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Showing 1 to 20 of 259 for “"HB Economic Theory"”.
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Integration of critical success factors from demand and supply sides to enhance micro financing framework for micro and small enterprises (mses) in Malaysia
Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) play important roles in the Malaysian economy. Access to financing is one of the main constraints for most micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in business survival. The Malaysian government is aware of the financing issues among micro and small enterprises. …
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Opportunity identification in MNC subsidiaries: context and performance implications
… mixed methods approach in combining qualitative theory building and quantitative theory testing within a two-staged research methodology. The first stage involved conducting exploratory case studies in 6 Scottish “entrepreneurial” subsidiaries, given the scarcity of relevant empirical work. The …
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Explicit and implicit motivation towards outbound tourism: a study of Saudi tourists
ABSTRACT In this thesis, the researcher investigates the implicit and other motivations for Saudi outbound tourism. The Saudi Arabian outbound tourism market is recognised as one of the biggest tourism expenditure. Despite this, research relating to the motivations for Saudi outbound tourism, …
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Essays in Empirical Microeconomics and Finance
… three chapters. The first focuses on Education Economics. The second and the third on Household Finance. The following paragraphs describe the contents of each chapter in more detail. The first essay compares and contrasts aggregate and individual level analyses to investigate the relationship …
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Essays in Evolutionary Game Theory
… contains three essays in evolutionary game theory. In the first chapter, we study the impact of switching costs on the long run outcome in 2X2 coordination games played in the circular city model of local interactions. We find that for low levels of switching costs, the risk dominant …
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Three Essays on Search: Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Workers
The present thesis contributes to the theoretical analysis of the human capital investment and participation decision of heterogeneous workers in the search and matching framework. Its aim is to characterise the equilibrium and to identify the efficiency. The first chapter of this thesis …
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On The Causes and Consequences of Divorce
This thesis consists of three papers that investigate the labour market activity of women following a divorce and discuss the possible causes of divorce from theoretical and empirical perspectives. One of the consequences of divorce for women with dependent children who are not fully employed in …
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Two applications of U-Statistic type processes to detecting failures in risk models and structural breaks in linear regression models
This dissertation is concerned with detecting failures in Risk Models and in detecting structural breaks in linear regression models. By applying Theorem 2.1 of Szyszkowicz on U-statistic type process, a number of weak convergence results regarding three weighted partial sum processes are …
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The interaction of income distribution, aggregate demand and economic growth in the context of European imbalances
Issues of income distribution, economic growth and development are back on the economics research agenda. Different parts of the economic discipline intend to contribute to the understanding of the link between income distribution and growth. This thesis aims at analysing the interaction of income …
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Is there a case for an augmented Tobin’s Q model of R&D investment? Investigating the role of market structure, knowledge spillovers and corporate governance quality
… and R&D investment in particular the Tobin’s Q theory, or more precisely, the role of market returns adjusted for replacement cost of capital and its implications for expectations formation. To do this, I propose using the one-period-ahead growth rate of Tobin’s average Q instead of average Q …
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Effects of monetary policy on macro economic performance: the case of Nigeria
… examine the effects of monetary policy on macroeconomic performance in Nigeria. The study uses Quarterly data between 1970 Q1 to 2011Q4, being a sample period of forty one years. The study further, introduces structural break to investigate the presence of a possible structural change which …
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The role of money in four UK macroeconomic models: a comparison and an evaluation
… and evaluates the role of money in four macroeconomic models - the H.M. Treasury, the London Business School, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, and a post-Keynesian model. This study can be subdivided into two parts - chapters two and three analyse the historical and …
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An empirical investigation into the UK profit rate, 1949-2003
… for the importance of the Marxian concept of economic crisis and counteracting forces to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in contemporary capitalism through empirical research on the UK economy. Mergers and acquisitions, government expenditure, capital goods export, capital goods …
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Essays on the transmission mechanism of monetary policy
Chapter 1: The monetary version of the sticky price intertemporal model of Obstfeld and Rogoff (1995, 1996), in which unexpected and expansive monetary shocks unambiguously generate a permanent nominal exchange rate depreciation and a temporary current account surplus, is outlined. After discussing …
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Essays in monetary and fiscal policy
… composed by four chapters on New Keynesian macroeconomics. Chapter 1 develops a small New Keynesian model augmented with a steady state level of public debt and a share of rule-of-thumb consumers (ROTC henceforth) as in Galí et al. (2004; 2007). This chapter focuses on the consequences for the …
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Essays on optimal monetary policy under rule-of-thumb behaviour by price setters
The aim of this thesis is to study the effects of inflation persistence due to rule-of-thumb behaviour by price setters on optimal monetary policy. We start with a canonical log-linearised New Keynesian model, which we extend by allowing a fraction of price setters to follow a rule-of-thumb when …
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The personal networks of small firm entrepreneurs in Malaysia: an exploratory study
… in their networking due to cultural and economic limitations. In addition, women included men in their networks while men tended not to include women. Men therefore found it easier to create a stronger tertiary network than women. Government policy also plays an important role in …
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Exchange rate regime and exchange rate performance: evidence from East Asia
This thesis is intended to be part of a vigorous debate currently going on in the international community of exchange rate regime, monetary policy and related core issues in East Asian economies. From different angles and aspects, this thesis contributes to the related literature, and provides …
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Essays on Tax Information Exchange in a Post-BEPS World
The thesis investigates information exchange for tax matters. It covers both reporting of taxpayers to tax authorities and communication between tax administrations on taxpayers’ activity. The motivation for the research is recent global cooperation on counteraction to profit shifting and base …
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