Essays about: "Income Shocks"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 48 essays containing the words Income Shocks.
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16. Growing crops or growing conflicts? : Climate variability, rice production and political violence in Vietnam
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : This thesis contributes to research on climate change and violent conflict by testing the theory of a causal relationship between climate variability, agricultural production and political violence in the case of Vietnam 2010-2019. Climate-related negative shocks to agricultural production in developing countries are expected to lower the opportunity cost of violence through an income effect. READ MORE
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17. Interest Risk Factors and Stock Returns of US Banks: The Effects of Size and Financial Crisis
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : We find that the effects of interest risk factors on US banks' stock returns are affected by banks' size, measured by market equity values, and income structures, measured by the ratios of interest income and interest expense. The effects of interest risk factors have changed after 2008 financial crisis. READ MORE
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18. Time to purchase your ownhouse : The resistance of housing investments againstmacroeconomic shocks
University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggandeAbstract : Housing is both a durable good and an investment vehicle, which makes it importantin people’s daily life aswell as for a nation’s economy. This thesis innovatively applies the Sharpe ratio on evaluating the performance of the US residentialhousing market within the time period from 2005:Q1 to 2019:Q3, andinvestigates how this performance would react upon macroeconomic shocks,including sudden changes in GDP growth rate and personal income growthrate, by establishing a vector auto-regression model with the lag order of four. READ MORE
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19. Curse of the Good Rains - The Long-Run Impacts of Locust Infestations: Evidence from the 1986-89 Locust Plague in the Sahel
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis estimates the long-run impacts of a desert locust plague, which lasted from 1986 to 1989. It considers the effect of in utero exposure and during young ages for both men and women. READ MORE
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20. Climate Change, Making Poor People Poorer? An assessment of climatic shocks on household income in Bangladesh.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : As global average temperatures are increasing due to climate change, economic impacts are increasingly palpable. A major concern is that these impacts are likely disproportionally concentrated in developing countries, and in turn poor communities within these countries. READ MORE
