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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"boom-bust"”.
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The transformation of place: Boom, bust, and adjustment in Rifle, Colorado
… many of these energy-impacted communities went bust as energy producers abandoned, downsized, or completed their respective projects. Although the effects of the energy boom in the region have been studied extensively by scholars, the processes and impacts associated with the energy bust have …
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Capacity management and make-vs.-buy decisions/
… gas industry is characterized by unpredictable boom and busts cycles. Companies must manage capacity to be able to quickly meet increasing demand during boom cycles and survive when oil prices go down. During this time, companies resort to in-house sourcing ("Make") or buying externally ("Buy") …
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The changing community/industry relationship in resource-oriented boom towns: a case study of the Overthrust Industrial Association
A typical boom/bust cycle of community development has accompanied natural resource exploitation throughout the growth of the United States. These resource-oriented boom towns provide an opportunity for an evaluation of a changing community/industry relationship. The origins and evolution of the …
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Empiricism versus apriorism in macroeconomic research : is the current research paradigm of economics inherently incapable of predicting recessions
… the end the question will be raised of whether boom/bust cycles can be more easily diagnosed and prevented were the economics mainstream to employ this methodology to a greater degree, instead of rejecting it as unscientific as the case is today.
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Parliamentary Control of Public Money
… Commonwealth of Australia, in the context of the boom-bust-recovery economic conditions experienced between 2005 and 2016. The dissertation’s ultimate claims are explanatory: that “parliamentary control” is a poor explanation of the distribution of financial authority in parliamentary systems of …
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Morphogenesis and Growth Driven by Selection of Dynamical Properties
… cells depend on phosphorus produces the cyclical boom-bust dynamics of algae on the surface of a pond. Using techniques of synthetic biology and cellular automata, such local properties can be abstractly specified, and the long-term, system-wide, and dynamical consequences of localized assumptions …
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Detroit in Decline: An investigation into the dynamics of two urban neighbourhoods
… the accepted narrative of the cycle of ‘boom-bust-boom’, which views the city in terms of ‘growth-decline-recovery’, by illustrating how Detroit’s decline today is a resumption of various structural changes that were made during the city’s critical period of physical, economic and …
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Chameleons in the city: An institutional analysis of sales agents in Sydney’s new apartment market
… risks. Following the Global Financial Crisis, a ‘boom-bust’ MUD market cycle eventuated in Sydney against a contrasting political and economic backdrop. The 2017-19 supply peak was crucially enabled through off-the-plan sales by ‘project marketers’ (PMs). Many new entrants into the project …
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Sustainable development and development banks in the Brazilian Amazon
… parts of the Brazilian Amazon have followed a “boom-bust” cycle, underpinned by a predatory model of “development” that has caused environmental degradation, social exclusion and violence in those areas. The central argument is that the DBs see environmental impacts as “a factor to be …
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A macroeconometric analysis of South Africa’s post-liberalisation capital inflow components
… the ‘hot’ flows are found to demonstrate greater boom-bust characteristics compared to foreign direct investment. Conventional economic theory posits that the destabilising effects can be controlled using fiscal and monetary policy mechanisms. However, analysis of the cyclical relationships …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… the global financial crisis, which amplified the boom-bust cycle, while out-of-state buyers partially propped up prices. Second, we use a novel quasi-natural experiment design to establish a causal relationship between housing speculation and prices. Third, we show that the rise of shadow banking …
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Fishing for tourists : perceptions from the Stewart Island community's of the creation of Rakiura National Park
… Park be contextualised within the historical 'boom-bust' pattern that industries on Stewart Island have generally followed. This pattern reflects the interplay of local attempts to derive a living and macro forces that continue to influence the viability of industries on Stewart Island. A …
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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS OF ENERGY AND COMMODITY MARKETS
… latter effect dominates during the second shale boom, 2017–2019. Considerable heterogeneity exists in cross-country responses, with GDP implications favorable for advanced and emerging market oil importers and adverse for oil exporters. I interpret the empirical findings through the lens of a …
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Essays in macroeconomics and finance
The first chapter proposes a model of booms and busts in housing and non-housing consumption driven by the interplay between relatively low interest rates and an expansion of credit, triggered by further decline in interest rates and relaxing collateral requirements. When credit becomes available, …
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Potential for resource competition between the boodie (Bettongia lesueur) and mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus) in the fenced Matuwa reserve, central Western Australia
… counts and temporal overlap using camera traps. Boom-bust dynamics have been observed in the Matuwa boodie population (and elsewhere), which raised the concern of subsequent suppression of the potentially less competitive mala. The suppression of mala however cannot be confirmed because there are …
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Ecosystem impacts of the invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) over time
Invasive species have effects across levels of the ecological hierarchy, from genes to ecosystems, with negative consequences for biodiversity and global economies. These impacts likely vary over time and with invasion stage, though long-term studies on the effects of invasive species are rare. In …
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Fracked Perceptions: Changes in Perception Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Among Residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania.
… benefits diminished as Dimock advanced through a boom period resulting in a current economic and ecological bust. Two months of data collection occurred in the summer of 2016 using semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. Political economy of nature and political …