Search for dissertations about: "Quantitative Economics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 232 swedish dissertations containing the words Quantitative Economics.

2. 1. Essays in Quantitative Macroeconomics

   Author : Pedro Soares Brinca; Martin Flodén; Ellen McGrattan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Forecasting; Business Cycle Accounting; Fluctuations; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : In the first essay, Distortions in the Neoclassical Growth Model: A Cross Country Analysis, I show that shocks that express themselves as total factor productivity and labor income taxes are comparably more synchronized than shocks that resemble distortions to the ability of allocating resources across time and states of the world. These two shocks are also the most important to model. READ MORE

4. 2. Quantitative New Keynesian Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

   Author : Peter Welz; Nils Gottfries; Annika Alexius; Paul Söderlind; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; New Keynesian Economics; Monetary Policy; Bayesian Econometrics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1 compares the dynamic behaviour of an estimated New Keynesian sticky-price model with one-period delayed effects of monetary policy shocks to the dynamics of a structural vector autoregression model. The model is estimated with Bayesian techniques on German pre-EMU data. READ MORE

5. 3. Essays on Development Policy and the Political Economy of Conflict

   Author : Miri Stryjan; Jakob Svensson; Rohini Somanathan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Development Economics; Political Economics; Electoral processes; Political selection; Community driven development; Conflict; Political Elites; Community Meetings; Rainfall; Microfinance; Savings; Credit contract structure; Business growth; SMEs; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Electoral Rules and Leader Selection: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Community Groups. Despite a large body of work documenting how electoral systems affect policy outcomes, less is known about their impact on leader selection. READ MORE

6. 4. Essays on the Economics of Income Taxation

   Author : Spencer Bastani; Sören Blomquist; Luca Micheletto; Robin Boadway; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; taxation; income redistribution; in-kind transfers; tagging; behavioral responses to income taxation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of five self-contained essays.Essay 1. (with Sören Blomquist and Luca Micheletto) Using a calibrated overlapping-generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age-dependent labor income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can transfer consumption across periods through savings. READ MORE

7. 5. In Search for Greener Grass : Employee Mobility, Self-employment and Career Choices in the Wake of Consolidation

   Author : Monia Lougui; Anders Broström; Olenka Kacperczyk; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mergers and acquisitions; Employee mobility; Entrepreneurship; Self-employment; Teams; Managers; Homophily; Labor market; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

   Abstract : In this environment of increasingly knowledge intensive economy, individuals with their embedded skills and knowledge are the main source of value for an organization. Both employers andemployees have strong reasons to consider the causes and consequences of job mobility. READ MORE