• Essays on financial sector and optimal monetary policy 

    Wang, Ting (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The 2007-2009 economic events have renewed interests in the relationship between the financial sector and the macroeconomy and suggested that shocks ...
  • Household finance, housing, and monetary policy 

    Joo, So Hyun (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
    Household finance has been known to be a challenging research area in economics due to difficulties in measuring household behavior and the numerous unpredictable conditions each household faces, such as borrowing constraints ...
  • Sector-specific surprise and news shocks / 

    Baek, Ingul, 1981- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    I estimate the decomposition of total factor productivity (TFP) shocks by two sectors: (a) investment and (b) consumption. I also identify sectoral shocks by the timing of shocks realization, surprise shocks (unanticipated) ...
  • Three essays on bayesian analysis of nonlinear DSGE models 

    Noh, Sanha (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    The 2008 financial crisis has highlighted the importance of nonlinear features of our economy including risks, uncertainty shocks, rare disasters, structural changes, zero-lower bound, and occasionally binding constraints. ...
  • Three essays on monetary and financial economics 

    Cao, Xueli (Ph.D. in Economics) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This three-chapter dissertation focuses on the research topics in Monetary and Financial Economics. The first paper examines the time-varying impact ...
  • Three essays on the relationship between reputation and leverage : a Bayesian perspective 

    Ganguli, Sumitrra (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In markets involving repeated interactions between a principal and an agent, (labor markets, credit market, goods market) agency problems are further ...