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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"policy uncertainty"”.
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Essays on Investment and Trade under Policy Uncertainty
… worldwide business sentiment, especially trade policy uncertainty (TPU). This thesis aims to investigate the impact of TPU on investment and export. It includes three empirical studies, with one study conducting the analysis at the country-industry level and the others focusing on firm-level …
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Essays on Measuring Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Forecasting Business Cycle
… is designed for applying zero interest rate policy. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide particle filter algorithms for these models and make comparisons of the Kalman filter, extended Kalman filter and particle filter. In Chapter 2, we estimate a non-linear, non-Gaussian state …
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Three Essays on Political Risk, Economic Policy Uncertainty, and Hedge Fund Returns
… empirical essays on political risk, economic policy uncertainty, and hedge fund returns, employing a sample over a period of 1990-2017. The first essay investigates the relation between political risk and hedge fund returns and assesses whether the effects of political risk on hedge fund …
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Analysing the One Certainty that Rules Us All: Trade (and Economic) Policy Uncertainty
My PhD thesis consists of 4 papers that analyse uncertainty, specifically trade policy uncertainty, by examining its best measurement and its impacts on firms’ international and domestic operations. The first paper, “Improving the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index”, studies how best to measure trade …
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Essays on the effect of local offices and economic policy uncertainty in the private equity industry
… with portfolio firm management in times of uncertainty. Results in paper on cross-border investments suggest that the physical presence of a local office of PE firms can actually make a difference for foreign investments. With a local office, operating performance of PE firms is higher after …
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The impact of economic policy uncertainty on cost of capital, stock market development, and debt home and foreign bias: cross country evidence.
… The first investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on the cost of capital. The second examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty on stock market development. The third explores the role of economic policy uncertainty on debt home and foreign bias. In the first empirical …
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Innovation Under Stress
… <p>Chapter 1: Innovation Diversification Under Policy Uncertainty</p> <p>Using detailed data on patent grants and applications, I explore the effect of policy uncertainty on firms’ innovation strategies. I show that firms that invest in R&D tend to pursue more diversified strategies and are more …
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FinTech ecosystem driven economic growth in China under the new normal: from the perspective of households
… important for both academic research and public policy. This thesis examines how economic policy uncertainty, digital finance, and income volatility shape Chinese households’ consumption, portfolio choice, and leverage behaviour. This thesis consists of three interconnected essays that make an …
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Testing Market Efficiency of MENA Equity Returns
… variables and the impact of economic policy uncertainty, and transparency on stock returns. The study also investigates how Stock Market Efficiency responds asymmetrically to different macroeconomic policies, transparency, and economic policy uncertainty. The study measures the …
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Essays on the Impact of Renegotiating Trade Agreements
… impact on firm exporting decisions of the trade policy uncertainty generated by the renegotiation of trade agreements? 2. What is the role of a customer base in export dynamics, and does an exporter customer base respond to the renegotiation of trade agreements? 3. How do industries restructure …
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Essays in Trade and Uncertainty
Firms face uncertainty on many different dimensions: demand level, productivity and input prices, taxes and regulations. Furthermore, some argue that uncertainty is higher in recessions (cf. Bloom et al. (2012)) and one of the causes of the slow recovery during the recent Great Recession (cf. Stock …
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Elections And Asset Pricing: The Politically Sensitive Equity Of Us Military Contractors
<p>I quantify the relationship between political uncertainty and equity volatility in the months around US elections from 1989-2012. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data are employed to measure political uncertainty faced by …
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Environmental Policy Impacts: A Comparative Study Of Electric Vehicle Policies In The U.S. And China
… conditions shape electric-vehicle (EV) policy trajectories in the United States and China and how international EV firms can make defensible decisions under policy uncertainty. The analysis uses a comparative, mechanism-based framework that distinguishes between environmental conditions, …
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Overconfidence and real estate research
… the trading volume response to economic policy uncertainty is less significant compared with those with non-overconfident homebuyers. Findings in the three fields provide useful implications for researchers and practitioners on overconfidence studies in real estate research.
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Determinants of Capital Flight in Zambia(1970-2004)
… development. This scenario possesses serious policy concerns for development. Capital flight is the movement of capital from a resource-scarce developing country to avoid social controls, and measured as net unrecorded capital outflow.The study investigates the determinants of capital flight …
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Determinants of Capital Flight in Zambia(1970-2004)
… development. This scenario possesses serious policy concerns for development. Capital flight is the movement of capital from a resource-scarce developing country to avoid social controls, and measured as net unrecorded capital outflow.The study investigates the determinants of capital flight …
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Fiscal interdependence, fiscal and monetary policy interaction and the optimal design of EMU
… looks at the design of fiscal and monetary policy in EMU. The characteristics of the "economic constitution" established in the Maastricht treaty are analysed to test their robustness to different hypothesis about fiscal sustainability and fiscal and monetary policy interaction. Chapter two …
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The Role of the Automotive Industry in the Context of Sustainable Transitions
… encompassing interdependent changes across policy, infrastructure, user behaviour, industrial organisations, and cultural paradigms. Against this backdrop, this thesis examines the automotive industry's role in facilitating sustainability transitions, with a particular emphasis on the …
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Four studies on antitrust enforcement and foreign investment activities
… studies the enforcement change of antitrust policy after the global financial crisis of 2008 and the influence of antitrust enforcement on foreign-investment activities. In the years after the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been growing skepticism concerning the unmitigated …
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Embracing the Uncertain Future: Three Papers of Uncertainty in Analysis, Planning, and Policy-Making
Uncertainty is inseparable from long-range planning. In striving for just, equitable, and sustainable futures, we are always confronted with the limits of our own understanding. Looking far into the future, or even trying to properly assess the ground beneath our feet, often reveals much more about …
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