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Title:Voicing outrage, contending with austerity : mobilisation in Spain under the Great Recession Author(s):PORTOS GARCÍA, Martín
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis deals with the Spanish cycle of protest in the shadow of the Great Recession. It has a twofold aspiration. On the one hand, from a process-based approach, it seeks to unravel the timing of the cycle of contention ...

Title:Essays in applied macroeconomics Author(s):GAZZANI, Andrea Giovanni
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: frequency and study the responses of the macroeconomic aggregates in a second stage. Our analytical, simulation and empirical results show that the Bridge Proxy-SVAR significantly mitigates temporal aggregation biases and ...

Title:Essays in international macroeconomics Author(s):VICONDOA, Alejandro
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract: of shocks as a proxy for the corresponding structural shock in lower frequency VARs. The Bridge Proxy-SVAR generalizes the applicability of the Proxy-SVAR and significantly mitigates temporal aggregation biases. The fourth ...

Title:Government alternation in Western Europe : a comparative exploration Author(s):VALBRUZZI, Marco
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:In the last thirty years, alternation in government has become a common practice in Western Europe. Unfortunately, democratic theories and theorists have hitherto mostly neglected or taken for granted this crucial phenomenon ...

Title:Monetary, fiscal and oil shocks : evidence based on mixed frequency structural FAVARs Author(s):MARCELLINO, Massimiliano
; SIVEC, VasjaDate:2016Type:ArticleAbstract:Large scale factor models have been often adopted both for forecasting and to identify structural shocks and their transmission mechanism. Mixed frequency factor models have been also used in a reduced form context, but ...

Title:Macroeconomic applications with factor models Author(s):SIVEC, VasjaDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis utilizes factor models to test the predictions of macroeconomic theory and introduces a new model for estimating structural relations in the economy. Factor models have proven useful in overcoming limited ...
Title:Mixed frequency structural VARs Author(s):FORONI, Claudia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Norges Bank Working Paper; 2014/01Abstract:, the use of mixed frequency data, combined with a proper estimation approach, can alleviate the temporal aggregation bias, mitigate the identification issues, and yield more reliable responses to shocks. The problems and ...

Title:EuroMInd-C : a disaggregate monthly indicator of economic activity for the Euro Author(s):GRASSI, Stefano; PROIETTI, Tommaso; FRALE, Cecilia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano
; MAZZI, GianluigiDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CEIS Tor Vergata Research Paper Series; 2013/287Abstract: is crucial to estimate a large scale parametric factor model of the dimension considered in our application (considering about 170 series). To achieve it we apply state of the art state space methods that can handle ...

Title:A survey of econometric methods for mixed-frequency data Author(s):FORONI, Claudia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano
Date:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2013/02Abstract:The development of models for variables sampled at different frequencies has attracted substantial interest in the recent econometric literature. In this paper we provide an overview of the most common techniques, including ...

Title:Granger-Causal Analysis of Conditional Mean and Volatility Models Author(s):WOŹNIAK, TomaszDate:2012Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2012
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:Recent economic developments have shown the importance of spillover and contagion effects in financial markets as well as in macroeconomic reality. Such effects are not limited to relations between the levels of variables ...