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Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU

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Die Universitätsbibliothek (UB) verfügt über ein umfangreiches Archiv an elektronischen Medien, das von Volltextsammlungen über Zeitungsarchive, Wörterbücher und Enzyklopädien bis hin zu ausführlichen Bibliographien und mehr als 1000 Datenbanken reicht. Auf iTunes U stellt die UB unter anderem eine Auswahl an Dissertationen der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden an der LMU bereit.
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Essays on uncertainty and business cycles

The present work contributes to the literature on uncertainty by using empirical methods to measure uncertainty and volatility, and empirical and theoretical methods to analyze two transmission channels through which uncertainty is linked to the business cycle. The first chapter looks into the problem of measuring inflation uncertainty and proposes to use common information contained in a variety of different uncertainty proxies. In the second chapter, we develop measures of firm-specific volati...

Oct 26, 20150

Handling of information in forming expectations

This dissertation addresses two different kinds of agents, professional forecasters and manufacturing firms, and their means of dealing with information in forming expectations. The first two parts evaluate the macroeconomic forecasting performance of component-wise boosting, a variable selection device to deal with high-dimensional data. We find that boosting not only outperforms the autoregressive benchmark in most cases, but that it is also a serious competitor to other state-of-the-art metho...

Nov 05, 20140

Financing and internationalization of R&D intensive firms

Knowledge and knowledge-based value creation processes play an increasing role in modern economies. In the last two decades investments in knowledge have gained importance relative to investments in physical assets. The OECD reports that private and public investments in knowledge as percentage of GDP have increased by 0.7 percentage points in OECD countries during the years 1997-2004. At the same time, investments in physical assets such as machinery and equipment have decreased by 1.1 percenta...

May 14, 20140
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