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Essays on Markov-Switching Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models

Foerster, Andrew Thomas - 2011

This dissertation presents two essays on Markov-Switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. The first essay is "Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching Models," which is co-authored with Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Dan Waggoner, and Tao Zha. This essay develops an perturbation-based...

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Money and Production: A Pluralist Analysis

Weir, Diarmid J. G. - 2008

The purpose of this thesis is to argue that the core of a monetary economy is a network of triangular contracts between banks, firms, workers and capital goods suppliers. Not only does this network give rise to the creation and valuation of money but it is the organising feature of modern...

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Essays on financial markets and the macroeconomy

Mönch, Emanuel - 2006

Diese Arbeit besteht aus vier Essays, die empirische und methodische Beiträge zu den Gebieten der Finanzmarktökonomik und der Makroökonomik liefern. Der erste Essay beschäftigt sich mit der Spezifikation der Investoren verfügbaren Informationsmenge in Tests bedingter Kapitalmarktmodelle. Im...

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Knowledge management in a global setting: a critique of knowledge transfer and the role of knowledge workers

Konstantinou, Efrosyni - 2008

As a form of expert labour and organizational resource, knowledge workers are important in organizational life as producers and consumers of knowledge. The role of knowledge workers and the ways in which they transfer their knowledge become important as they possess the symbolic and analytic...

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Ideational Reflexivity in Economic Systems

Mackinnon, Lauchlan - 2005

The present work is a chapter from my Ph.D thesis to be submitted in January 2006. Economists generate economic ideas, which are then spread to and impact on the very economic systems that they are ostensibly 'objectively' modelling. I term this dynamical relationship between economic theory and...

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Tax Rates: A Study of their Form and Effects

Alexander, M. Erin - 2009

This dissertation presents a series of three essays that examine the functional form of the U. S. federal income tax and its implications. In the first essay we introduce the convex functional form of the income tax which we believe is superior to the standard income-proportional form. We also...

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Essays in macroeconomics

Trabandt, Mathias - 2007

konventionelle Sichtweisen über die Inflation zu modellieren. Ich verwende ein DSGE Modell mit klebriger Information und vergleiche … beide Modelle in meinem DSGE Rahmen gleich gut geeignet sind, die konventionellen Sichtweisen zu erklären. Der zweite … to model three conventional views about inflation. We use a fully-fledged DSGE model with sticky information and compare …

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy for Small Open and Emerging Economies

Fasolo, Angelo Marsiglia - 2010

This dissertation computes the optimal monetary and fiscal policy for small open and emerging economies in an estimated medium-scale model. The model departs from the conventional approach as it encompasses all the major nominal and real rigidities normally found in the literature in a single...

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Unter welchen Bedingungen ist ein Beitritt zu einer Währungsunion optimal? : Eine Analyse stabilitätspolitischer Konsequenzen, statischer Effekte und wachstumstheoretischer Implikationen einer Osterweiterung der Europäischen Währungsunion

Baas, Timo - 2010

analyzed within a dynamic general equilibrium framework (DSGE). After a short discussion of the effects of monetary …

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Construction and Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models for the Euro Area

Pytlarczyk, Ernest - 2006

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