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Interaction of Curved Shocks
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Essays On The Effects Of Oil Price Shocks And Monetary Shocks On Labor Reallocation
… effects associated with oil and monetary shocks on the economy has revived interest in analyzing the channels of transmission that generate asymmetries in the response of economic activity to these shocks. This dissertation examines the role of the allocative channel in the transmission …
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Agricultural practices, price shocks, and weather shocks- impact on household food security: Empirical evidence from Malawi
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Commodity price shocks and international finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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The fiscal response to oil shocks
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Maize prices, trade and climate shocks - do trade policies mitigate the effects of climate shocks on maize prices?
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Ionization of air produced by strong shocks
"This dissertation provides theoretical predictions along with experimental results for electron concentrations behind a shock as a function of Mach number over a range from 11 to 20 using a combustion driven shock tube operating in air. These theoretical predictions represent an upper bound for …
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Optimal Monetary Policy and Oil Price Shocks
… monetary policy in the presence of oil price shocks. The second chapter is devoted to studying different approaches to modeling energy demand. </p><p>In an influential paper, Bernanke, Gertler, and Watson (1997) and (2004) argue that systematic monetary policy exacerbated the recessions the …
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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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Finite amplitude resonant acoustic waves without shocks
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1995.
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Housing Dynamics in the Face of Shocks
… explores housing dynamics in the context of shocks and understanding its impact on the housing sector, the well-being of communities, and the development of its citizens. It investigates the localized effect of extreme weather events on communities and individuals, the repercussions of the …
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Three essays on weather shocks, nutrition and forests
Climate-related shocks, such as droughts and floods, can have particularly harmful effects for poor rural households in developing countries. In this dissertation, I determine how forests affect a household's ability to cope with shocks, estimate how agricultural input use changes after shocks, and …
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Liquidity Shocks and the Demand for Pawn Loans
… paper studies the effect of positive liquidity shocks on pawn loan utilization. We uncover a statistically significant 67% decrease in pawn loan utilization in the week following receipt of ESP checks. However, in the year following receipt of the ESP via check or direct deposit, a statistically …
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ESSAYS ON CONSEQUENCES AND RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC SHOCKS
… that study the consequences of income or price shocks on important economic dimensions of villages, households, and individuals, and how they respond to these shocks. The first chapter investigates whether local governments respond to local economic shocks. I use heterogeneity in the effects of …
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Microeconomic implications of trade shocks in developing countries
… responses to trade and local labor market shocks in developing countries. The first chapter studies the effect of a trade-induced negative shock to manufacturing employment on leading causes of mortality in Mexico between 1998 and 2013. I exploit cross-municipality variation in trade …
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Agricultural productivity and climate shocks in developing countries
… to reduce and temper the effects of these shocks by investing in infrastructure, in the development of markets and favoring the adoption of new production practices. The overall goal of this thesis is to understand how weather shocks affect agricultural productivity and how adaptation and …
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Regional Resilience: Are recessionary shocks persistent or transitory?
… resulting from unprecedented economic shocks. Martin et al. (2016) note that in economic geography resilience describes regions’ reactions to, and recovery from, negative economic shocks, based on a concept which has been widely used in the engineering and ecological sciences and which …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Shocks and the Business Cycle
This thesis studies questions on macroeconomic shocks and the business cycle using empirical methods. Over three chapters, I study the origins and implications of business cycle behaviour in the United States. My work provides a novel approach to estimating the macroeconomic risks priced in equity …
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Analyzing the large-scale curvature of interplanetary shocks
The 3-dimensional structure of interplanetary shock surfaces are analyzed using observations from the Wind and ACE spacecraft. Events seen by both spacecraft were selected from the available data and used to calculate the radius of curvature R, of the shock surface. The surface structure was …
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