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Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"Business Cycle"”.
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Essays on the business cycle
"Much as I hate to spoil my story by announcing its plot in advance, this paper is too long and involved to be clear otherwise. It deals with growth of investment and of capital stock subject to depreciation and periodic replacement. " E. Domar The above citation is taken from a piece, Depreciation …
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Two Essays in Business Cycle Theory
This dissertation studies two interesting business cycle issues. The first issue concerns the effectiveness of tax policies in stimulating an economic recovery. The second issue concerns the costs of business cycle fluctuations to an investor who chooses to invest in risky assets. The first essay …
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China's Business Cycle and Monetary Policy
… economy. I mainly focus on China's business cycles and monetary policy after 1978 in this paper.</p> <p>I use GDP growth to measure the Chinese business cycle. Instead of the level of GDP, the business cycles in the thesis I am talking about are ups and downs in the rate of …
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Three essays on regional business cycle analysis
In this dissertation, regional business activities are analyzed under the assumption of multi-level structure regional economic system. Compared to a single-level regional economic system, a multi-level regional economic system assumes that regional economies are exposed to a common factor that …
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Effects of variations in risk on demand and measures of business cycle comovements : three essays about the business cycle
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Un Análisis de Business Cycle Accounting para Paraguay
… 1.991 - 2.017, utilizando la metodología de Business Cycle Accounting (BCA) desarrollada por Chari et al (2.007) en la cual las fluctuaciones del producto y de otros agregados macroeconómicos es descompuesta en cuatro fuentes: shocks a la productividad (brecha del TFP), brecha de inversión, …
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Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
Over the thirty years preceding 2008, the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession and offers an explanation for the slow growth recovery. Three distinct papers …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Shocks and the Business Cycle
… questions on macroeconomic shocks and the business cycle using empirical methods. Over three chapters, I study the origins and implications of business cycle behaviour in the United States. My work provides a novel approach to estimating the macroeconomic risks priced in equity markets, …
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Business cycle, reallocation of labor and asset prices
… literature on reallocation of resources during business cycles provides an evidence of increased reallocation of labor across firms during downturns. In this paper I build a theoretical model with search frictions in the labor market, that is consistent with this observation, and study …
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Money, transactions and the business cycle: inspecting the mechanism
… with the stylised facts characterising the U.S. business cycle data, the CIA and RRC approaches exhibit the 'dichotomy' typical of the standard RBC literature: the volatility of real expenditure and working hours (and the respective correlation with output) are essentially driven by the …
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CHANGES IN HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR DURING THE BUSINESS CYCLE
… in the unemployment rate – a proxy for the business cycle – drives changes in mortality and crime. I use a panel of U.S. counties from 1990 to 2013. I allow changes in the unemployment rate to have different effects upon mortality / crime in large versus small counties as well as between …
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Long-term commitments, dynamic optimization, and the business cycle.
Thesis (Ph. D)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1979.
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Household production in the Real Business Cycle Model for Finland
Laskettu bruttokansantuote ei perinteisesti sisällä palkatonta kotityötä. Kuitenkin kotitaloustyö on niin rahallisesta kuin ajankäytöllisestä näkökulmasta merkittävää. Vuonna 2016 palkaton kotityö oli Tilastokeskuksen mukaan 39,8% Suomen lasketusta bruttokansantuotteesta, kun vapaaehtoistyö otetaan …
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Business Cycle Models with Embodied Technological Change and Poisson Shocks
The first part analyzes an Endogenous Business Cycle model with embodied technological change. Households take an optimal decision about their spending for consumption and financing of R&D. The probability of a technology invention occurring is an increasing function of aggregate R&D …
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Essays on Measuring Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Forecasting Business Cycle
… Chapter 3, I build a probit model of yields and business cycles. The proposed model incorporates the interrelation of yields and a latent business cycle factor, which will be extracted from the joint model. Different to previous literature, this model allows for interactions of the latent …
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Three Essays on Macroeconomic and Econometric Analysis of Business Cycle
The third paper explores a methodology applicable to generating a regional economic activity index. There have been some attempts to develop a comprehensive index using either the coincident composite index model or the dynamic factor model. This paper suggests a modified principal components …
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The business cycle and the stock market by Andrei Shleifer.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1986.
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The real estate investment trust : performance over the business cycle
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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