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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Economic cycles"”.
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Essays on Medium-Term Economic Cycles and Real-Financial Linkages
My PhD research studies medium-term economic cycles and real-financial linkages over the medium term under the supervision of Professor Solomos Solomou. The first paper (‘National and International Medium-term Economic Fluctuations since c.1870’) uses wavelet analysis to examine the time-profile of …
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An investigation of the linkage between economic cycles and commercial property cycles, and their impact on the income approach of valuation: case of Windhoek
Studies conducted in other countries shows that economic cycles and commercial property cycles exist, and that a relationship exit between the two cycles. Few research points to the cyclicality of both cycles to have an impact on property valuations. The aim of this study was therefore to establish …
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Corporate Social Performance as a Determinant of Firm Financial Distress: Insights from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… distress in an emerging market context across economic cycles. The significance of this research lies in addressing the gaps in existing literature, which predominantly focuses on mature markets and often overlooks the varying impacts of CSP beyond crisis periods. Using the De la Rey K-score to …
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Growth constraints and external vulnerability in Argentina
… that under this constraint domestic economic cycles depend on external shocks, auto-regressive vectors are used to characterize the short-run impact of these shocks on GDP, trade balance, and real wages. Results confirm that there is a bottleneck in the trade balance that blocks …
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Development of an econometric model for dynamic management of recession risk in equity portfolios : construction of an empirical measure of time-varying recession risk : estimation of cross-sectional differences in recession risk exposure among equities and associated differences in risk premia
Recessions are an inherent part of economic cycles. During the last decade we have experienced two extended periods of significant economic slowdown accompanied by major downturns in most of the asset classes and especially in equities. Investors during recessions suffer from severe losses and …
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Teoria austríaca dos ciclos econômicos: uma síntese teórica sobre as causas e consequências dos ciclos
This study aims to investigate business cycles from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics, revisiting the core foundations of its theory and presenting its most recent updates. Through a comprehensive overview of its historical evolution, methodology, capital theory and its …
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Death, society and social change: the Iron Age of southern Jutland 200 B.C. - 600 A.D.
… societies evolved in a series of social and economic cycles of growth and decline in production and consumption. This has implications for the study of pre-capitalist forms of growth and wealth accumulation and also for our understanding of the fall of the western Roman Empire and the …
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Education and vocational training policies for Not in Educaction, Employment or Training youth in the Mediterranean region of the European Economic Area
… despite substantial cultural, social and economic differences between countries; and (vi) the NEET identity is fluent and constantly evolving, depending more on the phase of the main economic cycles than on any other sociocultural variable.
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Asset liability management throughout macroeconomic cycle in financial institutions
… asset liability management throughout the macroeconomic cycle in financial institutions. There are two important problems in financial institutions. The first is that asset and liability management has significant effects on the financial institution's value. The second is that in different …
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Markov switching and jump diffusion models with applications in mathematical finance
… have particular applicability in the sense of economic cycles—expansion and contraction. As an interesting application, the two-state Markov switching jump diffusion model can be used for modelling insurance surplus with pricing cycles. In this case, the ruin probability is easily obtained.
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From Wilderness to Wonderment: The Presentation of Irish Heritage, Durrow and Glendalough
… as tourism, local and national politics, and economic conditions. Moreover, how heritage is presented has altered significantly over time at these sites. It has been influenced by external factors such as economic cycles, political and even climatic events, while continually being restructured …
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A case study of irrigation water management at Kaudulla irrigation scheme and development of water management alternatives for the dry zone of Sri Lanka
… external to the system, namely the national economic and political environment. The delicate economic status of a majority of the farmers, grassroot level political environment and the economic vicissitudes of the entire country have resulted in the formation of vicious economic cycles that …
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The Vancouver Island brewing industry: 1858 - 1917
… What market factors, such as transportation and economic cycles, shaped and perhaps controlled it? What were the characteristics of the individuals who founded the many breweries? Was the Island industry as technologically advanced as elsewhere? What role did unionism and Prohibition play in the …
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Do fair adjustments influence dividend policy for South African firms?
… these firms, thereby also possibly amplifying economic cycles. A study by Goncharov and Van Triest (2011:59) on Russian firms found that FVA adjustments are persistent in future earnings; however, no empirical evidence was found to support an increase in dividends in response to unrealised FVA …
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An examination of hotel repositioning strategies : three case studies
… room rental characteristics and the timing of economic cycles. A hotel's assets encompass its locational and physical attributes, as well as the business value generated by the hotel's cash flow, which relies heavily on the management's expertise and marketing abilities. When a hotel's image …
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Un Análisis de Business Cycle Accounting para Paraguay
Este trabajo analiza las principales fricciones que afectaron a las fluctuaciones económicas experimentas por Paraguay durante el periodo 1.991 - 2.017, utilizando la metodología de Business Cycle Accounting (BCA) desarrollada por Chari et al (2.007) en la cual las fluctuaciones del producto y de …
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Advertising Photography: Professional Practice as Commercial Creativity
… and the macro effects of global events, economic cycles and technological development. This approach is tested through the case study of the British information and communications technology industry between 1979 and 2009, drawing on and collating the image archives of the industry. …
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The relationship between export performance and global economic performance
… progressed, some countries have focussed their economic policies on increasing exports. In many cases, these exports have been the most significant driver behind the economic success of these nations and the resultant improvement in the welfare of their citizens. This research is needed in order …
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Lean Management: Awareness, Implementation Status, and Need for Implementation Support in Virginia's Wood Industry
… 337) industries have been greatly affected by economic cycles, rising production and transportation costs, changing buyer habits, and, arguably, most powerfully, increasing global competition. As a result, tens of thousands of jobs were lost and a large number of companies in the industry …
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Essays on investment
… value, and momentum premiums and their macroeconomic determinants over the UK economic cycles, using Markov switching approach. We find clear evidence of cyclical variations in the three premiums, most notable in the size premium. Macroeconomic variables prompting such cyclicality the most …
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