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Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper looks at the transcribed data of patient-doctor consultations in an examination setting. The doctors are internationally qualified and enrolled in a bridging course as preparation for...
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Microsoft Human Resources Organization Optimizes Process Execution Worldwide
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Based in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft International's Human Resources (HR)...
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Virtual Localization for Mesh Network Routing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper present a novel distributed 'virtual localization' method for mesh networks, such as sensor meshes, which do not depend on radio ranging or the existence of anchor nodes. Authors show...
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National Culture and Adoption of Mobile Commerce: An Overview
May 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The predictions that mobile technologies would greatly benefit both firms and individuals have now come under increasing scrutiny. Some of the authors suggest that the industry must move beyond...
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Interfacing SMS and Database Systems: A Software Engineering Approach
December 31, 2003, 12:00am PST
SMS technology was designed originally as a communication tool between a service provider and its users. However, in the last few years, this technology has allowed users to communicate to other...
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Enabling Ecosystem for Mobile Advertising in an Emerging Economy
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Escalating cost of reaching out to new consumers makes advertisers seek ways to retain current consumers by forming closer relationships with them. One approach is by tailoring products, services...
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Accreditation of Monash University Software Engineering (MUSE) Program
May 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Engineering programs in Australian Universities are accredited by Engineers Australia (EA) based on certain strict guidelines. This paper discusses the undergraduate SE curriculum and...
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Innovation and Scaling Up Agile Software Engineering Projects
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Software Engineering capstone projects have been running successfully since 2002 for the final year Software Engineering (SE) students of the Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) Program at...
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Association Relationship Transformation of XML Schemas to Object-Relational Databases
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is fast emerging as the dominant standard for describing data and interchanging data between various systems and databases on the Internet. It offers the XML...
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Online Offline Trends In Retailing
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Internet plays an increasingly essential role in today's society; and this is particularly true for retailers. Research suggests that consumers not only use the Internet to shop online, but...
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The Stock Exchange Of Mauritius: A Study Of Segmentation Versus Integration At The Regional And Global Level
October 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The present research investigates the Stock Exchange of Mauritius and whether there is enough evidence to conclude that the market is segmented or integrated both at the regional level and at the...
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Effects Of Financial Sector Reforms In Sri Lanka: Evidence From The Banking Sector
June 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the South Asian region, Sri Lanka was the first country to commence financial sector reforms. The broad idea of implementing such reforms was to enhance economic growth while improving...
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A Star Is Born: A New International Investment Style For Us Mutual Funds During The 1986-1995 Period
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide evidence that a new 'International growth' investment style in the US mutual fund is born between 1986 and 1995. This corresponds to a large increase in the number of equity...
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The Degree Of Stock Price Deviations From Random Walk: A Cross-country Analysis
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the rolling bicorrelation statistic to measure the degree of stock price deviations from random walk for the stock markets of 50 countries. We find that stock markets in...
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Use of Persuasive Technology to Change End-Users' IT Security Aware Behaviour: A Pilot Study
December 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Persuasive technology has been applied in marketing, health, environmental conservation, safety and other domains and is found to be quite effective in changing people's attitude and behaviours....
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Underpricing, Risk Management, Hot Issue And Crowding Out Effects: Evidence From The Australian Resources Sector Initial Public Offerings Hoa Nguyen
September 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive investigation of 260 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the Australian resource sector for the 1994 - 2004 periods. Consistent with the existing...
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Developing Key Performance Indicators: Designing Measurement For Faculty Concerns
August 23, 2006, 12:00am PDT
An explicit process for tracking measures is required: evaluation of qualitative Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will be via self-reflection followed by external validation and benchmarking...
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The Long-Run Effects Of Structural Change And The Treatment Of International Capital Accumulation, Mobility And Ownership
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Taking a commonly-used and commonly-available trade policy model as the starting point, the authors examine the long-run effects of large-scale structural change with and without international...
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Population Ageing, Labour Market Reform And Economic Growth In China - A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The dramatic fertility decline since the beginning of 1970s has decelerated the growth of China's working age population. From 2015, this growth will turn sharply negative, resulting declining...
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Financial Intermediation, Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth
June 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of financial intermediation, entrepreneurship and economic growth. In this model, the role of financial intermediation is to pool savings and...
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Firm Innovation: The Influence Of R&D Cooperation And The Geography Of Human Capital Inputs
October 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the role played by the sectoral and geographical mobility of labour in the promotion of industrial innovations. Knowledge can be transferred between firms by inter-firm...
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Trade Barriers, Openness, And Economic Growth
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using a long dataset on openness and productivity this paper tests the influence of openness on TFP growth and per capita growth since 1870 for 16 industrialized countries. It is shown, in simple...
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On The Impact Of Piracy On Innovation In The Presence Of Technological And Market Uncertainty
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the effect of piracy on innovation in the presence of R&D competition with technological and market uncertainty. With a single innovating firm facing technological uncertainty,...
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Long-Run Convergence In Manufacturing And Innovation-Based Models
February 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Following the papers of Broadberry (1993), Wolf (1994), Bernard and Jones (1996a, 1996b) and Carree et al. (2000), it is widely believed that labor productivity in manufacturing has not been...
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North-South Trade And The Non-Neutrality Of International Money
March 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a Ricardian model with money to study North-South trade that is mediated by the currency of the North. The model shows that an increase in the supply of Northern money results...
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Human Capital Composition, Proximity To Technology Frontier And Productivity Growth
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The role of human capital composition has been given importance in the most recent endogenous growth models. Assuming that primary as well as secondary education is more suitable for imitation and...
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Does Exporter Turnover Contribute To Aggregate Productivity Growth? Evidence From Malaysian Manufacturing
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Malaysia's economic success is to a significant extent underpinned by its export-oriented manufacturing sector. The sector has a large foreign presence, with MNCs attracted by the open trade and...
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Understanding IT Governance Processes: Towards Improvements In Practice
February 14, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper elucidates a processual framework for IT governance. The key governance processes in this framework are the processes of alignment, acquisition, evaluation, and benefits realisation....
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The Impacts Of Firm Characteristics On Long-Run Operating Performance And Economic Efficiency Changes In Australian Takeovers
January 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper reports new findings on the long-run post-acquisition control-adjusted operating performance, the association between pre-acquisition firm/deal characteristics and the changes of...
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Bank Stock Returns And Endogenous Money Supply In The Wake Of Financial Deregulation And Crisis: Evidence From United States
August 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper is about the relationship between money supply and bank industry stock returns in United States over thirty years taking into account the endogeneity of money under Post-Keynesian...
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Socialising Accountability In A Religious Charity Organisation
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The dual classification of hierarchical and socialising forms of accountability has proved useful in assisting accounting and accountability researchers to consider accountability beyond the...
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A Fuzzy Implementation for Optimization Storage Locations in an Industrial AS/RS
June 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Warehousing is commonly used in factories for the storage of products until delivery of orders. As the amount of products stored increases it becomes tedious to be carried out manually. In recent...
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Incremental Fingerprint Recognition Model for Distributed Authentication
May 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a novel fingerprint recognition model to accelerate the process of fingerprint verification in a distributed environment improving matching efficiency. Incremental Fingerprint...
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A Novel Group Key Management Scheme for Privacy Protection Sensitive Information Systems
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new group key management scheme for sensitive information systems which allows group members to share information securely. By classifying users into two categories, the...
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Effective Global Regularity And Empirical Modeling Of Direct, Inverse And Mixed Demand Systems
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors utilize the notion of "Effective global regularity" and the intuition stemming from Cooper and McLaren (1996)'s General Exponential Form to develop a family of...
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The Indian Growth Miracle And Endogenous Growth
September 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using over half a century of R&D data for India, this paper examines the extent to which India's recent growth experience can be explained by R&D, international R&D spillovers, catch-up to the...
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Public Goods, Corruption And Growth???
January 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyse implications of corruption on growth. They extend existing growth models by incorporating ubiquitous corruption as a by-product of the public sector. Corruption...
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The Nexus Between Schooling And Growth: International Evidence Since 1870
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The growth effects of schooling are often assumed to be exaggerated because of feedback effects from growth to schooling. This paper investigates the nexus between productivity growth and...
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Growth And Capital Deepening Since 1870: Is It All Technological Progress?
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Based on an asset pricing model this paper shows that traditional growth accounting exercises attribute too much weight to capital deepening and suggests a method to filter out TFP-induced...
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Semi-endogenous Versus Schumpeterian Growth Models: Testing The Knowledge Production Function Using International Data
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
Using various indicators of innovative activity and product variety in the OECD countries over the past century, this paper tests whether first- and second-generation models of economic growth are...
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Flip-OFDM for Optical Wireless Communications
November 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider two uniploar OFDM techniques for optical wireless communications: Asymmetric Clipped Optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) and Flip-OFDM. Both techniques can be used to compensate multipath...
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Dynamic Key Cryptography and Applications
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In modern security models, cryptography plays a fundamental role in protecting data integrity and confidentiality in information systems. However, cryptography itself is subject to cryptanalysis...
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Monash University 1.1 (Mobile)
February 2, 2012, 12:00am PST
The Monash University app provides convenient access to important information and Australian campus services in the palm of your hand.Features include: eMaps of Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton,...
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Asset Prices, Monetary Policy, And Aggregate Fluctuations: An Empirical Investigation
June 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies empirically the dynamic interactions between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate fluctuations during the Volcker-Greenspan period. Using a simple structural vector...
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A Monetary Policy Rule: The Augmented Monetary Conditions Index For Philippines Using UECM And Bounds Tests
March 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper constructs the Augmented Monetary Conditions Index (AMCI) over 1982:1-2004:4 using UECM and bounds test approach for the Philippines data. Results reveal evidence of cointegration...
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Asian Financial Crisis, Avian Flu And Terrorist Threats: Are Shocks To Malaysian Tourist Arrivals Permanent Or Transitory?
October 30, 2006, 12:00am PST
International visitor arrivals from Malaysia's ten major source markets are examined using Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to ascertain if shocks to the...
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Financial Development, Capital Accumulation And Productivity Improvement: Evidence From China
August 24, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Financial sector development may contribute to economic growth by facilitating capital accumulation and by improving productivity. This paper investigates empirically the contribution that...
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A Survey Of Recent Developments In The Literature Of Finance And Growth
February 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a survey of the recent progress in the literature of financial development and economic growth. The survey highlights that most empirical studies focus on either testing the...
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Who Benefits From Microfinance? The Impact Evaluation Of Large Scale Programs In Bangladesh
November 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on household consumption using a new, large and unique cross-section data set from Bangladesh. The richness of the data and program eligibility...
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Private Saving In India And Malaysia Compared: The Role Of Financial Liberalization And Expected Pension Benefits
July 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors provide a comparative account of the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyze how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help...
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Private Investment And Financial Sector Policies In Developing Countries
June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of financial sector policies in determining private investment in the economies of India and Malaysia. The results suggest that the presence of significant directed...
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Financial Development And Economic Growth In Malaysia: Cointegration And Co-Feature Analysis
January 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper seeks to explore the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Malaysia over the period of 1980 to 2008 using the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) and the...
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Multiple Regime Shifts: The Influence Of ASEAN Politics On Financial Integration Within South-East Asia
June 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
For the last two decades, a key policy objective of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which it claims much success, has been the supra-national integration among the region's...
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Financial Development, Liberalization And Technological Deepening
October 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on examining the effects of financial development and liberalization on knowledge accumulation. The results consistently show that while financial development facilitates the...
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Finance And Consumption Volatility: Evidence From India
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The main objective of this paper is to explore the determinants of private consumption growth volatility in India, focusing on the role of financial sector policies. Using annual time series data,...
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Financial Liberalization And The Aid-Growth Relationship In India
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on the process of economic development in India by controlling for the degree of financial liberalization. A composite index is constructed using the...
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Financial Development And Financing Constraints In A Developing Country: The Case Of Bangladesh
July 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the sensitivity of investment to available cash-stock, a measure for internal funds, for 192 listed non-financial firms of Bangladesh from 1992 to 2002. The empirical results...
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Financial Deepening And Economic Development In Malaysia
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines to what extent financial development contributes to output expansion in Malaysia, during the period 1960-2003. An augmented neoclassical growth framework is adopted to provide...
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What Are The Mechanisms Linking Financial Development And Economic Growth In Malaysia?
May 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper estimates a six-equation model of financial development and economic growth for Malaysia to shed light on the mechanisms linking these two variables. The results indicate that financial...
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Are Financial Sector Policies Effective In Deepening The Malaysian Financial System?
May 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an empirical assessment of the effects of financial sector policies on development of the financial system in Malaysia over the period 1959-2005. The technique of principal...
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Financial Reforms, Patent Protection And Knowledge Accumulation In India
October 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The main objective of this paper is to explore the impact of financial sector reforms, financial deepening and intellectual property protection on the accumulation of knowledge for one of the...
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Engineering a Suburban Ad-Hoc Network
March 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Ad-hoc wireless networks are networks of co-operating users, with no reliance upon fixed infrastructure. Such networks are growing in popularity, as wireless communication hardware, both fixed and...
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Growth And Productivity
August 17, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The APEC economies have become the drivers of the world economy. How they interrelate is central to growth in those economies and global growth. All APEC economies are undergoing significant...
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Insurance And Economic Growth: A Cross Country Examination
August 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While insurance plays an important role in the financial sector, it is often ignored in the financial development-economic growth literature. This paper examines the relationship between insurance...
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How Would Global Trade Liberalization Affect Rural And Regional Incomes In Australia?
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For decades rural Australia has been discriminated against by industrial policies at home and agricultural protectionism abroad. While agricultural export taxation in poor countries had the...
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Will An Appreciation Of The Renminbi Rebalance The Global Economy? A Dynamic Financial CGE Analysis
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a dynamic CGE model of China with a financial module and sectoral detail to examine the real and nominal impacts of a nominal exchange rate appreciation alone, fiscal policy alone...
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Economic Growth, TFP Convergence And World Exports Of Ideas: A Century Of Evidence
January 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the effect of international patent stock on total factor productivity for 16 OECD countries over the past 120 years. The results show that the international patent stock is...
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Globalisation And Child Labour: Evidence From India
April 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Child labour is a complex problem basically rooted in poverty. The Government of India has formulated policies since the economic reforms of the early 1990s. Children under fourteen comprise 3.6...
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Does Democracy Facilitate Economic Growth Or Does Economic Growth Facilitate Democracy? An Empirical Study Of Sub-Saharan Africa
April 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. As the authors' proxy for democracy they first use the democracy index constructed...
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Exploring The Determinants Of Global 'Social Production' Of Information And Knowledge: Insights From SETI@home
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Commons-based peer production is an activity that is emerging as a distinct mode of resource allocation and production of information, knowledge and culture ('Social production' for short),...
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Intra-Group Transfers And Group Formation
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider different forms of intra-group transfers and the resulting type of group formation. They introduce the concept of partial joint liability and revenue sharing...
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Outward FDI And Home Country Economic Growth: A Malaysian Case
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper attempts to explore the causality relationship between Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) and home country economic growth using Malaysia as a case. The main findings do not...
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The Anatomy Of Growth In The OECD Since 1870: The Transformation From The Post-malthusian Growth Regime To The Modern Growth Epoch
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper extends conventional growth accounting exercises to allow for endogeneity of capital, the demographic transition, age dependency, and employment rates among other factors. Using data...
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Semi-endogenous Versus Schumpeterian Growth Models: Testing The Knowledge Production Function Using International Data
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
Using various indicators of innovative activity and product variety in the OECD countries over the past century, this paper tests whether first- and second-generation models of economic growth are...
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Growth And Capital Deepening Since 1870: Is It All Technological Progress?
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Based on an asset pricing model this paper shows that traditional growth accounting exercises attribute too much weight to capital deepening and suggests a method to filter out TFP-induced...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
The Nexus Between Schooling And Growth: International Evidence Since 1870
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The growth effects of schooling are often assumed to be exaggerated because of feedback effects from growth to schooling. This paper investigates the nexus between productivity growth and...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
Public Goods, Corruption And Growth???
January 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyse implications of corruption on growth. They extend existing growth models by incorporating ubiquitous corruption as a by-product of the public sector. Corruption...
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White Papers
The Indian Growth Miracle And Endogenous Growth
September 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using over half a century of R&D data for India, this paper examines the extent to which India's recent growth experience can be explained by R&D, international R&D spillovers, catch-up to the...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
Effective Global Regularity And Empirical Modeling Of Direct, Inverse And Mixed Demand Systems
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors utilize the notion of "Effective global regularity" and the intuition stemming from Cooper and McLaren (1996)'s General Exponential Form to develop a family of...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
A Novel Group Key Management Scheme for Privacy Protection Sensitive Information Systems
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new group key management scheme for sensitive information systems which allows group members to share information securely. By classifying users into two categories, the...
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