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Terms of trade movements and the global economic crisis: Implications for the Asia-Pacific region
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2009
Dramatic changes in the relative prices of goods in international trade have accompanied, and indeed preceded, the global crisis. These changes are reflected in the terms of trade ofindividual countries and in the relative prices of goods within those countries. Asia-Pacific countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434781
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Terms of trade movements and the global economic crisis: Implications for the Asia-Pacific region
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2009
Dramatic changes in the relative prices of goods in international trade have accompanied, and indeed preceded, the global crisis. These changes are reflected in the terms of trade of individual countries and in the relative prices of goods within those countries. Asia-Pacific countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434784
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Trend and Cycles in Coal and Oil Prices in the Long Run: A Schumpeterian Approach
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2011
We contribute to the task of identifying trends and cycles in energy prices by examining very long series of prices for coal and oil, going back to 1650 in the case of coal and 1859 in the case of oil. We find annual rates of increase in real price of greater than two percent are found for coal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435028
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The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited: Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk
Storesletten, Kjetil; Telmer, Chris I; Yaron, Amir - 2000
This paper investigates the welfare costs of business cycles in a heterogeneous agent, overlapping generations economy which is distinguished by idiosyncratic labor market risk. Aggregate variation arises both in terms of aggregate productivity shocks and countercyclical variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441157
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The properties of cycles in South African financial variables and their relation to the business cycle
Boshoff, Willem Hendrik - 2006
The goal of this thesis is twofold: it aims, firstly, at a description of cycles in SouthAfrican financial variables and, secondly, at the evaluation of the relationshipbetween cycles in financial variables and the South African business cycle. The studyis based on the original business cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442149
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Dynamic Asymmetries in the Australian Labour Market
Bodman, Philip M. - 2002
This paper examines whether Australian labour market variables, in particular aggregate employment and unemployment … macroeconomy but there is evidence of asymmetric steepness for both employment and unemployment as well as the CPI. Nominal or real … wages exhibit neither forms of asymmetry. The evidence suggests that unemployment (employment) rises (falls) rapidly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448021
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Corporate decision-making during recession : product franchisors in the Australian agricultural machinery industry, 1967-72
Wadley,David - 1974
's geographical behaviour. To maximise opportunities for observing change, the effects of recession on firms using a particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448104
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America's First Great Moderation
Shaffer, Ryan - 2011
This paper identifies America's first Great Moderation, a period from 1841-1856 of unbroken economic expansion and low volatility comparable to the Great Moderation of the 1980s-2000s. This moderation occurred despite a lack of central banks, low governmental spending, and barriers to interstate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468758
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Can the business cycle be used to create predictable mutual fund outperformance?
Aquino, Michael - 2007
This study attempts to determine the degree to which the state of the macroeconomy can be used to create a mutual fund investment strategy that consistently outperforms the S&P 500. By quantifying how systematic economic factors affect the relative performance of different fund strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474981
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Essays on Financial Crises and Financial Regulation
Bianchi Caporale, Javier Ignacio - 2011
This dissertation studies the optimal regulatory response to financial crises. The first two chapters focus on prevention of financial crises, and the third chapter focuses on resolution of financial crises.Chapter 1 develops a quantitative theory of overborrowing based on a systemic risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450677