A major contribution of research in workplace literacy has been to explore the part that writing plays in the knowledge-making practices of various professional groups. While such enquiry has revealed that writing is essential to the creation and use of specialized knowledge in the professions, it also points to the need to see writing as part of a larger network of symbolic activity. Researchers have shown that practitioners in certain professions---for example, engineering and architecture---do not produce knowledge solely through the social negotiations of language; rather, acts of writing and reading merge with other symbol-based practices in larger processes of knowledge-making. / A promising area for further research in this regard is the field of economics, where knowledge is constituted through a discourse combining language, mathematics, and visual forms such as graphs. The study reported here examines a particular site of such knowledge-making: the Ottawa head office of the Bank of Canada. Employing an ethnographic methodology that included interviews, informal conversations, on-site observations, reading protocols, tape-recorded meetings, and text analysis, the study examines an ongoing, writing-intensive activity known in the Bank as the "monetary policy process," in which the institution's economists generate knowledge about Present and probable future conditions in the Canadian economy and use this knowledge in formulating and implementing policy. / The central question guiding the study is this: what is the nature of the intellectual collaboration that enables the Bank's economists to transform large amounts of statistical data into focused written knowledge about the Canadian economy and then use this knowledge in making decisions about monetary policy? The study shows that the "monetary policy process" can be viewed as a communal activity in which the economists employ a set of written genres in combination with mathematical models---most importantly, the computer-run Quarterly Projection Model---to carry out their work. The joint, intermeshed use of writing and modelling gives rise to a distinctive pattern of social interaction and a style of collective thinking that allow the economists to produce specialized knowledge about the economy and apply this knowledge to decision-making.

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In the second essay, we analyze the possibility of generating indeterminacy in the monetary models with nominal rigidities under increasing returns to scale technology. We find that in the monetary models with flexible wage (prices can be either flexible or staggered), the minimum degree of returns to scale necessary for local indeterminacy is inversely related to the magnitude of the labor-supply elasticity. This result is consistent with the one obtained in a real model in Benhabib and Farmer (1994), in particular, indeterminacy can only occur under very large labor-supply elasticity. Furthermore, we show that when incorporating nominal wage rigidities, indeterminacy can occur under an empirically plausible labor supply elasticity. However, the role of nominal rigidities for indeterminacy is very sensitive to the degree of capital adjustment costs, but it is robust to the assumptions of timing and the degrees of nominal rigidities. / The first essay discusses about indeterminacy under interest rate policy. We show that, with endogenous investment, virtually all monetary policy rules that set a nominal interest rate in response solely to expected future inflation induce real indeterminacy in models with (i) staggered prices, (ii) staggered prices and staggered wages, and (iii) staggered prices, staggered wages, and firm-specific capital. In (i), policy's response to current output can help significantly in ensuring determinacy with an infinite labor supply elasticity, but little with empirically plausible labor supply elasticity. In (ii), responding to output always helps a great deal, though under low price stickiness and without capital adjustment cost it may call for a moderate response to output in order to ensure determinacy for a wide range of response to inflation. In (iii), even a tiny response to output can always render equilibrium determinate for a wide range of response to inflation. We also find that the policy's response to lagged interest rate further enhances macroeconomic stability, though in many cases some response to output is still essential for ensuring a nonempty determinacy region, and even in the other cases responding to output often remains important in order to ensure determinacy for a wide range of response to inflation. Our results are quantitatively invariant to the presence of habit persistence in consumption. / The third essay studies the stability puzzle (Evans and McGough, 2002): why does indeterminacy almost always imply expectational unstability in RBC models? Following Meng and Yip (2008), we relax the restrictions on the magnitude of capital externalities with Cobb-Douglas technology. We find regions for joint indeterminacy and E-stability (i) when the felicity function is separable in consumption and leisure and there are negative capital externalities; or (ii) when the felicity function is non-separable and the social elasticity of production with respect to capital exceeds one. We further show that with the general utility function, a necessary condition for joint indeterminacy and E-stability is that the labor-demand curve is upward-sloping and steeper than the Frisch labor-supply curve. / This thesis consists of three essays on the issues of monetary policy, indeterminacy and expectational stability (E-stability). / Xue, Jianpo. / Adviser: Qinglai Meng. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2178. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Ch. 1. Factor-augmented VAR analysis of the monetary policy in China -- Ch. 2. The time-varying volatillity of Chinese macroeconomic fluctuations. / Leung, Pak Ho. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / COVER PAGE --- p.1 / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.2 / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.4 / LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --- p.6 / ABSTRACT OF CHAPTER I --- p.9 / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.11 / Chapter 2. --- FEATURES OF POST-CRISIS CHINESE MONETARY POLICY --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1. --- LIBERALIZATION OF CHINA'S MONETARY POLICY IN RECENT YEARS --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2. --- MONETARY POLICY INSTRUMENTS AND TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3. --- EXCHANGE RATE REFORM AND MONETARY POLICY --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4. --- EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY ON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND INFLATION --- p.18 / Chapter 3. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.20 / Chapter 4. --- DATA DESCRIPTION --- p.22 / Chapter 5. --- EMPIRICAL RESULTS --- p.23 / Chapter 5.1 . --- ESTIMATION OF FAVAR WITH REPO RATE AS INSTRUMENT --- p.24 / Chapter 5.2. --- ESTIMATION OF FAVAR WITH BENCHMARK RATE AS INSTRUMENT --- p.25 / Chapter 5.3. --- ESTIMATION OF FAVAR WITH MONETARY FACTOR AS INSTRUMENT --- p.26 / Chapter 5.4. --- ESTIMATION OF FAVAR WITH TOTAL LOAN AS INSTRUMENT --- p.27 / Chapter 5.5. --- ESTIMATION OF FAVAR WITH M2 AS INSTRUMENT --- p.28 / Chapter 5.6. --- POLICY DISCUSSION --- p.29 / Chapter 6. --- CONCLUSIO N --- p.31 / Chapter 7. --- REFERENCE S --- p.32 / Chapter 8. --- APPENDIX --- p.36 / ABSTRACT OF CHAPTER II --- p.60 / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.62 / Chapter 2. --- OVERVIEW OF CHINESE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE --- p.64 / Chapter 2.1. --- VOLATILITY OF THE CHINESE MACROECONOMY --- p.64 / Chapter 2.2. --- TESTS OF PARAMETER STABILITY --- p.66 / Chapter 2.2. --- HYPOTHESIS OF ECONOMIC MODERATION --- p.67 / Chapter 3. --- FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS --- p.69 / Chapter 3.1 --- ESTIMATION FRAMEWORK --- p.70 / Chapter 3.2. --- ESTIMATION RESULTS --- p.72 / Chapter 4. --- VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION ANALYSIS --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1 --- ESTIMATION RESULTS --- p.70 / Chapter 5. --- CONCLUSION --- p.78 / Chapter 6. --- REFERENCES --- p.80 / Chapter 7. --- APPENDIX --- p.84

Poon, Ka Chun Joe. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-72). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Abstract in Chinese --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / List of Tables --- p.viii / List of Figures --- p.ix / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Money and Growth --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- "Social Status, Money, and Growth" --- p.9 / Chapter 3 --- One-Sector Exogenous Growth Model With Cash-In-Advance Constraints --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Basic One-Sector Model --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Optimization --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- Extension 1 - CIA with Investment --- p.19 / Chapter 3.3 --- Extension 2 - Including Separated Social-Status Function --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Simulation --- p.25 / Chapter 3.4 --- Extension 3 - General Utility Function --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Optimization --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Steady State and The Effect of Money Growth --- p.30 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Dynamical System --- p.31 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Simulation --- p.35 / Chapter 3.5 --- Extension 4: General Utility Function and CIA with investment --- p.38 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Optimization --- p.38 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Steady State and The Effect of Money Growth --- p.41 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Dynamical System --- p.42 / Chapter 3.5.4 --- Simulation --- p.47 / Chapter 4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.49 / Chapter 5 --- Appendices --- p.52 / Chapter 5.1 --- Appendix 1 - Detailed Calculation of Basic One-Sector Model --- p.52 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Optimization --- p.52 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Steady State and The Effect of Money Growth --- p.53 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Dynamical System --- p.55 / Chapter 5.2 --- Appendix 2 - Detailed Calculation of Extension 1 - CIA with Investment --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Optimization --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Steady State and The Effect of Money Growth --- p.59 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Dynamical System --- p.60 / Chapter 5.3 --- Appendix 3 - Detailed Calculation of Extension 2 - Including Separated Social-Status Function --- p.63 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Optimization --- p.63 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Steady State and The Effect of Money Growth --- p.64 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Dynamical System --- p.65 / References --- p.68

[by] Robert S. Pindyck. / Bibliography: l. 40-41. / This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant GS-41519.

Wu, Zhouheng. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-46). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.3 / Chapter 3. --- Overview of Key Factors that affect inflation in China --- p.6 / Chapter 3.1 --- Output Growth --- p.6 / Chapter 3.2 --- Money Supply --- p.7 / Chapter 3.3 --- Exchange Rate --- p.7 / Chapter 3.4 --- Wage --- p.8 / Chapter 3.5 --- Other Exogenous Shocks --- p.10 / Chapter 4. --- The Model --- p.11 / Chapter 4.1 --- Households --- p.12 / Chapter 4.2 --- Production Firms --- p.16 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Non-Traded Sector --- p.16 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Traded Sector --- p.19 / Chapter 4.3 --- Import Prices --- p.20 / Chapter 4.4 --- Monetary Policy Rules --- p.21 / Chapter 4.5 --- Domestic and External Shocks --- p.23 / Chapter 4.6 --- Market Clearing Conditions --- p.24 / Chapter 5. --- Calibration --- p.26 / Chapter 5.1 --- Calibration of parameter values --- p.26 / Chapter 5.2 --- Theoretical Impulse Responses and Variance Decomposition --- p.28 / Chapter 6. --- Model Fitness --- p.33 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusion Remarks --- p.35 / References --- p.38 / Appendix / Appendix A Equilibrium Conditions --- p.41 / Appendix B Steady State --- p.43 / Appendix C Simulation --- p.45 / Appendix D Data Description and Empirical Results --- p.56

by Chan Yeung-Ki. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55). / ABSTRACT --- p.1 / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.2 / Chapter I. --- BACKGROUND --- p.3 / Chapter II. --- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.7 / Purchasing Power Parity --- p.7 / Real Exchange Rate --- p.9 / Monetary Approach --- p.12 / Explaining the model --- p.16 / Chapter III. --- APPLICATION --- p.23 / Scenario 1 --- p.39 / Scenario 2 --- p.41 / Chapter IV. --- CONCLUSION --- p.44 / EXHIBIT --- p.47 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.54