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Stevenson, James Robert. "Predicting U. S. recessions : the housing market and 2008 recession." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1502.
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Helmersson, Tobias, Hana Kang, and Robin Sköld. "Gold During Recessions : A study about how gold can improve the performance of a portfolio during recessions." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Accounting and Finance, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7746.
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When choosing topic for this study the economy was on the brink of a recession. Many experts made varying statements regarding this fact, and further readings in this area led us to question: can an in- clusion of gold enhance the performance in an index portfolio dur- ing recessions? And if so, how much should be allocated to gold?
Purpose
The purpose of this thesis is to look back at the historical price de- velopment of gold and DJIA during recessions in order to find out whether an inclusion of gold can improve a DJIA index portfolio held in today’s recession. In addition, by analyzing the risks and pos- sibilities with gold, the optimal allocation of gold in a DJIA portfolio will be investigated in.
Method
The methodological approach will be of a quantitative data analysis approach. By using historical data, new empirical findings will be found by using the deductive approach. This method has been cho- sen due to the nature of the purpose and in order to best give a gen- eral answer to our research questions.
Conclusion
The gold price is strongly influenced by uncertainty, and even though an optimal allocation of gold in each recession could be found, no general optimal allocation applicable in today’s recession could be found. Gold has higher risk (higher variance) than DJIA, but is compensated with higher return as well.
Xing, Kai. "Macroeconomic conditions, corporate defaults, and economic recessions." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39401/.
Full textDi, Caro Paolo. "Recessions, Recoveries and Regional Resilience: an econometric perspective." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1540.
Full textThibane, Tankiso Abel. "Response of the IMF and the World Bank to the Great Recession and the Euro sovereign crisis in a globalising world." Thesis, Nelson Mandela University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/16142.
Full textNaidoo, Jefrey Subramoney. "Forecasting recessions: The convergence of information and predictive analytics." THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, 2011. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3439830.
Full textCastro, Fernandez Juan Carlos. "Essays on financial crises, big recessions and slow recoveries." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106445/.
Full textForsythe, Eliza C. (Eliza Carla). "Hiring, recessions, and careers : three essays in personnel economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90122.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-103).
Workers find wage-growth and job-satisfaction by building careers. However a worker's ability to string together a sequence of jobs relies on the availability of appropriate opportunities either within their current firm or in other firms in the market. In this thesis, I investigate how variation in the labor market affects this career building process. In the first chapter, I find that career opportunities are scarce for young workers during recessions, and use theory and evidence to argue that this is due to firms choosing to hire more experienced workers instead. In the second chapter, I find that firms reallocate their employees between occupations during recessions, leading workers to receive lower wages and be employed in lower-quality occupations. In the third chapter, I develop a model to explain why workers change firms when opportunities exist within the firm. I show that heterogeneity in firms' production functions and human capital acquisition are sufficient to generate these movements. More specifically, in the first two chapters I use data from the CPS to study reallocations over the business cycle. In Chapter 1, I find that during recessions the probability of being hired falls for young workers, while for experienced workers it rises. I develop a model and show this fact can be explained by firms choosing to hire workers with greater work experience when labor markets are slack. My model provides the distinctive prediction that during recessions, young workers will match with lower-quality jobs and receive lower wages while experienced workers will exhibit no change in either dimension. I develop occupational quality indices using O*NET and OES data and find evidence consistent with both predictions, suggesting that firms' hiring behavior actively contributes to negative outcomes for young workers during recessions. In Chapter 2, I document that occupational mobility is counter-cyclical. I show this is driven by an increase in occupational mobility within firms. I show that these within-firm occupation changers lose ground during recessions, matching with lower-quality jobs and receiving lower wages. Combined with the recessionary increase in within-firm mobility, these results suggest a previously undiscovered cost of recessions borne by employed workers. Finally, in Chapter 3, I develop a model that demonstrates how career-advancing inter-firm mobility can persist despite the possibility of within-firm mobility. I argue that many of these movements are driven by firm heterogeneity and human capital acquisition and show such a model can capture three key empirical regularities: experienced workers are hired into advanced positions, wages rise more at movements between positions (within and between firms) than at stays in the current firm, and external hires tend to have different qualifications than internal promotees. JEL Classification: E24, J62, M51.
by Eliza C. Forsythe.
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Huang, Di. "Predicting Recessions in the U.S. with Yield Curve Spread." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27126.
Full textChairattanapisuth, Termsak. "Processes a business can use to stay competitive during a recession." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001chairattanapt.pdf.
Full textMalmberg, Selma. "Great recessions, economic inequalities and the effectiveness of macroeconomic policies." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Le Mans, 2024. https://theses.hal.science/tel-04891663.
Full textThis PhD thesis explores the interplay between macroeconomic shocks, economic inequalities, and the effectiveness of various policy interventions in the French context. Crises affect households differently across income and wealth distribution. Besides, public policies can become more efficient by targeting their actions on the most affected and most responsive households. For example, fiscal policy can support demand at a reduced cost by transferring money to households with a high marginal propensity to consume instead of all households. For this purpose, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models with heterogeneous agents and new Keynesian features are used.The first chapter outlines the methodology for solving and estimating such models, on which the following chapters build. Chapter 2 evaluates the French government's response to the recent energy crisis, implementing a tariff shield. This policy is compared to alternative scenarios, including targeted transfers, and wage indexation on prices. The tariff shield supported economic growth, reduced inflation, and curtailed the increase in consumption inequalities at the cost of a slight rise in the debt-to-GDP ratio. Chapter 3 assesses different fiscal consolidation policies in the French context. Such policies may fail because their recessive effects further depress the debt-to-GDP ratio or because the resulting rising inequalities, lead to social unrest and electoral outcomes that undermine the continuity of these programs. However, this chapter shows that reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio can be achieved without penalizing GDP growth or worsening inequalities by reducing social insurance-based transfers while increasing social assistance transfers. The last chapter examines the macroeconomic consequences of income tax fluctuations and the resulting tax uncertainty
Antonakakis, Nikolaos, and Johann Scharler. "The synchronization of GDP growth in the G7 during US recessions." Taylor & Francis, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3468/1/BC_dcc_final_AEL.pdf.
Full textColeman, John J. (John James). "Economics, recessions, and party decline : American parties in the fiscal state." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13188.
Full textOwan, Lucas M. "The Effects of Recessions and Market Sizes on NBA Player Salary." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1491.
Full textAntonakakis, Nikolaos. "Business Cycle Synchronization During US Recessions Since the Beginning of the 1870s." Elsevier, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3602/1/BC_1870%2D2011_EconLet_PrePrint.pdf.
Full textLahman, John William. "The yield curve’s predictive power on U.S. recessions: a survey of literature." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13760.
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Lloyd B. Thomas
A negative-sloped Treasury curve is often cited in financial news articles and by Federal Reserve economists as a predictor of recessions. This report reviews previously published research examining the reliability of yield curves predicting recessions. Findings show that the yield curve inverts two or more quarters before recessions, with short-term interest rates rising above long-term interest rates. Probit regression has proven a reliable method for generating estimated probabilities of future recessions that, in turn, are useful for both monetary policy and asset allocation decision-making.
Lee, Kwok-wai. "The home ownership aspiration after the 1997 economic downturn in Hong Kong a study on the middle class aspiration and response /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43895517.
Full textAntonakakis, Nikolaos. "Business Cycle Synchronization During US Recessions Since the Beginning of the 1870's." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3522/1/wp140.pdf.
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Gallagher, Eamon. "All Recessions Are Not Equal: The Effect of Sectoral Shifts on Unemployment Using Regional Data." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2261.
Full textKatayama, Munechika. "Dynamic analysis in productivity, oil shock, and recession." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3315857.
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Khomo, Melvin Muzi. "The yield curve as a forecasting tool : does the yield spread predict recessions in South Africa?" Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004722.
Full textMartin, Elizabeth C. "Regulating the Risk of Debt: Exemption Laws and Economic Insecurity Across US States." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1509026110312995.
Full textvon, Seth Carl Johan. "Safeguarding Free Trade in Recessions : - A Game-Theoretic Interpretation of the Multilateral Policy Response to the 2008 Crisis." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-144966.
Full textI den här uppsatsen analyseras incitament i handelsavtal under ekonomiska chocker utifrån grundläggande spelteori. Jag finner att långa lågkonjunkturer påverkar incitamenten på ett sätt som kan få parterna att frångå avtalet och starta ett tullkrig. Korta lågkonjunkturer stärker i stället incitamenten i avtalet. Jag argumenterar för att brytpunkten mellan en tullkrigsutlösande lågkonjunktur och en incitamentstärkande lågkonjunktur kan regleras genom att tillfälligt stärka informationsmekanismerna kring avtalet och att de multilaterala åtgärderna i krisens spår kan ha haft den effekten.
Morris, Juanita Michelle Reed Hines Edward R. "Trends and relationships in student enrollment, state support, economic recessions, and student aid in higher education 1976-2003 /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390280881&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1203094108&clientId=43838.
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Bradford, Mackenzie. "To Rely or Not to Rely? A Study of how Analyst Earnings Forecast Error Changes Leading up to Recessions." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2090.
Full textHiatt, Amanda M. "The Contributions of Fiscal and Monetary Stimulus Policies to the Economic Recovery Process of Recessions in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/231.
Full textKjellman, Anders. "Essays on performance and financing decisions during the 1990s recession in Finland." Åbo : Åbo Akademi University Press, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/37968429.html.
Full textOloyede, Olajide. "Coping under recession : workers in a Nigerian factory /." Stockholm : Almqvist och Wiksell, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35513952k.
Full textLee, Kwok-wai, and 李國偉. "The home ownership aspiration after the 1997 economic downturn in HongKong: a study on the middle class aspirationand response." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43895517.
Full textSu, Lishan. "Impacts of mass media coverage of the economy during normal times and recessions on the Index of Consumer Confidence using time series analysis and Granger causal analysis /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
Find full textKillian, Tiffany Noel. "Teaching Points in Comparing the Great Depression to the 2008-2009 Recession in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28442/.
Full textRestrepo, Valeria. "The impact of oil price surges on economic growth." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/500.
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Palludeto, Alex Wilhans Antonio 1986. "Crise e capitalismo contemporâneo : uma revisão das interpretações marxistas da grande recessão (2007-2009)." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285914.
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Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo é o de revisar as principais interpretações de inspiração marxista da Grande Recessão (2007-2009) e identificar as linhas centrais do debate que se trava em torno das suas origens e características fundamentais. Não tive, naturalmente, a pretensão de realizar um exame exaustivo da crescente literatura sobre o tema. Optei, ao invés disso, por selecionar aqueles estudos que me pareceram representativos das correntes teóricas mais importantes no interior do marxismo contemporâneo e, a partir disso, avaliar as suas respectivas posições no que diz respeito à crise recente. A fim de cumprir o objetivo proposto, o capítulo primeiro estabelece os principais conceitos e a metodologia de trabalho empregados ao longo deste estudo. Apresenta-se uma definição de crise, a distinção entre causa última e causa imediata e, por fim, o corte adotado para a organização da literatura. Foi possível demonstrar, desse modo, a existência de duas grandes abordagens no universo teórico marxista no que se refere aos determinantes últimos da crise recente: A - de um lado, aqueles que atribuem a turbulência à dinâmica de uma fase particular do capitalismo, à forma política/econômica/institucional específica assumida pelo sistema capitalista ao longo das últimas décadas, em suma, ao que se convencionou denominar, em diversos trabalhos, neoliberalismo; B - de outro, aqueles que veem a crise recente como uma manifestação própria da dinâmica capitalista em geral - e não do modo particular que esta supostamente apresenta. No primeiro grupo, Dúmenil, Lévy, Saad-Filho e Kotz, cujos trabalhos foram examinados no capítulo segundo, estão entre seus principais expoentes. Conforme se pôde observar, o argumento daqueles que defendem essa perspectiva centra-se, principalmente, na relação de poder entre as classes que compõem o capitalismo, sobretudo a capitalista e a trabalhadora, e no reflexo da configuração institucional formada a partir desta sobre a economia, particularmente sobre o comportamento do setor financeiro e a distribuição de renda. Por outro lado, segundo as análises empreendidas pelos integrantes do segundo grupo, do qual os adeptos da chamada Interpretação do Sistema Único Temporal da teoria do valor de Marx são os principais representantes, a argumentação baseia-se, sobretudo, no movimento traçado pela taxa de lucro e a acumulação de capital. Segundo demonstra o capítulo terceiro, o declínio da taxa de lucro em virtude da elevação da composição orgânica do capital é a hipótese básica para a explicação da Grande Recessão nessa abordagem
Abstract: The aim of this study is to review the main marxist interpretations of the Great Recession (2007-2009) and identify the main lines of the debate on its origins and fundamental characteristics. I did not intend to do a thorough examination of the growing literature on the subject. I opted, instead, to select those studies that seemed representative of the most important theoretical approaches in the contemporary marxism and then evaluate their respective positions with regard to the recent crisis. In order to achieve the proposed objective, the first chapter sets out the key concepts and methodology used throughout this study. It presents a definition of crisis, the distinction between the ultimate and immediate cause and, finally, the approach adopted to organize the literature. It was possible to demonstrate thereby the presence of two major approaches in the theoretical marxist universe with regard to determining the recent crisis: A - on the one hand, those who attribute the turbulence to the dynamics of a particular phase of capitalism, the specific political/economic/institutional form assumed by the capitalist system over the past decades; in short, to what may be called neoliberalism; B - on the other, those who see the recent crisis as a manifestation of general capitalist dynamics itself - and not the particular form that supposedly assume. In the first group, Dumenil, Levy, Saad-Filho and Kotz, whose works are examined in chapter II, are among its main exponents. As seen above, the argument of those who advocate this perspective focuses mainly on the power relationship between classes that constitute capitalism, especially the capitalist and worker, and the reflection of the institutional setting from that upon the economy, particularly on the behavior of the financial sector and income distribution. By contrast, according to the analyzes undertaken by members of the second group, which the supporters of the so-called Temporal Single System Interpretation of Marx's value theory are the main representatives, the argument is based mainly on the movement of the rate of profit and capital accumulation. As the third chapter demonstrates, the declining rate of profit because of the increasing organic composition of capital is the basic hypothesis to explain the Great Recession in this approach
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Blokhina, Svetlana. "Risposta idrologica di recessione e morfologia della rete di drenaggio." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423865.
Full textIl presente lavoro si inserisce nell'ambito della modellazione matematica dei processi idrologici a scala di bacino. L'obiettivo principale della ricerca svolta è lo studio delle relazioni tra la risposta idrologica di un bacino nella fase di recessione e le sue caratteristiche geomorfologiche. Le curve di recessione rappresentano la relazione tra la portata e la sua diminuzione nel corso del tempo, espressa nei termini della legge di potenza -dQ/dt = kQ^b. Recentemente si sta sviluppando la teoria geomorfologica della risposta idrologica di recessione. L'idea di fondo di tale teoria consiste nel fatto che la relazione -dQ/dt = kQ^b abbia origine dalla legge di potenza, la quale lega il numero delle origini dei canali attivi della rete di drenaggio N(t) e la sua lunghezza totale G(t) al tempo t. Il presente lavoro contribuisce alla validazione della teoria geomorfologica di recessione. Nella prima fase del lavoro sono state studiate le proprietà morfologiche del bacino ottenute con gli strumenti GIS al fine dell'analisi delle recessioni di alcuni bacini montani (torrenti Vermigliana, Fersina) seguendo l'approcio proposto da [Brutsaert and Nieber, 1977]. In uno dei casi è stata effettuata l'interpolazione spaziale delle precipitazioni con lo scopo di vagliare possibili dipendenze dei parametri di recessione dalla distribuzione spaziale eterogenea delle piogge. Nella seconda fase della ricerca sono state eseguite le sperimentazioni numeriche al fine di studiare la dinamica delle reti di drenaggio durante la fase di recessione e di valutare in modo sperimentale i fattori della relazione tra le curve di recessione "tradizionali" e quelle "geomorfologiche" e i parametri relativi. Lo strumento adottato nella ricerca è il modello idrologico distribuito accoppiato degli afflussi-deflussi CATchment HYdrology (CATHY). Il modello è stato applicato sia ad un bacino sintetico (V-catchment), sia ai bacini reali. Dallo studio effettuato si è avuto riscontro positivo su alcune delle ipotesi recenti relative alle recessioni. E' stata inoltre sperimentata la dipendenza dei parametri della curva di recessione dall'eterogeneità della distribuzione spaziale delle piogge. In merito alle modellazioni della rete dinamica realizzate con CATHY è emerso che la relazione tra la portata e la lunghezza della rete può essere espressa attraverso la legge di potenza con esponenti inferiori ad uno. La portata per unità di lunghezza è variabile nel tempo con tendenza alla stabilizzazione per i tempi lunghi. Tale constatazione è significativa, in quanto recenti teorie postulano la costanza della portata per unità di lunghezza. Le portate drenate nella rete dinamica si avvicinano alla portata totale simulata nella sezione di chiusura del bacino. Pertanto si ritiene che il metodo di analisi adottato sia lo strumento più adatto allo studio della complessità dei processi che determinano la risposta idrologica nella fase di recessione a scala di bacino. Lo studio effettuato potrà consentire gli approfondimenti necessari nell’analisi delle relazioni tra le proprietà geomorfologiche del bacino ed i processi di recessione.
Cumming, Mitchel Spider. "Recessional Aesthetics." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20641.
Full textWilliamson, Stefanie. "Recession, precariousness and inequality : youth employment trajectories before and after the 2008-2009 recession." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52827/.
Full textGyanwali, Milan. "SME growth in a recession." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42331.
Full textMumtaz, Haroon. "The recession in east Asia." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271689.
Full textSummers, Carol Elizabeth 1959. "Assessing constraints to recession farming." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276701.
Full textDexheimer, Felipe Rheinfranck. "Essays on the great recession." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18722.
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The objective of this paper is to seek insights into the Great Recession, which started after the Financial Shock of 2008 and still casts a shadow on the growth of Developed Economies. Common features such as near zero interest rates, disappointing growth and low inflation - with a constant fear of deflation - have been observed in most of these countries in the last few years. The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis argues that the causes are a depressed demand, both for investments and finished products and services, and that to avoid a deflation trap governments should step in, helping economies reach their potential again. The Credit Supercycle Hypothesis puts the deleveraging cycle on focus: the large credit expansion that happened prior to the shock must be dealt with, through inflation, growth, restructuring or a combination of those, before economic agents go back to their normal behavior. The analysis of their main differences leads to the investigation of the credit cycle and its impact on productivity growth. Two approaches are used, with the time frame ranging from 1995 to 2014: a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) analysis focused on twenty developed countries and a Real Business Cycle analysis of the American Economy, both replicated from previous studies with similar focus, but different context. The results show the importance of credit formation to the growth of productivity, both directly and through fixed capital investment, and also that the low productivity growth on recent years may be not a symptom of slow technological improvement, but instead caused by the lack of credit access, notwithstanding the low interest rates and credit spreads. Policy makers overlooking this evidence might be surprised by an unforeseen rise in productivity growth after the financial system returns to a more normal behavior.
O objetivo deste artigo é buscar informações sobre a Grande Recessão, que começou após o Choque Financeiro de 2008 e ainda gera uma sombra sobre o crescimento das Economias Desenvolvidas. Características comuns, como taxas de juros próximas de zero, decepções de crescimento e baixa inflação - com um medo constante da deflação - foram observados na maioria desses países nos últimos anos. A Hipótese da Estagnação Secular argumenta que as causas é uma demanda deprimida, tanto para investimentos quanto para produtos e serviços finais, e para evitar uma armadilha de deflação, os governos devem intervir, ajudando as economias a alcançar seu potencial novamente. A Hipótese do Superciclo de Crédito coloca o processo de desalavancagem em foco: a grande expansão de crédito que aconteceu antes do choque deve ser tratada, por meio da inflação, crescimento, reestruturação ou uma combinação desses, antes que os agentes econômicos voltem ao seu comportamento normal. A análise das principais diferenças dessas hipóteses leva à investigação acerca do ciclo do crédito e seu impacto no crescimento da produtividade. São utilizadas duas abordagens, com o intervalo de tempo entre 1995 e 2014: um modelo Vetorial Autoregressivo (VAR) focado em vinte países desenvolvidos e uma análise de Ciclo Real de Negócios (Real Business Cycle) da economia americana, ambas replicadas de estudos anteriores que tinham foco semelhante, mas contexto diferente. Os resultados mostram a importância da formação de crédito para o crescimento da produtividade, tanto diretamente como através do investimento em capital fixo, e também que o baixo crescimento da produtividade nos últimos anos pode não ser um sintoma de melhoria tecnológica lenta, mas sim causado pela falta de acesso a crédito, não obstante as baixas taxas de juros e spreads de crédito. Ao negligenciar essas evidências formadores de políticas econômicas podem se surpreender com um aumento imprevisto do crescimento da produtividade após o sistema financeiro retornar a um comportamento mais normal.
Zia, Mujtaba. "Bank Capital, Efficient Market Hypothesis, and Bank Borrowing During the Financial Crisis of 2007 and 2008." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699938/.
Full textSaúde, Arthur Moreira. "Metodologia de previsão de recessões: um estudo econométrico com aplicações de modelos de resposta binária." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18221.
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This paper aims to create an econometric model capable of anticipating recessions in the United States economy, one year in advance, using not only monetary market variables that are already used by economists, but also capital market variables. Using a data span from 1959 to 2016, it was observed that the yield spread continues to be an explanatory variable with excellent predictive power over recessions. Evidence has also emerged of new variables that have very high statistical significance, and which offer valuable contributions to the regressions. Out-of-sample tests have been conducted which suggest that past recessions would have been predicted with substantially higher accuracy if the proposed Probit model had been used instead of the most widespread model in the economic literature. This accuracy is evident not only in the predictive quality, but also in the reduction of the number of false positives and false negatives in the regression, and in the robustness of the out-of-sample tests.
Este trabalho visa desenvolver um modelo econométrico capaz de antecipar, com um ano de antecedência, recessões na economia dos Estados Unidos, utilizando não só variáveis dos mercados monetários, que já são indicadores antecedentes bastante utilizados por economistas, mas também dos mercados de capitais. Utilizando-se dados de 1959 a 2016, pode-se observar que o spread de juros de longo e curto prazo continua sendo uma variável explicativa com excelente poder preditivo sobre recessões. Também surgiram evidências de novas variáveis que possuem altíssimas significâncias estatísticas, e que oferecem valiosas contribuições para as regressões. Foram conduzidos testes fora da amostra que sugerem que as recessões passadas teriam sido previstas com acurácia substancialmente superior, caso o modelo Probit proposto tivesse sido utilizado no lugar do modelo mais difundido na literatura econômica. Essa acurácia é evidente não só na qualidade preditiva, mas também na redução do número de falsos positivos e falsos negativos da regressão, e na robustez dos testes fora da amostra.
Johansson, Katarina, and Erik Olsson. "Is recession fuel for the staffing industry? : Corporate views on staffing in times of recession." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-36089.
Full textAt the time of writing, the business world is currently recovering from a recession that struck globally in the late 2008. The financial crisis brought many consequences, not least in the labor market. In meantime, media is reporting of the increasing trends of companies outsourcing their employment needs, by using staffing companies. Could it be that there is a correlation between the recession and the companies’ choices to do so?
By revising literature on the topic we have found that the companies need for flexibility seem to be their main reason for using staffing companies. We have also come to review the first reports on the current increase of staffing company use in the US claimed to be caused by the current recession. Regarding the recession, we have come to find that it does have a structural impact on the labor market according to literature. An impact, that many claims is not temporary, but is here to stay.
We have departed from retroduction with a touch of abduction when investigating our research problem. In practice, we have conducted a study based on surveys where we have asked 37 people in managerial positions at the top 100 largest employers in Sweden about their views on the recession and their attitudes towards the staffing industry. In addition, we have conducted an interview with a manager from a staffing company in Sweden to get another view on the use of staffing companies.
The findings of this study include; even though several references in this paper forecast rapid growth during times of expansion for the staffing companies, this is not reflected within the responses in our sample. The companies perceive the situation of temporary staff as being better than what some theory suggests. There is reason to suggest that large companies that use staffing companies are moving towards a permanent need of temporary labor, and the respondent of such companies generally perceive staffing companies as a good option for mitigating labor-associated risks.
It is difficult to draw definite conclusions based on our findings. We have opted to give the reader some insight as to how the companies perceive the staffing industry, and how a manager of a staffing company perceives its current state. We would like to encourage further research to use the questions and suggestions raised in our paper to conduct tests in the area of temporary staffing from a corporate perspective to nourish the debate in the society with a scientific point of view.
Kariotaki, Sophia. "Under the shadow of recession : a narrative exploration of young Greek graduates' experience of recession." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/under-the-shadow-of-recessiona-narrative-exploration-of-young-greek-graduates-experience-of-recession(046707f9-e56b-4549-903f-148ed67c1982).html.
Full textBrittingham, Jane M. "Great Recession Dying, Okun's Law Resurrected." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/456.
Full textZwick, Eric Meinberg. "Finance Implications of the Great Recession." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11470.
Full textWhittington, R. C. "Corporate strategies in recession and recovery." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376189.
Full textBundick, Brent. "Monetary Policy and the Great Recession." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3790.
Full textThe Great Recession is arguably the most important macroeconomic event of the last three decades. Prior to the collapse of national output during 2008 and 2009, the United States experienced a sustained period of good economic outcomes with only two mild and short recessions. In addition to the severity of the recession, several characteristics of this recession signify it as as a unique event in the recent economic history of the United States. Some of these unique features include the following: Large Increase in Uncertainty About the Future: The Great Recession and its subsequent slow recovery have been marked by a large increase in uncertainty about the future. Uncertainty, as measured by the VIX index of implied stock market volatility, peaked at the end of 2008 and has remained volatile over the past few years. Many economists and the financial press believe the large increase in uncertainty may have played a role in the Great Recession and subsequent slow recovery. For example, Kocherlakota (2010) states, ``I've been emphasizing uncertainties in the labor market. More generally, I believe that overall uncertainty is a large drag on the economic recovery.'' In addition, Nobel laureate economist Peter Diamond argues, ``What's critical right now is not the functioning of the labor market, but the limits on the demand for labor coming from the great caution on the side of both consumers and firms because of the great uncertainty of what's going to happen next.'' Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates: The Federal Reserve plays a key role in offsetting the negative impact of fluctuations in the economy. During normal times, the central bank typically lowers nominal short-term interest rates in response to declines in inflation and output. Since the end of 2008, however, the Federal Reserve has been unable to lower its nominal policy rate due to the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Prior to the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve had not encountered the zero lower bound in the modern post-war period. The zero lower bound represents a significant constraint monetary policy's ability to fully stabilize the economy. Unprecedented Use of Forward Guidance: Even though the Federal Reserve remains constrained by the zero lower bound, the monetary authority can still affect the economy through expectations about future nominal policy rates. By providing agents in the economy with forward guidance on the future path of policy rates, monetary policy can stimulate the economy even when current policy rates remain constrained. Throughout the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery, the Federal Reserve provided the economy with explicit statements about the future path of monetary policy. In particular, the central bank has discussed the timing and macroeconomic conditions necessary to begin raising its nominal policy rate. Using this policy tool, the Federal Reserve continues to respond to the state of the economy at the zero lower bound. Large Fiscal Expansion: During the Great Recession, the United States engaged in a very large program of government spending and tax reductions. The massive fiscal expansion was designed to raise national income and help mitigate the severe economic contraction. A common justification for the fiscal expansion is the reduced capacity of the monetary authority to stimulate the economy at the zero lower bound. Many economists argue that the benefits of increasing government spending are significantly higher when the monetary authority is constrained by the zero lower bound. The goal of this dissertation is to better understand how these various elements contributed to the macroeconomic outcomes during and after the Great Recession. In addition to understanding each of the elements above in isolation, a key component of this analysis focuses on the interaction between the above elements. A key unifying theme between all of the elements is the role in monetary policy. In modern models of the macroeconomy, the monetary authority is crucial in determining how a particular economic mechanism affects the macroeconomy. In the first and second chapters, I show that monetary policy plays a key role in offsetting the negative effects of increased uncertainty about the future. My third chapter highlights how assumptions about monetary policy can change the impact of various shocks and policy interventions. For example, suppose the fiscal authority wants to increase national output by increasing government spending. A key calculation in this situation is the fiscal multiplier, which is dollar increase in national income for each dollar of government spending. I show that fiscal multipliers are dramatically affected by the assumptions about monetary policy even if the monetary authority is constrained by the zero lower bound. The unique nature of the elements discussed above makes analyzing their contribution difficult using standard macroeconomic tools. The most popular method for analyzing dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium models of the macroeconomy relies on linearizing the model around its deterministic steady state and examining the local dynamics around that approximation. However, the nature of the unique elements above make it impossible to fully capture dynamics using local linearization methods. For example, the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates often occurs far from the deterministic steady state of the model. Therefore, linearization around the steady state cannot capture the dynamics associated with the zero lower bound. The overall goal of this dissertation is to use and develop tools in computational macroeconomics to help better understand the Great Recession. Each of the chapters outlined below examine at least one of the topics listed above and its impact in explaining the macroeconomics of the Great Recession. In particular, the essays highlight the role of the monetary authority in generating the observed macroeconomic outcomes over the past several years. Can increased uncertainty about the future cause a contraction in output and its components? In joint work with Susanto Basu, my first chapter examines the role of uncertainty shocks in a one-sector, representative-agent, dynamic, stochastic general-equilibrium model. When prices are flexible, uncertainty shocks are not capable of producing business-cycle comovements among key macroeconomic variables. With countercyclical markups through sticky prices, however, uncertainty shocks can generate fluctuations that are consistent with business cycles. Monetary policy usually plays a key role in offsetting the negative impact of uncertainty shocks. If the central bank is constrained by the zero lower bound, then monetary policy can no longer perform its usual stabilizing function and higher uncertainty has even more negative effects on the economy. We calibrate the size of uncertainty shocks using fluctuations in the VIX and find that increased uncertainty about the future may indeed have played a significant role in worsening the Great Recession, which is consistent with statements by policymakers, economists, and the financial press. In sole-authored work, the second chapter continues to explore the interactions between the zero lower bound and increased uncertainty about the future. From a positive perspective, the essay further shows why increased uncertainty about the future can reduce a central bank's ability to stabilize the economy. The inability to offset contractionary shocks at the zero lower bound endogenously generates downside risk for the economy. This increase in risk induces precautionary saving by households, which causes larger contractions in output and inflation and prolongs the zero lower bound episode. The essay also examines the normative implications of uncertainty and shows how monetary policy can attenuate the negative effects of higher uncertainty. When the economy faces significant uncertainty, optimal monetary policy implies further lowering real rates by committing to a higher price-level target. Under optimal policy, the monetary authority accepts higher inflation risk in the future to minimize downside risk when the economy hits the zero lower bound. In the face of large shocks, raising the central bank's inflation target can attenuate much of the downside risk posed by the zero lower bound. In my third chapter, I examine how assumptions about monetary policy affect the economy at the zero lower bound. Even when current policy rates are zero, I argue that assumptions regarding the future conduct of monetary policy are crucial in determining the effects of real fluctuations at the zero lower bound. Under standard Taylor (1993)-type policy rules, government spending multipliers are large, improvements in technology cause large contractions in output, and structural reforms that decrease firm market power are bad for the economy. However, these policy rules imply that the central bank stops responding to the economy at the zero lower bound. This assumption is inconsistent with recent statements and actions by monetary policymakers. If monetary policy endogenously responds to current economic conditions using expectations about future policy, then spending multipliers are much smaller and increases in technology and firm competitiveness remain expansionary. Thus, the model-implied benefits of higher government spending are highly sensitive to the specification of monetary policy
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
Biswal, Basudev. "The Geomorphological Origin of Recession Curves." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3421672.
Full textQuesto studio è motivato dal fatto che i bacini naturali sono accomunati da importanti similarità relativamente alla loro organizzazione ed al modo in cui essi rispondono agli impulsi di pioggia. L’obiettivo centrale di questa tesi è quindi quello di individuare una relazione tra alcune caratteristiche osservabili nella morfologia dei bacini e la loro risposta idrologica. In particolare con questo studio si cerca di scoprire analogie nascoste tra la morfologia dei bacini e le curve di recessione attraverso un semplice modello concettuale in grado di descrivere le dinamiche delle reti in saturazione o “Active Drainage Networks” (ADN). L’analisi delle curve di recessione è effettuata seguendo un approccio proposto in Brutsaert and Neiber (1977), in cui -dQ/dt è rappresentato in funzione di Q attraverso una legge di potenza (-dQ/dt = k Qα), dove Q è il deflusso alla sezione di chiusura di un bacino al tempo t. Nella tesi si mostra che il numero di connessioni (links) in una rete, N(l), ad una distanza l dalle origini (channel heads) è correlato attraverso una legge di potenza con la lunghezza della ADN, cioè la lunghezza delle connessioni ad una distanza maggiore o uguale ad l dalle origini. Assumendo che il deflusso, q , prodotto dalla ADN per unità di lunghezza e la velocità di desaturazione della rete, c, siano costanti nel tempo e nello spazio si discute l’ipotesi che la legge di potenza che lega -dQ/dt e Q abbia origine dalla legge di potenza che lega N(l) e G(l). Si osserva che non c’è un'unica relazione tra -dQ/dt e Q per un bacino, il che suggerisce che la nota assunzione di una singola relazione tra deflusso e volume di immagazzinamento sia inappropriata. Inoltre, una tipica curva -dQ/dt vs. Q possiede regimi differenti dovuti al suo legame con la risposta superficiale che si osserva subito dopo un evento di pioggia e agli errori di misura effettuati in particolare in periodi di deflusso moderato. Si può osservare una relazione di potenza discretamente buona tra -dQ/dt e Q subito dopo un evento di pioggia e persistente per diversi giorni. L’esponente α della legge di potenza per ciascun idrogramma di un bacino è quindi calcolato e il valore mediano è considerato rappresentativo di tutti i valori di α per il bacino. I valori osservati dell’esponente αo sono in buon accordo con gli esponenti della relazione geomorfologica, αg, per 67 bacini statunitensi di dimensioni diverse e situati in diverse zone climatiche. In particolare si osserva una forte correlazione per bacini con elevata pendenza che non presentano aspetti antropici significativi, come ad esempio dighe, città, diffuse aree coltivate, ecc. Si è inoltre osservato che l’esponente α è significativamente correlato con il noto esponente di Hack. Si è visto che il coefficiente k è legato attraverso una legge di potenza con qualsiasi deflusso caratteristico selezionato: k=k’Qn-γ, dove Qn è il deflusso osservato dopo n giorni dal picco dell’idrogramma. Di conseguenza, diverse curve di recessione possono essere fatte collassare in un’unica curva. Si osserva inoltre che l’esponente γ della legge di potenza e il coefficiente di determinazione aumentano all’aumentare di n. Si osserva come le curve N(l)/A vs. G(l)/A di diversi bacini collassino in un'unica curva, il che implica che i bacini naturali seguono una qualche legge geomorfologica universale. Le curve di recessione, invece, dipendono da molti fattori come la geologia, l’uso del suolo, le caratteristiche topografiche. Si osserva che le curve di recessione di bacini con simili caratteristiche topografiche e geologiche collassano in un’unica curva. Questa osservazione implica che è possibile classificare bacini naturali solo sulla base delle curve di recessione. Questa scoperta rafforza ulteriormente l’assunzione di q e c costanti fatta in precedenza. Infine viene messo in evidenza che il fatto che le curve di recessione rappresentano una sorta di “firma” della morfologia dei bacini suggerisce che il deflusso subsuperficiale influenza la rete, in modo da produrre un drenaggio approssimativamente uniforme, e perciò una distribuzione uniforme di q.
Rasuli, Shakawan, and Emil Gryth. "Marketing in Recession: - How have Swedish firms in the consumer discretionary sector reacted to the current recession?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-20068.
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