The first two chapters in this dissertation contribute to the understanding of the relationship between location decisions and city attributes. The last chapter explores the …
This dissertation contains three essays on international trade and economic development. The first chapter provides evidence that, contrary to the prediction of the workhorse gravity …
This dissertation explores the long-term consequences of two distinct forms of public investments made during childhood. In the first chapter I study how a shock …
The subject of this dissertation are spillover effects in labor and education markets. In the first chapter, joint with Maor Milgrom, we study the spillover …
This dissertation studies how changes in economic conditions and policies affect labor and housing markets, focusing on the role of labor market institutions in shaping …
This dissertation consists of two essays studying how the exposure of banks to real estate declines impacted the availability of credit and local employment growth …
This dissertation is composed of three essays that examine controversial macroeconomic topics by resolving issues in standard models. We incorporate endogenous equilibrium switching, firm heterogeneity, …
This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters studying the causes and consequences of inequality in macroeconomics. In the first co-authored chapter, we study the distributive …
The subject of this dissertation is financial stability and its role in macroeconomic policy. In the first chapter I study whether it is central bank …
This dissertation is comprised of three self-contained chapters on measurement, causes, and consequences of secular macroeconomic trends of the United States postwar economy. In the …
In this dissertation, I study applied market design and incomplete information problems using microeconomic theory. In Chapter 1, I explore the determinants of matching-platform users' …
This dissertation studies the incentives and consequences of public policies and behaviors through the lens and with the tools of frontier applied microeconomics. In the …
Abstract of Essays on Monetary Economics, by Georgios Angelis, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2020. This work consists of three essays. The first essay explores the …
This dissertation is composed of four essays that study macroeconomic questions in models that depart from standard frameworks by including features, such as household heterogeneity …
In developed economies, firms have rapidly expanded production opportunities in other countries. However, the difficulties in achieving efficient management in foreign countries have also been …
This dissertation studies the determinants and consequences of multinational production and offshoring. Chapter 1 focuses on the effect of corporate income taxation on firms' location …
This thesis comprises two separate papers about political violence. The first paper explores how direct and indirect external threats to national security can shape the …
My dissertation aims to increase the understanding of the impact of government programs on household economic outcomes in developing countries. My research uses empirical methods …