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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Price Convergence"”.
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ESSAYS ON REAL EXCHANGE RATE DYNAMICS AND PRICE CONVERGENCE
… the production function or for the overall price index to estimate similar measures. All the three approaches used yield qualitatively similar estimates, but there exists a large cross-country variation in the contributions of the nontraded goods to RER fluctuations. Income, government …
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The Law of One Price and Virtual Worlds
Price convergence and purchasing power parity are two important foundations to international trade theory. Yet there is still no consensus on their existence, despite numerous studies. While the debate over price convergence and purchasing power parity continues, the last several years have seen a …
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS
Fluctuation in commodity prices is a significant and timely issue to be studied. My first chapter examines the impact of monetary policy and other macroeconomic shocks on the dynamics of agricultural commodity prices. The major contributions of this study are twofold. First, unlike other studies …
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Electricity Markets Price Risk, Pollution, and Policies
… the importance of ramping cost to electricity price volatility. High price volatility has plagued electricity market participants for decades and is increasingly important in the context of growing intermittent renewables. Although electricity market price behavior generally has been well …
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ESSAYS ON MONEY AND FINANCE: THE CASE OF SELECTED SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES
… pass through in Pakistan and the relative city price convergence in Pakistan. The study has used panel data techniques for empirical estimations. The first study attempts to estimate capital mobility in South Asia using saving investment relationship technique and real interest rate …
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Speculation and hedging with virtuals
… bids and offers can change the electricity price as the bids and offers are stacked along with the demand and supply, respectively. This dissertation discusses how virtuals can be used to hedge and speculate in the electricity market. A statistical simulation model is developed based on the …
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Essays on motor fuel taxation and price dynamics in the European Union
… tax harmonization because fuel taxes impact prices of other goods as well as economic and environmental policies across Europe. Prior empirical literature on motor fuel convergence either ignores newer member states or was published before data for some of those states was available. The …
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Systems modelling of the South African offshore demersal hake trawl fishery : an economic perspective
… uncertainty, exchange rate and fuel price. The empirical analyses confirm that the offshore hake trawl fishery is an economically mature and highly vertically integrated industry. That is, most companies control much of the value-chain, catching, processing, marketing and distributing …
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Behavioural Macro-Financial Cycles
… only use information on past changes in price indices, despite several other variables and factors having economically and statistically significant associations with future inflation. I then compare these to the conditional biases in US household forecast surveys. I find that many of the …