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Showing 1 to 20 of 2901 for “"Macro"”.
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Essays in Macro Finance
… the link between capital markets and sources of macroeconomic risk. In chapter 1 I show that expected inflation risk is priced in the cross section of stock returns even after controlling for cash flow growth and volatility risks. Motivated by this evidence I study a long run risk model with a …
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Essays on macro development
This dissertation consists of three chapters, all of which are joint works with Mauricio Barbosa-Alves. The first chapter studies the impact of heat waves on international migration patterns. Using census data from Guatemala, we document novel evidence suggesting that areas affected by elevated …
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Behavioural Macro-Financial Cycles
… It is typically not feasible for an agent with a macroeconomic sample of realistic length to estimate a conditionally unbiased predictor of future variables, such as rational expectations. It is also often not optimal, in terms of forecast error, to minimise the conditional biases imposed, as …
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Topics in Macro Finance
… asset return and volatility behaviour from a macro-finance perspective. In three of the four chapters, the macro drivers of both risky asset returns (the first moment) and volatility (the second moment) are studied and analyzed in detail across different geographies and various time periods. …
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Essays in Macro-Finance
… smaller effects of monetary policy on macroeconomic outcomes. In Chapter 2 (joint with Taisuke Nakata and Takeki Sunakawa), we study the following question: how a central bank credibly implement a ”lower-for-longer” strategy? To answer this question, we analyze a series of optimal …
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Essays on Macro-Finance Relationships
In my dissertation, I study relationships between macroeconomics and financial markets. In particular, I empirically investigate the links between key macroeconomic indicators, such as output, inflation, and the business cycle, and the pricing of financial assets. The dissertation comprises three …
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Parallel coupled micro-macro actuators
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Essays in macro-labor economics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Macro-scale space systems for geoengineering
There are many pressures facing the future of human presence on the Earth. These are the effects of a changing climate and the finite resources of Earth. This thesis sets out several space-based scenarios that can be implemented to reduce these pressures, namely space-based geoengineering to offset …
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Exchange rates: macro and micro fundamentals
… concerning exchange rate movements through macroeconomic fundamental analysis and microstructure approaches to exchange rates. With macro approaches, our study demonstrates, in a panel data setting, the link between real exchange rates and net foreign asset could be through the association …
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Essays in macro and development economics
… of theoretical and empirical tools from both macro and microeconomics. Many currently and previously developing countries have adopted industrial policies that push resources towards certain "strategic" sectors, and the economic reasoning behind such polices is not well understood. In Chapter …
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Quasielastic light scattering from macro-molecules.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Essays in macro and labor economics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Micro-images of macro-lensed objects
… Finally, we briefly examine micro-lensing near macro-caustics and study the motion of micro-images as a point source crosses a macro-caustic.
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Macro Economics Essays on Technological Change
The essay consists of three chapters. In chapter 1, I find that wages in U.S. regions have been diverging instead of converging from 1975 onward. This coincides with the period of accelerating skill-biased technological change. A decomposition of the divergence rate indicates three channels …
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Macro-CAPP: a CAPP CIM interface
… assistance to the process planning function at a macro-level. This research attempts to create a truly integrated CAPP system within a CIM atmosphere.
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The macro-charcoal signature in Bwabwata National park, north-east, Namibia: Calibrating surface macro-charcoal with environmental variables
… knowledge gap by investigating the links between macro-charcoal ( > 150 ìm) from surface samples and fire history and physical characteristics of the landscape, vegetation composition and settlement density. Sediment surface samples (top 2cm) were taken from six sample sites in Bwabwata National …
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Computational intelligence for measuring macro-knowledge competitiveness
… (SCI). In particular for delivering a Unified Macro-Knowledge Competitiveness Indicator (UKCI) to enable consistent and transparent assessments and forecasting of the progress and competitiveness of Knowledge Based Economy (KBE). SCI are assessment tools usually constructed to evaluate and …
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Macro and nanocreep of self-consolidating concrete
… other types of concrete. This research presents macro and nanoscale creep experiments used for a multiscale characterization of creep of SCC. Macrocreep experiments placed different SCC and normal vibrated concrete (NVC) mixes under sustained compressive and tensile stress to compare creep of SCC …
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