Sökning: "Asymmetric shocks"
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6. Essays on Uncertainty and Escape in Trade Agreements
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises three theoretical essays on trade agreements."Can Self-Destructive Trade Agreements Be Optimal?" focuses on the impact of hidden information on strategic interaction in the context of trade agreements. LÄS MER
7. Back on the map : essays on financial markets in the Baltic States
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five self-contained papers, which are all related to the financial markets in the three Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Paper [I] studies the impact of news from the Moscow and New York stock exchanges on the returns and volatilities of the Baltic States' stock market indices using a time series model that accounts for asymmetries in the conditional mean and variance functions. LÄS MER
8. The Scandinavian Currency Union 1873-1924 : studies in monetary integration and disintegration
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the history of the Scandinavian Currency Union, 1873-1924. It is divided into four analytical chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of the Union and each written as a separate paper. The conclusions of the thesis challenge existing views of the Union and examines new aspects of this episode in monetary history. LÄS MER
9. Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Microeconomic Adjustments : Wages, Capital, and Labor market Policy
Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Henrik Jordahl) investigates how the degree of central bank conservatism affects the government's incentives to reform the labor market. An increase in conservatism triggers two opposite effects. It reduces the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy and hence the benefits of a reform. LÄS MER
10. Public Policy, Household Finance and the Macroeconomy
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER