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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Black market"”.
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Three essays on the black market for the Dollar in Brazil
The existence of black markets for foreign exchanges has been a common characteristic of economies of many developing countries. These markets surge as a direct consequence of adoption of exchange rate controls in economies facing substantial macroeconomic imbalances.
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Any spares? I’ll buy or sell: an ethnographic study of black market ticket sales
… individuals belonging to the “deviant” world of black market ticket sales. An ethnographic approach was adopted, consisting of participant observation, interviews, and observations in the field. Through the specific method of verstehen (Weber, 1949) the researcher experienced the “pleasure, …
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An application of recently developed time series analysis to black market real exchange rates in the Pacific Basin countries
… exchange rate are not the official ones but the black market quotations. The black market exchange rates were used because the official ones for most of these countries were fixed and determined by the governments for our sample period and therefore the black market quotation was the one that …
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New panel unit root and cointegration tests of purchasing power parity
… In addition, very few of the studies have used black market exchange rates. One of the main objectives of this thesis is to investigate the validity of PPP in developing countries using black market exchange rates. We construct and use a unique data set consisting of twenty emerging market …
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The relationship between selected social factors and the clothing buying behavior patterns of black college students
Blacks have been noted as being one of the largest consumer groups in the United States. In general, Black consumers have been portrayed in the literature as a single, undifferentiated "Black Market" which consists of economically deprived consumers who have a uniform set of consumer needs; …
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An Investigation of the Macroeconomic and Monetary Effects of Dollarization in Eritrea
… rate and on both nominal as well as real black market exchange rates. Dollarization measured by a hard currency index is then augmented in the variance equation of EGARCH-M (1, 1). The results show that partial dollarization of the Eritrean economy enhances the volatility of the real …
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Essays on Monetary Issues of Small Open Economies: Theory and Some Evidence for Colombia
… flow phenomenon; and (c) the role played by a black-market for foreign exchange. While (a) and (b) are at the core of the debate between the Monetary approach (MA) and the Keynesian Approach (KA) to the balance of payments, (c) is of particular interest for economies with exchange controls. The …
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Guardians at the Gates of Hell : estimating the risk of nuclear theft and terrorism -- and identifying the highest-priority risks of nuclear theft
… a qualitative assessment outlines the demand for black-market nuclear weapons and materials; the plausibility of terrorist construction of an improvised nuclear device; the global stocks and flows of nuclear weapons, plutonium, and highly enriched uranium (HEU), with the global distribution of …
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Taking Control, Women of Lorient, France Direct Their Lives Despite the German Occupation (June 1940-May 1945)
… working, standing in lines, buying on the black market, bartering, demonstrating, and recycling. They developed relationships with German soldiers which ran the gamut. Due to aerial raids in the context of the Battle of the Atlantic, they sought shelter, buried their dead, took care of …
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Bring Up the Bodies: The Resurrectionists and the Rise of the American Cadaver Trade
… in providing for anatomy subsequently created black market demand for cadavers. This thesis argues that the cadaver trade in Philadelphia was never an organic outgrowth of anatomical medicine, but a formal pedagogical tool that American medical students were educated in. The cadaver trade in …
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Terrorism And Organized Crime: An Analytical Study From An International Law Perspective
… alike. It has also fueled an international black market for smuggling and trade in drugs and arms. Under what conditions do violent terrorist groups driven by extreme Islamist ideology collaborate with organized criminal enterprises to generate the requisite resources to pursue their …
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A Safe House for Orphan Parts an Architectural Proposal for a US Center for Illicit Antiquities
… museums and ICE recovers and repatriates black market goods, keeping their collection in several top-secret warehouses. One such warehouse in Queens houses over 2,500 seized artifacts including “a huge stone Buddha from India, terra-cotta horsemen from China, reliefs from Iraq, Syria, and …
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Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy
… of men and women who participated in this black market in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The analysis describes the movement from small-time bootleggers operating within a narrow market to the development of a complex and hierarchical network of alcohol distribution that spanned across …
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An Analysis of the Potential Fiscal and Health Benefits of the Legalisation of the Sale of Marijuana in South Africa
… as the price increases, the existence of the black market even after legalisation, and a decline in tax revenue from the decrease in alcohol consumption. The health benefits discussed are the decline in consumption of alcohol, the use of marijuana to aid in rehabilitation for alcoholics and …
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Essays on institutional persistence, contract structure, and authority
… and theoretical methods, it analyzes a market with high quality and low quality products that are indistinguishable without a costly certification process. Sellers in the market make endogenous production decisions and are heterogeneous in their levels of moral hazard leading to two …
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Solvent Extraction of Copper, Cobalt, and Nickel Material from the Missouri Cobalt Project in Fredricktown, Missouri
… with very dangerous situations and sold on the black market. It has become increasingly apparent that a safer and more economical way to produce cobalt sulfate crystals in the US is needed. This study demonstrates that material from the Madison Mine, Missouri has the potential to be refined …
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Connections Matter: Implicit infrastructures and Electricity Access in Witsand, Cape Town
… Eskom prepaid meters and recharging with cheaper black market electricity vouchers. These practices require residents to circumvent Eskom's vouchers and prepaid meters in order to adapt Eskom electricity to their lived realities. In a context where Eskom electricity provision is sometimes absent, …
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Development Of Novel Analytical Methods For Detection And Determination Of Tamoxifen In Oral Fluid And Discrimination Between Regioisomeric Aromatase Inhibitors For Doping Control Purposes
… of similar ingredients utilized in some black market dietary supplements that promise gain of muscle mass but also violate WADA’s policies. Using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), this project investigated detection and …
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