Economics (Theses and Dissertations)
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Human Mobility In Developing Countries: Evidence From Mobile Phone Data
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis examines human mobility patterns in developing countries. It leverages different types of mobile phone data enabling the observation of individuals' movements and locations at spatio-temporal scales which are ... -
Essays in Urban and Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of urban, environmental, transport, development and labour economics. Each chapter tackles important questions regarding the role of new active mobility transport ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis comprises three essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) analyzes the shock absorption role of external positions by looking at the relation between external stock imbalances and their currency of denomination. The ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ... -
Essays in Political Economics and Political Communication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics with a particular focus on the effect of political communication. First, it studies how politicians way of speaking reacts in the aftermath of a salient ...