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Essays on insurance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis consists of three chapters on the economics of health insurance. In the first chapter, Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, and Matthew Notowidigdo and I use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences ... -
Essays on insurance and taxation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Chapter 1 analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, ... -
Essays on insurance markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation consists of three chapters on adverse-selection type insurance markets. Chapter 1 develops a model for analyzing non-exclusive insurance markets. It establishes that the "screening" considerations of ... -
Essays on international asset pricing.
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Essays on international capital
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Essays on international capital flows
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation consists of three chapters on international capital flows. Chapter 1 emphasizes the importance of innovations in the investment opportunity set, captured by changes in expected asset returns, as an important ... -
Essays on international economics and labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis consists of three separate essays related to international economics and labor markets. The first essay, with Francisco Gallego, looks at sudden stops, a main feature of developing countries in the last decades, ... -
Essays on International economics by Sergi Basco.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation analyzes different aspects of the globalization process. In recent years we witnessed an increasing role of emerging economies in world capital markets. Moreover, there has been a large reduction in trade ... -
Essays on international finance
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Essays on international finance and economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The first essay explains why credit contracts in developing countries are often denominated in foreign currencies, even after many of these economies succeeded in controlling inflation. I propose a new interpretation based ... -
Essays on international finance and macroeconomics : the effects of liberalization and reform on LDC stock prices and investment
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Essays on international macroeconomics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis examines several aspects of open economies. The first two chapters are about sovereign debt and its interactions with domestic financial markets. The third chapter, coauthored with my classmate Daniel Rees, ... -
Essays on international macroeconomics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This thesis examines the impact of terms of trade shocks on commodity-exporting small, open economies. The first chapter examines whether households, firms and policymakers in these economies can distinguish between temporary ... -
Essays on international trade and institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation consists of three essays in the intersection of International Trade and Institutions. The first essay looks at the effect of trade opening on the efficiency of institutions. I argue that part of the reason ... -
Essays on international trade and investment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation consists of three essays on international trade and investment. In the first essay, I study how cross-country differences in labor market institutions shape the pattern of international trade with a focus ... -
Essays on International Trade and Sovereign Debt
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)This thesis studies the way intratemporal trade matters for intertemporal trade, focusing on three different interactions through sovereign debt. The thesis is divided in 3 chapters. In the first chapter, I show that ... -
Essays on international trade policy and international outsourcing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis analyzes two issues in international trade: trade policy determination and international outsourcing. The first three chapters introduce the firm as a novel unit of analysis in the political economy of trade ... -
Essays on Internet markets and information goods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)(cont.) provides explanations as to when and how incorporating them into advertising deals can be profitable. We argue that using these pricing models appropriately can give both the publisher and the advertiser proper ... -
Essays on Interviews and Matching
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)This thesis contains three essays on the topic of quantifying the impact of interviews in a matching market. The first two essays are empirical and use novel preference and matching data from the Canadian Residency Matching ... -
Essays on inventory, pricing and financial trading strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)In a multi-product market, if one product stocks out, consumers may substitute to competing products. In this thesis, we use an axiomatic approach to characterize a price-dependent demand substitution rule, and provide a ...
