Elections and Macroeconomic Policy Cycles

Elections and Macroeconomic Policy Cycles

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Robustness and Macroeconomic Policy

This paper considers the design of macroeconomic policies in the face of uncertainty. In recent years, several economists have advocated that when policymakers are uncertain about the environment they face and find it difficult to assign precise probabilities to the alternative scenarios that may characterize this environment, they should design policies to be robust in the sense that they mini...

Macroeconomic Policy and Performance

Essays on Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS ON MACROECONOMIC TRENDS AND CYCLES Yiqun Chen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor S. Borağan Aruoba Professor L. Luminita Stevens Department of Economics This dissertation describes two studies on macroeconomic trends and cycles. The first chapter studies the impact of Information Technology (IT) on the U.S. labor market. Over the past 3...

Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy *

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