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Three Essays On Growth, Housing Market And Inequality, Shahrzad Ghourchian
Three Essays On Growth, Housing Market And Inequality, Shahrzad Ghourchian
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This dissertation includes three essays on growth, the housing market, and inequality. In the first essay, I analyze the effects of government consumption and government debt on long-run economic growth by considering the economic characteristics of the countries investigated. Linear regressions reveal that government consumption has a much bigger negative impact on long-run growth compared with the negative (and sometimes insignificant) effects of government debt. Nonlinear analyses further show that such effects are highly impacted by the economic characteristics of the countries investigated.
In the second essay, I study time-series fluctuations in the United States housing market from 2010 to …