The Economic Impacts of Geopolitical Risk

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of the geopolitical risk shocks on the economy. The first chapter of this dissertation investigates how the geopolitical risk could affect macroeconomic variables of the United States. The second chapter studies the impact of the geopolitical risk on the aggregate and sectoral US employment. The third chapter studies the impact of geopolitical risk with various uncertainty proxies on the US economy.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

Texas Tech University

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Alsubaie, Mohammed S.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Ma, Xiaohan

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Rahnama, Masha
• Ludwig, Julian F.

• Geopolitical Risk
• Uncertainty
• Employment

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/2346/97088

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ttu-ir.tdl.org:2346/97088