Essays in macroeconomics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation in macroeconomics comprises three chapters. In the first chapter, ``The Macro Impact of Short-Termism, '' I study a pervasive tradeoff between the short-term and long-term performance of firms. In the United States, long-term investment, like R& D, must be expensed from short-term earnings figures. Therefore benchmarks for short-term performance, such as analyst earnings forecasts, may cause managers to underinvest in the long term. The second chapter, ``Alternative Methods for Solving Heterogeneous Firm Models, '' compares four algorithms for the solution of a canonical neoclassical heterogeneous firms model with fixed capital adjustment costs and firm-level productivity shocks. Trade between low-cost, low-wage countries like China and the developed world has increased substantially in recent decades. Recent empirical research suggests that firms exposed to this liberalization engage in more innovation. In a third chapter entitled ``Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth, '' which is joint work with Nick Bloom, Paul M. Romer, and John Van Reenen, we build a product-cycle model of growth and trade which seeks to both rationalize this micro-level response of firm innovation to low-cost competition as well as quantify the dynamic or growth based gains from trade liberalization.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Terry, Stephen J |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
| Primary advisor | Bloom, Nick, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Bloom, Nick, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Hall, Robert |
| Thesis advisor | Klenow, Peter J |
| Thesis advisor | Piazzesi, Monika |
| Advisor | Hall, Robert |
| Advisor | Klenow, Peter J |
| Advisor | Piazzesi, Monika |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Stephen J. Terry. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2015 by Stephen James Terry
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