Search for dissertations about: "unemployment and inflation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words unemployment and inflation.

2. 11. On Monetary Integration and Macroeconomic Policy

   Author : Mattias Erlandsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; New open-economy macroeconomics; Nominal wage flexibility; Optimal wage setting; Monetary unification; Public opinion; Referenda; Partisan theory of macroeconomic policy;

   Abstract : This thesis contains one general introduction and three separate papers. The papers are fairly heterogeneous with respect to the topics analysed, as well as to the methodologies used. Some common themes, though, are monetary integration and outcomes of macroeconomic policy. READ MORE

4. 12. Essays on Monetary Policy and Asset Markets

   Author : Virginia Queijo von Heideken; Torsten Persson; Jon Faust; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Monetary policy; DSGE models; long-term interest rates; financial frictions; house prices; Bayesian estimation; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of three essays on monetary policy and asset markets.“Monetary Policy Regimes and the Volatility of Long-Term Interest Rates” addresses two questions that have been studied separately in the literature. First, the paper aims at explaining the high volatility of long-term interest rates observed in the data. READ MORE

5. 13. 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. 14. Essays on Labor Supply and Adjustment Frictions

   Author : Jósef Sigurdsson; Torsten Persson; Arash Nekoei; Peter Fredriksson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intertemporal labor supply; Frisch elasticity; Labor supply; Adjustment frictions; Geographic mobility; Moving costs; Comparative advantage; Wage rigidity; Monetary policy; Consumption; Household debt; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in IcelandHow does labor supply respond to a temporary wage change? To answer this question, I study an unexpected and salient tax reform in Iceland in 1987 that resulted in a year free of labor income taxes, but creating only minimal income effects, offering an ideal natural experiment. I first construct a new employer-employee dataset from digitized administrative records for the population. READ MORE

7. 15. Essays in Empirical Labor Economics

   Author : John Ekberg; Jonas Agell; Mårten Palme; Steinar Holden; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; J30; J13; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in the field of empirical labor economics.The first essay, Nominal Wage Rigidity in the Swedish Labor Market, presents an empirical investigation of the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity on the Swedish labor market. READ MORE