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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Empirics"”.
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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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Spatial processes in environmental economics: empirics and theory
Economic activities are fundamentally influenced by their location in space, which determines the physical and natural environment in which they take place. Likewise, location defines the social context of economic activity prescribing the particular laws, regulations and social norms to which it …
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Modeling, Empirics and Policy Implications of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
<p>Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are essential computational tools for trade policy analysis. While traditional CGE models based on the Armington assumption of national product differentiation have been successfully applied to various policy scenarios, they also have significant …
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Causal Effects of European Active Labor Market Policy : Foundations and Empirics
Over the last two decades most European countries have been subject to a strong and persistent increase in their unemployment rates, leading these countries to attempt to combat obdurately high unemployment by exercising measures of Active Labor Market Policy (ALMP). These measures can be …
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African stock markets: empirics of development, integration, efficiency and investor herd behaviour
Africa’s stock markets are as diverse as the 53 economies that constitute the continent. Stock markets in Africa have been described as being less developed, inefficient and isolated or segmented from the rest of the world. However, these views are not entirely accurate in the light of the current …
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A Statistical Approach to Empirical Macroeconomic Modeling with Practical Applications
… Romer and David Weil’s A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth, and Nazrul Islam’s Growth Empirics: A Panel Data Approach. This analysis shows that the models in both papers are statistically misspecified. When respecified, the functional forms of Mankiw, Romer, and Weil’s models …
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Three essays in economics
… emphasis on statistical models with theory and empirics. The first and third essay examines the role of cognitive limitations in understanding biases in communication and learning. The second essay, joint with Masao Fukui, highlights the role of distributional assumptions of infection rates for …
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Posthuman Leadership and the Role of Computational Objects
… across a range of situational and comparative empirics, this research develops three original theoretical contributions. First, it presents and develops a range of roles through which computational objects are enmeshed within leadership practice. Second, the study proposes a novel posthuman …
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Relationship marketing in agribusiness: a case study
… theory or economic contributions, and empirics. This case study is built around the acceptance and acknowledgement of these theoretical themes and propositions – utilizing key relationship marketing constructs as the foundation to develop an interview dialogue between myself and …
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Voluntary disclosure of corporate strategy: determinants and outcomes. An empirical study into the risks and payoffs of communicating corporate strategy
… My contributions to theory, methodology and empirics offers a stepping-stone for further research into understanding how companies can use transparency to manage stakeholder relations.
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Essays on liquidity in macroeconomics
… The third essay is a contribution to the empirics of precautionary savings and shows evidence of a decreasing relationship between household wealth and the variability of consumption expenditure. The evidence is consistent with the presence of a precautionary motive for wealth …
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Essays on inequality, redistribution and wealth-based politics
This thesis is a contribution to the theory and empirics of inequality, redistribution and growth. It is divided in three chapters. Two of them study theoretical models of inequality, wealth-based politics and redistribution. The third chapter is an empirical contribution to the literature on …
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Assessing guerrilla doctrine: battlefield lessons on network structure and multi-front insurgency
… of Peru's Shining Path insurgency. Case-study empirics are drawn from the Uppsala/PRIO Armed Conflicts Dataset (ACD) on dyadic conflict (Cederman, Min, Wimmer 2010), Arc Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial analysis software, declassified Peruvian intelligence reports, and captured …
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A pedagogic-didactic evaluation of discipline in Black secondary schools, with special reference to KwaZulu
… is done in Chapter 3. METHOD OF INVESTIGATION An empirics! investigation was conducted. A questionnaire designed to reveal some areas of concern on the question of discipline in Black schools in general, and in a didactic situation in particular, was designed and administered to 250 pupils and 133 …
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Nuclear “Pork” Revisited: Organizational Imperatives and Nuclear Weapon Program Abandonment
… conducted nuclear weapon activities. The large-N empirics are supplemented with two case studies of nuclear weapon policy in Switzerland (1945-1988) and South Africa (1969-1993).
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The Chinese Housing Boom and Monetary Policy
… determinants with city-level panel data. Both empirics support the hypotheses made in the theoretical framework. Chapter 7 provides an extensive discussion of the role of money supply in the breakpoint analysis and the four determinants and link these factors to explain the housing boom in …
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Determinants of sovereign credit ratings in an emerging economy: A case of South Africa
… and as suggested by available literature and empirics, sub-sovereigns can never be rated above their sovereign. Emerging markets now account for 40 percent of the world GDP, up from around 20 percent two decades ago. However, despite the strong foreign investment inflows to emerging markets, …
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The charity hospice: a theory of governance processes
… 1 was later tested and developed via Phase 2 empirics, comprising a cluster of four organisational case studies. Data collection during phase 2 was based in semi-structured interviews and, in part, critical incident technique. Around thirty interviews were held, evenly spread across …
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An assessment of the financial sustainability of savings and credit cooperative societies in Kenya
… financial sustainability. While contributing to empirics, the study has delineated the relationship between the study factors and their financial sustainability status (FSS), as well as documenting the FSS of SACCOs in Kenya. In terms of methodology, the study applied the GLS analysis technique. …
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