Essays on Learning and Macroeconomics

Essays in International Macroeconomics

ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS by Xuan Liu Department of Economics Duke University

Essays in International Macroeconomics

Essays on Firm Dynamics and Macroeconomics

Title of Document: ESSAYS ON FIRM DYNAMICS AND MACROECONOMICS Ryan Allen Decker, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Professor John C. Haltiwanger Department of Economics I describe two studies in firm dynamics and macroeconomics. Chapter 1 reports on the large decline in entrepreneurial activity that preceded and accompanied the Great Recession and proposes a model relating this decline to...

Introduction: Seven Decades of the IS-LMModel

For some twenty-five years after the end of World War II, the IS-LM model dominated macroeconomics. With the advent of the new classical macroeconomics in the early 1970s, that dominance was at first challenged and then broken. Yet the IS-LM model lives on. While no longer central to the graduate training of most macroeconomists or to cutting-edge macroeconomic research, the IS-LM model continu...

Using Writing Checklist in Composing Descriptive Essays Among EFL Learners at the Intermediate Level

This study investigated the impact of writing checklist on composing descriptive essays among EFL learners at the intermediate level. Sixty participants were assigned to experimental and control groups. Both groups were given a pre-test of writing a descriptive essay including 150 words. The experimental group used checklist for learning while the control used teacher correcting technique in ea...