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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Financial Shocks"”.
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International Transmission Of U.s. Real, Nominal, And Financial Shocks
… dissertation identifies real, nominal, and financial shocks in the U.S. and observes their effects on U.S. as well as G�macroeconomic variables. First, the real and nominal shocks in the U.S. are identified by using long-run implications of an open economy stochastic macroeconomic model, and …
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An Analysis of Trade Credit and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
… severely affected at the onset of the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis. Motivated by these observations, this thesis studies the role of trade credit for the propagation of financial shocks in a production network and its implications for aggregate and sectoral outcomes. To this end, I introduce a …
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Three essays in time series analysis
… US economy in response to monetary policy and financial shocks, providing some interesting results: (i) Economic activity has the most heterogeneous response across its distribution among the variables under study. The left tail of economic activity is the most responsive to monetary policy and …
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Essays on applied macroeconomics and monetary policy
… First essay explores the existence of global financial cycles and examines the relationship between financial and macroeconomic sectors at a global scale. I find that there exist significant cycles in financial variables and the contribution of the financial shocks on global macroeconomic …
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Over-indebtedness and consequences for well-being
Financial stress is often caused by unexpected circumstances beyond our control for example shocks or changes in the wider political, economic and social environments or at the household level. Households, even those that are income rich or liquidity unconstrained, can be disrupted by unexpected …
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Financial Development And Health Capital Accumulation
… examines the interrelationship between financial development and health capital accumulation. While credit to GDP ratio, liquid liabilities to GDP ratio and market capitalization to GDP ratio are used as the proxies for financial development, health capital is represented by life …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Capital Intermediation Networks
… more relevance in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis. The crisis highlighted the need to think of the economy as a complex network where an idiosyncratic shock may precede aggregate consequences, such as the recent problem in arising from the financial sector and its effect on the …
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Dynamics of agribusiness decision making in Uganda
… conditions, market price fluctuations, and financial shocks, such as hospital bills or school fees. Subject to a high degree of uncertainty, it is difficult for farmers to improve their quality of life through agriculture alone. Agribusinesses--commodity traders in particular-are well …
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Essays in Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics
… a model of international transmission of financial shocks where the country of origin is fundamental to the transmission of the shock. Highly developed countries tend to accumulate larger positions in riskier, but more productive, capital flows, as seen in the data. When a financial shock …
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Essays on Market Conditions and Corporate Investment Decisions
… about firm value, the business cycle, and financial regulations -- affect corporate investment decisions in firms, and the impact of these decisions on corporate performance. In Chapter 1, I document evidence that belief dispersion affects corporate investment allocation. When investors …
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Essays on Strategies for Increasing Repayment Rates of Digital Microloans
… businesses, educate their children and withstand financial shocks. These factors, in turn, can help them to move out of poverty and lead to more sustainable economic development. However, traditional financial institutions have inherent limitations that have impeded their ability to serve the …
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Three papers in international economics and macroeconomics
… choices for the international transmission of shocks. The third chapter considers the importance of geography for the structural estimation of real consumption growth. The first chapter revisits a classic question in international economics: what is the impact of trade on inequality? …
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Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics
… Variables (GIVs) that identify exogenous shocks to cross-border US dollar positions. Our GIVs reflect the unique positions taken by large banks vis-à-vis average banks. We use these instruments to ask: What are the causal effects of international banking flows on the US dollar? How do …
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The Determinants of Non-Performing Loans: Evidence from African Banking Systems
… systems are less vulnerable to adverse macro-financial shocks but rather more exposed to problems originating from the banking sector itself. In the case of the East and West African banking systems, NPLs are driven by banking industry-specific factors in the short-run but not in the long-run. …
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An Exploratory Study of Western Cape Province NonProfit Organisations response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
… Donor fatigue is a concern considering the financial shocks from the external environment and marked by the economic downturn in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study concludes by providing five suggestions for future research, namely, 1) the cost-benefit of rendering services online, 2) …
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An Empirical Analysis of The Effect of the Corporate Governance Framework on UK Banks' Performance: 2007-2021
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/2008, UK taxpayers bailed out banks using billions of pounds. Subsequently, the government-commissioned Walker Report’s (2009) recommendations were subsequently subsumed into the UK Corporate Governance Code (2018). We collectively refer to …
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A small open economy modelling: A Bayesian DSGE approach
… modelling implications (i.e., frictions and shocks) in developing empirically viable small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. The thesis comprises three self-contained chapters on formulating, estimating and evaluating the DSGE models using Bayesian methods and …
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A small open economy modelling: A Bayesian DSGE approach
… modelling implications (i.e., frictions and shocks) in developing empirically viable small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. The thesis comprises three self-contained chapters on formulating, estimating and evaluating the DSGE models using Bayesian methods and …
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Essays in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies and market dynamics
… the uncertainty pertaining to the Global Financial Crisis from the western economies to the, admittedly secluded, GCC stock markets. The first chapter of the thesis lays out key background information related to the economic and financial environment of the GCC economies, necessary to …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets
… shifts in the Beveridge curve, sector-specific shocks and monetary policy. In this joint work with Dmitriy Sergeyev, we document a significant correlation between shifts in the US Beveridge curve in postwar data and periods of elevated sectoral shocks. We provide conditions under which …
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