This study contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by bringing attention to and investigating the process by which innovators outside of firms obtain innovation-related resources and assistance. This study is the first to explicitly examine how user-innovators gather the...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2010. Major: Economics. Advisors: Professor Timothy J. Kehoe, Doctor Ellen R. McGrattan. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 137 pages, appendices A-C.

Este documento ocasional resume los avances recientes en el análisis teórico de las causas de la inestabilidad fi nanciera, de sus consecuencias macroeconómicas, y sus implicaciones acerca del posible papel de la política macroprudencial. En primer lugar, se analiza cómo se propagan las...