Essays in Quantitative Macroeconomics

In the first essay, Distortions in the Neoclassical Growth Model: A Cross Country Analysis, I show that shocks that express themselves as total factor productivity and labor income taxes are comparably more synchronized than shocks that resemble distortions to the ability of allocating resources acr...

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Main Author: Brinca, Pedro Soares
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2013
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