Sökning: "interest rate spread"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden interest rate spread.
1. A Non-Stationary perspective on the European and Swedish Business Cycle
Sammanfattning : Business cycles, the ups and downs observed somewhat simultaneously in numerous macroeconomic variables in an economy and often measured using real GDP, are important and, despite much economic research, still incom- pletely understood. Dating the business cycle has always been of interest in macroeconomic research. LÄS MER
2. Unconventional Monetary Policy at the International, National and Local Level
Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on four essays. The first investigates time-variation in the relationship between short interest rates and consumption in the USA and Sweden. Results based on Bayesian VAR models indicate that the short rate ceased to respond to consumption shocks when constrained by the zero lower bound. LÄS MER
3. Medical Device Innovation : The integrated processes of invention, diffusion and deployment
Sammanfattning : An increased use of medical devices has been assumed to be a major cause of rising healthcare expenditures. Nations around the world are trying to keep costs down, but strong incentives still exist for the development and use of new devices. Innovation is, however, never exclusively good or bad and it is not easy to evaluate the net effect. LÄS MER
4. The Macroeconomics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers, summarized as follows. "The Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism" This paper provides empirical evidence that the term structure of interest rates is an integral part of the monetary transmission mechanism. LÄS MER
5. Expectations, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy
Sammanfattning : Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Regulations. We investigate the desirability of macroprudential regulations in a DSGE model with collateral and income borrowing constraints. LÄS MER