The dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters on topics within macroeconomics. All chapters share an orientation towards empirical analysis of macroeconomic questions. New methods for empirical analysis are presented in the first and third chapter. The method presented in the first...

This PhD dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters in the field of macroeconomics. The first two chapters rely a large scanner data set from the United States. The data set contains detailed pricing and sales information from retail stores as well as comprehensive information on...

Introducing the Volume on India’s Contemporary Public Finance Themes -- Part I: Fiscal Policy and Macro-economy: Can We Become a Viksit Bharat Or Will Be Caught In The Middle Income Trap? -- Regime Switching Approach to Growth Cycles and Fiscal Policy -- Are Fiscal Transfers Pushing the FRBM...

Public expenditure and public debt / Vito Tanzi -- The political economy of public expenditure / Alan Peacock -- Public employment and public expenditure / Richard Rose -- Public expenditure and the bureaucracy / Peter Jackson -- An Irish overview / Alan Dukes