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Three essays about retirement, grandparents’ childcare and female labour supply
(2023)
Childcare arrangements are critical in mothers’ employment decisions. It is a fundamental determinant of whether mothers are partially free from childcare responsibility to participate in the labour force and provide more ...
Three essays on fiscal devaluation
(2023)
This thesis studies the impact of a fiscal devaluation on macroeconomic variables in a closed economy in both the short and long run, in an open economy under different market structures, and how it contributes to environmental ...
Three essays on key audit matters dissimilarity
(2023)
My dissertation consists of three essays reported in three different Chapters, each related to a different research question about the Key Audit Matters (KAM) section in audit reports. KAM disclosures have been implemented ...
Three essays on parent-employee relationships
(2023)
This dissertation explores the complex dynamics of interorganizational relationships between employee spin-outs – i.e., ventures created by employees or ex-employees – and their previous employers (parent firms). In the ...
From grieving to career change: how personal, grief-inducing events affect professional life
(2023)
Recent scholarship has emphasized that, while we know a lot about the complexity of the work domain, the complexity of the life domain has been neglected and limited to the family domain demands. In particular, an important ...
Essays in causes and consequences of gender norms
(2023)
This thesis studies the causes and consequences of gender norms. The first chapter examines the interplay between marriage and gender norms. Marriage, as a mechanism of horizontal and oblique social learning and as a ...
Three Essays in Sustainable Finance
(2023)
This thesis consists of three essays that address questions related to challenges in the field of Sustainable Finance. Chapter 1 estimates the benchmark greenium. Chapter 2 experimentally tests whether Socially Responsible ...
Three essays on assortment, omnichannel inventory, and drone-enabled health supply chain optimization
(2023)
This work examines novel prospects and challenges in two primary domains: retail and healthcare delivery. In the retail sector, we make several methodological and analytical contributions. Pursuing an optimal portfolio of ...
Three essays on gender differences in tie formation and network returns
(2023)
Research partially attributes women's under-representation in leadership positions to gender differences in competitiveness and performance in competition. To establish the magnitude and boundary conditions of these effects, ...
Three essays on corporate finance
(2023)
This thesis is in the area of corporate finance and focuses on the impact that diversified institutional investors have on the competition in the product market of portfolio companies, also through the analysis of their ...