Title:Uncertainty, expectations, and the business cycle
Author(s):LANG, Jan HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis adds to the recent quantitative literature that considers variations in uncertainty as impulses driving the business cycle. In chapter one a flexible partial equilibrium model that features heterogeneous firms, ...
Title:Understanding Individuals' Beliefs
Author(s):GRANADOS ZAMBRANO, PaulinaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:We live in a world surrounded by uncertainty and within this uncertainty human beings have to decide every action, every turn of life. When individuals take decisions the true value of parameters relevant for that decision ...
Title:Urban Growth Across Three Continents: The Blessing of Human Capital and the Curse of Volatility
Author(s):POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation is concerned with the empirical determinants of urban growth in developed countries, and the effects of macroeconomic volatility in less developed countries, on urbanization and long run income growth. ...