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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:403
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/403/
Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model
Mariam, Yohannes
Eisemon, Thomas
Coffin, Garth
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
O55 - Africa
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
Q16 - R&D ; Agricultural Technology ; Biofuels ; Agricultural Extension Services
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
P32 - Collectives ; Communes ; Agriculture
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
The study examined a simplified conceptual model which incorporates variables that influence the processes and consequences of household decision-making in the Ada and Selale districts of the Ethiopian highlands. Linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis was performed on three conceptual models.
The results of LISREL analysis indicate that the magnitude of contribution of factors to production efficiency in descending order as: skill variables (e.g., experience, secular education and production knowledge), consequences of access to resources or institutions (e.g., wealth), technologies adopted, physical factors (e.g., land and labour) and extension education. The impact of inputs on production efficiency was greater among farmers who have adopted one or two technologies (Ada) and two or more technologies (Selale). Successful adoption can be attained if, given appropriate socioeconomic environment, skills of producers are matched to the requirements of technologies, and when the choice of technologies are compatible with the goals of households, experience, region and enterprise specific comparative advantages.
1993-04-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/403/1/MPRA_paper_403.pdf
Mariam, Yohannes and Eisemon, Thomas and Coffin, Garth (1993): Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1089
2019-09-27T04:17:44Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1089/
Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Agro-Industry in the Economic Development of Thailand: Input-Output and CGE Analyses (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Thaiprasert, Nalitra
O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O24 - Trade Policy ; Factor Movement Policy ; Foreign Exchange Policy
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O1 - Economic Development
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Thailand’s economic development has been quite successful in terms of achieving high growth rate and reasonable per capita income. The country’s economic performance in terms of the transformation of production and exports are tending toward the normal pattern of increasing share of manufactured products. However, the major problems Thailand is still facing are the late reduction of its agricultural labor force, inequality that has occurred as a result of the development process, and problems in potential of manufacturing industrial sectors. These three issues are made the main discussions of this dissertation. In addition, structural transformation in Thailand has posed many difficulties for the development of Thai agriculture, which is closely related to the welfare of the poor in the rural areas. Therefore, to tackle income distribution problems directly requires that farmers be given new opportunities. Agro-industry and high value-added agricultural sectors were proposed as the key sectors to improve inequality problems, smoothen employment transformation, generate high growth and induce high output production, and act as a bridge connecting Thai primary agriculture with the modern sectors. Agro-industry was proposed to be promoted in the rural areas for closer input locations, to shift agricultural workers from primary agriculture, to improve the real wage of farmers, and to prevent extensive urban migration. Qualitative analysis, input-output analysis, SAM analysis, and CGE analysis were applied to aid the discussions, prove the hypothesis, and achieve the objective.
2006-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1089/1/MPRA_paper_1089.pdf
Thaiprasert, Nalitra (2006): Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Agro-Industry in the Economic Development of Thailand: Input-Output and CGE Analyses (Ph.D. Dissertation). Published in: (April 2006): i-344.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1625
2019-09-29T19:34:17Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1625/
Rethinking the Culture - Economy Dialectic
Brons, Lajos
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Z10 - General
B49 - Other
The culture - economy dialectic (CED), the opposition of the concepts and phenomena of culture and economy, is one of the most important notions in the modern history of ideas. Both the disciplinary boundaries and much theoretical thought in social science are strongly influenced or even determined by the CED. Hence, a thorough analysis and evaluation of the CED might be useful to better understand the history of ideas in social science and the currently fashionable research on the cultural influences on economic differences between countries and regions.
This book, my PhD thesis, attempts to do just that. The concepts of "culture" and "economy" (and related concepts) and the (assumed) relationships therebetween are compared and analysed. Empirical results from earlier studies are summarised and some new test are presented. These new tests are partly based on a measurement of Dutch regional culture. However, it appeared that most theories of the CED are (nearly) impossible to (empirically) verify. There seems to be some influence of wealth on specific cultural phenomena (such individualism and post-materialism), but the often assumed influence of culture on entrepreneurship and economic growth remains unconfirmed. Moreover, from an analysis of the theories themselves, it appears that most of these cannot be falsified and are, therefore, hardly 'scientific'.
Many of the theories of the CED and, in fact, many theories of social science in general are of a conceptual rather than a causal nature. These theories cannot easily be falsified by empirical means alone, but must be studied by means of conceptual analysis. In the final conclusions, this book, therefore, argues for conceptual analysis in, and a more anarchist approach to, social science.
2005-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1625/1/MPRA_paper_1625.pdf
Brons, Lajos (2005): Rethinking the Culture - Economy Dialectic. Published in: (June 2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4030
2019-09-26T20:32:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4030/
Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Economic Games
Stanton, Angela A.
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Z00 - General
In economic experiments decisions often differ from game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there a benefit to generosity toward strangers? Research on the neural substrates of decisions suggests that some choices are hormone-dependent. By artificially stimulating subjects with neuroactive hormones, we can identify which hormones and brain regions participate in decisionmaking, to what degree and in what direction. Can a hormone make a person generous while another stingy? In this paper, two laboratory experiments are described using the hormones oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP). Concentrations of these hormones in the brain continuously change in response to external stimuli. OT enhances trust (Michael Kosfeld et al. 2005b), reduce fear from strangers (C. Sue Carter 1998), and has anti-anxiety effects (Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, Maria Peterson 2005). AVP enhances attachment and bonding with kin in monogamous male mammals (Jennifer N. Ferguson et al. 2002) and increases reactive aggression (C. Sue Carter 2007). Dysfunctions of OT and/or AVP reception have been associated with autism (Miranda M. Lim et al. 2005). In Chapter One I review past experiments with the ultimatum (UG) and dictator (DG) games and visit some of the major results in the literature. In Chapter Two I present the results of my laboratory experiment where I examine why people are generous in one-shot economic games with strangers. I hypothesize that oxytocin would enhance generosity in the UG. Players in the OT group were much more generous than those in the placebo—OT offers in the UG were 80% higher than offers on placebo. Enhanced generosity was not due to altruism as there was no effect on DG offers. This implies that other-regarding preferences are at play in the amount of money sent but only in a reciprocal context. The third chapter presents an experiment on punishment. I hypothesized that AVP would increase rejections and stinginess in the UG and TG. Results show that AVP affects rejections and stinginess in small groups but not in large ones. Chapter Four contains the summary of future research
suggestions.
2007-05-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4030/1/MPRA_paper_4030.pdf
Stanton, Angela A. (2007): Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Economic Games. Published in: Journal of Dissertation , Vol. Volume, No. Issue 1 (9 July 2007): pp. 1-63.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4328
2019-09-30T10:08:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4328/
Giga-Investments: Modelling the Valuation of Very Large Industrial Real Investments
Collan, Mikael
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
G31 - Capital Budgeting ; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies ; Capacity
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
In this doctoral dissertation characteristics of very large industrial real investments (VLIRI) are investigated and a special group of VLIRI is defined as giga-investments. The investment decision-making regarding to giga-investments is discussed from the points of view of discounted cash-flow based methods and real option valuation. Based on the bacground of establishing giga-investments, state-of-the-art in capital budgeting (including real options) and by applying fuzzy numbers a novel method for the evaluation and profitability analysis of giga-investments is presented. Application of the method is illustrated and issues regarding investment decision-making of large industrial real investments are discussed.
2004-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4328/1/MPRA_paper_4328.pdf
Collan, Mikael (2004): Giga-Investments: Modelling the Valuation of Very Large Industrial Real Investments. Published in: TUCS Dissertations , Vol. 57, (November 2004): pp. 1-145.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8478
2021-04-07T18:58:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8478/
Development of relationships in interorganizational networks: studies in the tourism and construction industries
Pesämaa, Ossi
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C12 - Hypothesis Testing: General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A firm is a type of organizational arrangement often involved in interorganizational networks. Typically, interorganizational networks are the outcome of individuals in firms working together in cooperative groups. Through these individuals firms establish both formal and social relationships. The individuals develop lasting relationships because they share time, interests, goals, industrial, geographical or some other type of relatedness. Shared goals and interests of the relationship become an observable unit built upon various constructs. Interorganizational networks typically involve one or several different types of relationship constructs. This thesis elaborates on different relationship constructs and proposes different roles for each construct. All relationships are studied at a firm level since managers are considered key informants for the firm. The overall research question is: How do relationships in interorganizational networks develop? The main objective is to examine the development of these relationships in interorganizational networks. Deleted two sentences The approach is to synthesize 10 essays on relationships between five constructs – reciprocity, trust, cooperation, interorganizational commitment and loyalty. The results indicate that relationships are based upon a long term orientation. Secondly, relationships develop from certain processes before interaction is initiated. These processes involve the influence of cooperative motives to enter interorganizational networks and preferences upon which potential partners are selected. Furthermore, the initial processes involving motives and preferences expand to include the development of relationships based on friendships, interpersonal commitments, reciprocity and trust. The ultimate outcome of this process is stability and maturity, which means relationships are sustained by dependencies, their initial objectives and the desire to protect. Dependencies are reflected in interorganizational commitment, which means the firms' future intentions and promises strengthen the relationships. The objectives interorganizational networks are founded upon motivate network firms to develop relationships based on cooperative strategies so that shared goals and decisions can be effectively pursued. Finally, the firms typically protect their relationships by developing loyalties. All models represent unique examples of potential relationships and some models are particularly important because they were purified so that convergent, nomological and discriminant validity criteria could be met. The results are consistent with but extend previous research and are considered important for future business studies in general, but particularly within the tourism and construction industries. A practical implication of the research is thus that in evaluating new opportunities, firms should carefully examine the characteristics of potential partners as well as how the partnership might influence the content of their relationships. Another practical implication is that trust and reciprocity should be viewed differently in building successful network partnerships.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8478/1/MPRA_paper_8478.pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8478/8/MPRA_paper_8478.pdf
Pesämaa, Ossi (2007): Development of relationships in interorganizational networks: studies in the tourism and construction industries. Published in: (2007): pp. 1-303.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9292
2019-10-01T10:23:09Z
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State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
Ahmad, Sayed Javed
A39 - Other
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
J18 - Public Policy
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
G38 - Government Policy and Regulation
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
I28 - Government Policy
This paper discusses the problems and issues on the political failures in Bangladesh as well as identifies some possible solutions. The approach here is analytical mostly reviewing current news, reports and other related materials. A comparative study is also done between the present and proposed system to get a quick glimpse on the overall situation. The idea here is to seek out reasonable and practical solutions that would yield better result for Bangladesh and bring about positive changes in the political scenario that would allow the country to move forward as a successful and dignified nation. I’ve kept the scope of this paper limited to political party, elections and governance.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9292/1/MPRA_paper_9292.pdf
Ahmad, Sayed Javed (2008): State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13581
2019-09-27T00:09:42Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13581/
Developing Strategies for Islamic Banks to Face the Future Challenges of Financial Globalization
Al Ajlouni, Ahmed
P0 - General
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z12 - Religion
N25 - Asia including Middle East
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
Developing Strategies for Islamic Banks to Face the Future Challenges of Financial Globalization
Ahmed Al-Ajlouni
Abstract
This study aims at forming strategic response to assess the ability of Islamic banks in benefiting from the opportunities that may be provided by financial globalization and limits its threats, through assessing the capability of Islamic banks to meet the requirements and challenges of financial globalization, then suggests the suitable strategies that may be adopted by Islamic banks to maximize and limit the expected opportunities and threats respectively
2004-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13581/1/MPRA_paper_13581.pdf
Al Ajlouni, Ahmed (2004): Developing Strategies for Islamic Banks to Face the Future Challenges of Financial Globalization.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16101
2019-09-28T13:44:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16101/
SUPPLY CHAINS FACING ATYPICAL DEMAND: OPTIMAL OPERATIONAL POLICIES AND BENEFITS UNDER INFORMATION SHARING
Baruah, Pundarikaksha
M11 - Production Management
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C44 - Operations Research ; Statistical Decision Theory
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
M21 - Business Economics
Demand patterns for products with seasonality and or short life-cycles do not follow a clear discernible pattern (to allow predictive time-series modeling of demand) for individual sales events or seasons due to such factors as considerable demand volatility, product promotions, and unforeseen marketplace events. Suppliers supporting such atypical demand patterns typically incur higher holding costs, lower capacity utilization, and lower order fill-rates, particularly under long lead-times and uncertainty in effective capacity. Retailers on the other hand struggle with product overages and supply shortages. On the other hand, atypical demand settings bring huge financial opportunity to supply chain players, and are pervasive. It is suggested in the literature that an effective means to reap these benefits is through increased information sharing between retailers and suppliers, superior forecasting with forecast update techniques, proper replenishment, and custom designed inventory/manufacturing policies. We also believe that sharing of order forecasts, also known as soft-orders, in advance by the buyer could be beneficial to both parties involved.
This dissertation in particular studies a two-player supply chain, facing atypical demand. Among the two-players is a buyer (retailer/distributor/vendor) that makes ordering decision(s) in the presence of upstream supply uncertainty and demand forecast revision(s). We propose a stochastic dynamic programming model to optimally deicide on soft-order(s) and a final firm-order under a deposit scheme for initial soft-order(s). While sharing of upstream soft-order inventory position information by the supplier before receiving a final order is not a common industrial practice, nor is it discussed in the literature, our analysis shows that such information sharing is beneficial under certain conditions.
Second player of the supply chain is a supplier (manufacturer) that makes production release decision(s) in the presence of limited and random effective capacity, and final order uncertainty. Our stochastic dynamic programming model for optimal production release decision making reveals that substantial savings in order fulfillment cost (that includes holding, overage, and underage costs) can be realized in the presence of advance soft-order(s). Soft-orders can also be shown to improve order fill-rate for the buyer.
This research explores complex interactions of factors that affect the operational decision making process, such as costs, demand uncertainty, supply uncertainty, effective capacity severity, information accuracy, information volatility, intentional manipulation of information etc. Through extensive analysis of the operational policies, we provide managerial insights, many of which are intuitively appealing, such as, additional information never increases cost of an optimal decision; many are also counterintuitive, for example, dynamic programming models cannot fully compensate for intentional soft-order inflation by the buyer, even under conditions of a stable and linear order inflation pattern, in the absence of deposits.
2006-12-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16101/1/MPRA_paper_16101.pdf
Baruah, Pundarikaksha (2006): SUPPLY CHAINS FACING ATYPICAL DEMAND: OPTIMAL OPERATIONAL POLICIES AND BENEFITS UNDER INFORMATION SHARING. Published in: PhD Dissertation (30 December 2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20762
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The Political Economy of Disaster Vulnerability: A Case Study of Pakistan Earthquake 2005
Yasir, Agha
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
F54 - Colonialism ; Imperialism ; Postcolonialism
P16 - Political Economy
N55 - Asia including Middle East
Q58 - Government Policy
Literature on natural hazards typically perceives disasters to be acts of God (or nature) while restricting the examination of their causes to biophysical and geographical explanations. This paper takes a different approach; first, it argues that disasters are socially constructed and, second, it situates the interactions of large-scale natural forces with local political-economic conditions within the context of vulnerability to contend that disasters are consequences of unresolved development challenges. Using the Pressure and Release (PAR) Model the paper suggests the usefulness of the concept of vulnerability that shapes local geographies of risk and weak institutions which transform and enhance the negative impacts of ‘natural’ hazards into ‘man-made’ disasters.
2009-08-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20762/1/MPRA_paper_20762.pdf
Yasir, Agha (2009): The Political Economy of Disaster Vulnerability: A Case Study of Pakistan Earthquake 2005.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:22775
2019-09-28T22:11:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22775/
Truly Non-Cooperative Games: A Unified Theory
Funk, Matt
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
C72 - Noncooperative Games
This dissertation introduces "Truly Non-Cooperative Games" – axioms and complimentary negotiation models developed to analyse the human "Struggle for Life" – and presents "The Principle of Relative Insularity", a unified theory of value which unites economics, astrophysics, and biology. In brief, we discover that, reductio ad absurdum, value is a derivative function of relative insularity.
2010-04-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22775/1/MPRA_paper_22775.pdf
Funk, Matt (2010): Truly Non-Cooperative Games: A Unified Theory.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26129
2019-09-27T16:22:45Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26129/
Can carpooling clean the air? The economics of HOV lanes, hybrid cars and the Clean Air Act.
Shewmake, Sharon
Q50 - General
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
L91 - Transportation: General
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
R41 - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion ; Travel Time ; Safety and Accidents ; Transportation Noise
Private vehicles are a significant source of air pollution in many areas of the United
States. Areas with already high levels of air pollution are required by the Clean Air Act
to take steps to reduce automobile use and the associated emissions. The behavioral
implications of many travel demand management techniques are poorly understood. In
this dissertation I focus on carpooling. Policy makers encourage commuters to carpool
through High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lanes, free parking for carpoolers, attempts to
connect carpoolers, and casual carpoolers (often called slugging). Despite these e
2010-09-02
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NonPeerReviewed
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Shewmake, Sharon (2010): Can carpooling clean the air? The economics of HOV lanes, hybrid cars and the Clean Air Act.
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Electricity Market Reform: Lessons for developing countries
Erdogdu, Erkan
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Q48 - Government Policy
L94 - Electric Utilities
C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
One of the main targets of power market reforms in the world has been price-cost margins. This paper focuses on this issue by looking at the impact of the power market reforms on the convergence of residential and industrial electricity price-cost margins in diverse countries towards their average value and on cross-subsidy levels between consumer groups. Using panel data for 63 developed and developing countries covering the period 1982–2009, empirical models are developed and analyzed. The research findings suggest that, in most cases, reform process causes price-cost margins in different countries to move towards their average value. Besides, it is found that there is a negative relationship between absolute value of deviation from unit industrial/residential price ratio and the shift towards a competitive market model, meaning that as countries take more reform steps the size of cross subsidy between consumer groups tends to decline. Overall, based on empirical evidence, the study found that application of competitive market models in electricity industries makes electricity price-cost margins converge towards the average and prices more cost-reflective by reducing the size of cross subsidies between industrial and residential consumers, after controlling for industry and country-specific variables. Furthermore, the study suggests that power consumption, income level, electricity losses and country specific features constitute other important determinants of convergence towards average electricity price-cost margin and cross-subsidy levels between consumer groups.
2010-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27317/1/MPRA_paper_27317.pdf
Erdogdu, Erkan (2010): Electricity Market Reform: Lessons for developing countries.
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The impact of power market reforms on electricity price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels: a cross country panel data analysis
Erdogdu, Erkan
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure ; Size Distribution of Firms
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
L94 - Electric Utilities
One of the main expectations from power market reform has been a reduction in price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels between industrial and residential consumers. This paper focuses on this issue by looking at the impact of the electricity industry reforms on residential and industrial electricity price-cost margins and their effect on cross-subsidy levels between consumer groups. Using panel data for 63 developed and developing countries covering the period 1982–2009, empirical models are developed and analyzed. The research findings suggest that there isn’t a uniform pattern for the impact of reform process as a whole on price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels. Each individual reform step has different impact on price-cost margins and cross subsidy levels for each consumer and country group. Our findings imply that reform steps have different impacts in different countries, which supports the idea that reform prescription for a specific country cannot easily be transferred to another one. So, transferring the formal and economic structure of a successful power market in a developed country to developing countries is not a sufficient condition for good economic performance of the electricity industries in developing countries. Furthermore, the study suggests that power consumption, income level and country specific features constitute other important determinants of electricity price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28414/1/MPRA_paper_28414.pdf
Erdogdu, Erkan (2011): The impact of power market reforms on electricity price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels: a cross country panel data analysis. Forthcoming in: Energy Policy (2011)
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Modest expectations: Causes and effects of migration on migrant households in source countries
Hagen-Zanker, Jessica
F22 - International Migration
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
F24 - Remittances
This research, mainly looking at Albania and Moldova, investigates the reasons why people migrate internationally and send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and how it affects the relationship between family members. It shows that migrant households earn higher incomes after migration, but are worse off in many aspects, e.g. housing. This is because they live in poor, semi-legal conditions and because migration is an expensive investment. Consequently, family solidarity remains high after migration, especially financial and good transfers.
2010
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Hagen-Zanker, Jessica (2010): Modest expectations: Causes and effects of migration on migrant households in source countries. Published in: Boekenplan publisher, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Improving biodiversity monitoring by modeling relative abundance from "presence only" data
Jingwa A, Brian
C32 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes ; State Space Models
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C50 - General
C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
Q5 - Environmental Economics
One of the greatest concerns of this age is finding definitive ways to curb the loss of biodiversity. Although there have been growing calls on biodiversity protection and
conservation by governments and institutions, the challenge lies on fitting models that best explain the trends of target species over space and time. The objective of this project was to determine the probability of detection of four species and how it changes with time during the season. Also, the occupancy of each species and its relationship with abundance was obtained. Siteoccupancy models were fitted to the data, with each model having four components;
occupancy, colonization, extinction and detection probability. Model selection was done on the basis of the AIC criterion. The results show different trends for each species over time. The occupancies of each species
do reflect the abundances in the various stages of their life cycles. The colonization, extinction and detection probability estimates were also obtained at each time point.
2011-09-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35232/1/MPRA_paper_35232.pdf
Jingwa A, Brian (2011): Improving biodiversity monitoring by modeling relative abundance from "presence only" data. Published in: tUL Diepenbeek No. 2011 (2011)
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Magison-ison: A parallel reality construction of war among Joloano Muslim Survivors in Sulu, Philippines
Usman-Laput, Lea
I30 - General
L30 - General
A39 - Other
A32 - Collective Volumes
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
Z19 - Other
A31 - Collected Writings of Individuals
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
L31 - Nonprofit Institutions ; NGOs ; Social Entrepreneurship
N40 - General, International, or Comparative
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Z00 - General
J17 - Value of Life ; Forgone Income
Y80 - Related Disciplines
J18 - Public Policy
H19 - Other
N45 - Asia including Middle East
N35 - Asia including Middle East
Z10 - General
H10 - General
A30 - General
I39 - Other
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Y90 - Other
The Mindanao conflict in Southern Philippines is a long-standing controversy that has eluded comprehensive solutions. Despite efforts of the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the representatives from the peoples of Mindanao in undertaking peace initiatives, “the war:” continues.
The establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as embodied in an organic law provided in the 1986 Philippine Constitution has not seemed to bring about the much-anticipated progress. Even with the so-called “autonomy” already in place to substantiate the clamor of the Muslims for self-rule in the Tripoli Agreement, conflict has escalated signifying unrest among the people.
Instead of dealing with the problem from the standpoint of an “outsider” who may know about the Mindanao conflict from what they hear, the study attempted to get a glimpse of “the war” from the “insiders” who have survived and lived to tell their own stories. From the perspectives of two distinct peoples of Sulu- the Christian and Muslim Joloanos, the study was able to penetrate the heart of conflict in Mindanao.
The study was able to visualize “the 1974 war” and the on-going conflicts from two cultural lenses and in the process was able to demonstrate a “parallel reality construction” among the war survivors who provided interesting insights of “the war” from their “fantasy themes”.
The research has not only surfaced conflicting notions in their revelations of “the war” as experienced (subjective realities) but has generated elements of “convergence” as their experiences were correlated with the institutionalized beliefs of war (objective realities) or the war as told. Despite distinct subjective realities, they have shown proclivity towards parallel perceptions.
The Joloano war survivors’ subjective realities as applied in the study include their psycho-social trauma of the war and their portrayal of the role of “the other” culture as co-survivors of war. Among the elderly, descriptions of their fears and negative emotions have strongly echoed “old prejudices”. Among the middle-aged, “prudence” and tact in their narratives revealed a tendency to rationalize and to show sympathy towards “the other” culture. From the young war survivors a propensity towards confronting their dilemma suggested optimism and resilience in their perceptions.
Transitions in the subjective realities of the war survivors are apparent across culture and age. Opposing views are very strong among the elderly except for one Christian and a Muslim who are associated with “the other” culture by reason of marriage with them. The older Christian Joloanos for instance believe that the war was “unnecessary” while the older Muslims were convinced it was “inevitable”. The study has strongly shown that “shifts” in perceptions could be anchored on the participants’ religious beliefs and changing circumstances that come with age, political set-up, economic climate and inter-marriage among others.
Their reactions towards the prevailing issues of war (media war issues, other concepts and beliefs of war) which constitute the institutionalized-objective realities as defined in the study are “convergent” despite distinct experiences and personal circumstances. They have for example generally shown disagreement towards the commonly held concept that the mass media function to crystallize relevant issues, like the war in Mindanao. The majority of the co-authors furthermore negated the belief of the general public that “Christians and Muslims can never co-exist peacefully, and that the 1974 war was a form of “jihad” or a religious war among Muslims.
In the study therefore, communication has been proven once again to play a vital role in clarifying issues of the Mindanao conflict. It performed an emancipatory role in ways that provided rhetorical and psychological relief by allowing an occasion for war survivors to deconstruct their realities through their narratives. And to reconstruct their meaning of war by actively taking part in correcting prevailing notions of war to bring about the much needed change in a war-torn community like Sulu.
2005-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35731/1/MPRA_paper_35731.pdf
Usman-Laput, Lea (2005): Magison-ison: A parallel reality construction of war among Joloano Muslim Survivors in Sulu, Philippines.
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Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C.
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
E21 - Consumption ; Saving ; Wealth
G00 - General
D84 - Expectations ; Speculations
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
C00 - General
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
C13 - Estimation: General
C20 - General
C59 - Other
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
C01 - Econometrics
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C19 - Other
D53 - Financial Markets
C02 - Mathematical Methods
G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading
D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
E51 - Money Supply ; Credit ; Money Multipliers
C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
E10 - General
C60 - General
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
C50 - General
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
C30 - General
E00 - General
D10 - General
G10 - General
E40 - General
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population groups to anticipate correctly economic growth and excess stock returns is not identical, implying that not all sentiment is the same, although there exist some common components. I demonstrate that sentiment surveys have significant predictive power for both GDP growth and excess stock returns, and that the results are robust to the inclusion of information pertaining to the macroeconomic environment and momentum. Furthermore, the findings reject the conventional wisdom that the effect of sentiment is apparent exclusively in small-capitalization stocks.
2008-06-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36505/1/MPRA_paper_36505.pdf
Guzman, Giselle C. (2008): Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns. Published in: The Making of National Economic Forecasts No. Edward Elgar Publishing LTD (2009): pp. 319-351.
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An inflation expectations horserace
Guzman, Giselle C.
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
C12 - Hypothesis Testing: General
C19 - Other
G00 - General
E47 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
D84 - Expectations ; Speculations
E30 - General
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
C02 - Mathematical Methods
G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
E31 - Price Level ; Inflation ; Deflation
E51 - Money Supply ; Credit ; Money Multipliers
C00 - General
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
A10 - General
C10 - General
C13 - Estimation: General
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
D10 - General
E00 - General
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
G10 - General
E37 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
C01 - Econometrics
For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency measures which appear anachronistic in the modern era of high frequency and real-time data. I present a collection of 37 different measures of inflation expectations, including many previously unexploited monthly and real-time measures of inflation expectations. These higher frequency measures tend to outperform the standard three low frequency survey measures in tests of accuracy, predictive power, and rationality, indicating that there are benefits to using higher frequency measures of inflation expectations. Out of sample forecasts confirm the findings.
2010-01-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Guzman, Giselle C. (2010): An inflation expectations horserace.
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Using sentiment surveys to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C.
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
E21 - Consumption ; Saving ; Wealth
G00 - General
E47 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
E66 - General Outlook and Conditions
D84 - Expectations ; Speculations
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
O40 - General
G01 - Financial Crises
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
C13 - Estimation: General
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access
E37 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
C01 - Econometrics
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C12 - Hypothesis Testing: General
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts
D53 - Financial Markets
E27 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
C02 - Mathematical Methods
G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading
C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling
E60 - General
G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
G10 - General
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population groups to anticipate correctly economic growth and excess stock returns is not identical, implying that not all sentiment is the same, although there exist some common components. I demonstrate that sentiment surveys have significant predictive power for both GDP growth and excess stock returns, and that the results are robust to the inclusion of information pertaining to the macroeconomic environment and momentum. Furthermore, the findings reject the conventional wisdom that the effect of sentiment is apparent exclusively in small-capitalization stocks.
2008-10-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36653/1/MPRA_paper_36653.pdf
Guzman, Giselle C. (2008): Using sentiment surveys to predict GDP growth and stock returns. Published in: The Making of National Economic Forecasts No. Edward Elgar Publishing LTD (2009): pp. 319-351.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:36694
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Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students
Tendero, Julieta
I29 - Other
A32 - Collective Volumes
A39 - Other
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z19 - Other
A31 - Collected Writings of Individuals
A29 - Other
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
Y80 - Related Disciplines
Y9 - Other
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
Y30 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
Y8 - Related Disciplines
A30 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
A3 - Collective Works
Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
A19 - Other
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
Y90 - Other
I28 - Government Policy
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the hemispheric dominance (HD) and the English proficiency (EP) scores in the four macro skills of the Western Mindanao State University college students. It hypothesized that students’ HD would have a significant correlation a) with their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading and writing, b) with their global EP score, c) with both the macro and global scores when respondents would be grouped according to age, gender and area of specialization.
In this study, there were 240 respondents selected through purposive, stratified, and random sampling techniques from the 5,096 students of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Education. Using the standardized HD Test, the standardized Listening and Reading Comprehension Tests, the researcher-made Speaking and Writing Skill Tests and Cloze Test and employing mainly the Pearson r for the statistical analysis, the study concluded: 1) that most of the students of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Education of Western Mindanao State University were left-brained (74.6%); 2) that the students were “good” in speaking, “fair” in listening and writing skills but “ poor” in reading and in global English; 3) that there was no significant relationship between the students’ hemisphericity and their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading, writing and global proficiency tests; and 4) that a significant relationship was shown between HD and EP scores when respondents were grouped according to age and area of specialization only.
2000-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36694/1/MPRA_paper_36694.pdf
Tendero, Julieta (2000): Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:37244
2019-10-04T13:46:03Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37244/
Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa
N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics ; Industrial Structure ; Growth ; Fluctuations
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
P5 - Comparative Economic Systems
P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and science is considered one of the few highly valued achievements of the socialist economy. Discussions focused on policies to stimulate economic growth indicate that the proper education of the workforce is an essential prerequisite to achieve positive macroeconomic results. Despite these opinions, however, the economic literature still lacks comprehensive empirical studies based on quantitative analysis on the relationship between human capital and economic growth in Bulgaria for the years of socialism and the transition.
The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the impact of human capital on economic growth in Bulgaria during the years of socialism and the transition using the concepts of the modern theory of economic growth.
The successful study is based on the following research tasks:
1. Study, systematization and classification of theoretical and empirical models of growth, dealing with the impact of human capital on macroeconomic growth;
2. Study of different approaches to measuring human capital in growth theory and analysis of their possible application to the measurement of human capital in Bulgaria;
3. Investigation of sources of information and the processes of formation of human capital in the years of socialism;
4. Construction of statistical series for human capital in Bulgaria for the period 1948-2005, based on quantitative educational statistics of population and employment;
5. Analysis of the dynamics of human capital in the period of socialism and the transition;
6. Identification, investigation and analysis of certain key administrative and economic factors affecting the formation of human capital in Bulgaria;
7. Investigation of the influence the efficiency of investment in human capital on growth through the modification of patterns of R. Lucas and G. Mankiw, D. Romer and D. Wilde;
8. Study the impact of human capital on economic growth for the period 1949-1989, the analysis based on causation and assessment of long and short term relationships;
9. Study the impact of human capital on economic growth from 1990-2005, based on neoclassical and endogenous growth model.
2006-05-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37244/1/MPRA_paper_37244.pdf
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa (2006): Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.).
bg
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:37658
2019-09-26T11:56:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37658/
Macroeconomic instability in Afghanistan: causes and solutions
Joya, Omar
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
O53 - Asia including Middle East
E60 - General
This dissertation contributes to an increasing literature on macroeconomic instability in developing countries. It makes a critical review of the literature and classifies the sources of instability under exogenous and endogenous factors. It then argues that the impact of exogenous shocks is determined by the structural characteristics of the economy which act as a risk-management mechanism. The paper also explains that macroeconomic instability is both a cause and a reflection of underdevelopment. Whilst macroeconomic instability constraints the long-term growth and thus development, it is also the result of the co-existence of various ‘underdeveloped structures’ in the economy. The paper also presents a case study on Afghanistan. Through a diagnostic approach, it identifies the sources of instability in the country and proposes a series of policies and reforms in order to overcome macroeconomic instability in Afghanistan.
2011-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37658/1/MPRA_paper_37658.pdf
Joya, Omar (2011): Macroeconomic instability in Afghanistan: causes and solutions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:39703
2019-09-28T19:26:55Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39703/
Ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen in Form der negativen Einkommensteuer: Eine soziologische und finanzwissenschaftliche Analyse
Sterner, Cornelia
E62 - Fiscal Policy
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
In this thesis, the idea of an unconditional basic income is investigated by means of sociological and public finance analyses, with results about structural problems of the Austrian tax and transfer system building the starting point. The unconditional basic income in the form of a negative income tax is therefore discussed and tentatively developed. It is suggested that the negative income tax should be granted unconditionally and individually to all legal and permanent residents without the obligation of services in return. Besides the negative lump sum tax, a lump sum supplement should be granted for caregivers, honorary workers and people incapable of working. Based on a person’s own income a positive tax should be counted against the negative income tax. With the implementation of the suggested model of a negative income tax, basic (financial) needs could be secured and the tax and transfer system could be harmonized, whereby administration effort could be reduced and poverty traps avoided. It is stressed that for the implementation of a comprehensive model of a negative income tax all relevant parameters as well as possible impacts need to be investigated cautiously; suggestions of this thesis therefore need to be seen as a first attempt. The attitude towards an unconditional basic income furthermore influences its successful implementation. Results suggest that great importance needs to be laid on the designation of the model as well as the conservation of the performance principle and self-responsibility to ensure a successful transformation.
2010-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39703/1/MPRA_paper_39703.pdf
Sterner, Cornelia (2010): Ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen in Form der negativen Einkommensteuer: Eine soziologische und finanzwissenschaftliche Analyse.
de
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:40203
2019-09-27T12:07:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40203/
Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C.
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
E21 - Consumption ; Saving ; Wealth
D53 - Financial Markets
D84 - Expectations ; Speculations
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
C02 - Mathematical Methods
G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading
D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling
E51 - Money Supply ; Credit ; Money Multipliers
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
C13 - Estimation: General
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
C01 - Econometrics
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population groups to anticipate correctly economic growth and excess stock returns is not identical, implying that not all sentiment is the same, although there exist some common components. I demonstrate that sentiment surveys have significant predictive power for both GDP growth and excess stock returns, and that the results are robust to the inclusion of information pertaining to the macroeconomic environment and momentum. Furthermore, the findings reject the conventional wisdom that the effect of sentiment is apparent exclusively in small-capitalization stocks.
2007-06-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40203/2/MPRA_paper_40203.pdf
Guzman, Giselle C. (2007): Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns. Published in: The Making of National Economic Forecasts No. Edward Elgar Publishing LTD (2009): pp. 319-351.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:41460
2019-09-30T00:27:28Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41460/
Supply chain configuration under information sharing
Kashefi, Mohammad Ali
M11 - Production Management
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L81 - Retail and Wholesale Trade ; e-Commerce
C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
C72 - Noncooperative Games
This paper examines the effect of information sharing on supply chain configuration where the market characterized by demand uncertainty. A dynamic multi-stage game theoretic model with incomplete information is employed to capture the sequence of events. Our supply chain consists of two suppliers with exogenous wholesale prices and two retailers, the incumbent and the entrant, with asymmetric demand information. Informed incumbent prefers to conceal its private information from the entrant in order to reap more profits in the market. The channel of information flows is only through the first supplier and the incumbent can supply just from him, but the entrant is free to choose its proper supplier considering the point that the second supplier is uninformed. Our analytical model demonstrates that how the mean demand of the market, wherein our retailers compete, and its relation with the relative wholesale price of the suppliers play crucial role in equilibrium determination. Our results show under which circumstances separation and pooling equilibrium could occur in some range of demand variation. It is also shown that the entrant sometimes prefers to avoid information acquisition by choosing the second supplier and playing Cournot instead of Stackelberg which is more profitable for him in some occasions.
2012-09-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41460/1/MPRA_paper_41460.pdf
Kashefi, Mohammad Ali (2012): Supply chain configuration under information sharing.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47139
2019-10-05T08:31:44Z
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7375626A656374733D59:5934
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47139/
Essays on Electricity Market Reforms: A Cross-Country Applied Approach
Erdogdu, Erkan
C5 - Econometric Modeling
E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
F35 - Foreign Aid
F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
L51 - Economics of Regulation
L94 - Electric Utilities
L98 - Government Policy
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
In the last two decades, more than half of the countries in the world have introduced a reform process in their power industries and billions of dollars have been spent on liberalizing electricity markets around the world. This thesis presents a doctoral research concerned with the cross-country empirical analysis of the electricity market reforms. The thesis is in three-paper format; that is, we present three independent but related stand-alone papers.
The first paper focuses on the impact of power market reforms on electricity price-cost margins and industrial/residential price ratios. It investigates this issue by looking at the impact of the electricity industry reforms on residential and industrial electricity price-cost margins and their effect on industrial/residential price ratios. Using panel data from 63 developed and developing countries covering the period 1982–2009, empirical models are developed and analysed. The results suggest that each individual reform step has different impact on price-cost margins and industrial/residential price ratios for each consumer and country group. That is to say, our findings imply that similar reform steps may have different impacts in different countries, which supports the idea that reform prescription for a specific country cannot easily be transferred to another one with similar success.
The second paper explores whether the question of why some countries are able to implement more extensive reforms is closely related to the question of why some countries have better institutions than others. It analyses this question by using an empirical econometric model based on Poisson regression with cross-section data covering 51 states in US, 13 provinces in Canada and 51 other countries. The study concludes that both the background of the chairperson and the minister/governor and institutional endowments of a country are important determinants of how far reforms have gone in a country.
Considering the fact that ideological considerations, political composition of governments and educational/professional background of leaders have played and will play a crucial role throughout the reform process; the third paper attempts to discover the impact of political economic variables on the liberalization process in electricity markets. It develops and analyses empirical models using panel data from 55 developed and developing countries covering the period 1975–2010. The results suggest that a portion of the differences in the reform experiences of reforming countries in the past three decades can be explained by differences in the political structure, in the ideology of the government and in the professional and educational backgrounds of the political leaders.
2013-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47139/1/MPRA_paper_47139.pdf
Erdogdu, Erkan (2013): Essays on Electricity Market Reforms: A Cross-Country Applied Approach.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47176
2019-09-28T19:03:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47176/
Assessing the Viability of a Rural Microfinance Network : The Case of FONGS FINRURAL
AGAÏ, Oniankitan Gregoire
G2 - Financial Institutions and Services
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
G23 - Non-bank Financial Institutions ; Financial Instruments ; Institutional Investors
G28 - Government Policy and Regulation
G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
This paper endeavours to assess the viability of the FONGS FINRURAL, a nascent network of 09 rural savings and credit cooperatives in Senegal. More specifically it strives to measure first how the social and financial performance and the governance vary among the network affiliated organizations, and second to what extent all this aspects in each MFI could affect the viability of the network.
For cause of data availability, the research was carried on 7 out of the 9 affiliated MFIs.
The methodology has consisted first in the exploitation of financial reports, financial statements, business plans, manual of procedures, minutes, reports and any kind of internal documents seeming useful and second in visits at basic affiliated associations and client information.
Four data collection tools were used: the factsheet of financial assessment devised by BRS and ADA, the ECHOS© tool of social performance assessment of Incofin, version 2012, the aggregated index of governance grid, and specific interview grids to each MFIs based on their financial and social performance recorded and on their governance score as well.
Financial data were collected over four years (2008-2011), while social and governance data were a snapshot of the MFIs as of may-august 2012.
Different descriptive statistics were used for comparisons. The coefficient of correlation rho of Spearman was used to make links between financial performance, social performance and governance.
It comes out from the peer group analysis that the membership of the entire seven MFIs, dominated by women (50%), is growing over years with an average of 23% sharply higher than that of the country (8.7%). This trend presents however some specificities pertaining to each MFI.
In the same vein, the network records an increase in savings collection which is however concentrated within 02 MFIs (29%) which contributed for 54% of the total deposit of the entire network in 2011. If for the first MFI (CREC of Méckhé), the situation is due to the involvement of its groups membership, the second (MEC of
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Tattaguine) owes its records to its savings policy mainly based on high rate of compulsory savings (33%) as requirement for loan application.
Regarding the credit delivery, it appears that except ordinary loans, most of the loan products catered for are seasonal or working capital loans and investment loans (more than one year) with bullet repayment albeit variability in the loans maturity.
To provide such credit products, MFIs rely on three main sources: the deposits, the borrowings and their equity. Most of the MFIs provide their loans from the member’s deposits and tend to report improvement of their leverage except the MEC of Dakar and that of Malicounda.
Overall, all the MFIs loan portfolios are growing with an average growth rate of 17% except the CREC of Méckhé which faced a decrease in its portfolio of about 47% over the four years. However this MFI still records the highest gross portfolio amount compared to the others.
Nevertheless, the growth in portfolio is facing also a growth in portfolio at risk 180 days for all the seven surveyed MFIs meaning some weaknesses in the loan portfolio management.
In contrast to the PAR, some improvements are reported in operating expenses ratios which were roughly fewer than 20% except at the MEC of Dakar which mostly recorded OER over 40% in 2011 and at the MEC of Malicounda with about 90% in 2009.
As consequence, the OSS of the entire 07 MFIs was appreciable between 2008 and 2010 (127%-148%) but dropped down to 88% in 2011 due to high operating expenses at the MECs of Tattaguine and Pékesse.
The results also reveals that albeit claiming to be social oriented MFIs, the entire MFIs lack adequate tools, information and indicators to track and to prove that they are putting into practice their social mission, which often was not clearly stated. Based on the ECHOS© scale, it appears that the MFIs recorded low social performance in general (55%) but seemed to get better score in access and outreach and customers services, while social mission, human resources and social responsibility are lessened.
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Regarding the governance, the score reveals some acceptable governance (62%) however with some differences between institutions.
The results of linkages between financial performance, social performance and governance reveals no trade-off between financial and social performance, rather it reveals significant synergies between governance and social perform, and between OSS and human resources.
All these results prove that rural microfinance institutions, rather rural microfinance network can be viable. It is just a matter of more governance, more discipline in procedure and more reportage of required information.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47176/1/MPRA_paper_47176.pdf
AGAÏ, Oniankitan Gregoire (2012): Assessing the Viability of a Rural Microfinance Network : The Case of FONGS FINRURAL.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47201
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Applications in Agent-Based Computational Economics
Schuster, Stephan
C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling
D85 - Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets
J71 - Discrimination
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
A constituent feature of adaptive complex system are non-linear feedback mechanisms between actors. This makes it often difficult to model and analyse them. Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) uses computer simulation methods to represent such systems and analyse non-linear processes.
The aim of this thesis is to explore ways of modelling adaptive agents in ACE models. Its major contribution is of a methodological nature. Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods are used to represent agents and learning processes in ACE models.
In this work, a general reinforcement learning framework is developed and realised in a simulation system. This system is used to implement three models of increasing complexity in two different economic domains. One of these domains are iterative games in which agents meet repeatedly and interact. In an experimental labour market, it is shown how statistical discrimination can be generated simply by means of the learning algorithm used. The aim of this model is mainly to illustrate the features of the learning framework. The results resemble actual patterns of observed human behaviour in laboratory settings. The second model treats strategic network formation. The main contribution here is to show how agent-based modelling helps to analyse non-linearity that is introduced when assumptions of perfect information and full rationality are relaxed. The other domain has a Health Economics background. The aim here is to provide insights of how the approach might be useful in real-world applications. For this, a general model of primary care is developed, and the implications of different consumer behaviour (based on the learning features introduced before) analysed.
2012-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47201/1/MPRA_paper_47201.pdf
Schuster, Stephan (2012): Applications in Agent-Based Computational Economics.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49507
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Reformas en la producción y distribución eléctrica y su relación con el sector manufacturero: el impacto de la sustitución de Luz y Fuerza del Centro por la Comisión Federal de Electricidad
Montufar Helu Jiménez, Alejandro
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
L60 - General
L94 - Electric Utilities
L98 - Government Policy
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
The present paper is an analysis of electricity on the Mexican context as an input provided by the government. The approach consists in evaluating the effect on the manufacturing sector of an improvement in efficiency on electricity production and distribution. Noteworthy, the improvement is consequence of an anti-competitive event (i.e. decree by which one of both electricity state-owned firms was extinguished); although, it does not represent a pro-competitive source in terms of quality and reliability in electricity distribution and production, it indeed embodies a positive shock. The main result is a negative average effect on manufacturing sector, which consists in a minimum decline of 5 per cent or maximum decline of 10 per cent, both in terms of value production; in monetized figures, it represents a cost as minimum as $ 1 095 million pesos or as maximum as $ 1 574 million pesos. In general, the negative impact on value production is smaller as industry consumes more electricity; even, it can become positive if consumption of electricity is high enough. Furthermore, the positive effect on production implied by consumption of electricity is smaller as industry generates in a higher proportion its own electricity. In conclusion, the policy did not generate a positive net impact due to adjustment costs which consist in the costs of transferring resources from one sector to another.
2013-02-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49507/1/MPRA_paper_49507.pdf
Montufar Helu Jiménez, Alejandro (2013): Reformas en la producción y distribución eléctrica y su relación con el sector manufacturero: el impacto de la sustitución de Luz y Fuerza del Centro por la Comisión Federal de Electricidad.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:55975
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Firma Başarısızlığının Dinamiklerinin Belirlenmesinde Makina Öğrenmesi Teknikleri: Ampirik Uygulamalar ve Karşılaştırmalı Analiz
Cakir, Murat
C10 - General
C13 - Estimation: General
C45 - Neural Networks and Related Topics
C46 - Specific Distributions ; Specific Statistics
C58 - Financial Econometrics
C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis
C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling
C69 - Other
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access
C88 - Other Computer Software
C90 - General
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
D22 - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
G01 - Financial Crises
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
G33 - Bankruptcy ; Liquidation
G39 - Other
M19 - Other
M41 - Accounting
M49 - Other
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Recent financial crises and especially large corporate bankruptcies, have led bank managements and financial authorities to follow and monitor both financial and real sector risks, and to focus on firm failures. Bank of International Settlements, has therefore, taken the decision to include the necessity for banks to employ internal rating systems among BASEL II criteria. Thus, risk assessment and internal rating systems criteria would be made operational by the individual European Union banking systems, by the end of 2007, and January 2008 in Turkey, at the latest.
Financial and operational information of the firms, makes up the input to the risk analysis. This information can be aggregated to portray the sectoral trends, and/or focused upon on a firm basis to understand firms’ financial behaviours. Finance theory summarizes firms’ risks under financial distress and firm failure. There have been a myriad of works under these two headings, particularly in the United States, after the Great Depression. While early studies have focused upon the differences in the financial ratios of financially sound and failed firms, especially with the advances in computing capacity, the last two decades have witnessed an increasing use of machine learning methods in the failure prediction. Therefore, machine learning methods can be considered as having great potential in failure prediction and being good candidates as decision aids for policy-making.
This study considers financial distress and firm failure on theoretical grounds, gives a compact but elaborate explanation of machine learning schemes, and analyzes the results of these schemes run with data obtained from the database of Real Sector Data Division of the Central Bank. Cost sensitive learning was given special attention in the analysis.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55975/1/MPRA_paper_55975.pdf
Cakir, Murat (2005): Firma Başarısızlığının Dinamiklerinin Belirlenmesinde Makina Öğrenmesi Teknikleri: Ampirik Uygulamalar ve Karşılaştırmalı Analiz.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:58218
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Методология анализа системных противоречий общественного развития
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail
B40 - General
B41 - Economic Methodology
B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary
B53 - Austrian
P0 - General
P50 - General
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
The thesis is devoted to studying the role of systemic contradictions in social development, the consideration of objective reasons and the conditions of their occurrence, the relationship of systemic contradictions with the processes of formation of social interests, as well as the construction of new theoretical and methodological principles of forecasting, analysis and resolution.
2000-01-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/58218/1/MPRA_paper_58218.pdf
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail (2000): Методология анализа системных противоречий общественного развития. Published in: (17 January 2000): pp. 1-126.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:59202
2019-10-09T15:26:17Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59202/
Volunteering at the extensive margins in Developing Countries: Extrinsic or Intrinsic Motives?
Dayé, Modeste
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
O1 - Economic Development
O10 - General
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Y1 - Data: Tables and Charts
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
The goal of this paper was to identify the reasons behind the supply for free of labor in a world where rationality requires people to avoid resource misallocation and to care mainly for their own welfare. We based the identification strategy on simple consumption and investment models with a focus on developing countries for the empirical part. Using some probability models and estimation techniques , we found an ambiguous coexistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic motives for volunteering.
2014-07-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59202/1/MPRA_paper_59202.pdf
Dayé, Modeste (2014): Volunteering at the extensive margins in Developing Countries: Extrinsic or Intrinsic Motives?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:61278
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61278/
Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
Yawson, Robert M.
Greiman, Bradley
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor
J20 - General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J23 - Labor Demand
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
J29 - Other
L0 - General
L00 - General
M5 - Personnel Economics
M50 - General
M51 - Firm Employment Decisions ; Promotions
M53 - Training
M54 - Labor Management
M55 - Labor Contracting Devices
M59 - Other
Q0 - General
Q00 - General
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q1 - Agriculture
Q10 - General
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q16 - R&D ; Agricultural Technology ; Biofuels ; Agricultural Extension Services
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major transformations. These transformations will impact on how human resources are developed and we need to be able to forecast its effects. In order to produce such forecasts, HRD needs to become more predictive - to develop the ability to understand how human capital systems and organizations will behave in future. Further development of systems models is required to allow such predictions to be made. Critical to the development of such models will be to understand that linear epistemology cannot be the dominant epistemology of practice and that dynamic complexity of challenges confronted by HRD professionals in their daily research and practice requires a nonlinear epistemology of practice, rather than reductive or linear thinking or processes of normal science. Although the adoption of a systems approach to research in HRD is not novel, methodologies and conceptual approaches underlying it use are not very well developed. In this paper, a stakeholder analysis methodology that was developed as a novel method in conducting systems approach research in human resource development, public policy and agricultural education is described.
2014-02-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61278/1/MPRA_paper_61278.pdf
Yawson, Robert M. and Greiman, Bradley (2014): Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD. Published in: Proceedings of the 21st Annual AHRD International Research Conference in the Americas (19 February 2014): pp. 1-28.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:61297
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61297/
Role of Vernacular FM stations in National Cohesion and Intergration in Kenya
Namasaka, Martin
I00 - General
I28 - Government Policy
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z0 - General
In a development context, media has been characterized as innovator and mobiliser of positive transformation and this research dissertation has been written to establish the extent to which Kenyan media institutions, vernacular FM stations, have enhanced national cohesion and integration of the Kenyan society.
The NCIC, a government statutory body, has been tasked with the major objective of promoting and ensuring the cohesion and integration, is achieved. There has been in depth association of this body and the media fraternity in Kenya and more so the local vernacular FM stations in the study.
The methodology in this research gives the style, tools of collecting data from the respondents who were chosen from the specific vernacular Fm stations. The data presentation was done by use of SPSS software and depicting tabular and graphical presentation.
The summary of findings in chapter five critically looks at the diagrammatic and tabular presentation for the easy use of the would be disseminator with a compressive conclusion
2012-10-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61297/1/MPRA_paper_61297.pdf
Namasaka, Martin (2012): Role of Vernacular FM stations in National Cohesion and Intergration in Kenya.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:72054
2019-09-27T08:12:54Z
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Does Indonesian National Health Insurance serve a potential for improving health equity in favour of workers in informal economy?
Kartika, Dwintha Maya
E26 - Informal Economy ; Underground Economy
I1 - Health
I13 - Health Insurance, Public and Private
I14 - Health and Inequality
I15 - Health and Economic Development
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
J46 - Informal Labor Markets
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
O29 - Other
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
This study examines whether Indonesian national health insurance system promotes health equity in favour of informal economy workers. It first lays out the theoretical justification on the need of social protection, particularly health protection for informal workers. The paper argues that the absence of health protection for vulnerable informal workers in Indonesia has reinforced health inequity between formal and informal workers, thus provides a justification on extending health protection to this segment. It then boils down its analysis on existing BPJS Health scheme, a government-run national health insurance, and to what extent this scheme serves the needs of informal workers in Indonesia. The finding suggests that several factors (contributory premium, access to healthcare services and politicisation of national healthcare) are responsible for adversely incorporating informal workers; hence fail to promote health equity in favour of vulnerable workers in informal economy.
2015-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72054/1/MPRA_paper_72054.pdf
Kartika, Dwintha Maya (2015): Does Indonesian National Health Insurance serve a potential for improving health equity in favour of workers in informal economy?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:72112
2019-09-27T15:19:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72112/
Does Indonesian National Health Insurance serve a potential for improving health equity in favour of workers in informal economy?
Kartika, Dwintha Maya
E26 - Informal Economy ; Underground Economy
I1 - Health
I13 - Health Insurance, Public and Private
I14 - Health and Inequality
I15 - Health and Economic Development
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
J46 - Informal Labor Markets
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
O29 - Other
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
This study examines whether Indonesian national health insurance system promotes health equity in favour of informal economy workers. It first lays out the theoretical justification on the need of social protection, particularly health protection for informal workers. The paper argues that the absence of health protection for vulnerable informal workers in Indonesia has reinforced health inequity between formal and informal workers, thus provides a justification on extending health protection to this segment. It then boils down its analysis on existing BPJS Health scheme, a government-run national health insurance, and to what extent this scheme serves the needs of informal workers in Indonesia. The finding suggests that several factors (contributory premium, access to healthcare services and politicisation of national healthcare) are responsible for adversely incorporating informal workers; hence fail to promote health equity in favour of vulnerable workers in informal economy.
2015-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72112/1/MPRA_paper_72054.pdf
Kartika, Dwintha Maya (2015): Does Indonesian National Health Insurance serve a potential for improving health equity in favour of workers in informal economy?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:72557
2019-10-05T05:30:03Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72557/
Re-examining Kuznets Hypothesis: Does Data Matter?
Jalil, Mohammad Muaz
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Kuznets Hypothesis has been in debate since Simon Kuznets published his seminal paper “Economic Growth and Income Inequality” hypothesizing that inequality follows an inverted U shaped curve. He suggested that inequality rises as an economy develops, due to urbanization and industrialization, which later is abated as leveling forces gradually reduces inequality. Extensive research has been done in this arena but consensus is yet to be reached. In this paper we test the robustness of Kuznets hypothesis by employing newly available EHII and UTIP manufacturing pay inequality dataset which has been developed by University of Texas Inequality Project. Panel unit root tests are undertaken to develop the parametric equation for testing the hypothesis. We also use various econometric methods (Fixed Effect, dynamic panel analysis, fixed effect with autoregressive term) to analyze the effect of economic model on existence or absence of Kuznets Curve. Data are also segregated to Global dataset and OECD dataset, one including all the countries in the world and the other only OECD countries respectively. The objective is to see if there exists a different inequality dynamics for highly developed economy. The paper found that income variables should be in log formed and not level form while testing the hypothesis, as otherwise they are not stationary. It was also found that gender segregated cohort size has an implication for inequality, with matured male cohort having negative and matured female cohort size having positive relation with inequality In relation to Kuznets hypothesis it was found that inverted U shaped curve appears in case of D&S and WIID2 data but U shape curve appears in case of EHII and UTIP dataset. In case of OECD countries the difference is enhanced. The primary reason rests on rising manufacturing pay inequality which EHII captures. It is hypothesized that inequality follows a zigzag pattern with inequality rising and falling as economy develops and moves from an agrarian to an urbanized industrialized economy. This is in line with Kuznets hypothesis. After that, the economy faces major technological innovations which on onset increase the inequality within the manufacturing sector first but given the industrialized nature of the economy, this translates quickly to overall rise in inequality. Hence it seems that absence or presence of Kuznets curve greatly depends on the usage of inequality dataset. It is suggested that existing EHII dataset may be augmented by basing it on WIID2 instead of D & S and by making estimates which are gross of individual income resulting in data harmonization.
2009-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72557/3/MPRA_paper_72557.pdf
Jalil, Mohammad Muaz (2009): Re-examining Kuznets Hypothesis: Does Data Matter?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:75400
2019-09-29T12:49:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/75400/
Economic Determinants of Conflict - A proposal for North Eastern States of India
Brahmachari, Deborshi
J18 - Public Policy
O1 - Economic Development
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Y2 - Introductory Material
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
The proposal proposes a study that attempts to estimate the likelihood of armed conflict across the 8 northeast Indian states, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Sikkim for a span of over 40 years (1972 -2014). It will also attempt to study the association between armed conflict and economic /socio-political/ policy variables and suggest relevant policy measures.
2016-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/75400/1/MPRA_paper_75400.pdf
Brahmachari, Deborshi (2016): Economic Determinants of Conflict - A proposal for North Eastern States of India.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:75739
2019-09-26T13:38:28Z
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7375626A656374733D59:5934
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/75739/
Economic Determinants of Conflict - A proposal for North Eastern States of India
Brahmachari, Deborshi
J18 - Public Policy
O1 - Economic Development
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Y2 - Introductory Material
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Proposal for a study that attempts to estimate the likelihood of armed conflict across the 8 northeast Indian states, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Sikkim for a span of over 40 years (1972 -2014). It will also attempt to study the association between armed conflict and economic /socio-political/ policy variables and suggest relevant policy measures.
2016-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/75739/1/MPRA_paper_75400.pdf
Brahmachari, Deborshi (2016): Economic Determinants of Conflict - A proposal for North Eastern States of India.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:79318
2019-09-26T10:00:03Z
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Generator Cooling Fan Vibrational Problems: A Design and Operational Case in Jordan
Naamneh, Rakan
Alboursh, Asem
Al-Amer, Ayman
O53 - Asia including Middle East
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
This project covers certain types of rotor generator vibrational problem, including both conventionally-cooled (indirect copper cooling) windings and direct cooled copper windings as well as those with spindle and body mounted retaining rings. The options for rewinding, modifying, or upgrading are provided for each case type as encountered in the Jordan Petroleum Refinery. Generally; when dealing with generator rotors, problems like oversizing, misalignment, rotor imbalance, off-design operation, lubrication problems, shaft seals, cavitation, balancing system, and vibration are encountered. Methods of resolving vibration problem diagnosis were discussed using different techniques like vibration design analysis which will enhance root cause problems. We have proposed different maintenance best practice like rotor dynamic balance, appropriate operation, seals selection, and lubricant selection. At the end we have proposed a design solution appropriate for failure prevention using rotor balancing after rework or modifications.
2017-05-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79318/1/MPRA_paper_79318.pdf
Naamneh, Rakan and Alboursh, Asem and Al-Amer, Ayman (2017): Generator Cooling Fan Vibrational Problems: A Design and Operational Case in Jordan. Forthcoming in: Journal of Economics Bibliography , Vol. 2, No. 154 (20 May 2017): pp. 25-65.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:79469
2019-09-27T15:25:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79469/
Agricultural impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake - six years later
Bachev, Hrabrin
Ito, Fusao
D0 - General
I0 - General
Q0 - General
Q4 - Energy
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q52 - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs ; Distributional Effects ; Employment Effects
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q58 - Government Policy
R0 - General
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
On March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in one of the world biggest nuclear power stations - Fukushima Daichi. More than six years after the triple disaster the overall impacts on Japanese agri-food chains is far from being completely due to the scale of the disasters and the number of affected agents, the effects’ multiplicities, spillovers, and long time horizon, the constant evolution of the nuclear crisis, the lack of “full” information and models of analysis, etc. This paper presents updates on the impacts of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan on country’s agriculture and food sector. First, disaster events and their effects is outlined. Second, impact on farms and agricultural resources is estimated. Third, impact on food industries is assessed. Next, extend of radioactive contamination of agri-food products is presented and effects on markets, consumers and international trade evaluated. Chapter summarises responses of different agents, assesses progress and challenges in post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, and withdraw lessons from the Japanese experiences.
2017-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79469/1/MPRA_paper_79469.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin and Ito, Fusao (2017): Agricultural impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake - six years later.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:85348
2019-09-27T04:42:03Z
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7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
7375626A656374733D59:5934
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/85348/
Export Survival of Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia:Empirical Evidence
Tsadkan Araya, Gebreyesus
Cherkos Meaza, Gebregergis
F10 - General
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
F18 - Trade and Environment
L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
L60 - General
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
This study used panel data for manufacturing firms from 2006 to 2016 to analyze the patterns and determinants of export survival of exporting firms in Ethiopia. The empirical investigation has two parts: non-parametric and semi-parametric methods. The non-parametric method analyzes the survivor function and the hazard (exit) rate of firms on the whole sample and by groups, while the semi-parametric analyzes a regression outputs based on the discrete-time model of proportional hazard model.
The result from the survivor function analysis shows that, at the end of the study period, the number of firms that survive in export market are more than 50%. Moreover, the result of the hazard rate reveals as the duration of time increases, the rate at which firms exit the export market decreases sharply. With regard to our semi-parametric analyses, we examine the factors that affect survival of manufacturing firms in international market and observed the direction of the impacts they have on the survival rates. The findings show that large and medium firms, firms that have higher productivity, export oriented firms, private owned enterprises, firms located in textile and garment industries, firms located outside Addis Ababa and firms categorized as importers have higher probability of staying in export markets than the others.
2018-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/85348/1/MPRA_paper_85348.pdf
Tsadkan Araya, Gebreyesus and Cherkos Meaza, Gebregergis (2018): Export Survival of Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia:Empirical Evidence. Forthcoming in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:87288
2019-09-26T20:07:39Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87288/
Beyond GDP - Measuring the Wealth of Nations
Wenzel, Tina
A10 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A20 - General
B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925
B20 - General
B22 - Macroeconomics
B23 - Econometrics ; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
B50 - General
C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
C10 - General
C5 - Econometric Modeling
C54 - Quantitative Policy Modeling
F0 - General
F00 - General
H00 - General
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
I1 - Health
I15 - Health and Economic Development
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
N40 - General, International, or Comparative
O1 - Economic Development
O10 - General
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
O35 - Social Innovation
O38 - Government Policy
P4 - Other Economic Systems
P41 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
P43 - Public Economics ; Financial Economics
Q50 - General
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Z18 - Public Policy
This work devotes analysis to the consistency of the idea to measure the Wealth of Nations beyond GDP. Looking at the desirability, utility and feasibility of the concept, the main objective is to outline whether a socially and environmentally adjusted GDP would be able to have a real policy effect in the direction of sustainability.
Section I discusses the desirability of the issue and suggests that our current paradigm of progress needs serious rethinking, as it rests on teleological presuppositions prevalent in the 17th and 18th century - an antiquated mechanical world view, developed by Descartes and Newton. In this context, the historical ascendency of GDP is discussed, outlining its rise and demise.
Section II then discusses the utility of an adjusted GDP. Departing from an analysis of the growth elasticities of poverty (health and literacy), which gives empirical evidence on the insufficient correlation of GDP per capita and living standards, conventional GDP will then be weight against the alternative measures. An environmental adjustment will thereby be found justified on the ground of efficiency gain effects occurring along the allocation of resources and health expenditure among others, suggesting that the conventional GDP is inefficient and an economically irrational model to guide progress. Concerns will however be raised about the possible inflationary effect of a social adjustment, which is politically unfeasible under the current paradigm of progress and requires further research in terms of measurement techniques.
Section III then suggests that the feasibility is a political question. Taking the Case study of the failed Green GDP attempt in China, lessons learnt will be formalised on which I conclude with suggestions under which circumstances an adjusted GDP would be able to have a real policy effect in the direction of sustainability.
2009-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87288/1/MPRA_paper_87288.pdf
Wenzel, Tina (2009): Beyond GDP - Measuring the Wealth of Nations. Published in: Munich, GRIN Verlag (March 2009)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:89256
2019-09-26T09:50:37Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/89256/
Film as a Mass Medium: Audience Perception of Home Video Films as Representation of Realities in Nigeria (Study of Residents in Awka South)
Nwokedi, Miracle Ekpereamaka
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Y80 - Related Disciplines
The proliferation of home videos amongst other variables has been viewed as a major threat to creating narratives that truly represent the society. This study examines, using Nigeria as a context, the representation of reality in home video films. Gathering respondents from Awka South, a local government area in the south eastern part of Nigeria, the study employed the survey research design with a sample size of 400. The result of the analysis showed that home video film audiences perceived representation of realities in the society in home video films. The study draws from the reflective-projective theory of communication as the theoretical underpinning that provided insight on how the media mirrors the society.
2018-09-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/89256/1/MPRA_paper_89256.pdf
Nwokedi, Miracle Ekpereamaka (2018): Film as a Mass Medium: Audience Perception of Home Video Films as Representation of Realities in Nigeria (Study of Residents in Awka South).
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:90581
2019-09-27T12:12:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/90581/
Cyber-Bullying: Assessment of its Awareness and Threats to Social Media Development
Obidi, Ekpereamaka Miracle
Ahaiwe, Chizaram Priscilla
Y1 - Data: Tables and Charts
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z0 - General
The wake of new media has turned the world into a global village. The internet in recent times, has opened doors for users to connect with people across other parts of the globe. Few can deny the huge technological advancement that are constantly taking place in the modern world. However, this advancement have brought a dramatic shift from what it means to ‘chat’ and ‘socialise’ with other people to a whole gamut of development spinning off from cyber related contingency. This study is aimed at assessing cyber-bullying in the context of undergraduate students in Nigeria, their awareness of cyber-bullying and its threat to social media development. A further aim is to establish whether the respondents have been exposed to bullying on any of the social media platforms. Drawing 396 respondents from a population of 38,000 running across four faculties randomly selected from the fourteen faculties in Nnamdi Azikiwe, University, Awka, the study found out that a majority of the respondents own internet-enabled devices, have access to social media sites through their devices and have been exposed to cyber-bullying on these sites at one point in time. The Computer Mediated Communication theory was the basis from which this study drew its framework.
2018-11-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/90581/1/MPRA_paper_90581.pdf
Obidi, Ekpereamaka Miracle and Ahaiwe, Chizaram Priscilla (2018): Cyber-Bullying: Assessment of its Awareness and Threats to Social Media Development.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:94431
2020-11-14T16:52:04Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:95146
2019-09-27T12:46:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/95146/
Контент-аналіз дисертацій з економічної безпеки підприємства, захищених в Україні за 2000-2018 рр.
Dub, Bohdana
B41 - Economic Methodology
M21 - Business Economics
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Актуальність. Актуальність проблеми забезпечення економічної безпеки підприємства у сучасних умовах господарювання постає особливо гостро через зростаючу кількість збиткових та збанкрутілих суб’єктів, брак ресурсів для ефективної діяльності, ризиками, загрозами та небезпеками внутрішнього та невизначеністю зовнішнього середовища тощо. Практична діяльність компаній із гарантування економічної безпеки потребує науково-методичного забезпечення, яке б розкривало кращі практики, узагальнювало наявні теоретичні напрацювання, методичні положення та прикладні розробки. Хоча первинною ланкою наукової комунікації є стаття, для аналізу обрано дисертаційні роботи з економічної безпеки підприємства як найбільш уніфікована форма представлення результатів наукового дослідження у цій галузі знань.
Мета та завдання. Метою статті є проведення контент-аналізу захищених дисертацій з економічної безпеки підприємства задля визначення загального стану дослідницької галузі, ступеню координації наукових зусиль та основних тенденцій оприлюднених досліджень.
Результати. Обрано дисертаційні роботи виключно з економічної безпеки підприємства, вибірка за 2000-2018 рр. склала 205 робіт. Подальший аналіз проведено за критеріями методу оброблення масивів даних LATCH - Location (розташування); Alphabet (алфавіт); Time (час); Category (категорія); Hierarchy (ієрархія). Визначено низку наукових спеціальностей, кількість кандидатських та докторських дисертацій, основну категорію в тематиці дисертацій, динаміку захистів, провідні установи, географічні центри та галузі. Виявлено певні закономірності масиву робіт, також що сталої динаміки у дослідженнях економічної безпеки підприємства за різними спеціальностями не спостерігається, є періоди зростання та спаду, є п’ять закладів вищої освіти України, де захищено найбільше робіт; виділяються сім географічних центрів дослідження економічної безпеки підприємства.
Висновки. Існує певна повторюваність тем та напрямів досліджень у різних спеціальностях щодо вивчення економічної безпеки підприємства. При підрахунку частотності понять у темах дисертаційних робіт визначається відмінність спеціальностей і відповідно досліджень в їхніх рамках: 21.04.02 орієнтована на комплексне вивчення системотворення, міжнародних стандартів з економічної безпеки, взаємовпливу національної безпеки та економічної безпеки підприємств тощо. Маємо узгодити напрями досліджень в рамках різних наукових спеціальностей з теми економічної безпеки підприємства, гармонізувати термінологію (у т.ч. з іншомовними відповідниками), розробити ефективні теоретико-методичні положення та прикладні рекомендації для практичної діяльності фахівців чи менеджерів сфери економічної безпеки суб’єктів господарської діяльності.
2018
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/95146/1/MPRA_paper_95146.pdf
Dub, Bohdana (2018): Контент-аналіз дисертацій з економічної безпеки підприємства, захищених в Україні за 2000-2018 рр. Published in: Economic innovations , Vol. 20, No. 4 (69) (20 December 2018): pp. 55-67.
uk
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:98235
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/98235/
The rate of profit as a random variable
Julian Wells, Julian
B41 - Economic Methodology
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B59 - Other
M21 - Business Economics
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
This thesis is a systematic attempt to investigate two conjectures about the distribution of company rates of profit: that it should be log-normal (Gibrat 1931), and that it should be gamma distributed (Farjoun and Machover 1983).
A large set of company accounts data is analysed, and partial support found for
Gibrat and for a generalised version of Farjoun and Machover.
The analysis includes a demonstration of different empirical distributions for different profit rate measures, a demonstration of power law tails in all measures of the profit rate, and a demonstration of size effects (differences in tail weights) in financial ratios. Annual variation in the overall skewness and kurtosis of profit rate distributions is shown to be dominated by variation in the power law tails.
L-moments, a recent innovation in robust methods to deal with extreme values, are used in conjunction with a size-weighted sampling scheme to identify possible models for distributions of the profit rate at the capital level.
Farjoun and Machover derive their hypothesis from a particular conception of the process of capitalist competition. A rival conception, that of Glick (1985), is tested using company accounts data and shown to be vulnerable to criticism concerning the scope of its data set, the test statistic employed, and its choice of profit rate measure. More fundamentally, it is also dependent on doubtful premises about the within-industry distribution of profit rates, as L-moment analysis demonstrates.
2007-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/98235/1/MPRA_paper_98235.pdf
Julian Wells, Julian (2007): The rate of profit as a random variable.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:103235
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/103235/
Establishing a comprehensive census of undergraduate economics curricula:Foundational and special requirements for major programs in the U.S.
Turner, Grant
A1 - General Economics
A10 - General
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
A20 - General
A22 - Undergraduate
A23 - Graduate
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
B13 - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Stockholm School)
B20 - General
B21 - Microeconomics
B22 - Macroeconomics
B23 - Econometrics ; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies
B29 - Other
B40 - General
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
B50 - General
C0 - General
C00 - General
C01 - Econometrics
C02 - Mathematical Methods
C83 - Survey Methods ; Sampling Methods
C90 - General
D29 - Other
D70 - General
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
E00 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
I25 - Education and Economic Development
I29 - Other
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
J44 - Professional Labor Markets ; Occupational Licensing
L15 - Information and Product Quality ; Standardization and Compatibility
L20 - General
L23 - Organization of Production
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
L32 - Public Enterprises ; Public-Private Enterprises
L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out
L84 - Personal, Professional, and Business Services
M29 - Other
N00 - General
N01 - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods
N30 - General, International, or Comparative
N32 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
O30 - General
O43 - Institutions and Growth
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
P46 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Y80 - Related Disciplines
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
This study is the first of a series of studies, collectively embodying a multiphase mixed methods design. The overall objective of these studies is to explore and address a variety of issues and features of the discipline of economics, particularly as they relate to and represent past present and future factors of globalization, education, citizenship, and society. This is done by collecting and analyzing data on numerous aspects of the undergraduate economics curriculum, economics as a discipline, and economics as applied in the real world.
The overall purpose of these studies is to inform ongoing debates concerning the future of the discipline of economics and how it is taught, by examining and creating paradigms and methods that may be of aide. Additionally these studies collectively aim to outline, and in small ways develop, potential technological and organizational solutions for detailed longitudinal curriculum tracking. The frameworks employed and developed in these studies may eventually be scaled and adapted for all sorts of curricula. Ideally, the completion of this study’s overall objective yields practical insights and tools that empower faculty and departments, in economics and eventually in general, to better understand and design their own curriculum.
This immediate study fills gaps in and updates data on the curriculum of undergraduate economics majors in U.S. institutions, while also establishing a baseline data set for future studies to build on. A qualitative census methodology is adapted and employed to explore how various institutional and program factors relate to certain types of major program requirements. Descriptive statistics are used for analysis, primarily to allow for comparisons to previous studies. In sum, the purpose of the data collected and analyzed in this census is to give a glimpse into the current state of the undergraduate economics curriculum in the U.S., and to inform the qualitative, quantitative, and transformative studies that are to follow in this multiphase series.
2018-05-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/103235/1/MPRA_paper_103235.pdf
Turner, Grant (2018): Establishing a comprehensive census of undergraduate economics curricula:Foundational and special requirements for major programs in the U.S.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:105724
2021-02-03T14:24:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105724/
Is slow economic growth originating from the total external debt stock in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Mupenda, Olivier Munene
A1 - General Economics
A10 - General
C0 - General
H12 - Crisis Management
O49 - Other
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Y5 - Further Reading (unclassified)
Unsustainable debt reduces productivity of a country. Ten years following its “1960 independence”, the Democratic Republic of Congo adopted policies of resorting to external financing while the world was at the peak of the petro-dollar crisis in the 1970’s. A decade later, in the 1980’s, with the fall in price of raw materials, the Democratic Republic of Congo was trapped in an unsustainable debt burden cycle that saw its economy stagnating with the majority of its population living in extreme poverty with less than US$1.90 a day according to the World Bank. The rise of active armed conflicts in the 1990’s and political unrest during the 2000's added pressures to seek further financial support from creditors, which facilitated corruption and poverty in the process.
A country's inability to service its debt has consequences on its population. With empirical evidence, our analysis will be looking at the Congolese standard of living from its independence in 1960 to the historical democratic transfers of power in late 2018 to understand the effects of external debts in the Congolese economic growth.
2021-01-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105724/1/MPRA_paper_105724.pdf
Mupenda, Olivier Munene (2021): Is slow economic growth originating from the total external debt stock in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:105750
2021-02-04T13:10:20Z
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7375626A656374733D59:5935
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105750/
Is slow economic growth originating from the total external debt stock in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Mupenda, Olivier Munene
A1 - General Economics
A10 - General
C0 - General
H12 - Crisis Management
O49 - Other
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Y5 - Further Reading (unclassified)
Unsustainable debt reduces productivity of a country. Ten years following its “1960 independence”, the Democratic Republic of Congo adopted policies of resorting to external financing while the world was at the peak of the petro-dollar crisis in the 1970’s. A decade later, in the 1980’s, with the fall in price of raw materials, the Democratic Republic of Congo was trapped in an unsustainable debt burden cycle that saw its economy stagnating with the majority of its population living in extreme poverty with less than US$1.90 a day according to the World Bank. The rise of active armed conflicts in the 1990’s and political unrest during the 2000's added pressures to seek further financial support from creditors, which facilitated corruption and poverty in the process.
A country's inability to service its debt has consequences on its population. With empirical evidence, our analysis will be looking at the Congolese standard of living from its independence in 1960 to the historical democratic transfers of power in late 2018 to understand the effects of external debts in the Congolese economic growth.
2021-01-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105750/1/MPRA_paper_105750.pdf
Mupenda, Olivier Munene (2021): Is slow economic growth originating from the total external debt stock in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:116061
2023-01-22T07:36:03Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/116061/
The impact of television advertising on the consumer behavior–the case of Albania
Kekezi, Ana
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Y50 - Further Reading (unclassified)
Advertising is a very powerful and persuasive tool
2019-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/116061/1/Ana-Kekezi-Doktoratura.pdf
Kekezi, Ana (2019): The impact of television advertising on the consumer behavior–the case of Albania.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:118374
2023-08-31T13:29:03Z
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74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/118374/
Monetary Approach to Balance of Payments: Empirical Evidence from ECOWAS Countries
Cham, Yaya
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
E51 - Money Supply ; Credit ; Money Multipliers
E52 - Monetary Policy
E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies
O55 - Africa
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Y50 - Further Reading (unclassified)
The study primarily presents a critical and imperative analytical framework, accentuating the intricate interplay between the demand for money and the supply of money in shaping the economic equilibrium of the balance of payments (BOP). The focal point of this paper involves a meticulous examination of the monetary perspective regarding the BOP within the ECOWAS countries spanning the temporal domain from 2005 to 2019. This investigation is accomplished through the adept utilization of the second-generation unit root tests, namely the Common Augmented Dickey-Fuller (CADF) test and the Cross-sectional Augmented IPS (CIPS) test, alongside the comprehensive Westerlund cointegration test to ascertain the enduring nexus existing within the examined series. By adopting the dynamic homogeneous panel estimator, this study conducts an exhaustive scrutiny of both the short-term and long-term dynamics. The empirical findings, gleaned from the Pooled Mean Group analysis, unveil the pivotal role of monetary variables in determining BOP. In the medium and extended temporal spectra, ameliorations in domestic credit within the ECOWAS region are juxtaposed with a concomitant decline in net foreign assets, thus manifestly contributing to the deterioration of the BOP milieu in the aforementioned zones. Furthermore, a parallel analysis divulges a counteractive relationship between economic growth and inflation with net foreign assets in the short run, while this association transforms a synergistic correlation over the long haul. Conversely, the money supply engenders a positive and consequential influence on net foreign assets, evinced across both the transient and enduring periods. Essentially, the research findings substantiate the veracity of the monetary approach within the purview of the zones under contemplation. Consequently, monetary variables wield substantial and pronounced impacts on the BOP, with an escalating BOP, forth as a harbinger of enhanced equilibrium within the zones' balance of payments framework. Concerning policy implications, the underlying study underscores the monetary approach as an adept and fitting strategy, elucidating the notion that an outsized BOP deficit could potentially foster an environment conducive to the propagation of excessive domestic credit. Knowledge obtained from this research will go a long way in helping policy formulation and will also help the region in ensuring smooth developments in the external sector especially during the implementation of monetary policy.
2023-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/118374/1/Yaya%20Cham%20AIU%20Thesis%20on%20Doctorate%20in%20Economics%2021-08-2023.pdf
Cham, Yaya (2023): Monetary Approach to Balance of Payments: Empirical Evidence from ECOWAS Countries.
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