The Impact of the U.S. and Mexican Monetary Policy on Mexican GDP and Prices

• Thesis title in English: The Impact of the U.S. and Mexican Monetary Policy on Mexican GDP and Prices
• English key words: NAFTA, monetary policy, impulse responses, vector auto-regression, variance decomposition
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2013/2014
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Supervisor: prof. Roman Horváth, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 16.06.2014
• Date of assignment: 16.06.2014
• Date and time of defence: 23.09.2015 00:00
• Venue of defence: IES
• Date of electronic submission: 30.07.2015
• Date of proceeded defence: 23.09.2015
• Opponents: doc. Petr Janský, M.Sc., Ph.D.

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