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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"trade and exchange"”.
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Essays on Carry Trade and Exchange Rate Forecasting
… is the combination of three papers on carry trade strategies and exchange rate forecasting. The rst paper evaluates the performance of carry trade strategies with implied Taylor rule interest rate di erentials and compares their performance statistics to the naive carry trade strategy with …
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The Trade and Exchange of Obsidian in the Basin of Mexico during the Classic Period
This thesis details the trade and exchange of Pachuca obsidian in the Basin of Mexico, focusing on the Teotihuacan Valley region, during the Classic Period by incorporating two intraregional models for Teotihuacan economy of Pachuca obsidian with both its urban and rural areas. The Tlajinga …
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The Afar Caravan Route: Insights into Aksumite (50 BCE-CE 900) Trade and Exchange from the Low Deserts to the North Ethiopian Plateau
<p>The Aksumites of the North Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands are known for their trading activities in the Red Sea between 50 BCE-CE 900. Much attention has been focused on prestige goods such as gold and ivory and the role that long-distance trade played in supporting elites and ruling …
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Pottery and emporia : imported pottery in Middle Saxon England with particular reference to Ipswich.
This thesis looks at the problems of trade and exchange in the Middle Saxon period (AD 650- 850), using, as a case study, the imported pottery excavated in Ipswich over the past 20 years. Richard Hodges' study of the imported pottery from Hamwic was taken as the starting point, although his work …
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What does the analysis of copper-alloy brooches reveal about the social and economic landscapes of Early Anglo-Saxon Cambridgeshire and Suffolk?
This thesis examines the social and economic landscape of the Early Anglo-Saxon period by analysing copper-alloy brooches using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Two clusters of cemeteries, one in Cambridgeshire and the other in Suffolk, were chosen to have their brooches analysed. The results of my …
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Tokenized Finance and Monetary Law: The Evolving Role of the Central Bank in the Age of Digital Currency
… to examine the motivations of the central bank and the state in the adoption of a sovereign-backed Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). We sought to answer the question- of what central bank roles will be most affected by the adoption of a sovereign-backed digital currency. Since any …
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The Archaeology of Travel in Greater Nicoya (500 BC – AD 1250)
Sometime before 500 BC, a dynamic interaction and exchange network developed among the villages and hamlets in western Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Traveling across land and canoeing or rafting over the large freshwater lakes and rivers, these peoples voyaged for many hours to trade goods …
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Technologies of Encounter: Exhibition-Making and the 18th Century South Pacific
Between 1768 and 1780 Captain James Cook led three epic voyages from Britain into the Pacific Ocean, where he and his fellow explorers- artists, naturalists, philosophers and sailors, were to encounter societies and cultures of extraordinary diversity. These 18th Century South Pacific encounters …
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The Exchange Rate and U.S./Canadian Relative Agricultural Prices
… as a building block in theories of international trade and exchange rate determination. It also serves as a measure of integration for international commodity markets. The LOP states that in competitive markets after adjustment for transportation costs and trade barriers, identical commodities …
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF NIGERIA’S INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) FLOWS: A COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS
… review past literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the key determinant factors affecting Nigeria’s inward FDI; (ii) To collect relevant data, formulate an adequate model specification and choose the most suitable econometric technique to undertake the empirical analysis using a …
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Insularity and Interaction: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia
Trade and exchange exerted a powerful force in the historic and protohistoric past of Island Southeast Asian communities. Exchange and interaction are also hypothesized to have played an important role in the spread of new technologies and lifestyles throughout the region during the Neolithic …
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Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana
<p>This dissertation focuses on the excavation and interpretation of two European ships discovered at Elmina Ghana, the coastal site of the first and largest European fort in sub-Saharan Africa. Discovered in 2003, the first vessel, located 1.5 miles offshore of the castle, is largely comprised of …
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Divisia Monetary Aggregates and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy
… dissertation is co-authored with my advisor and it has been published in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management, August 2021. This paper applied the formula for user cost price of money and the recently developed credit-card-augmented Divisia monetary aggregates formula to construct …
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Circulation of copper and copper alloys in hinterland southern Africa: material evidence from Great Zimbabwe (1000-1700CE)
… to establish the possible provenance of copper and copper alloys used at Great Zimbabwe (1000-1700CE) to infer local and regional circulation circuits. It employs archaeological, archival, and geochemical methods to characterize samples of 26 wound wire bracelets, bangles, anklets, necklaces, …
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North of the Cape and south of the Fly: the archaeology of settlement and subsistence on the Murray Islands, eastern Torres Strait
This dissertation describes analyses and contextualises the results of archaeological investigations carried out between 1998 and 2000 on Mer and Dauar in Torres Strait. Along with Waier these small volcanic islands are commonly known as the Murray Islands, and form the most eastern group of the …
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Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
… of Gujarat in various states of splendor and decrepitude, which continue to mark a long history of Indian Ocean cross-cultural trade and exchange. Located in western South Asia, Gujarat is a terraqueous borderland, connecting the western and eastern arenas of the Indian Ocean at the same …
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The Early Iron Age socketed axes in Britain
… examines metalwork deposition, distribution and association in the British Early Iron Age (800-600BC) through the medium of the socketed axe. Out of 1412 known Early Iron Age axes, 954 specimens were analysed in detail for this thesis: 680 associated finds and 274 single finds. The …