Author: Koen Vermeylen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Three Essays on the Relation Between Sectoral Shocks and Aggregate Demand
Author: Koen Vermeylen
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Three Essays on Business Cycle and Monetary Policy
Author: Yongjae Choi
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Category : Durable goods, Consumer
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Category : Durable goods, Consumer
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
Author: Chacko George
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This dissertation consists of three essays on topics in macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I construct a macroeconomic model with a heterogeneous banking sector and an interbank lending market. Banks differ in their ability to transform deposits from households into loans to firms. Bank size differences emerge endogenously in the model, and in steady state, the induced bank size distribution matches two stylized facts in the data: bigger banks borrow more on the interbank lending market than smaller banks, and bigger banks are more leveraged than smaller banks. I use the model to evaluate the impact of increasing concentration in US banking on the severity of potential downturns. I find that if the banking sector in 2007 was only as concentrated as it was in 1992, GDP during the Great Recession would have declined by 40% less it did, and would have recovered twice as fast. In the second chapter, my co-author and I investigate the impact of firm capacity constraints on aggregate production and productivity when the economy is driven by aggregate and idiosyncratic demand shocks. We are motivated by three observed regularities in US GDP: business cycles are asymmetric, in that large absolute changes in output are more likely to be negative than positive; capacity and capital utilization are procyclical, and increase the procyclicality of measured productivity; the dispersion of firm productivity increases in recessions. We devise a model of demand shocks and endogenous capacity constraints that is qualitatively consistent with these observations. We then calibrate the model to aggregate utilization data using standard Bayesian techniques. Quantitatively, we find that the calibrated model also exhibits significant asymmetry in output, on the order of the regularities observed in GDP. The third chapter explores the role of distance in equilibrium selection. I consider a model economy with multiple steady state equilibria where a high productivity and a low productivity technology are available for use in production. The high productivity technology requires a fixed set up cost for production. Sectors are linked by localized production complementarities. I consider selection under a learning rule in which agents imitate their most successful neighbor. As distance between neighbors decreases, the possible profits from industrialization increase, and the likelihood that the learning rule process converges to a steady state matching the H equilibrium increases. The result suggests that, in the presence of localized technology spillovers, there may be important gains to economic growth from infrastructure development.
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This dissertation consists of three essays on topics in macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I construct a macroeconomic model with a heterogeneous banking sector and an interbank lending market. Banks differ in their ability to transform deposits from households into loans to firms. Bank size differences emerge endogenously in the model, and in steady state, the induced bank size distribution matches two stylized facts in the data: bigger banks borrow more on the interbank lending market than smaller banks, and bigger banks are more leveraged than smaller banks. I use the model to evaluate the impact of increasing concentration in US banking on the severity of potential downturns. I find that if the banking sector in 2007 was only as concentrated as it was in 1992, GDP during the Great Recession would have declined by 40% less it did, and would have recovered twice as fast. In the second chapter, my co-author and I investigate the impact of firm capacity constraints on aggregate production and productivity when the economy is driven by aggregate and idiosyncratic demand shocks. We are motivated by three observed regularities in US GDP: business cycles are asymmetric, in that large absolute changes in output are more likely to be negative than positive; capacity and capital utilization are procyclical, and increase the procyclicality of measured productivity; the dispersion of firm productivity increases in recessions. We devise a model of demand shocks and endogenous capacity constraints that is qualitatively consistent with these observations. We then calibrate the model to aggregate utilization data using standard Bayesian techniques. Quantitatively, we find that the calibrated model also exhibits significant asymmetry in output, on the order of the regularities observed in GDP. The third chapter explores the role of distance in equilibrium selection. I consider a model economy with multiple steady state equilibria where a high productivity and a low productivity technology are available for use in production. The high productivity technology requires a fixed set up cost for production. Sectors are linked by localized production complementarities. I consider selection under a learning rule in which agents imitate their most successful neighbor. As distance between neighbors decreases, the possible profits from industrialization increase, and the likelihood that the learning rule process converges to a steady state matching the H equilibrium increases. The result suggests that, in the presence of localized technology spillovers, there may be important gains to economic growth from infrastructure development.
Essays on the Great Depression
Author: Ben S. Bernanke
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691259666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effects As chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing directly on what he had learned from years of studying the causes of the economic catastrophe of the 1930s—work for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize. Essays on the Great Depression brings together Bernanke’s influential work on the origins and economic lessons of the Depression, and this new edition also includes his Nobel Prize lecture.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691259666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effects As chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing directly on what he had learned from years of studying the causes of the economic catastrophe of the 1930s—work for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize. Essays on the Great Depression brings together Bernanke’s influential work on the origins and economic lessons of the Depression, and this new edition also includes his Nobel Prize lecture.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Three Essays on the Empirical Study of Productivity Residuals and Imperfect Competition
Author: David Michael Wright
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Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Three Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics
Author: Chung-Eun Lee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Productivity and the Business Cycle
Author: Domenico Marchetti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815327226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Three essays on the ways in which business cycles affect productivity review and criticize previous research, propose an dynamic model using gross output data, and provide a decomposition of industrial productivity growth in Polish manufacturing 1992-93 indicating the importance of structural effects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815327226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Three essays on the ways in which business cycles affect productivity review and criticize previous research, propose an dynamic model using gross output data, and provide a decomposition of industrial productivity growth in Polish manufacturing 1992-93 indicating the importance of structural effects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Three Essays in International Economics
Author: Mine Zeynep Senses
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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