The detection of redundant or reused passages in texts is an important basis for various tasks including tracking of information flow, plagiarism detection, origin detection, web search and information retrieval. Being able to track the evolution of a piece of information through different...

The thesis consists of three chapters, which deal with a number of issues at the intersection of Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Development Economics and Monetary Economics. The third chapter titled "Monetary Policy Choices Under Currency Substitution" deals with a monetary policy question...