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Description:: A credit default swap (CDS) is a derivative contract based on an underlying entitity's debt, in which, a seller compensates the buyer for losses to the value of the underlying asset due to a credit event. CDS can be purchased covered along with the underlying asset or naked without any exposure...
Author:: Refayet, Md Ehraz
Keyword:: Credit Default Swaps, Borrowing Cost, Spillovers, Credit Derivatives, General Equilibrium, and Signalling
GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Fostel, Ana
Committee Member(s):: Wei, Chao, Cipriani, Marco, Shambaugh, Jay, and Labadie, Pamela
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: My dissertation essays explore factors that determine changes in economic structure over time. First, I study the role of productivity growth differences across industries in driving structural change in the long run. Second, I find in the short run that economic structure is skewed away from...
Author:: SUN, Yu
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Samaniego, Roberto M
Committee Member(s):: Mukoyama, Toshihiko, Sinclair, Tara, Wei, Chao, and Labadie, Pamela
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation examines sovereign defaults, fiscal cyclicality, and economic growth during the first wave of financial globalization. The first chapter studies the causes and the renegotiations of 27 sovereign defaults episodes of seven Latin American countries from 1820-1931. Most of these...
Author:: Vega-Garcia, Pablo
Keyword:: Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Defaults, Debt Renegotiation, Fiscal Cyclicality, Financial Globalization, and Economic Growth
GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Kaminsky, Graciela L.
Committee Member(s):: Wei, Chao, Labadie, Pamela, Shambaugh, Jay C., and Vegh, Carlos
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The dissertation contributes to the literature on the anatomy of the relationship between institutions and growth by examining the role political regime changes play in predicting the onstart of growth "takeoffs" - significant turning points in a country's growth history. The link between...
Author:: Babych, Yaroslava
Keyword:: growth accelerations, regime changes, threshold effects, political spillover effects, economic growth, and crises
GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Kaminsky, Graciela L
Committee Member(s):: Vegh, Carlos A., Cipriani, Marco, Labadie, Pamela, and Fostel, Ana
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The chapters of this dissertation examine the influence credit default swaps (CDS) have a number of different corporate debt financing outcomes. Chapter Two studies the effects CDS have on firm financing in a general equilibrium production economy with heterogeneous firms. Covered CDS lower...
Author:: Darst, Robert Matthew
Keyword:: term structure, spillovers, credit default swaps, general equilibrium, investment, and default risk
GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Fostel, Ana
Committee Member(s):: Wei, Chao, Shambaugh, Jay, Agca, Senay, and Labadie, Pamela
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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