Essays about: "boom and bust"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words boom and bust.

  1. 1. From Boom to Bust: Unfolding the association between business cycles and the mental health of Swedish children

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Maja Juväng; Thilda Horvath; [2023]
    Keywords : Child mental health; Health economics; Business Cycles; Unemployment rate; Fixed effects model; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : An extensive body of literature links macroeconomic conditions to mortality and diverse health outcomes in adulthood, but largely ignores the impact on children. Sweden is currently at the verge of an economic downturn, while mental health disorders and psychosomatic problems are the most common health issue amongst children. READ MORE

  3. 2. Performance of Small- and Large-cap stock portfolios- The importance of market anomalies across business cycles

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Erik Hulth; [2021-06-30]
    Keywords : Stock performance; Market anomalies; Asset pricing; Portfolio sorting techniques; Factor-portfolio sorting techniques; Value effect; Size effect; Momentum effect; Temporal influences; Business cycles; GDP-gap; Single-and Multi- Factor models; CAPM; Fama-French Three-Factor model; Carhart Four-Factor model; Risk-adjusted equity returns; Sharpe Ratio; Jensen´s alpha; NASDAQ OMX and NYSE;

    Abstract : This Master´s thesis investigated the importance of the market anomalies size (market capitalization), value (Book-to-Market ratio) and momentum (lagged short-term momentum) for equity returns of small- and large-cap composite stock portfolios. The study focused on two contrasting stock markets (NASDAQ OMX and NYSE) across domestic business cycles over the time-period 2006 to 2021. READ MORE

  4. 3. Boom, Bust and Betrayal- Business cycles and securities fraud in the US between 1996-2019

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Viktoria Carshaw; Rinske de Vries; [2021-06-29]
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    Abstract : We study the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the number of settled securities fraud cases through the proxy of SEC class action lawsuits. We perform an empirical study of all SEC class action convictions between 1996-2019 and their relationship with business cycles as proxied by a housing price index and GDP. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Great Gatsby Boom and Bust – the neverending nightmare that is the American Dream

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Darren Gordon; [2021]
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  6. 5. Can We Predict Business Cycles With Natural Language Processing?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Albert Flak; [2020]
    Keywords : Business Cycles; Economic Narratives; Natural Language Processing NLP ; Latent Dirichlet Allocation LDA ; Word Embeddings;

    Abstract : For centuries, many economists have attempted to solve the puzzle of business cycles; what explains them, and is it possible to predict them? The great amount of electronically available textual data, together with the recent advancements in unsupervised natural language processing are bound to offer new ways of analysing these perennial questions. Inspired with the emergence of narrative economics as a new field of economic analysis, I propose a novel research design to computationally extract business cycle sentiment from textual data on economic expectations. READ MORE