Sökning: "budget deficits"

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  1. 1. Interpreting budget deficits and productivity fluctuations

    Författare :Jyry Hokkanen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis includes four self-contained essays on budget deficits and productivity fluctuations:ESSAY I evaluates the effects of budget deficits on several key macroeconomic variables of the Swedish economy by estimating a vector autoregression model. The main finding is that - apart from a positive transitory real interest rate effect associated with a shock in the deficit - neither actual nor unexpected movements in deficits have any significant explanatory power for the determination of real non-fiscal variables. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives

    Författare :Jens Dietrichson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organizations; institutions; coordination; incentives; performance measurement; communication; budget processes; local governments; fiscal performance; bailouts;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained chapters that address issues of how organizations and institutions should be designed in order to provide adequate incentives and enable coordination. The first essay uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two reasons why coordination problems are common when public sector organizations share responsibilities: the incentives to coordinate resource allocation and the difficulties of measuring performance. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Dynamics of the Inflationary Process in Kenya

    Författare :Njuguna S Ndungu; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; inflation; money; exchange rate; interest rate; budget deficits; cointegration; Granger-noncausality; variance decomposi;

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  5. 4. Aspects of Macroeconomic Saving

    Författare :Johan Adler; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Saving; Consumption; Present value model; Capital mobility; Current account; Permanent income hypothesis; Excess sensitivity hypothesis; Tax smoothing hypothesis; Budget policy; Budget deficits; Cointegration; Vector autoregression; Monte Carlo study; Bootstrap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with various aspects of macroeconomic saving. It consists of an introduction and four self-contained papers. Paper I, "From closed to open door policy: An empirical study of China's international capital mobility, 1958-98," is an empirical application of the open economy permanent income hypothesis (PIH). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on the effects of fiscal and monetary policy

    Författare :Jesper Lindé; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contains four essays, which studies the macroeconomic effects of fiscal and monetary policy quantitatively. The first essay investigates whether Swedish postwar business cycles have been generated by domestic or foreign shocks and finds that they are about equally important. LÄS MER