Cromwell on Foreign Affairs, Together with Four Essays on International Matters

Four Essays on Investment

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis would not have been possible without the help, guidance and support of many different people. I am indebted to all of them. Foremost, I am very grateful to my two principal supervisors Erik Theissen and Frank Riedel. Erik Theissen has been a great advisor. During the past four years, he offered me a lot of advice and provided me guidance whenever I needed, while lea...

Essays on International

Title of Document: ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Fernando Gabriel Im, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: Professor Carmen Reinhart, Department of Economics Professor Carlos Végh, Department of Economics In the first paper, I use industry-level data to investigate the impact of exchange rate arrangements on the productive structure of the economy. The identification strategy has similarit...

Essays on International Finance

I study the exchange rate disconnect puzzle in a two-country DSGE framework that features a financial intermediation sector. An intermediary is subject to two types of financing constraints: 1. a segmented deposit market restricted to local households, and 2. a balance-sheet constraint. These two constraints drive a wedge between marginal decisions of home and foreign intermediaries, which in t...

Four Essays on Individual Heterogeneity

Four Essays on Applied Microeconometrics

Acknowledgements Looking back, the four years I spent writing this dissertation have been a fantastic learning experience. In the academic aspect, I have improved my knowledge of applied econometrics, I have enjoyed doing a lot of programming (I never thought my undergraduate years in computing would be so useful), I have attended conferences all around the world... But it is in the personal as...