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Freight Transportation Activity, Business Cycles and Trend Growth

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Elger, Thomas - 2007

This paper studies empirical linkages between cycles and trends in freight transportation activity and real economic activity in Sweden. We find that cycles in freight transportation are highly contemporaneously correlated with cycles in economic variables over both the short run and the medium...

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Inconsistent definitions of GDP: Implications for estimates of decoupling

Semieniuk, Gregor - 2022

Efforts to assess the possibilities for decoupling economic growth from negative environmental impacts have examined …, compare decoupling results using various historical definitions of GDP on the same environmental indicator, and demonstrate … that changing the GDP data vintage does impact decoupling results in qualitatively important ways, with and without …

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Determinants of financial stress and recovery during the great recession

Aizenman, Joshua; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - 2010

In this paper, we explore the link between stress in the domestic financial sector and the capital flight faced by countries in the 2008-9 global crisis. Both the timing of emergence of internal financial stress in developing economies, and the size of the peak-trough declines in the stock price...

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Determinants of financial stress and recovery during the great recession

Aizenman, Joshua; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - 2010

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Macroeconomic vulnerability in developing countries: Approaches and issues

Seth, Anuradha; Ragab, Amr - 2012

build resilience and protect themselves from development reversals has become all the more urgent. Not surprisingly …

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Snakes and ladders, buffers and passports: Rethinking poverty, vulnerability and wellbeing

Sumner, Andy; Mallett, Rich - 2011

Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households experience multiple, interacting and sometimes compound vulnerabilities. Cross-disciplinary thinking is emerging as multi-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly...

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Aggregate fluctuations in adaptive production networks

König, Michael D. - 2016

We study production networks where firms' products can be described by a set of input and output characteristics, and links are formed only if the output characteristics of a seller match the input characteristics of a customer. We introduce a fully endogenous network formation model with...

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Social preference and group identity in the financial cooperative

Ewerhart, Christian; Zubrickas, Robertas - 2019

resilience might quickly evaporate as membership requirements get diluted. …

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The role of waterways in promoting urban resilience: The case of Kochi City

Aziz, Zeba; Ray, Indro; Paul, Sandeep - 2018

enhance connectivity in the region. The study examines how water ways can promote the climate, social and economic resilience …

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Climate Change, Armed Conflicts and Resilience

D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022

important pathway to be explored is the role that building resilience can play in preventing and/or breaking the negative … relationship between climate change and violent activity. In this context, resilience refers to the capacity of a system to come … technological dimensions. In our paper we provide empirical evidence on the role played by resilience-building investments in …

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