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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"Fragility"”.
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Macroeconomics and financial fragility
This thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 studies the interaction between the ex-ante production of assets and ex-post adverse selection in financial markets. Positive shocks that increase market liquidity and prices exacerbate the production of low-quality assets and can increase the …
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Essays In Financial Fragility And Regulations
This dissertation studies financial fragility caused by coordination failure and discusses plausible regulations to alleviate coordination problems and enhance social welfare. It consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, "Capital Flows in the Financial System and Supply of Credit," I study …
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Living with fragility : children in New Crossroads
Living with Fragility, traces the lives of sixteen African children between 1992 and 1995. It explores the intimate spaces of children's social relationships and charts discontinuities they experienced. The eight girls and eight boys, aged between and sixteen years, resided in New Crossroads, Cape …
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Stock price fragility in an emerging market
This research project examines stock price fragility, a measure developed by Greenwood and Thesmar (2011), which serves as a proxy for non-fundamental risk i.e. it aims to isolate the drivers of stock price volatility beyond traditional fundamental drivers, in particular examining the impact of …
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Seismic fragility of buildings damaged by past earthquakes
Fragility analysis plays an important role in seismic risk assessment. Current fragility models of buildings are mostly focusing on the as-built condition of the structure while ignoring the possibility of having multiple earthquakes during the service life of the structure. However, considering …
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Simulation-based fragility relationships for unreinforced masonry buildings
… there is a pressing need for analytically based fragility curves for URM buildings. In order to improve the estimation of damage state probabilities through the development of simulation-based masonry fragilities, an extensive literature survey is conducted on pushover analysis of URM structures. …
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Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
This dissertation traces the evolution of the U.S. banking system since the 1980s with a specific focus on the role of the relaxation and eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall Act (GSA) on the stability of the financial structure. While the U.S. economy has experienced a number of episodes of …
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Seismic Fragility Assessment for Reinforced Concrete High -Rise Buildings
… and the illustration through an example of the fragility assessment of an existing 54-storey building with a dual core wall system. The set of rigorously derived probabilistic fragilities are the first published for high-rise RC buildings, thus they fill an important void in regional earthquake …
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Clouds of glass: fragility of virtual machine disk images
With virtual machines becoming common, it becomes important for them to be robust to errors. However, the virtual hard disk images used by virtual machines are not as reliable as physical disks. Existing solutions such as RAID can be used to improve reliability, but only at the cost of disk space …
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Complexity and fragility: an assessment of New Zealand trade relations
In the decade 2010-2019, international trade relationships started to show some new patterns with complex and fragile features. These patterns are attributed to various factors, including globally slower demand, greater participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs), and the application of non-tariff …
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Risk factors for bone fragility and fracture in postmenopausal women
… thesis was to evaluate risk factors for bone fragility and fractures in postmenopausal women in a long-term perspective. The study period spanned from the age of 48 to age 82 and is thus unique in its length. The studied sample was homogeneous and consisted of 390 north European women from a …
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South Africa's Paradox: A Case Study of Latent State Fragility
<p>Do existing measures of state fragility measure fragility accurately? Based on commonly used fragility measures, South Africa (SA) is classified as a relatively stable state, yet rising violent crime, high unemployment, endemic poverty, eroding public trust, identity group based preferential …
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Toward Understanding the Nature of Leadership in Alleviating State Fragility
… advice and conditional loans - to alleviate fragility and promote development. Development, however it is defined, involves economic, social and political transformation. Such a transformation is shaped by ideas, engages multiple interests, and proceeds within rules and norms set by political …
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Development of Fragility Curve Database for Multi-Hazard Performance Based Design
… responses of structures subjected to hazard; 2) fragility curves; 3) consequence functions. Fragility curves were critically analyzed to determine the source and the process of development of the curves, but structural analysis results and consequence functions were not critically analyzed due to …
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Seismic Response and Analytical Fragility Functions for Curved Concrete Box-Girder Bridges
… (SRA) of lifeline systems. Thus, seismic fragility curves are essential input to SRA to estimate damage to highway bridges and consequently to the network. The literature review shows shortcomings in fragility studies on the effect of horizontal curvature of bridges, specifically concrete …
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Molecular bases underlying chromosome fragility at Replication Slow Zones in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
… Next, the mechanism underlying chromosome fragility at RSZs was investigated by examining the contribution of various chromosomal processes to break formation at these sites. These include: (i) replication fork restart processes (ii) spindle force, (iii) chromosome condensation and …
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Causes and Consequences of Genetic Robustness and Fragility in HIV-1 Proteins
… that the biological basis for the genetic fragility, or lack of robustness, was principally the need to organize accurate and efficient assembly of mature viral particles. Examination of the CA library mutations in naturally occurring HIV-1 subtype B populations indicated that all mutations …
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Impact of state fragility on capital flows and economic growth in Nigeria
… thesis aims to investigate the impact of state fragility on capital inflows and economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1980-2015. In line with existing studies, it adopts an augmented neoclassical growth model where capital is divided into domestic and foreign capital inflows (FDI, ODA and …
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