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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Demand shocks"”.
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New Perspectives about Financial Intermediation: Disruption by Senior Managers and Financial Technologies
… shadow banks). Using natural disasters as shocks to local mortgage demand, I find different reactions between FinTech and non-FinTech lenders. First, FinTech lenders and traditional banks expand lending after demand shocks, while non-FinTech shadow banks do not. Second, non-FinTech lenders …
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Hedging a Falling Knife: Investing Through the Post Covid-19 Dallas-Fort Worth Housing Correction Utilizing Real Options Strategies
… and inflation characterized the supply and demand shocks that followed Covid-19 and produced a rapid escalation of home prices previously uncharacteristic to DFW fundamentals. This thesis analyzes the impact and sustainability of Covid-19 supply and demand shocks on the DFW housing market …
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Housing demand, regional house prices and consumption
… of growing industries experienced larger housing demand shocks, larger house price increases from 2001-2006 and greater price declines from 2006-2011. Consistent with theory, price effects were stronger in housing-supply inelastic cities. City-level differences in housing demand are also …
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Essays on Insurance Asset-Liability Dynamics
… credit. The first essay examines the impact of demand shocks on the investment decisions of insurers. Insurance companies are among the largest institutional investors, and their decisions have important implications for financial markets. Moreover, insurers' underwriting and investment …
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Labor reallocation, Productivity and Output Volatility in Japan
… the labor input and inventory responses to demand shocks in both the Japanese manufacturing sector as a whole, and the Iron and Steel industry. The main results show that first, demand shocks increased in volatility after 1992 in both the manufacturing sector and the Iron and Steel industry. …
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Essays in real estate and finance
… borrowers. The second chapter shows that housing demand shocks from 2000-2006 are highly correlated the elasticity of housing supply in different regions, and explores the implications of this for research on the effects of housing prices. The third chapter, written with Gregory Howard, proposes a …
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Essays on the economic and financial challenges facing South Africa's commodity sector
… responded to endogenous and exogenous supply and demand shocks by shifting their strategies to both protect their core business activities while also meeting the expectations of stakeholders to improve shared-value outcomes. The third article examines the labor economics dimension by exploring how …
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The spatial clustering of occupations
… cluster in areas where their skills are in high demand. They will be paid less in these areas, ceteris paribus. And demand shocks will affect workers' wages less, and employment more, in areas where their skills are in high demand. I test this mechanism using data from the decennial U.S. Census. …
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Essays on the economics of local labor markets
… chapter studies the incidence of local labor demand shocks. This chapter starts from the observation that low-skill workers are comparatively immobile. When labor demand slumps in a city, college-educated workers tend to relocate whereas non college workers are disproportionately likely to …
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ESSAYS ON ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
… is an analysis of the distributional effects of demand shocks or demand-shifting policies in the context of energy markets and climate policy. The second focuses on the use of remote monitoring technology and its effects on the provision of the local public good of public safety. The third …
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Migration and development in Mexican communities
… stresses the role of remittances in stimulating demand and relaxing credit constraints, while the pessimistic view emphasizes the departure of the economy's skilled and motivated workers. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project and exploiting stickiness in migrants' choice of U.S. …
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Essays on Nonlinearities and Structural Breaks in the Relationships between Macroeconomic Variables
… main finding is that employment now respond to demand shocks in a way that is consistent with just-in-time utilization of labor resources. The second and the third chapter focus on asymmetric responses to fiscal policy. In the second chapter, I investigate the effects of government spending on …
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Capturing Residential Preference Changes through Perception Detections of Rationally Inattentive Decision Makers
… in the context of pandemics and other unexpected demand shocks.
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Applications of Network Analyses to Systemic Risk in Financial Systems and to Macroeconomic Growth and Volatility
… by analysing the impact of sectoral final demand shocks on GDP volatility given the centrality of the sectors. This is compared with the Carvalho-Gabaix-Acemoglu approach of supply side productivity shocks. Both approaches show the growth of the financial sector centrality as a major …
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Essays in capital markets
… risk. In contrast to neutral productivity shocks, the economy needs to invest to realize the benefits of innovations in investment technology. A positive shock to investment technology is followed by a reallocation of resources from consumption to investment, leading to a negative price of …
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Essays in empirical macroeconomics
… of the causes of this suggests that the shocks hitting the economy have been smaller rather than the structure being more stable. A structural decomposition finds that the volatility decline is concentrated in demand shocks and consumption volatility. The decline in consumption volatility …
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ESSAYS ON A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY WITH CROSS-BORDER LABOR MOBILITY
… the responses of optimal fiscal policy to shocks in either the home or the host country. Then, the empirical exercises are performed to determine the motivations behind remittances. More specifically, we test whether remittances come from existing migrants or result from migration when …
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Three Essays on Leverage and the Macroeconomy
… theory to identify monetary policy and leverage shocks. I also use the sign restrictions approach to the identification of a leverage demand shock and examine its effect on the economy. My results show that broker-dealer leverage demand shocks can influence monetary policy decisions and also can …
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