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- This dissertation examines three distinct empirical questions in macroeconomics and finance. Chapter 1 studies the reasons why households file for bankruptcy. The debt relief households obtain in bankruptcy provides insurance against wealth losses, but also distorts borrower incentives to repay debt, discouraging lending. Understanding how bankruptcy filings respond to changes...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Indarte, Alexandra Scarlett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14631
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...
- Keyword:
- Financial Crises, Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Voting
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Political science
- Creator:
- van Straelen, Hendrik Philip
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I study the effects of mortgage leverage policies. These policies have become widely used in recent years, both as a macroprudential tool and to protect consumers, yet their effects are still not well understood. In Chapter 1, I show that mortgage leverage rules implemented under the Dodd-Frank...
- Keyword:
- mortgages, entrepreneurship, financial regulation, and house prices
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Johnson, Stephanie Georgina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662744 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14658
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores our understanding of corporate credit ratings. In the first chapter I examine the issue of split ratings. S&P and Moody’s often differ in their initial ratings at bond issuance, producing what is referred to as a split rating. The consensus view in the literature and in practice...
- Subject:
- Accounting, Economics, and Finance
- Creator:
- Basu, Riddha Sattam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14576 and etdadmin_upload_658729
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- Description:
- How do exporting firms react to changes in the cost of credit? To answer this question, we exploit an exogenous variation in banking regulation which increases the cost of financ- ing for exports in the European Union. Using a unique dataset which combines customs, firm-level, and credit registry data on...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- da Costa Monteiro, Joao Miguel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16495
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- Description:
- In Chapter 1, I analyze optimal capital structure using a model in which firms issue securities in order to (1) finance investments in operations and (2) recapitalize the firm. In this trade-off model, firms balance the tax benefits of debt against the costs of financial distress. Key to the analysis,...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Hu, Jingxiong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986275 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16585
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- Description:
- Monetary Policy plays a crucial role in modern economies by supporting price, financial and economic stability. Its efficacy, however, exhibits variation both over time and across space leading to partially unpredictable and inconsistent outcomes. This thesis shows that the variation in the efficacy of monetary policy crucially relates to the...
- Keyword:
- Market Structure, State-Dependent Effects, Loan and Deposit Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, Financial Intermediaries, and Heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Banking
- Creator:
- Puglisi, Federico
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986697 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16603
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- Description:
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- Keyword:
- Rigidities, Rational Expectation, Agent-Based Modeling, Production Networks, Incomplete Information, and Latin Monetary Union
- Subject:
- Economic history, Economics, and Finance
- Creator:
- Pellet, Thomas Louis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16599 and etdadmin_upload_986621
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation looks at strategic complementarities among investors inpooled investment vehicles where fund managers and investors have different objectives. Could lessening strategic complementarities among the investors of a fund make investing in the fund less appealing? Exploiting the 2014 Reform of the money market mutual fund...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- troiano, adriana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15925 and etdadmin_upload_879002
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters that each study the interaction between government policy and real estate markets. All three chapters are connected by a broad interest in renters, landlords, and rental markets. Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between place-based policies and real estate and rental markets empirically by studying...
- Keyword:
- Rental Markets, Real Estate, and Finance
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Hair, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_902849 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16077