This dissertation consists of three essays in Macroeconomics. The first essay assesses the impact of offshoring on aggregate productivity and on labour market outcomes by developing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which workers acquire task-specific human capital. The dynamic nature of...

This thesis investigates the role of institutions in shaping macroeconomic phenomena. The first two chapters focus on financial institutions, formalizing interactions between information and competition in frictional credit markets and providing novel predictions for output and efficiency. The...

Dispersion of money balances among individuals is the basis for a range of policies but it has been abstracted from in monetary theory for tractability reasons. In this paper, we fill in this gap by constructing a tractable search model of money with a non-degenerate distribution of money...