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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"the Great Recession"”.
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Macroeconomics After the Great Recession: Consensus or Conflict?
<p>Unlike microeconomics where there are relatively few disagreements, the field of macroeconomics has always been the arena of several competing theories. Despite that history of conflict, in the late 1980s during the Great Moderation, the New Classicals and the New Keynesians reached an …
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Time in the “Great Recession”: the impact of the Great recession and being unemployed on time spent in healthy behaviors and with family members.
The "Great Recession" gripped the global economy beginning in December of 2007 and though the National Bureau of Economic Research (2010) determined that it concluded in June of 2009, for many people across the United States it has not yet receded as of July of 2012. In this study, I examine the …
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The Great Consensus After the Great Recession: The Case of Jamaica
<p>The purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of the International Monetary Fund’s Stabilization Program (IMFSP) as a tool for economic development. The Fund’s program utilizes an approach steeped in the Washington Conesus, which requires austere and demand side economic measures to …
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The Effect of the Great Recession on Local Goverment Policy in Florida
The length and depth of the Great Recession of 2008 provides an opportunity to examine the policy behavior of local governments unlike any window since the 1930's post Depression era. Utilizing Peterson's (1981) City Limits typology as a framework for local government policy allows for an …
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The Size of the Multiplier: Comparing Alternate Views After the Great Recession
<p>This thesis reviews the major theoretical frameworks and their outlook on the government spending, its effectiveness, the implied size of the multiplier and how they differed in empirical studies. This is followed by an estimation of the government multiplier for the major U.S. fiscal policy, …
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Transmission Linked to Structural Vulnerability: How Low-Income Countries Endured the Great Recession
<p>The implosion of the 2008 financial crisis ignited fears that integration would transmit the crisis’ effects throughout the global system. Examining two countries, Bangladesh and Zambia, this project shows that low-income countries with relatively little integration also saw negative impacts. …
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Liberal Arts Colleges During the Great Recession: Examining Organizational Adaptation and Institutional Change
… strived to adapt to environmental shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century and remain relevant in American society while the Great Recession of 2007 compounded their challenges and created new fiscal and enrollment burdens, which forced these institutions to confront paradigm-changing …
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Growth, prosperity, and inequality after the great recession: A regionalist cultural political economy of Chicagoland
In the 2010s, major public, civic, and private institutions began to promote new regional planning and coordination projects in the Chicago region. Shortly after the recovery from the 2007-8 economic crash began, regionalist institutions in the Chicago metropolitan area formed a series of new …
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Contesting Austerity: A Comparative Approach to the Cycles of Protest in Portugal and Spain under the Great Recession
This dissertation compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain in the context of the Eurozone crisis and the Great Recession between 2008 and 2015. Despite many similarities in the origins and socio-economic effects of the crisis, the dynamics of contention in each country …
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The librarians' axiom: a "flat earth theory"? : the case of the Saldanha Municipality Libraries during the Great Recession
The Librarians' Axiom is the theory that library usage goes up during an economic recession. This Axiom is supported by anecdotal evidence in the literature, but lacks statistical support. This dissertation attempts to fill that gap by looking at library use of the 10 libraries in the Saldanha Bay …
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Workfare and the Great Recession: Socioeconomic Outcomes among Black, White, and Hispanic Mothers in the Era of Work-First Welfare
With the introduction of welfare reform in 1996 – the culmination of Bill Clinton's campaign promise to 'end welfare as we know it' – means-tested cash assistance became conditional upon participation in the labor market. The current welfare program Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) is …
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An Exploration of Resilient Nonprofit Organizations: How Human Services Providers in Virginia Survived and Thrived the Great Recession of 2007-2009
… dependent upon external sources for funding and other critical resources; therefore during recessionary periods the nonprofit sector faces a crisis of its own as crucial resources become scarce. The Great Recession of 2007-2009 had widespread adverse impact on the nonprofit sector yet, some …
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Essays on the impact of housing insecurity and other socioeconomic factors on health-related outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries during the Great Recession
While previous recessions have informed much of our modern-day fiscal policy, they have informed less of relevant housing or healthcare policies focused on preventing or mitigating the effects of housing insecurity during economic crises. In this dissertation, I drew from nationally representative …
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Distribution Shifts and Declines in Autonomous Consumption: A Great Recipe for a Great Recession
<p>The Great Recession has been drawing the attention of many due mainly to its global impact that has been considered very similar to the Great Depression. So have been the root causes. Among the competing explanations, the present study focuses on two of them that were the same factors - among …
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ESSAYS ON REAL EXCHANGE RATE DYNAMICS AND PRICE CONVERGENCE
In the first chapter, entitled “On Cross-country Differences in the Contribution of Nontraded Goods to Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations”, The contribution of nontraded goods to Real Exchange Rate (RER) fluctuations for a large number of countries that include high, middle, and low-income countries …
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Responding to Funding Cuts as a Government-funded Museum
… research study analyzed how US museums survived the loss of government funding during the Great Recession in 2008. The adaptations and strategies that were adopted by museums in response to the Great Recession may offer indications for how museums might prepare for potential government funding …
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Three Essays in Health Economics
… addressing different topics in health economics. The first essay investigates the impact of the great recession on hospital capital investment and how hospitals respond to offset the recession effect. The great recession may have made it difficult for hospitals to borrow thus reducing capital …
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Technology and labor markets
This thesis is divided in three chapters. The first two chapters explore the role of structural changes and skill mismatches in generating unemployment. In the first chapter, I present a model in which technological change creates a mismatch between the skill requirements in novel jobs and workers' …
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