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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
reality that makes the rural areas of India impermeable to the effects of globalization. To exploit the possibilities and …Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119015
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Optimal portfolios using linear programming models
Papahristodoulou, Christos; Dotzauer, Erik - EconWPA - 2005
The classical Quadratic Programming (QP) formulation of the well-known portfolio selection problem has traditionally been regarded as cumbersome and time consuming. This paper formulates two additional models, (i) maximin, and (ii) minimization of mean absolute deviation. Data from 67 securities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134772
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Multivariate Partial Distribution: A New Method of Pricing Group Assets and Analyzing the Risk for Hedging
Dai, Feng; Liu, Hui; Wang, Ying - EconWPA - 2005
Based on the Partial Distribution (Feng Dai, 2001), a new model to price an asset (MPA) is given. Going a step further, this paper puts forward the Multivariate Partial Distribution (MPD) for the first time. By use of MPD, we could gain a new kind of model for pricing the group assets (MPGA), in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119177
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Risk Analysis in Investment Appraisal
Savvides, Savvakis C. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper was prepared for the purpose of presenting the methodology and uses of the Monte Carlo simulation technique as applied in the evaluation of investment projects to analyse and assess risk. The first part of the paper highlights the importance of risk analysis in investment appraisal....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561672
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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076560
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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries
Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003
Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076616
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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GLOBALIZATION AND GOALS: Does soccer show the way?
Milnaovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
foreign clubs. This provides an example as how forces of efficiency but also inequality unleashed by globalization can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125704
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A TALE OF TWO “GLOBALIZATIONS”: CAPITAL FLOWS FROM RICH TO POOR IN TWO ERAS OF GLOBAL FINANCE
Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005
globalization. The paper extends recent research on the developmental effects of international financial integration, long …-term trends in capital mobility and “globalization in historical perspective”. Analyzing the patterns of international financial … a central element of 19th century financial globalization, but plays only a minor role today. The Lucas paradox of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125830
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The Empire Effect: Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880-1913
Ferguson, Niall; Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005
conclude that these findings have important implications for the current globalization debate: lacking jurisdictional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125839