2017 is below its 2007 level, the ...
Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Frictions
(2017-06-30)
This thesis explores the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions. The first chapter explores whether persistent productivity differences at the micro-level should be understood as a result of a friction in ...
Essays on Information Transmission and its Effects in Markets with Imperfect Competition
(2017-05-12)
This thesis consists of four essays in the field of industrial organization. The essays explore questions of information transmission and its influence in markets characterized by imperfect competition.
The first ...
The first ...