Ayres Queiroz da Silva, Joao Luiz2017-11-272017-11-272017-08https://hdl.handle.net/11299/191404University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2017. Major: Economics. Advisors: Timothy Kehoe, Manuel Amador. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 118 pages.The three chapters of this dissertation investigate major puzzles in international economics and macroeconomics. Chapter 1 proposes a new measure of knowledge production within corporations and analyzes how the production and flow of knowledge within multinational cor- porations can account for the cross-country correlation in corporate sector GDP fluctuations. Chapter 2 studies how fluctuations in the price of primary commodities can account for fluctua- tions in bilateral real exchange rates between the United States and United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. Finally, Chapter 3 studies the role of firm entry in accounting for the slow recovery in employment following the World Economic Crisis in 2008–2009.enFirm EntryInternational EconomicsKnowledgeMacroeconomicsMeasurementReal Exchange RateThesis or Dissertation