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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"economic shocks"”.
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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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The response of wages and employment to economic shocks
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Labor Market Adjustments Under Economic Shocks: Evidence from the U.S.
… a quasi-experimental design to examine how major economic shocks—the COVID-19 pandemic, immigration restrictions, and the U.S.-China tariff war (2018–2020)—reshaped labor demand and employer skill requirements in the United States. Using econometric methods on panel data from online job postings, …
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Budgeting for cyclicality in a healthcare setting – accounting for economic shocks in the budgetary process
… component of any healthcare system’s response to economic shocks. Recent events, such as the global financial crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic, have shown that the budgetary response is often insufficient to maintain a consistent level of service. This dissertation addresses these significant …
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Economic shocks, poverty and household food insecurity in urban Zambia: an ethnographic account of Chingola
… consequences and effects of the recent global economic crisis such as retrenchment coupled with increasing food and fuel prices have played a major role in generating many newly poor households. The economic crisis came at a time when most developing countries were still struggling with …
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Dynamic analysis of an open economy and foreign exchange risk management using path-dependent options
… such firms. For example, foreign interest rate shocks or exchange rate volatility increases both increase the uncertainty and risk associated with multinational operations. This study examines the impact of foreign economic shocks on domestic economic variables and evaluates the use of options …
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The impact of credit types on household savings levels in South Africa
Despite robust economic growth in post-apartheid South Africa, we have consistently seen high unemployment and severe income inequality amongst its people. Arguably this has resulted in a culture of dependence on consumer credit; consumers are spending future income by using credit. This could …
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Investment dynamics and the timeliness properties of accounting numbers
… firms are able to react more quickly to negative economic shocks (by cutting investment and employment) than to positive economic shocks (where there is a lag in implementing new investments or expanding employment). Next, I create the link between real investment and operating decisions and …
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Essays in Risk and Risk-Coping in Developing Settings
<p>Economic risks of many sorts are prevalent in developing countries. In this dissertation I exploit rainfall variation, a particularly prominent form of risk, to study three related topics in development economics. Because many households in developing countries still depend in large part on …
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Regional Resilience: Are recessionary shocks persistent or transitory?
… of considerable importance given the post-2008 economic crisis, which is characterised by a period of severe global instability resulting from unprecedented economic shocks. Martin et al. (2016) note that in economic geography resilience describes regions’ reactions to, and recovery from, …
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The impact of mobile money on Rwandan household consumption
… is driven by high-risk exposure to natural and economic shocks, and a lack of formal insurance mechanisms among rural farming households. The spread of mobile phones has introduced mobile money, which offers new financial opportunities to marginalized groups. This study examines mobile money's …
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Human Capital in Appalachia: An Analysis of Vulnerability, Resilience, and Skills in Preparation of a Greener Economy
… skills to enhance our understanding of economic resilience in Appalachian counties that are vulnerable to the transition to a greener economy. The index-based results indicate that resilience is clustered throughout the region and strongly related to local labor market demand for the …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and strategy.
… it develops a multi-level perspective linking economic shocks, organizational responses, and managerial decision-making. Across three essays, the research analyzes how exogenous changes influence entrepreneurship at the regional, organizational, and managerial levels. The first essay studies …
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Essays on Applied Macroeconomics
… the Euro Area (EA) has experienced a series of economic shocks, including the global financial crisis in 2008, the sovereign debt crisis in 2012, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and, most recently, the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. In response, the ECB has expanded its policy toolkit beyond …
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Time series analysis of macroeconometric constructs
… addresses the issue of estimating persistence of economic shocks using time series models. First, it is shown that the log likelihood function for ARIMA models is not strictly quadratic with respect to the persistence estimate. This result explains why the persistence literature has attained …
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Essays on political institutions and macroeconomics
… interaction of political institutions and macroeconomic activity in dynamic environments. Chapter 1 studies the optimal management of taxes and debt in a framework which relaxes the standard assumption of a benevolent government. We assume instead the existence of a self-interested ruler who …
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Accelerators, startup performance, and crises
… on characteristics of the accelerators and the economic environment, this paper presents a first attempt to understand the influence of economic shocks on accelerated startups in the context of the recent Great Recession (2007-2009). Three core findings were identified in this research. First, …
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Agricultural virtual water flows within the USA
… projected to be strained by population growth, economic development, and climate change. For this reason, there has been a surge of interest in the water resources embodied in international trade, referred to as `global virtual water trade'. In this paper, we present a comprehensive assessment …
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Telecommunication technologies development in countries of the former Yugoslavia : history, needs and policy options for the future
… this thesis I give an overview of the political-economic and telecommunications sector developments in major western economies, as well as some of the advanced Eastern European countries. I use this framework to analyze the telecommunications sector development in countries of the former …
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General equilibrium impacts of new energy technologies on sectoral energy usage
… time frames is not possible due to intervening economic shocks. This thesis examines the effects of an energy conversion technology penetration on the crude oil-natural gas price ratio through its influence on sectoral energy use in the U.S. GTL must be less expensive and more efficient, and …
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