Theses - Dept. of Economics

Three essays in international trade and uncertainty

Baldwin, Richard E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Three essays in economics

Furukawa, Chishio. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)

This thesis consists of three essays on diverse topics but shared emphasis on statistical models with theory and empirics. The first and third essay examines the role of cognitive limitations in understanding biases in ...
Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy

Petri Castro, Mikel. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)

This thesis consists of three chapters about macroeconomic policy. In the first chapter, I study the empirical relationship between nominal rigidities and the real effects of monetary policy. Nominal rigidities lie at the ...