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Title:Essays in macroeconomics and nonlinear dynamics Author(s):ROTTNER, Matthias Christian
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis investigates topics in macroeconomics with nonlinear dynamics as their inherent feature. It aims to further the understanding of the connection between the financial sector and economic fluctuations, challenges ...


Title:Essays on macroeconomic policies and household heterogeneity Author(s):MOTYOVSZKI, Gergo
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: tightening labour market and expanding employment. As households suddenly find themselves closer to the borrowing constraint, the increased precautionary motive drives them to accept lower wages in the bargaining process, ...


Title:Essays in quantitative macroeconomics Author(s):KASE, Hanno
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis consists of three essays in quantitative macroeconomics. In Chapter 1, joint with Leonardo Melosi and Matthias Rottner, we leverage recent developments in machine learning to develop methods to solve and estimate ...


Title:Dispositional optimism (and pessimism) and saving decisions Author(s):GREVENBROCK, Nils
Date:2019Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2019/09Abstract:In this paper I analyze the relationship between dispositional optimism (pessimism) and saving decisions. The key contribution of this paper is the use of direct psychometric measures of psychological dispositions as ...

Title:The long-run effects of uncertainty shocks Author(s):BONCIANI, Dario
; OH, Joonseok
Date:2019Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Bank of England Staff; Working Paper; 2019/802Abstract:This paper argues that shocks increasing macroeconomic uncertainty negatively affect economic activity not only in the short but also in the long run. In a sticky-price DSGE model with endogenous growth through investment ...



Title:The macroeconomics of uncertainty Author(s):OH, Joonseok
Date:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis comprises three essays that analyze how uncertainty affects the macroeconomy. Each essay investigates a particular feature of uncertainty propagation. The first essay studies the effects of uncertainty shocks ...


Title:Essays on fiscal policy and the macroeconomy Author(s):MAYR, Lukas
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The three chapters of this thesis provide a theoretical and quantitative analysis of three elements of the tax-transfer system which recently received increased attention in both the academic and the public policy debate ...

Title:Essays in macroeconomics : confidence, business cycles, and fertility Author(s):LAGERBORG, Andresa
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:. These empirical findings are shown to be consistent with a model in which negative confidence shocks reduce expectations of future technology, prompting consumers to save for wealth and precautionary motives, firms to ...

Title:Essays in macro and labor Author(s):BROGUEIRA DE SOUSA, Joao Carlos
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis contains four chapters that cover topics in macroeconomics and labor,and in theoretical asset pricing. Chapters one, two and three contain theoretical and quantitative work on macro and labor. Chapter one, ...

Title:Essays in sovereign debt and sovereign credit ratings Author(s):GIBERT RIVAS, Anna
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis consists of two chapters regarding the transmission of information in the
sovereign debt market. The first one looks into the signaling role of the choice of debt by the sovereign and the second one focuses ...
