Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Idiosyncratic Shocks"”.
-
Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing and International Finance
… strategy to investigate the transmission of shocks - whether through interdependence, contagion, or decoupling - between two asset markets during periods of heightened volatility. The regime-switching model captures co-movements in both the mean and volatility processes of asset returns. The …
-
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 …
-
Essays on aggregate and individual consumption fluctuations
… whose incomes are subject to both aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks. The notable element of the model is that a latent regime-switching stochastic variable governs both the trend growth of the aggregate component and the counter-cyclical variances of the idiosyncratic components in individual …
-
Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania
… as a way to smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic shocks to agricultural income. Using data on agricultural households from the Tanzanian LSMS-ISA National Panel Survey and global commodity price data as a source of plausibly exogenous variation, the sensitivity of wage labor to farm …
-
Essays In Labor Economics
… model features search frictions, aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks, human capital, and an intensive margin. Productivity shocks differ in duration and magnitude, and when hit by an adverse temporary productivity shock, firms can curtail their losses by reducing working hours. Using the …
-
An Assessment of Monetary Integration in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ): Feasibility and Trade Implication
… namely the degree of asymmetry in macroeconomic shocks. The study examines the real effective exchange rate (REER) behaviour among the prospective candidates to assess the degree of potential costs of giving up monetary policy autonomy. The evidence reported from VECM, impulse response and …
-
Learning, dynamics of beliefs, and asset pricing
… across countries. Contagion happens when idiosyncratic shocks are transmitted from one country to another.
-
Essays on Large Panel Data Analysis
… forecast performance, distinguishing common shocks from idiosyncratic shocks, and uncovering the discrepancies in dynamics between aggregate series and disaggregated series. To gain the most from large panel data sets, econometric models should allow all the key characteristics of these rich …
-
Essays on finance and macroeconomics
… first show that in standard models driven by TFP shocks, the balance sheet channel disappears when agents are allowed to write contracts on the aggregate state of the economy. In contrast, I show how uncertainty shocks can drive balance sheet recessions with depressed asset prices and growth, and …
-
Essays on the role of risk and disaster in agricultural development
… how credit responses of farmers differ to an idiosyncratic versus covariate shock, and according to the nature of the loss, in the second study. We find that households that experience idiosyncratic shocks in more than one period increase their credit uptake significantly more than households …
-
Essays on Technology and Trade
… model featuring granular firms subject to idiosyncratic shocks. We show that average wages increase in the size of the local labor market due to that granularity, and provide a sufficient statistic for the contribution of our mechanism. We further prove that too few firms enter in …
-
The Impact of Monetary Policy, Sterilised Forex Intervention, Demand and Supply Shocks on Credit in Uganda
… borrowers can offset the impact of credit supply shocks in both local and foreign denominated currencies loans. However, local banks’ borrowers are unable to offset shocks in local and foreign denominated currencies borrowing. This may indicate that these sectors resort to borrowing from non-bank …
-
Essays on insurance and taxation
… different agents are independent of aggregate shocks. I use this condition to show how to implement Pareto-optima as equilibria when agents can trade claims to consumption contingent on aggregate shocks in financial markets. If aggregate shocks affect individual outputs only, the implementation …
-
Essays on Spatial Economics
… of the gains from the fully optimal response to idiosyncratic local shocks. I conclude by exploring how the US government could have responded to the China trade shock in the 2000s. In the third chapter (joint with Shinnosuke Kikuchi), we ask how does the fact that individual firms dominate labor …
-
Three essays in time series analysis
… 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 financial …
-
Essays in Macroeconomics
… basis. This occurs if firms face uninsurable idiosyncratic risk, adjusting the stock of machines is costly, and workers can be hired and fired quickly enough. Even though labor survives, jobs become less stable, as workers are hired in short-lived bursts to cope with shocks. We calibrate a …