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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"real effects"”.
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ESSAYS ON THE REAL EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL FRICTIONS
… explores how different shocks affect real economic outcomes in the presence of financial frictions. The first essay shows that a decline in trade costs facilitated by railroads in the 19th century US increased wealth inequality. Using the universe of household-level wealth holdings …
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The Real Effects of Opacity: Evidence from Tax Avoidance
This study provides evidence on a significant real consequence of an opaque financial reporting information environment: increased corporate tax avoidance. Using an international sample of firms, I find that firms with a more opaque information environment, as measured at both the firm and country …
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The real effects of debt relief : evidence from independent school districts in Texas
… in debt capacity can produce long-run positive effects by revitalizing previously forgone high-impact projects.
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The real effects of liquidity on behavior: evidence from regulation and deregulation of credit markets
… and bankruptcies. There is some evidence of real benefits at plausible implied rates of return on CRA borrowing, and little suggestion of crowd-out or adverse effects on bank performance. The findings therefore appear consistent with a model where targeted credit market interventions can …
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Do customers learn from stock prices?
… of product launches. My findings underscore the real effects of financial market prices.
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Household credit: Regulation, constraints and macroeconomic implications
… part of modern financial systems with immediate real effects. This thesis addresses the consequences of regulatory measures on household credit markets. In Chapters 1 and 2, the personal bankruptcy institution of the type found in the United States is studied from a theoretical perspective. In …
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Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy
… relationship between nominal rigidities and the real effects of monetary policy. Nominal rigidities lie at the core of macroeconomics. The empirical evidence suggests that prices and wages adjust sluggishly to aggregate shocks, while theoretical models justify why and to what extent these …
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The informational feedback effect of stock prices on corporate disclosure
… and capital markets and has implications for the real effects of financial markets.
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The effect of financial reporting on strategic investments : evidence from purchase obligations
… competitors' actions, and that they have real effects on firms' sales and profit margins. Collectively, my results illustrate a novel channel through which financial reporting shapes firms' investments and competition.
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… and plays as intertexts whose disjunctions have real effects on audiences and readers. I analyze Richard III, The True Tragedy of Richard III, Edward IV, Henry VIII, and Perkin Warbeck as thoughtful dramatic revisions of narrative history that invite readers and audiences to recall the …
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Real and accounting effects of mandatory derivatives disclosures
… First, I find that the adoption of SFAS 161 has real effects on firms’ risk management strategy, resulting in lower overall derivatives use and speculation with derivatives. Second, I find that SFAS 161 also has an accounting effect as managers seem to avoid hedge accounting, and prefer to use …
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An assessment of the impact on agricultural prices and output of anticipated versus unanticipated monetary variability
The effects of anticipated versus unanticipated money growth on total, nonfarm, and farm real gross domestic product, real net farm income, real prices received by farmers for crops and livestock, and the real value of agricultural exports are evaluated. The distinction between anticipated and …
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Navigation Aids In Route Training: Increase Navigation Speed, Decrease Route Retention?
… directions their first time through. Finally, no real effects were found on the participants' situation awareness during the retention portion of the study.
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The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate
… debate, one that more adequately explains the effects of technology in a society. In short, this dissertation demonstrates that the reductionist interpretation of works from the science fiction genre had real effects on policy formulation. People utilized their literary-derived perceptions of …
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In search of the subject: locating the shifting politics of women's performance art
… 'truthful' representations which drew on the real, material lives of women, or completely reimagined woman, locating her in a place before or outside of the patriarchal structure. From the 1980s onwards, however, the practice of women's performance art looks somewhat different. While …
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Essays on (Frictions in) Corporate Finance
… and the volume of debt crowdfunding, with little effects on equity crowdfunding. Clearer regulations appear to stimulate the establishment of new crowdfunding platforms rather than merely concentrating activity within existing ones.
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Analysis Of International Student Enrollments At A Florida Public University
… results of the chi square analyses found that no real effects were present, particularly when comparing USF international and domestic student populations. The chi square analyses comparing USF enrollments to the U.S. population from 1998 to 2003 also found no real effect. The analyses of the …
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A system approach to implementation of predictive maintenance with machine learning
… transformation, create much value, but the real effects have not been shown in public. Venture capitals firms have made huge investment in potential digital industrial startups. Numerous industrial IoT platforms are emerging in the market, but a number of them fade soon after. Many people …
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Consequences of the Conflation of ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ on Trans Healthcare
The goal of this paper is to illustrate the real effects of maintaining an inaccurate and conflated view of the relationship between ‘sex’ and ‘gender,’ and to provide possible solutions to this quandary by analyzing the sources in both philosophy and the social sciences. The terms ‘sex’ and …
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Entwurf und Regelung von multistabilen dielektrischen Elastomerwandler-Systemen auf Basis hybrider Modellierung
… properties and even multistable behavior can be realized. A essential challenge lies in modeling the strongly nonlinear, dynamically coupled mechanisms. While physics-based continuum models offer high accuracy, they are often too complex for control and design purposes. Classical lumped-parameter …
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