Almut Balleer, Associate Professor at RWTH University Aachen, kindly acted as opponent.

Matthias' thesis contains four self-contained chapters. The first two chapters analyze and try to understand how households in the U.S. have spent their time, and how they have allocated their expenditures on different types of consumption. In the third chapter, the importance of family background for occupational choice and its implications for intergenerational earnings mobility is studied. The fourth chapter estimates differential effects of monetary policy on output in countries in the euro area and investigates potential explanations for it.

Mattias is now at the National Institute of Economic Research (Konjunkturinstitutet).

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