During the last decade, digital technologies became an integral part of our everyday life. This development highlights the phenomenon of digitalization; the sociotechnical impact of digital technologies to transforms entire ...

Two compelling reasons motivate the work in this dissertation. While enormous literature on developed countries has emerged identifying the determinants of entrepreneurship and its impact, very little is known about ...

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument ...

Throughout this dissertation agglomeration and specialization tendencies of both industrial and services sectors in the European Union, the driving forces behind and dynamic developments ...

Empirical evidence suggests both that market power increased considerably since 1980 (e.g. De Loecker et al., 2020) and that firms differ in destination-specific trade barriers (e.g. Munch and Nguyen, 2014). Motivated by ...

The motivation for this dissertation is a dual one: On the hand it is methodological, as it introduces new statistical and machine learning approaches, on the other hand it is practical, as these approaches are applied to ...

This cumulative dissertation contributes to a growing literature that analyses how real-world contexts affect behavior. It consists of five independent research papers, shedding light on different aspects of individual and ...

This thesis analyzes how trade and technological change affect economic development. Chapter 1 investigates how domestic and foreign automation impact an emerging economy. Regions in Brazil which are more exposed to foreign ...

Based on three empirical studies, this thesis investigates informational benefits of recent financial accounting regulation for listed firms. From a broad market perspective, the thesis adds to prior research on the ...

This thesis examines the media’s production and dissemination role. The financial press is an important information intermediary that potentially reaches the largest and most diverse audience among investors and other ...