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  • Short-run dynamics of income disparities and cycle synchronization across regions 
    Duran, Hasan Engin <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2011-09-16)
    Since the 1990s, the issue of regional income convergence and its long term tendencies has been thoroughly and heatedly discussed. Far less attention, however, has been devoted to the short-run dynamics of regional ...
  • Simulation methods for nonlinear and non-gaussian models in finance 
    Casarin, Roberto <1975> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2004-03-29)
    Le variabili finanziarie, come i rendimenti dei titoli del mercato azionario ed obbligazionario, o i tassi di interesse nel mercato della liquidità, evidenziano molto spesso una dinamica temporale eterogenea caratterizzata ...
  • Some strategic features of resources extraction 
    Diaz Montoya, Javier Humberto <1969> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2008-09-29)
  • Spatial economic disparities across the United States 
    Ferranna, Licia <1985> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017-02-07)
    The thesis deals with spatial economic disparities in the United States. The first chapter, “The Evolution of Income Disparities across US Metropolitan Statistical Areas”, investigates how the spatial evolution of ...
  • Stated preferences in health economics 
    Genie, Mesfin Geremew <1984> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-01-21)
    Choice experiments (CEs) are commonly used in applied economics to value non-market goods or to overcome market imperfections. In a CE, participants are asked to choose between two or more multi-attribute hypothetical ...
  • Talking about uncertainty 
    Santagiustina, Carlo Romano Marcello Alessandro <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-09-14)
    This empirical research seeks to demonstrate that we can decentralize, crowd source and aggregate signals of uncertainty coming from market agents and organizations, by using the Internet -and more specifically Twitter- ...
  • The effect of health on the marginal utility of consumption expenditures and on attitudes towards risk 
    Bassoli, Elena <1991> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-02-13)
    This thesis focuses on the effect of health on the risk attitudes and on the marginal utility of consumption. In the first chapter we explore the effect of health deterioration on the risk tolerance as people get older. ...
  • The role of contamination, cleanup and policy: instruments in the redevelopment of Brownfields 
    Longo, Alberto <1974> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2004-03-29)
    La tesi prende in esame, da un lato, l'effetto cha la presenza di contaminazione ha sul valore di siti commerciali e industriali e, dall'altro, l'efficacia delle politiche finalizzate al riutilizzo dei "brownfields." Per ...
  • Three essays in agent-based market analysis 
    Milone, Lucia <1980> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-09-17)
    Questa tesi applica la metodologia ad agenti per studiare i mercati (in particolare, l’asta doppia continua), da un punto di vista di valutazione della loro performance e di design delle regole che governano lo scambio. Il ...
  • Three essays in continuous-time macro-finance 
    Modena, Andrea <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020-02-26)
    This doctoral dissertation consists of three chapters on continuous-time general equilibrium models in macro-finance. Each chapter relates to its peers as they all belong to the literature that studies how financial frictions ...
  • Three essays in financial literacy 
    Pettinicchi, Yuri <1983> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-03-23)
    This dissertation focuses on the effects of financial literacy on individual financial behaviour, within a general equilibrium framework. Through a simple asset pricing model with heterogeneous beliefs about future prices, ...
  • Three essays in health and social participation 
    Fumagalli, Elena <1979> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-03-19)
    The first chapter investigates how social participation of young children is affected by ethnic diversity. We find that segregation have a non negative effect on social participation, while fractionalization have a non ...
  • Three essays in international trade and capital flows 
    Mensah, Isaac <1986> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-02-06)
    The thesis embodies three chapters addressing three research questions in international trade and capital flows. The first chapter, titled "The Euro's effect on trade: An analysis of “old” and “new” EMU members provides ...
  • Three essays in panel data econometrics 
    Agudze, Komla Mawulom <1986> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-06-13)
    This paper contributes to the literature on regional growth-cycles by developing in a Bayesian framework different notion of multivariate cycle synchro- nization and proposing an encompassing model combining three ...
  • Three essays on applied microeconomics 
    Beltramo, Theresa <1977> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-09-17)
    The dissertation contributes to the sub-disciplines of economics including Behavioral, Development and International Trade, and to a lesser extent, Environmental, Energy, and Health Economics. A common thread among all ...
  • Three essays on asymmetric information in financial markets 
    Pesci, Francesco <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-03-23)
    Nella presente tesi discutiamo gli effetti delle asimmetrie informative sui prezzi degli asset e sull’acquisizione di informazione nei mercati finanziari. Nel Capitolo 1 studiamo come una "bolla" possa emergere in un ...
  • Three essays on banking sector stability: theoretical models and empirical application 
    Lucchetta, Marcella <1975> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2007-03-23)
  • Three essays on business cycle in Ethiopia : DSGE & SVAR approaches 
    Melesse, Wondemhunegn Ezezew <1984> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-02-22)
    The ongoing global financial crisis and the attendant economic meltdown have placed on the centre stage the interaction of internal and external factors in shaping macroeconomic developments in the context of emerging and ...
  • Three essays on cheap talk 
    Chand, Arya Kumar Srustidhar <1984> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013-05-06)
    The three essays in this thesis are based on strategic communication associated with the Cheap Talk literature. The first essay is a discussion of strategic communication that arises in the classical resource allocation ...
  • Three essays on computational methods for policy making 
    Gerotto, Luca <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-03-01)
    Chapters One and Two develop a common-source infection model to explain the formation of households expectations. The model is based on the work presented in "Macroeconomic Expectations of Households and Professional ...