Thesis (M.C.M.) -- Lincoln University, 2009. / Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (master's)--Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 1989. / Abstracts in English and French. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-117).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Clark University, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-179).

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2004.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2006.

Diss. Univ. Rotterdam, 2001.

Thesis (gradué en sciences économiques pures et appliquées)--Université de Kinshasa, 1989. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57).

Cette thèse regroupe un ensemble de quatre articles analysant la conduite de la politique monétaire dans les économies émergentes qui ont adopté un régime de ciblage d'inflation. La première partie de ce travail est basée sur une approche positive, qui s'appuie sur l'expérience des 19 économies qui se sont dotées de ce cadre institutionnel. Nous examinons quel régime de change ces économies ont choisi, ainsi que les déterminants de leur choix. Ainsi, un premier chapitre propose une nouvelle méthode de classification des régimes de change par l'estimation de mixtures de Gaussienne, alors qu'un second chapitre privilégie l'économétrie de panel pour analyser les déterminants des régimes observés. Puis, dans une démarche normative, nous analysons dans la seconde partie de cette thèse comment définir la politique monétaire optimale. Notre approche s'appuie alors sur la modélisation d'équilibre général dynamique et stochastique. Nous étudions quelle politique doit être menée par les autorités monétaires d'économies émergentes confrontées à des chocs sur le prix des matières premières et alimentaires, et à des inégalités d'accès au crédit. / This PhD dissertation is made of four papers on central banking in inflation-targeting emerging economies. The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to two empirical works, based on the experiences of the 19 emerging economies that have adopted an inflation-targeting framework. I examine what exchange rate arrangement these economies are implementing together with the inflation targeting strategy, and what can explain their choice. ln the first chapter, I propose a new method to build up taxonomies of exchange-rate regimes. My approach is based on Gaussian mixture estimates. ln the second chapter, the choices for exchange-rate arrangements are explained though panel econometrics analysis. The second part of the dissertation is about the theory of optimal monetary policy. ln the first chapter, I propose an original dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to study what should monetary policy do when food price hikes, in a small open emerging economy. ln the last chapter, a similar modeling approach is used to analysis how credit constraints impact monetary policy in financially venerable emerging economies.

This PhD dissertation research primarily aims to empirically investigate into two financial topics using annual and monthly data sets of market-capitalization based size portfolio returns from the US stock market for the period 1925 to 2012. Using size-based portfolio returns is a pioneering effort for both topics. The first empirical research using annual data is on short and long horizon stock return predictability using three widely selected ratios in terms of price-output, price-earnings and price-dividend. Using univariate and multivariate predictive regressions for horizons from one year to fifteen years for the full sample and three different sub-samples for comparison reasons with the previous research using aggregate stock market data, it is reported that both short and long horizon return predictability exists albeit with different predictive ability for different horizons. Among the three selected ratios, overall the price-output ratio is empirically favoured as a superior predictor of stock returns. The empirical findings refer to that this is robust across the three sub-samples investigated. It is empirically shown that size significantly matters in terms of return predictability. The second empirical research using monthly data is on the analysis of impact of macroeconomic volatility in terms of inflation and industrial production growth on asymmetric time-varying volatility of stock returns. Using a two-stage econometric methodology, first, based on estimation of asymmetric conditional volatilities of stock returns and macroeconomic variables, and then employing a vector autoregression methodology; it is reported that volatility of size-based portfolio returns are, in general, not significantly dependent on macroeconomic volatility. It is also shown that stock return volatility is more responsive to its own previous shocks as shown by the variance decomposition. It is also found that size does not matter in this specific case.

This dissertation thesis examines the divergence of perceived inflation, measured by the EU Consumer Surveys, and officially measured inflation after the introduction of cash euro in several eurozone countries. Two groups of countries are tested in the thesis -- countries accepting the euro in 2002 and countries providing the changeover in later years. The main goal of the thesis is to test cross-country differences between officially measured and perceived inflation with respect to economic, social and cultural specifics of the countries in the eurozone, while main focus is given to examining the differences between the above-mentioned two groups of countries. The results obtained could help to derive policy conclusions for the other EU countries which have not yet accepted the common currency.