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Historical business cycles and market integration
Uebele, Martin - 2009
Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit europäischer und US-amerikanischer Konjunkturgeschichte und Marktintegration im 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467153
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What Drives Commodity Prices More: Oil Demand or Supply Shocks?
Mutuc, Maria; Pan, Suwen; Hudson, Darren - 2010
This paper shows that the response of agricultural commodity prices in the U.S. related to fluctuations in oil prices in the international market may differ greatly depending on whether the increase is driven by demand or supply shocks in the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446084
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Anticipated shocks, optimal monetary policy, and welfare
Roland Winkler - 2009
Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428969
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Essays on Economic Variability, Dynamics of Adjustment, and Exchange Rate Flexibility
Al-Abri, Almukhtar Saif - 2005
This dissertation revisits the literature on the role of exchange rate flexibility in smoothing the adjustments of the economy to different disturbances. Recently, the role of flexible exchange rates in stabilizing the economy against real shocks has been challenged by the new open economy...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475390
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475440
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Unter welchen Bedingungen ist ein Beitritt zu einer Währungsunion optimal? : Eine Analyse stabilitätspolitischer Konsequenzen, statischer Effekte und wachstumstheoretischer Implika...
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449670
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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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