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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Balance of Trade"”.
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Three essays in financial economics
This PhD dissertation is made up of three stand-alone research projects. One on financial accounting and macroeconomics while the two others are empirical asset pricing projects, in the equity and currency markets. In the first project, I examine whether aggregate cost stickiness predicts future …
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Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization with Asynchronous Batch Selection
… engineering, and design f ields, necessitating a balance of trade-offs between conflicting objectives. These objectives often represent black-box functions, which are costly and time-consuming to evaluate. Multiobjective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) offers a valuable approach to guide the search …
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of regional impacts of macro-shocks in the 1980S
The purpose of this study is assess the domestic regional impacts of changes in federal fiscal policies and the nation's trade deficit. An attempt is made to fill a gap in the literature of regional economics by providing an explanation of how economic changes at national and international levels …
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Exchange rate and trade balance in Zambia: An empirical investigation of the J-Curve effect
Trade balance is one of the main factors affecting the balance of payments position. This study examined the relationship between exchange rate and trade balance in Zambia, both in the short run and long run using quarterly data from 1998:1 to 2009:4. The study investigated how trade balance …
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Exchange rate and trade balance in Zambia: An empirical investigation of the J-Curve effect
Trade balance is one of the main factors affecting the balance of payments position. This study examined the relationship between exchange rate and trade balance in Zambia, both in the short run and long run using quarterly data from 1998:1 to 2009:4. The study investigated how trade balance …
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The Rising Threat of Food Security; A Keynesian Solution to a Global Problem
… implement agreements on agriculture in the name of preserving peace. Most recently, in the last of the Doha Development Round negotiations, efforts have been made to enhance food security (with measures such as equal access to resources, trade liberation, and the removal of tariffs for developing …
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On macroeconomic policy, effective demand and unemployment : the European experience
… policy independently, have signed up to a set of rules and regulations that will eventually lead to European and Monetary Union (EMU). These set of rules as reflected by both the Maastricht criteria as well as the Stability and Growth Pact, contain no reference to either the unacceptable levels …
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The Industrial Production Response to Oil Price Changes: New Evidence for G7 Countries
Since the middle of the twentieth century, crude oil has emerged as one of the world's leading indicators of economic activity due to its outstanding importance in meeting the world's energy requirements. Today, the importance of crude oil as the main source of energy has declined somewhat due to …
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Economic Impacts of the Free Trade Agreement Between the European Union and Colombia
The main purpose of this thesis is to develop a multidisciplinary assessment on the economic and social effects of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in 2012 by the European Union (EU) and Colombia. The EU - Colombia FTA is a multilateral and intra-regional trade agreement, where the developed …
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A history of Straits Settlements foreign trade 1870-1915
The aim of this thesis is to study the growth and changes in the regional distribution and commodity composition of Straits Settlements trade in the period 1870-1915. It endeavours also to analyse the character of this trade and to examine the influences that affected it. The thesis can be divided …
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A history of Straits Settlements foreign trade 1870-1915
The aim of this thesis is to study the growth and changes in the regional distribution and commodity composition of Straits Settlements trade in the period 1870-1915. It endeavours also to analyse the character of this trade and to examine the influences that affected it. The thesis can be divided …
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BANCA CENTRALE, FORMA DI GOVERNO ITALIANA E INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA
Central bank, Italian form of government and European integration Edoardo Sorrentino PhD in Public, International and European Law Università degli Studi di Milano The purpose of my thesis is to highlight an aspect that could redefine today’s theory of forms of gov-ernment. It is well known that …
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An econometric model of the petroleum industry
<p>The designated role of the economist is that of determining the efficient allocation of scarce resources. Assuming profit-maximizing behavior on the part of producers and utility-maximizing behavior on the part of consumers, the economist can determine the sensitivity of each to economic …