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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Business cycles"”.
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Consumer confidence and business cycles : a casy study for the Netherlands : are business cycles driven by animal spirits?
… of a consumer confidence index in forecasting business cycles in the Netherlands. Furthermore, the possible heterogeneity regarding the information content of individual questions is addressed, and it is investigated whether this information can be attributed to the information view or to the …
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Essays on International Trade and Business Cycles
… investigates how international trade and business cycles vary with characteristics of industries. The first chapter documents cost side industry heterogeneity across narrowly defined industries. The second and third chapters study the short run (international business cycle) and long run …
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Endogenous business cycles : some theory and evidence
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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A Re-Examination Of Money And Business Cycles
<p>In the last several years, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have become the predominant tool of modern macroeconomics and, in particular, monetary policy research. Generally speaking, the basic New Keynesian model is the standard framework for analysis. This framework uses …
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Fiscal Policy, Default and Emerging Market Business Cycles
Developing country fiscal policy outcomes documented in data point to stark differences compared with developed ones. Most prominent difference is the excessive volatility of government consumption and transfer payments and their positive correlation relative to output. This seemingly non-optimal …
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Essays on self-fulfilling expectations and business cycles
This thesis studies the self-fulfilling business cycles in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial market frictions. It consists of three papers. The first paper uncovers a series of belief shocks (a.k.a animal spirits) that drive the U.S. economy from both financial markets …
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How have world shocks affected the business cycles of Africa's frontier economies?
This paper builds on earlier work in business cycle theory, particularly in the growth cycle tradition of (Lucas, 1976), to analyse business cycles in Africa's Frontier Market Economies (FMEs), which include the following countries: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, …
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The effects of business cycles on capital supplier productivity and technological capability
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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The Restaurant Industry: Business Cycles, Strategic Financial Practices, Economic Indicators, and Forecasting
… this study developed the restaurant industry business cycle models and examined financial practices of the high and low performing firms over the industry cycles. The U.S. restaurant industry demonstrated three cycles (peak to peak or trough to trough) for the period of 1970 through 1998. The …
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Developing Country Business Cycles: Characterizing the Cycle and Investigating the Output Persistence Problem
Identifying business cycle stylised facts is essential as these often form the basis for the construction and validation of theoretical business cycle models. Furthermore, understanding the cyclical patterns in economic activity, and their causes, is important to the decisions of both policymakers …
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The sectoral analysis of business cycles: the role of aggregate and disaggregate shocks
… to the analysis of disaggregate and aggregate business cycles. The motivation for the study comes from the need to assess whether shocks which initially affect specific sectors can induce aggregate output fluctuations. This can occur not only because aggregate output is the sum of sectoral …
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Business cycles and the optimum exchange rate of a small open economy : the case of Bahrain
… time series techniques to investigate Bahraini business cycles and the optimality of Bahrain's exchange rate arrangements. To do so it is necessary to disaggregate the annual series of GDP, non-oil GDP, government expenditure, GDP deflator and non-oil GDP deflator into quarterly observations. …
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Are MBAs and Master's Degrees Worth It? A Discussion of Wages, Job Security and Business Cycles
<p>Since the 1970s, recessions have become more frequent and severe, causing major changes to the labor market and the importance of education. This study focuses on the problems for employees with master's degrees and MBAs, and asks three questions: 1) Do employees with graduate degrees have …
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Business cycles, interest rates and market volatility : estimation and forecasting using DSGE macroeconomic models under partial information
Even long before the recent financial and economic crisis of 2007/2008 economists were more than aware of the insufficiencies and a lack of realism in macroeconomic modelling and model calibration methods, including those with DSGE methods and models, and spelled the need for further enhancements. …
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The Heterogeneity of Consumer Behavior: Analyzing Entertainment Expenditures in Relation to Lifecycles, Business Cycles and Demographic Influences
… elasticity of entertainment expenditure during business cycles, particularly focusing on the impact of the Great Recession and comparing low- and high-income US households. Using panel regression models with household and time fixed effects for years 2005-2010, the findings reveal heterogeneous …
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The role of political business cycles (PBCs) and its influence on the credit rating action that countries receive: A BRICS perspective
Existing empirical literature on political business cycles focused primarily on developed economies before it began considering a basket of both developed and developing economies. This study seeks to expand the existing literature by pursuing two objectives using Brazil, Russia, India, China and …
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China's Business Cycle and Monetary Policy
… economy. I mainly focus on China's business cycles and monetary policy after 1978 in this paper.</p> <p>I use GDP growth to measure the Chinese business cycle. Instead of the level of GDP, the business cycles in the thesis I am talking about are ups and downs in the rate of …
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Nonlinear Markov switching analysis of economic and stock market dynamics for emerging market economies
… economies to characterize the dynamics of their business and stock market cycles, the dynamic relationships between these cyclical interactions, and how different or similar the business cycles are among individual emerging market economies as well as between emerging markets and advanced …
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‘Less sugar and more sales' - the effects of in-store marketing of diet products during economic expansion and contraction cycles in an emerging market
… marketing mix according to different economic business cycles (expansion and recession), which often change in emerging markets. This study aims to identify the effectiveness of marketing mix elements – such as price, distribution, promotion communication, and promotion exhibition – for diet …
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Empirical Evaluation of DSGE Models for Emerging Countries
… investigates the hypothesis that a real business cycles model driven by permanent and transitory productivity shocks can explain well observed business-cycle fluctuations in emerging countries. The model is estimated using more than a century of Argentine data. </p><p>In Chapter 2, a …
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