E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "von Hagen, Jürgen"
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A contribution to the determinants of total factor productivity growth
Schiffbauer, Marc (2008)Why do some countries grow and others stagnate? The Science magazine considers this question as one of the 125 "most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today'' (Science magazine (2005)). Indeed, the successful ... -
Deregulation and Bank Performance: An Empirical Study for the US
Lin, Lin (2006)Recent deregulation tide has greatly changed the landscape of global banking industry. The idea of “universal banking” or “financial supermarket” is gaining appeal in many countries in the world. US, the world’s biggest ... -
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Mirza, Harun (2013-12-20)This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats important issues related to monetary policy. The focus is on inflation dynamics and all three studies involve some approach of ... -
Essays in Empirical Public Finance
Foremny, Dirk (2012-05-09)This thesis consists of three empirical contributions – each of them concerned with aspects of public finances at the sub-national level in the European Union.<br /> Chapter 1 offers an empirical answer to the question of ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
Buzaushina, Almira (2011-08-11)This dissertation aims at continuing the theoretical and empirical analysis in international macroeconomics with an emphasis on improving the quantitative performance of New Open Economy Macroeconomic models. Chapter 1 ... -
Essays in Monetary Theory
Kurka, Stephan Florian (2012-05-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in monetary theory. Each period, agents trade in a day and in a night market. The night market is a standard Walrasian market. In the day market agents are anonymous which prevents ... -
Essays on Adaptive Learning with Applications to Monetary Policy
Fries, Oliver (2008)<p>While the concept of rational expectations has become the standard tool of modellingexpectations in macroeconomic models, it has been criticised for its high information and rationality requirements. Moreover, rational ... -
Essays on Business Cycles
Grodecka, Anna (2015-07-21)The recent Great Recession has renewed interest in the role of financial markets and credit in the economy, as well as in the boundaries of monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies that impact macroeconomic developments ... -
Essays on Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union
Bierbrauer, Christoph (2012-08-01)This thesis consists of three separate, but interlinked chapters on national fiscal policy in a monetary union. Throughout, I employ new Keynesian models that are augmented by the introduction of overlapping generations ... -
Essays on International Policy Coordination in Interdependent Economies
Evers, Michael (2007)Throughout the last couple of decades the world has experienced a strong and steady increase in the economic interdependence among national economies. Accordingly, national monetary and fiscal policies are also subject to ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Frictions
Zhang, Haiping (2006)Considerable empirical evidence has demonstrated strong linkages between the financial sector and the real production sector of an economy. A huge theoretical literature has emerged since 1970s for the understanding of ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Policies in Developing Countries
Dong, Daxin (2017-07-28)This thesis consists of three explorations on macroeconomic policies in developing countries. <br /> The first essay evaluates the desirability of public capital investment, taking China as the study subject. Based on an ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy Interactions with Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets
Niemann, Stefan (2008)This dissertation aims at contributing to the literature investigating the positive and normative framework for monetary policy. It provides an assessment of macroeconomic (i.e. monetary and to some extent also fiscal) ... -
Essays on the Efficiency of Financial Markets
Schlusche, Bernd (2010-12-30)In the three decades since the term was coined by Eugene F. Fama, the efficient market hypothesis has become the central proposition in financial economics, and, as such, widely accepted by academic scholars. Fama (1970)'s ... -
Essays on the Use of Unstructured Data in Macroeconomics
Püttmann, Lukas Konstantin (2018-08-15)Economists need data to find patterns and test theories, but many concepts are hard to measure. This work contains three chapters showing how new unstructured data sources, such as text corpora, can be used to overcome ... -
Financial Frictions and Business Cycles
Çakıcı, Sahibe Meral (2010-11-15)This thesis investigates the business cycle implications of financial frictions for small open economies. Dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium frameworks with financial and informational frictions and uncertainty in ... -
Learning in Macroeconomics: An Empirical Approach
Junker, Simon (2009-04-23)This thesis explores the role of adaptive learning in explaining empirical phenomena such as the Great Inflation. We show that the historic monetary policy deviated from the optimally recommended policy under learning. ... -
Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Integration, Demographic Aging and Automation Technology
Mann, Katja Verena (2018-07-23)This thesis combines work on three important long-run trends and their macroeconomic implications: Financial integration, demographic aging and the use of automation technology in the production process. The first chapter ... -
The Role of External Shocks in Emerging Market Crises
Brei, Michael (2008)The dissertation attempts in three essays to contribute to the research on emerging market crises. A particular focus is set on problems associated with sudden stops of capital inflows, which appear to have been the cause ... -
Three Essays in Macroeconomics: Implications of the Great Recession for Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Scheer, F. Alexander (2020-02-06)The Great Recession prompted several governments and central banks in advanced economies to take exceptional measures, whose consequences are still visible today. In particular, two developments seem to be noteworthy. ...