Essays about: "external shocks"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 32 essays containing the words external shocks.

  1. 26. Four Financial Crises in Argentina: a comparative study into the causes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Anders Kronfelt; [2015]
    Keywords : Argentina; financial crises; external shocks; capital flows; domestic savings; deregulation; fiscal policies; exchange-rate regime; political shocks; crisis management; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study is concerned with exploring the causes for four financial crises in Argentina’s history stretching from 1890 to 2002 and with comparing the causes in order to find recurring problems. I will argue that the crisis in 1929-1932 is the one differing from the other three on several aspects: its prime causes were external; the public deficits were modest; there was no sudden stop in inflow of foreign capital; it was better managed; and it was not preceded by financial deregulation. READ MORE

  3. 27. Beyond the "Asian Flu". "Asia-vu"? Internal and External Risks for The Economy of Indonesia. Asset Price Bubbles and Contagion

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Nikolay Antonov; Todor Sapunarov; [2014]
    Keywords : Bubbles; Contagion; Indonesia; Kalman filter; Bubbagion Index ;

    Abstract : Asset price bubbles and cross-country contagion, embodying an economy's domestic and foreign risks respectively, are two topical issues in finance. Indonesia, a fast-growing emerging market economy, and one of the world's volatile "Fragile Five", is a prime suspect for a country that is likely to exhibit vulnerabilities to both bubbles and contagion. READ MORE

  4. 28. Strategies and Firm Performance during Implementation of Gender Quotas

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Mathilde Karlsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Corporate Governance; Female board directors; Quota; Norway;

    Abstract : Norway offered a natural experiment when the country introduced the gender quota law, imposing a 40 % representation of each gender in the boards of public limited companies and government owned enterprises. External shocks forcing to significant changes in board compositions are rare, but both the Cadbury Committee in UK and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US led to increased board size. READ MORE

  5. 29. Macroeconomic Shocks and Monetary Policy : Analysis of Sweden and the United Kingdom

    University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ruzica Gajic; [2012]
    Keywords : Cost-push; demand-pull; impulse-response; monetary policy; New Keynesian theory; shocks; structural VAR;

    Abstract : External economic shocks cause domestic macroeconomic aggregates to fluctuate. This may call for a macroeconomic policy intervention. Since the early 1990s an increasing number of countries have adopted an inflation targeting framework. READ MORE

  6. 30. Inequality indices, income shares and upper income groups in the public sector: surviving the crisis and the austerity measures.

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Romans Bobilevs; [2012]
    Keywords : Income inequality; Public sector; Income distribution; Crisis; Austerity;

    Abstract : The paper documents development of income inequality in public sector using a panel of inequality measures and a unique dataset on monthly income of employees in 41 public sector entities in Latvia over 2006-2009. Calculated inequality measures are then used as dependent variables to analyze the determinants of changes in income inequality and in income distribution relying on OLS, IV-GMM and panel fixed effect IV regressions in empirical methods. READ MORE