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Showing 1 to 20 of 257 for “"Macroeconomics"”.
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Essays on Macroeconomics
Chapter 1: Production Complementarities and Flexibility in a Model of EntrepreneurshipThe choice between salaried work and entrepreneurship has often been studied through the lenses of ability and wealth-related explanations. Nevertheless, recent literature documents that entrepreneurs earn less …
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Essays In Macroeconomics
… reviews the basics of parallel computing in macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I quantitatively assess the welfare maximizing policy during the Great Recession, when the government had access to two policy instruments: a) offer bailouts to banks, and b) subsidize the mortgage refinancing …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
This thesis focuses on two themes in the field of Macroeconomics. First, the importance of family ties and insurance within the family for labor supply decisions, and their macroeconomic consequences (first and second chapter); second, the role of intangible capital and disclosure regulation in …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… consists of three self-contained essays on macroeconomics. Chapter 2 "Churning, firm inter-connectivity, and labor market fluctuations'' studies the implications of firm inter-connectivity and irreversibility of inter-firm cooperation relationships on the business cycle. Chapter 3 …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
<p>During 2007-2009 the U.S. economy experienced the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. Why did the financial crisis turn into such a severe recession? And what were the causes of the Great Recession? This dissertation consists of two essays examining these questions. In the …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… contributes to the study of identification in macroeconomics. The first two chapters combine machine learning techniques with econometrics to provide new insights into this long-standing question. I use natural language processing techniques in the first chapter to derive a novel monetary …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
The thesis consists of three essays on macroeconomics. In the first essay, I study the price and wage-setting implications of monopsony models with nominal rigidities. I develop a New Keynesian model with wage posting and on-the-job search. I show how wage markdowns are related to the importance of …
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Essays in macroeconomics
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one studies the effect of labor policy, in particular of firing costs, on financially restricted firms. It proposes and models an effect of firing costs that has not been described in the literature so far. When a time gap exists between …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… thesis consists of three essays in the field of macroeconomics. In the first chapter, Andrea Manera and I study the economic incentives for automation when labor and machines are perfect substitutes. We find that labor may still be employed in production, even when it is a costlier input than …
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Essays in macroeconomics
This thesis examines questions in macroeconomics motivated by the 2007-2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Chapter 1 studies the impact of a housing bust on regional labor reallocation and the labor market. I document an empirical fact, which suggests that, by increasing the fraction of …
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Essays in macroeconomics
In this thesis, I cover three relevant topics in macroeconomics: the effects of trade liberalization, the effect of institutions and the determinants of credibility on macroeconomic policies. The first essay revisits the empirical work on the effects of trade liberalization and analyzes how it …
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Essays in experimental macroeconomics
This dissertation consists of four essays that use controlled experiments to address macroeconomic issues. Chapter 1 (coauthored with Camille Cornand and Adam Zylbersztejn) investigates the robustness of experience effects in laboratory experiments. We compare two scenarios in a beauty-contest game …
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The macroeconomics of ‘financialisation’
… chapters III-V) are inspired by (Post) Keynesian macroeconomics and modern information economics. It also complements the interdisciplinary political economy literature on financialisation, in which the macroeconomic perspective has so far been clearly underdeveloped in (chapter II). Finally, the …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
… of the dissertation is: broadly-defined) general macroeconomics. The first essay is on optimal taxation and capital structure, the second essay is on firm dynamics, and the third essay is on financial crises. The first essay clarifies the role of the corporate income tax: as a form of double …
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Essays on dynamic macroeconomics
This thesis uses the techniques of macroeconomic theory to answer three questions. It is divided in three chapters each focusing on one of these questions. The first chapter investigates the appropriate labor market policy response to two fundamental changes in the economy. I introduce unemployment …
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Search Frictions in Macroeconomics
… explores the role of search frictions in macroeconomics and highlights how these frictions influence micro-level decisions which in turn affect aggregated outcomes. Chapter 1 examines how individuals entering the job market during a recession can suffer persistent wage losses. I document …
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Essays in International Macroeconomics
… consists of two essays in international macroeconomics. In the first essay I explore the role of portfolio diversification in explaining the distribution of foreign investment across countries. I do so by adopting a portfolio allocation approach to risk, that is widely used in empirical …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
In this dissertation, I examine three questions of relevance to macroeconomists and macroeconomic policy makers. Chapter 1 studies how central banks should communicate with the general public about their policies and the state of the economy. Chapter 2 evaluates alternative empirical estimates of …
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