This dissertation consists of three essays on Bayesian estimation of dynamic macroeconomic models. The first essay is focused on explaining the observed high persistence of hours worked in a standard real business cycle model, while two other essays are about exploring macro-finance interface by...

With the concept of trend inflation now widely understood as to be important as a measure of the public's perception of the inflation goal of the central bank and important to the accuracy of longer-term inflation forecasts, this paper uses Bayesian methods to assess alternative models of trend...