Search for dissertations about: "macroeconomy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word macroeconomy.

  2. 1. Credit and Finance in the Macroeconomy

    Author : Giovanni Favara; Torsten Persson; Simon Gilchrist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; credit; finance; macroeconomy; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Agency Costs, Net Worth and Endogenous Business Fluctuations. This essay proposes a theory of endogenous business fluctuations. A central tenet of the theory is that investment decisions depend upon entrepreneurs' incentive to exert effort and investors' incentive to control entrepreneurs. READ MORE

  4. 2. Public Policy, Household Finance and the Macroeconomy

    Author : Jakob Almerud; Paul Klein; David Domeij; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public policy; household finance; macroeconomics; numerical models; housing finance; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : The thesis contains four separate essays, spanning questions of the interaction between public policy, household finance and the macroeconomy. How does public policy affect macroeconomic outcomes, and the choices and welfare of households, and what are households’ optimal financial responses to changes in macroeconomic environments? Furthermore, the thesis includes a development of a method, which is helpful to answer questions like the ones stated above. READ MORE

  5. 3. Essays on Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

    Author : Jürg Fausch; Roine Vestman; John Hassler; Ilan Cooper; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Asset pricing; business cycles; DSGE model; macroeconomic risk; monetary policy shocks; recursive preferences; stock market; VAR model; variance decomposition; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Asset pricing implications of a DSGE model with recursive preferences and nominal rigidities. I study jointly macroeconomic dynamics and asset prices implied by a production economy featuring nominal price rigidities and Epstein-Zin (1989) preferences. READ MORE

  6. 4. Essays on demographics, structural change and the macroeconomy

    Author : Andrea Papetti; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis in Economics consists of three chapters examining the macroeconomic impact of demographic and structural changes.The first chapter (“Demographics and the real exchange rate”) analyzes how the change in the demand composition due to population aging leads a country aging more than its trading partners to have a significant real exchange rate appreciation. READ MORE

  7. 5. Firms and banks in the Macroeconomy : empirical essays using microeconomic methods

    Author : Niklas Amberg; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a collection of essays covering topics in corporate finance, macroeconomics, applied microeconometrics, and economic history. These essays do not, and were not intended to, fit together into a neatly unified whole, but are rather the outcomes of a number of independent research projects that I have carried out during my Ph.D. READ MORE