Essays in development and applied economics
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. I exploit the introduction of genetically engineered soybean seeds in Brazil to show that if the new agricultural techno...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/309752 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/309752 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | UEFA Champions League Brasil Nuevas tecnologias agrícolas Development Applied economics 33 |
| Sumario: | The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. I exploit the introduction of genetically engineered soybean seeds in Brazil to show that if the new agricultural technologies are strongly labor saving they promote industrial growth in even in an open economy. In the second chapter, I study the welfare gains of a tax reform that eliminated distortive turnover taxes in Brazil. I find that taking into account the sequential nature of production affects significantly the gains of the reform, that increase with the number of times firms exchange intermediate inputs. In the third chapter, I exploit the random assignment of teams to groups in the soccer’s UEFA Champions League to provide causal evidence that hosting a sports team boosts the visibility of a city among tourists. I find that being drawn into the same group leads to between 5 and 8 percent more passengers flying for the three months following the end of the group stage. |
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