'Productivity shocks' presentation slideshows

The Global Financial Crisis: Facts and Lessons for Economists

The Global Financial Crisis: Facts and Lessons for Economists. by Professor Assaf Razin Tel Aviv University and Cornell University . EBA Special Lecture July 6, 2010. Pre - crisis monetary policy thinking. Schools of thought had a remarkable convergence before the 2008 crisis.

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Private and Public Merger Waves

Vojislav Maksimovic, University of MD, Gordon Phillips, University of MD and NBER, Liu Yang, UCLA April 2010. Private and Public Merger Waves. What do we do?. We analyze public and private firm merger waves in US manufacturing using plant-level data. Why:

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CO2 Emissions with Lobbying and Technological Change

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Macroeconomic Schools of Thought

Macroeconomic Schools of Thought . ECON 101: Principles of economics Summer session I Appendix ch 24 + other sources. Philosophical Debates in Economics. Consider a riddle:

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Review of the previous lecture

Review of the previous lecture. Advocates of active monetary and fiscal policy view the economy as inherently unstable and believe policy can be used to offset this inherent instability.

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Motivation

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The Q-Theory of Mergers: International and Cross-Border Evidence by Peter L. Rousseau

The Fifteenth Dubrovnik Economic Conference Organized by the Croatian National Bank. The Q-Theory of Mergers: International and Cross-Border Evidence by Peter L. Rousseau. Discussant : K. Zigic CERGE-EI Prague, Czech Republic . Summary of the Research.

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Theories and Methods of the Business Cycle. Part 1: Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models

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Real Business Cycle Theory

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Real Business Cycle Theory

Real Business Cycle Theory. Theory developed by Edward Prescott and Finn Kydland (Nobel laureates 2004). Real Business Cycle Theory. This theory argues that productivity shocks to the economy are the primary cause of business cycles.

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