Essays in applied economics

• Autores: Sebastian Ellingsen
• Directores de la Tesis: María Petrova (dir. tes.), Giacomo Ponzetto (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2021
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: David Strömberg (presid.), Nico Voigtländer (secret.), David Nagy (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Matemáticas
    • Estadística
      • Análisis de datos
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Teoría económica
      • Estudios de desarrollo económico
    • Economía internacional
      • Política económica internacional
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • This thesis studies the role of policies aimed at facilitating communication on economic and political development. In the first chapter, I explore the relationship between long-term spatial persistence and trade. Using a reduced form approach combined with a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model, I show that an important determinant of the importance of trade in shaping the location of economic activity is the level of development as a country experiences reductions in international trade costs. The second chapter studies the role of change in the communication network in Norway on mass political behavior. The paper investigates the effect of the liberalization of Norwegian broadcasting on political behavior. We find evidence consistent with the policy reducing political participation. The third chapter studies a policy that expanded broadband access in the context of Norway. We find a positive effect of high-speed internet usage on the turnout rate in municipal elections but only a small effect on polarization in vote choice.