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  • Essay on modeling inflation dynamics 
    Menegatti, Christian <1977> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2006-03-20)
  • Essays in contextualizing theories : a work in progress 
    Fusari, Massimiliano <1972> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012-03-30)
    "Essays in contextualising theories: a work in progress" è il lavoro di sintesi sulla mia pratica antropologica, strutturata attorno al fieldwork condotto in Siria nel 2010, occasione per un’articolata teorizzazione di ...
  • Essays in Public and Urban Economics 
    Romani, Giulia <1992> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-04-21)
    The first chapter of my Thesis deals with the local impact of rationalisation policies (i.e. public spending cuts) in the field of school services. I combine a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) model with an ...
  • Essays in technical change and climate change 
    Lanzi, Elisa <1981> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-03-19)
    Characteristics of the economy such as the share of polluting sectors, and their pollution intensity are key to understanding how to limit costs of climate policies. In particular, this thesis focuses on four different ...
  • Essays on Acquisition Outcomes 
    Nahidi, Narmin <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022-07-01)
    Questa tesi è composta da tre studi empirici nell’ambito della finanza aziendale, che esplorano il ruolo che le informazioni possono svolgere nell'impresa, nella due diligence e nel processo decisionale degli investitori ...
  • Essays on Bayesian inference with financial applications 
    Osuntuyi, Ayokunle Anthony <1980> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014-03-21)
    This thesis is composed of two main research lines. The first line, developed in chapters 2 to 4, deals with frequentist and Bayesian estimation of regime-switching GARCH models and its application to risk management on ...
  • Essays on bilateral trade with incomplete information 
    Galavotti, Stefano <1975> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2008-09-29)
  • Essays on coarse cognition, competition, and cooperation 
    Aggio, Matteo <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019-07-12)
    This dissertation is divided in three self-contained and single-authored chapters. We analyze, in three different theoretical models, the role of coarse cognition, also defined as categorical rationality, and its consequences ...
  • Essays on credit spreads 
    Fontana, Alessandro <1980> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-09-17)
    This thesis consists of three interdependent and original works on the relationship between Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and bond spreads. Chapter 1 studies the behaviour of the CDS-bond basis, i.e. the difference between ...
  • Essays on decision making by children and adults on the autistic spectrum 
    Balatel, Ana <1982> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014-02-28)
    This thesis presents three essays on decision making by autistic individuals. In the first chapter we draw on the studies germane to decision making and autism to provide an extensive review focused on such crucial aspects ...
  • Essays on decision theory and bargaining theory 
    Bastianello, Lorenzo <1988> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016-06-22)
    This thesis is composed by three chapters that correspond to three articles. The first two chapters deal with the theory of inter-temporal choices. A new concept, called delay aversion, is introduced and is analysed in ...
  • Essays on empirical market microstructure and high frequency data 
    Bellia, Mario <1979> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-03-01)
    The first paper examines the role of High Frequency Traders (HFTs) as Designated Market Makers. I examine the liquidity provision, the trading behavior and the risk of being picked-off by other traders. I find that HFT ...
  • Essays on fairness heuristics and environmental dilemmas 
    Tavoni, Alessandro <1977> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-09-17)
    The issues explored in this work concern individual behaviour and its departure from the rationality paradigm. While different in terms of underlying methodology, the chapters share the unifying theme of fairness as a ...
  • Essays on firm-level shocks, expectations and uncertainty 
    Notarnicola, Giovanna <1989> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-07-18)
    Recent literature of industry dynamics has considered productivity as one of the main source of firm heterogeneity that determines firm performance and growth. The goal of the first chapter on my thesis is to consider ...
  • Essays on insurance regulation 
    Sottocornola, Matteo <1975> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018-03-01)
    Solvency II introduced a consistent and homogeneous micro-prudential market based evaluation of assets and liabilities for the European undertakings embedding elements aimed at smoothing potential unintended effects at ...
  • Essays on management earnings forecasts 
    Redigolo, Giulia <1986> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015-02-27)
    The purpose of the dissertation is to shed light on the iterative nature of management earnings forecasts characteristics by means of a new measure of consistency and to provide empirical evidence on both the cross-sectional ...
  • Essays on markets over random networks and learning in Continuous Double Auctions 
    Van De Leur, Michiel Christiaan Wernick <1986> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014-11-11)
    This dissertation studies the behaviour of traders under different market designs. The setup of a market contains the information available to traders, the decisions traders have to make and the trading mechanism. We have ...
  • Essays on Markov Switching models with applications in economics and finance 
    Cavicchioli, Maddalena <1985> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014-03-21)
    In questa tesi studiamo alcuni problemi legati a modelli Markov Switching (MS) e alle loro applicazioni in Economia e Finanza. Lo scopo del nostro studio è proporre soluzioni per la selezione del modello e per la stima di ...
  • Essays on Network Econometrics 
    Baltodano Lopez, Ovielt Antonio <1990> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2023-05-15)
    We propose different extensions to Dynamic Stochastic Block models (DSBM). First, a flexible DSBM for multi-layer networks. We show that our model provides a unified framework including community detection and Gravity ...
  • Essays on persuasion games with hard evidence 
    Midjord, Rune <1978> (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010-03-19)
    The thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we study a communicationgame played by three agents with conflicting and state independent preferences. Each possible outcome of the game uniquely corresponds to ...