E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "Merz, Monika"
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Essays in Econometrics and Macroeconomics
Tenhofen, Jörn (2011-03-23)From a global perspective, this dissertation illustrates the consequences of choosing a particular balance between completeness and manageability in terms of model building, both in the field of macroeconomics and econometrics. ... -
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 Parental Leave, Global Disinflation and Non-Renewable Resources
Schwerhoff, Gregor (2012-03-28)This thesis consists of three independent chapters. In chapter 1 the focus is on the allocation of parental leave between spouses. We modify a model of collective rationality developed by Pierre-André Chiappori and coauthors ... -
Heterogeneity in Economics and Aggregation
Paluch, Michal (2008)Heterogeneity is all around us. People differ substantially with respect to their tastes, expectations, and available resources, and firms are heterogeneous in technologies and the quantity or nature of input factors. Since ... -
On the Implications of Unobserved Technology and Preference Shifts for Aggregate Labor Demand and Supply
Balleer, Almut (2009-08-14)The macroeconomic approach to the labor market aims at explaining aggregate labor market phenomena that have been present in many industrialized countries such as the United States or the western European countries in the ... -
Three Essays on Political Institutions, Inequality, and Economic Growth
Shen, Ling (2006)Why are some countries much richer than others? Why do some economies grow faster than others? Economists have asked these trite yet crucial questions for more than one century. In recent years, more and more economists ... -
Wage Setting over the Business Cycle and the Effect of Employment Protection on Human Capital Formation
Sonntag, Marcus (2009-09-11)This dissertation is about labor market institutions and their implications on allocative outcomes. The first chapter studies the effect of the business cycle on the setting of entry-wages, i.e. wages that people get at ...