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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Exogenous Shocks"”.
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Exchange rate policy and the responses to exogenous shocks : the case of Botswana : 1976-1994
… to find out how Botswana has responded to exogenous shocks and whether such responses could be used in the future when shocks recur. The paper contends that Botswana's record in responding to shocks has been impressive. This is not to say that previous policy actions in response to shocks …
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Essays in open economy macroeconomics
… the nature of wealth dynamics in the presence of exogenous shocks. The third chapter extends the model of the second chapter to the case where assets are imperfectly substitutable and once again investigates the model's response to exogenous shocks. In particular, the differences that arise from …
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The Oak or the Reed: Digital Platforms and Organisational Resilience
Exogenous shocks create uncertainty that might negatively impact business activities. These shocks are sudden changes happening in the environment, such as pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and new regulations that impact business operations. When a shock occurs, organisations with a …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Bias in the Financial Market
… We further use the U.S.-China trade war as an exogenous shock to the measure of journalist surname favorability and show that news articles released by journalists with Chinese-origin surnames elicit weaker market reactions during the trade war period. Finally, we find that the stock price …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Bias in the Financial Market
… We further use the U.S.-China trade war as an exogenous shock to the measure of journalist surname favorability and show that news articles released by journalists with Chinese-origin surnames elicit weaker market reactions during the trade war period. Finally, we find that the stock price …
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Essays on factors affecting physician treatment decisions and treatment access.
… and Florida, we analyze the impact of three exogenous shocks on physician treatment decisions and treatment access. Across all analyses, a difference-in-difference or triple difference framework is utilized to assess these impacts. This analysis provides insight into the types of policies …
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Strategic identities amid institutional complexity: A multi-level analysis of values and temporality in organizational contexts
… relative salience is altered by compounding exogenous shocks. Collectively, these studies extend our understanding of how organizations strategically navigate value and temporal challenges amid institutional complexity. Chapter 2 explores how increasing funding of climate technologies during …
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Enhancing resilience in South African small and medium enterprises: a dynamic capabilities perspective
… The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, as an exogenous shock, exacerbated the challenges small enterprises face. It further heightened transaction costs, introduced additional operational constraints, and underscored the urgency of examining their resilience. The aim of the study is to …
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The Role of Foreign Patents in US Firms’ Patent Portfolios
… foreign sales to total sales. Besides, I exploit exogenous shocks to foreign sales (free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties) to identify the effect of foreign sales on the propensity to foreign patent. I find firms with a larger percentage of foreign sales have a higher propensity …
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Dynamic responsiveness in the American states : legislators, constituents, and organized interests
… the 2012 redistricting cycle, inducing large, exogenous shocks to the composition and policy preferences of many districts. The first paper of the dissertation assesses repositioning among members of the state legislature. Did they respond when redistricting led to changes in the policy …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… exits of legislators from the U.S. Congress as exogenous shocks to politically connected firms' political capital, I find that losing a political connection induces a firm to increase its capital expenditure, R&D investment, and patent production. Surprise losses of political capital result in …
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Impetus, Options and Consequences for Sugar Policy Reform in the United States
… alternative policy scenarios and potential exogenous shocks which could impact the US sugar sector. Using the USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners model, we illustrate the outcome of this matrix of policies and exogenous shocks to the biggest players in the North American sugar sector. Policies …
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Inequality, Migrations, and Black Swans: The Case of Italy
… internal and international mobility, and exogenous shocks interact with each other. With a focus on Italy, I provide an important contribution to existing literature on migration and inequality, through a comparative analysis at the subnational level. This characteristic of my work …
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Analysts' Private Connections
… coverage terminations of connected peers as exogenous shocks to private connections, I find decreases in analyst forecast accuracy of the recipient analyst following coverage terminations of mutually covered stocks by connected peers due to permanent employment terminations of connected …
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Endogenous Shocks in the New Keynesian Model
… devoted considerable attention to endogenous shocks to the Phillips curve. One reason for such scrutiny is their ability to generate a meaningful tradeoff between inflation and the output gap without resorting to ad hoc exogenous shocks. Chapter 1 surveys three mechanisms that give rise to …
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Essays on Corporate Governance
… public family-controlled firms. We use staggered exogenous shocks to the information environment to test whether family control influences corporate disclosure. After an exogenous decrease in the information environment, we find that family firms provide greater, more informative, and more rapidly …
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The Political Economy of the European Bank Coordination (Vienna) Initiative
… Initiative result from the interaction among exogenous shocks, endogenous institutional design, and cognitive mechanisms across the regime’s different phases of development. 4. What was the Vienna Initiative's impact on the CESEE's financial system? H4: The Vienna Initiative had a significant …
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Litigation Risk and the Optimism in Long-horizon Management Forecasts of Bad News and Good News
… as a natural setting to demonstrate how arguably exogenous shocks amplify this effect. It appears that litigation risk in the pre-RegFD period is not sufficient to affect management forecasting behavior, and my findings only exist in the post-RegFD period. Last, I present evidence that is …
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An assessment of the role of real exchange rate on economic growth in South Africa (1994-2015)
… forecasting error variance is explained by the exogenous shocks to other variables. VECM results showed a positive role exchange rates play on economic growth in South Africa. The study’s implication is that currency devaluation (exchange rates depreciation) can be effective in improving …
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