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An Even Higher Global Inequality Than Previously Thought
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
The results of the most recent 2005 round of International Comparison Program (ICP), published in the December 2007 Report, allow the authors to obtain much more precise estimates of global...
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Global Inequality Recalculated: The Effect Of New 2005 PPP Estimates On Global Inequality
July 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The results of new direct price level comparisons across 146 countries in 2005 have led to large revisions of PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) exchanges rates, particularly for China and India. The...
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Global Imbalances: An Unconventional View
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
In the US the conventional view of global imbalances is that China is a currency manipulator - by accumulating reserves it artificially undervalues its currency, gains unfair trade advantages, and...
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Global Inequality And Global Inequality Extraction Ratio: The Story Of The Last Two Centuries
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using social tables, the authors make an estimate of global inequality (inequality among world citizens) in early 19th century. They then show that the level and composition of global inequality...
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Beyond The Global Financial Crisis: Central Banking In A New Global Financial System
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Since the outbreak of the global crisis in mid 2007, there has been an extensive discussion on root causes. Some blame the greed and corruption of financial actors. Others put the blame on central...
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The Global Start Ups From Indian IT
May 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the phenomenon of accelerated internationalization of firms from the Indian IT industry. It examines the emergence of the Born Global firm in the Indian context with a specific...
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Global Imbalances: Is Germany The New China? A Skeptical View
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors evaluate the current account patterns of China and Germany. They point out that China's current account surplus as a share of global GDP in recent years resembles that...
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The Beat Of Visions :The Challenging Features Of A New Global Mode Of Production
January 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper explores how the visions of a future global political economy might shape its actual emergence. The emergence of powerful visions themselves seems to follow a pattern of discrete steps...
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Strategic Coopetition of Global Brands: A Game Theory Approach to 'Nike + iPod Sport Kit' Co-branding
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Co-branding can be implemented by establishing an agreement of strategic coopetition that allows companies to compete and cooperate simultaneously in order to obtain competitive advantages through...
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Global Imbalances And Household Savings: The Role Of Wealth
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many claim that fluctuations in US private savings help to create and to sustain global imbalances because of their influence on the current account deficit. To test this claim, this paper...
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Trade Collapse, Trade Relapse And Global Production Networks: Supply Chains In The Great Recession (Revised)
June 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The nature of international trade and the very nature of globalization have changed dramatically in recent years, with the emergence of new global players and a radically different competitive...
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From Overhang To Hangover: Consequences Of Protectionist Responses To The Global Crisis For Low-Income Countries
July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the global economic crisis unfolds, policymakers around the world are faced with increasing pressures to resort to protectionist measures in support of domestic employment. The G20 November...
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Diversity and Multiculturalism As A Strategy For Strengthening Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) In The Global Market
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
Managing multiculturalism is indeed a challenge both at the, governance as well as managerial levels. Organisations are increasingly realising vast diversity within the global market and devising...
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The Barter Method: A New Heuristic For Global Optimization And Its Comparison With The Particle Swarm And The Differential Evolution Methods
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The objective of this paper is to introduce a new population-based (stochastic) heuristic to search the global optimum of a (continuous) multi-modal function and to assess its performance (on a...
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A Non-Linear Coopetitive Game For Global Green Economy
July 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The paper aims at providing a non-linear Game Theory model of coopetition which addresses the problem of the global Green Economy. The Green Economy is a theoretical model of economic development...
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Is There A Direct Effect Of Corruption On Growth?
November 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recent empirical studies find that the direct effect of corruption on growth is statistically insignificant. However, there exists a discrepancy between these results and the intuition that...
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Changing Dimensions Of India's Growth Process: A State Level Analysis
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Growth of the Indian economy has been quite impressive during 2004-07. This paper chronicles the performance of the states in India during this high growth phase. The growth performance during...
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Corrupt Bureaucracy And Growth
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyze 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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From Stability To Growth In Neoclassical Multisector Models
December 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Analysis of the multisector models was an important strand of inquiry within neoclassic growth theory from the early 1960s onwards, and it had two main purposes. From a theoretical point of view,...
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Economic Growth And The Environment
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Working on environmental policy makes Defra staff constantly aware of the complementarities between a healthy natural environment and prosperity. So it is frustrating that economic growth is often...
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'Export Led Growth' X 'Growth Led Exports': What Matters For The Brazilian Growth Experience After Trade Liberalization?
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the Brazilian growth experience after trade liberalization by testing both the Export Led Growth (ELG) and the Growth Led Exports (GLE) hypotheses through a...
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Nonlinear Effect Of Corruption, Uncertainty, And Growth
September 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Corruption in the public sector is manifested both in collusive and noncollusive forms. Collusive corruption erodes tax compliance and leads to higher tax evasion. Noncollusive corruption stems...
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The Missing Link: The Finance-growth Nexus And The Guyanese Growth Stagnation
August 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The theory underpinning financial liberalization postulates that unregulated financial markets are growth augmenting. Guyana has been a model reformer since 1988 implementing market friendly...
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Social Capital And Economic Growth In Polish Regions
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is an ongoing debate on social capital resources in Poland, where the density of associational activities and the level of social trust is low when compared to West European countries....
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IT And Telecom Companies In Kista Science City, Northern Stockholm
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper, as indicated by its title IT companies in Kista, describes companies and establishments in the Kista area north of Stockholm that are active in IT and telecommunications. Kista and the...
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Corporate Responses To Currency Depreciations: Evidence From Indonesia
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
Several studies, both empirical and theoretical, have been mobilized to understand what happened in the 1997 Asian crisis. Some studies accentuate on the macroeconomic weaknesses, for instance, by...
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Mobile Call Termination in the UK
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors discuss policy towards mobile call termination, illustrated by the 2002 Competition Commission enquiry into the UK mobile market. They present a model of the mobile market which...
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A Contribution to Theory Building for Mobile Marketing: Categorizing Mobile Marketing Campaigns Through Case Study Research
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Marketing experts consider the mobile device as an extremely promising marketing tool as it supports them to cope with their major challenge: getting time and attention from customers. Current...
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Impact of Mobile Usage on the Interpersonal Relations
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Communication via mobile telephones is widespread in East Asian metropolis such as Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo. In the last ten years, the number of mobile telephone users has increased dramatically,...
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (With an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
March 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; network-based price...
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UMTS Broadband Mobile Technology Is a Reality - Confounding Many Expectations
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The telcos are preparing for the fact that 3G will assume a greater role in mobile communication as it grows in importance. More than 80 commercial 3G networks have already been rolled out around...
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Network Externalities and Critical Mass in the Mobile Telephone Network: A Panel Data Estimation
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a simple demand model with network externalities which allow the authors to identify the shape of the network externalities function in the mobile telephone market and to...
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Dialing While Fishtailing: How Mobile Phones, Hands-Free Laws, and Driving Conditions Interact to Affect Traffic Fatalities
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most rich countries in the world and four US states require drivers talking on mobile phones to use hands-free devices. However, previous research has failed to arrive at a consensus on the effect...
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Understanding Effects and Determinants of Mobile Support Tools: A Usability-Centered Field Study on IT Service Technicians
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The integration of mobile workplaces is a major challenge for companies. First-wave mobile solutions mostly support existing business processes through adding value in terms of increased...
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Analysis of WIMAX/BWA Licensing in India: A Real Option Approach
June 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Indian Internet and broadband market has experienced very slow growth and limited penetration till now. The introduction of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is expected to aid in increasing the...
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Fire Sales In Housing Market: Is The House-searching Process Similar To A Theme Park Visit?
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
Three striking empirical regularities have been repeatedly reported: the positive correlation between housing prices and trading volume, between housing price and the Time?]On?]The?]Market (TOM),...
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What Drives Fixed Asset Holding And Risk-adjusted Performance Of Corporate In China? An Empirical Analysis
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper attempts to shed light on the over-investment debate by investigating listed firms in China. Firms with higher level of fixed asset holding, higher level of overhead expenses, and being...
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Financial Innovation And Regional Money
February 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
Financial innovations in Japan may have been occurring all along, but they seem more prominent over the last decades. Although it is difficult to define financial innovation, the authors can...
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Expectations Traps And Monetary Policy With Limited Commitment
February 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors study the existence and uniqueness properties of monetary policy with limited commitment in LQ RE models. They use a New Keynesian model with debt accumulation in the...
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A Theoretical Approach For Dynamic Modelling Of Sustainable Development
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a theoretical model for a dynamic system based on sustainable development. Due to the relatively absence of theoretical studies and practical issues in the area of sustainable...
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Revisiting The Relationship Between Electricity Consumption, Capital And Economic Growth: Cointegration And Causality Analysis In Romania
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper empirically analyzes, in the Romania's case, the cointegration and causality between electricity consumption, capital and economic growth. The data set is covering the period 1980 -...
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A Model Of Technology Transfer In Japan's Rapid Economic Growth Period
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Why did the Japanese economy stagnate before World War II, how did it achieve rapid economic growth after the war, and why did it stagnate again after the 1970s? To answer these questions, the...
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Temporal Granger Causality And The Dynamics Examination On The Tourism-growth Nexus In Malaysia
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper applied the cointegration, error-correction modeling and persistence profile to analyse the dynamic relationship between real tourism receipts, real income and real exchange rate in...
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Industrialisation And De-industrialisation: England Divides
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
The changes that led to the first industrialisation were cumulative, aided by occasional positive shocks that were largely fortuitous. At the heart was the emergence right from the sixteenth...
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Learning And Judgment Shocks In U.S. Business Cycles
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the role of judgment shocks in combination with other structural shocks in explaining post-war economic volatility within the context of a New Keynesian model. Agents form...
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Does Access And Use Of Financial Service Smoothen Household Food Consumption?
March 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper relies on Ghana's Living Standard Measurement Survey to test the hypothesis of no relationship between credit and household food consumption expenditure. The authors use single stage...
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Impacts Of China's Growth On The Brazilian Trade
March 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors evaluate whether the presence of China in world trade is ultimately beneficial or whether it is a threat to Brazil. Using a gravitational model and a panel data method, they find that...
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Defense Expenditure And Economic Growth Under External Predation
March 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a growth model of a country under a Hobbesian environment with international conflicts where national defense is the only way to prevent external predation. The long run growth...
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Fair Value Accounting And Procyclicality: Mitigating Regulatory And Accounting Policy Differences Through Regulatory Structure Reforms And Enforced Self Regulation
March 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
The adoption of international accounting standards is considered to have a vital role in contributing to financial stability. This paper will also illustrate how the implementation of accounting...
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Income Insurance And The Determinants Of Income Insurance Via Foreign Asset Revenues And Foreign Liability Payments
March 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors document that the net factor income smoothing channel in OECD countries is primarily driven by net financial asset income, while the other two sub-components (net compensation of...
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Economic Rationality, Risk Presentation, And Retirement Portfolio Choice
March 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the propensity of individuals to violate implications of expected utility maximization in allocating retirement savings within a compulsory defined contribution retirement plan....
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Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Welfare Consequences Of Asymmetric Growth
March 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
A common presumption is that increased growth in the aggregate enhances the welfare of both the rich and the poor. The author shows that instead, as the rich get richer, the welfare of the poor...
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Revisiting The Fisher And Statman Study On Market Timing
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Valuation-based market timing demonstrates greater potential to improve risk-adjusted returns for conservative long-term investors than given credit by Fisher and Statman (2006). On a risk...
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The "More Is Less" Phenomenon In Contingent And Inferred Valuation
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors examine inconsistencies in preference orderings of the "More is less" kind (Alevy et al. 2011) using the Contingent Valuation (CV) and the Inferred Valuation (IV) method (Lusk and...
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The Long Term Impacts Of Migration In British Cities: Diversity, Wages, Employment And Prices
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities....
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The Capital Inflow "Problem" Revisited
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
For three decades, the predominantly prevailing presumption among economic analysts and financial authorities was that the flow of financial capital would become increasingly freer. More freely...
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Financial Liberalization And Contagion With Unobservable Savings
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
How do market-based channels for the provision of liquidity affect financial liberalization and contagion? In order to answer this question, the author extends the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model...
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Unobservable Savings, Risk Sharing And Default In The Financial System
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the author analyzes how unobservable savings affect risk sharing and bankruptcy decisions in the financial system. The author extends the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model of...
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Microfinance Impact Evaluation: A Managerial Perspective
March 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
Impact evaluation has been a popular method for the assessment of various policy, project or program level interventions. It has a wider application in social science domain where it is a...
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Endogenous Market Structures And The Business Cycle
March 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a flexible prices model where endogenous market structures and search and matching frictions in the labor market interact endogenously. The interplay between firms endogenous...
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Workers' Risk Underestimation And Occupational Health And Safety Regulation
March 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The standard treatment of occupational risk in the labour market is conducted in terms of the theory of compensating wage differentials, the basic characteristic of which is that workers can fully...
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A Simple Model Of Dairy Product Supply
March 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Dairy products are characterized by two properties, namely, perishability and short-periodic production. These properties are so unique that conventional studies in agricultural economics or in...
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The Optimum Currency Area. Is The Euro Zone An Optimum Currency Area?
March 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Although analyzed in terms of criteria for defining an optimum currency area, the authors could appreciate that EU fulfils certain criteria established within the theory of the optimum currency...
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The Natural Resource Curse, Fiscal Decentralization, And Agglomeration Economies
March 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Natural resource abundance is a blessing for some countries, yet is a curse for others. The degree of fiscal decentralization may account for this divergent outcome. Resources tend to locate in...
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Theory Of Financial Risk
March 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines relationships between theory of financial risk and size. Based on the work of Makridakis / Taleb [2009] and Taleb / Tapiero [2009], presents the problems of excessive risk and...
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America?s Underground Economy: Measuring The Size, Growth And Determinants Of Income Tax Evasion In The U.S
March 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically investigates the extent of non compliance with the tax code and the determinants of federal income tax evasion in the U.S. Employing the most recent data the authors find...
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Sequentially Rationalizable Choice With Transitive Rationales
February 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyze a sequentially rationalizable choice model with a transitive rationale and a standard preference. The model in this note is more restrictive than the Rational...
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Dynamic Market For Lemons With Endogenous Quality Choice
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze a dynamic market for lemons in which the quality of the good is endogenously determined by the seller. Potential buyers sequentially submit offers to one seller. The seller can...
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Temporary Job Protection And Productivity Growth In EU Economies
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines cross-national and sectoral differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in fourteen European countries and ten sectors from 1995 to 2007. The main aim is to ascertain the...
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The Management Of Uncertainty In Tourism: Strategic Paradoxes And Communication
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The design of new tourism products necessarily enters into the realm of uncertainty. Such uncertainty concerns the product developed and its later use as much as the way the design project is...
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