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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"External shocks"”.
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External shocks, public sector disequilibrium and crowding-out in the Brazilian economy, 1970-1987
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Three essays on the welfare and social impacts of external shocks and public policies in Mexico
In this thesis I examine the welfare and social consequences associated with one economic shock and two policy interventions in Mexico. I use non-experimental approaches that exploit increased data availability as well as in-depth knowledge of the institutional background and show how germane …
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The Impact of External Shocks on Nigeria’s GDP Performance within the Context of the Global Financial Crisis
This research examines the impact of external shocks on Nigeria’s output performance for the period 1981 – 2015. It aims to bring to the fore the importance of considering external shocks during policy design and implementation. The multivariate VAR and VECM frameworks were used to evaluate the …
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Labour Market and Educational Choice Response of Vulnerable Populations to External Shocks: Evidence from London, Denmark, and Tanzania
The first chapter evaluates the impact of the abolition of secondary school fees on enrolment and performances of students in Tanzania. The identification strategy relies on the variation of the intensity of the policy at the district level to estimate a causal impact. Free secondary education is …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… advanced and emerging small open economies to external shocks has attracted significant attention. Among these types of shocks, three shocks emanating from sudden movements of exchange rates, financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… advanced and emerging small open economies to external shocks has attracted significant attention. Among these types of shocks, three shocks emanating from sudden movements of exchange rates, financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of …
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Extreme Value Theory with an Application to Bank Failures through Contagion
This study attempts to quantify the shocks to a banking network and analyze the transfer of shocks through the network. We consider two sources of shocks: external shocks due to market and macroeconomic factors which impact the entire banking system, and idiosyncratic shocks due to failure of a …
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Optimum currency areas in the sub Sahara region : examining eligibility of the east African community for a monetary union
… structural responses of the block’s economies to external shocks. Under that process, the restrictions helps to isolate short run structural responses from long run responses. Under this procedure, all time series requirements are considered.The fourth chapter measures the volatility levels of the …
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Examination of the effects of macroeconomic shocks on the Namibian economy
… which investigated the effects of macroeconomic shocks on the Namibian economy between 1980 and 2018. Firstly, the study estimated the dynamic effects of fiscal policy shocks through the SVAR approach. IRFs results reveal that a positive spending shock immediately increases output and interest …
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Industrial policy, economic growth and unemployment in the wake of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis: The Zambian perspective
… in shielding the country from exogenous shocks and creating sustainable employment opportunities. This provides a unique perspective by evaluating policy responses to external shocks while monitoring the key economic variables highlighted. It draws from conceptual ideas and previous …
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Essays in international finance
… from a desire to prevent non-fundamental shocks in foreign exchange markets affecting the real economy, the chapter shows that floating exchange rates can still be optimal in such an environment. It further argues that floating exchange rates should become more prevalent as emerging …
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Essays on exchange rates and electricity demand
… on the adjustment of a small open economy to external shocks of imported intermediate input prices. The results of this examination add to the existing evidence of the relative merits of a currency board versus a flexible exchange rate. My main finding is that when nominal rigidity exists and …
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Export Credit Guarantees: Information Evaluation, Valuation, and Portfolio Management
… sensitivity to potential policy changes and external shocks is examined. The results quantify the impacts of changes in activity level, coverage, and other terms.
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Intercultural Perspectives on Managing Organizational Change in Response to Government Policy Reform: A Case Study on the Leadership of New Oriental Education
… for guiding organizational change under external shocks and examined how the interplay between Chinese and Western leadership philosophies shapes leaders’ strategies for change management. The study employed a mixed-method parallel convergent design as a case study methodology, comprising …
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Essays on Capital Flows and Macroprudential Regulation
… as volatile and are easily influenced by external shocks. For example, the recent sharp normalization of monetary policy in the U.S. could result in emerging markets experiencing capital flight and domestic exchange rate depreciations. Sharp exchange rate depreciations increase the cost of …
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The global governance of trade in agriculture: the role of tariff and non-tariff measures illustrated with an example of agricultural exports from South Africa to the EU
… conflict and inherently vulnerable to shocks and insecurities in the past and present. Accordingly, nation-states view respective domesticagricultural sectors as an exception, which meritsprotectionism and which needs protection from the rigors of free market forces and international …
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Understanding social amplification of risk : possible impact of an avian flu pandemic
… expect organizations to be able to endure external shocks. Hence, the real potential of an avian flu pandemic has many corporations developing business continuity plans for the disruptions that a pandemic may cause. For the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry, the major concerns of a …
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Growth constraints and external vulnerability in Argentina
… 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 future growth possibilities, …
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Essays on Capital Structure and Ownership Structure
… the moderating roles of ownership structure and external shocks such as COVID-19 and natural disasters. Using property-level panel data of REITs, I find a consistent diversification discount, whereby REITs with greater property type diversification are associated with lower firm value. This …
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Exportações paraibanas e o perfil das empresas exportadoras entre o período de 2000 a 2013
… observed period proved to be very sensitive to external shocks given the dependence of some trading partners. The main export sectors are textiles, sugarcane, shoes, sisal and mining. We notice also that many businesses have closed, others reduced the exporter pace due to low government …
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