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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"Economics, Theory."”.
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Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
My dissertation is a study of the conditions under which state-owned enterprises improve infrastructure services--transport, energy, and water--particularly in developing countries. This research is relevant because, despite successful privatization of infrastructure that yielded over trillion and …
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Buyer's Choice of Online Search Strategy and Its Implications for E -Markets
… empirically investigates the validity of economics theory of information search in explaining buyers' choice of online search strategy and applies this theory to develop a mathematical model that is used to estimate the probability distribution of a buyer's online search strategy choice. …
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Lietuvos eksporto įtakos BVP augimui vertinimas /
Foreign trade is essential for economics system. From the knowledge of economics theory we know that as the economy grows, the country's GDP grows. The Lithuanian economy has undergone many changes - accession to the EU, economic crisis, economic recovery and its slowdown. This thesis values …
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Managing the structure, regulation and infrastructure investment decisions in the natural gas industry of Ghana
… paradigm and the Transaction Cost Economics theory with stakeholder consultation in an integrated cash flow model, which identified inappropriate industry structure, ineffective regulation and high risk as challenges in the gas industry in Ghana. The current gas industry structure …
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The potential of sustainable coastal tourism as a driver of economic development within Mthunzini area, Umlalazi Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… To this end, the study employed the Ecological Economics theory to strengthen arguments for economic possibility with a strong emphasis on the concept of sustainable development. This study adopted a qualitative research approach, and data was gathered through semi- structured interviews with …
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Transaction Cost Economics: An Analysis of Commitment in Asymmetrical Insurer-Broker Dyads. An Exploratory Case Study of ING Canada and its Distribution Counterparties
… the knowledge in this area, transaction cost theory is examined and applied to insurance company and broker relationships. In seeking a greater understanding of the underlying drivers of commitment, this thesis investigates the theoretical contribution of transaction cost economics theory in …
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A Framework for Development in Rural Arid and Semi-Arid Environments in Africa: The Somalia Case
… for localized, pro-poor development. Ecological Economics Theory (EET) and Endogenous Growth Theory (EGT) are the philosophical bases establishing investment priorities. Additional research regarding Somali culture, key conflict factors, and potential business opportunities, provides an …
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A critical realist approach to understanding the human resource management practices-organizational financial performance link : evidence from Nigeria's petroleum sector
… reviewers have given factors such as inadequate theory, weak research design, and inappropriate methodology as responsible for the research problem. I argue that at the root of the problem is (a) a lack of theory underpinning research in the area, coupled with (b) a neglect of meta-theory. To …
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Buyer-supplier relationships in advanced manufacturing technology acquisition and implementation : a study in Malaysia
… integrates the literature of transaction cost economics theory,buyer-supplier relationships and advanced manufacturing technology as a basis of theoretical framework and hypotheses development.data were gathered through a questionnaire survey with 147 responses and seven semi-structured …
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Blue Cross Blue Shield conversions and the impact on individual product offerings.
Blue Cross Blue Shield conversions and the impact on individual product offerings.
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Three Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
The final essay examines how firms structure debt contracts. Debt securities differ on a number of dimensions, including quality, maturity, seniority, security, and convertibility. The empirical results suggest that there are three main types of factors that determine these features: First, …
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Essay 1. Equity Style Identification. Essay 2. Equity Fund Performance Evaluation: The Importance of Fund Style. Essay 3. A Dynamic Model of Mutual Fund Managers' Investment Strategies
The third essay presents a continuous time model to describe the optimal investment strategy of money managers. A manager seeks the optimal skill level that has the best trade-off between the portfolio's expected return and its volatility of tracking error. When the time is close to the end of the …
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Essay 1. The Risk and Return From Factors. Essay 2. Forecasting Covariances for Portfolio Optimization. Essay 3. An Agency Explanation of the Book-to-Market Effect
"The last essay, ""An Agency Explanation of the Book-to-Market Effect,"" presents an equilibrium agency model whereby the presence of the mutual fund industry creates the book-to-market effect. The model relies on four critical assumptions. The first two of these (that active fund managers wish to …
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Lexicographic Products of Linear Orderings
… Malex . The case M = R is relevant to utility theory, a branch of mathematical economics. First we characterize lexicographic products whose representability number in R is 1. Next we prove the following results: (i) if kappa is a regular cardinal which is not order-embeddable in M, then …
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Stochastically Stable States for Perturbed Repeated Play of Coordination Games
Perturbed repeated play of a two-player two-move coordination game is modeled as an irreducible Markov process on a set of history states describing the most recent m stages of play. At every stage, each player draws a sample from the history state to forecast his opponent's behavior and either …
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Energy Economic Modeling and Optimization
… a sound basis for solving multisector energy economics optimization.
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Essays on Economic *Growth
The second chapter takes explicitly into account the link between human capital accumulation and technological progress. Human capital accumulation in the spirit of Lucas (1988) is introduced into the R&D-based model of Romer (1990). The steady-state solution for the decentralized economy follows a …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Informal Economies
In this monograph I introduce informal economies in macroeconomic models to study the following issues: (i) How should governments conduct monetary and fiscal policies in the presence of the shadow economy? (ii) How do labor market policies, regulations and mandated benefits affect the size of the …
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Two Essays on Financial Economics
… of two self-contained papers on financial economics. The first chapter introduces methodologies and main findings in those two papers. Chapter two presents the paper entitled ""Eighthing and Hidden Limit Orders"". It explores how strategic traders can exploit the implicit inelastic demand …
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