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Evaluating the Malaysian Export Processing Zones With special focus on the electronic industry

Furby, Mats - EconWPA - 2005

Export Processing Zones are geographical enclaves that have legally been excepted from the country´s normal customs … barriers and other constraining legislations. Malaysia has used them to foster its manufacturing industries, particularly the … positive catalytic effects on the host country. The aim of this essay is to evaluate the EPZs’ impact on Malaysia and see if …

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A Rational Irrational Man

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A man is a key subject of economics and economic theory. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the...

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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Networks and market laws

Quesada, Antonio - EconWPA - 2004

The effects on the market price of a change in the number of buyers, in the number of sellers, in the prices sellers … set and in the buyers’ reservation prices are established in a simple network model of a market. …

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The Effects of a Sudden CO2 reduction in Spain

Labandeira, Xavier; Rodriguez, Miguel - EconWPA - 2004

Spanish emissions of carbon dioxide have grown by more than 40% in 2004 with respect to 1990. This is not compatible with the EU allocation of Kyoto-mandated CO2 reduction, even taking into account that Spanish emissions are allowed to rise by 15% in 2010. The reasons for this situation stem...

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THE NIGERIAN COAL CORPORATION: AN EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE(1960 1987)

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

COAL WAS DISCOVERED IN NIGERIA IN 1909 AND COAL MINING STARTED WITH A DRIFT MINE AT OGBETE, ENUGU IN 1915. SINCE 1958/59, WHEN COAL PRODUCTION REACHED ITS PEAK, THERE HAS BEEN A PERSISTENT FLUCTUATION IN THE AMOUNT OF COAL PRODUCED IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS. THIS PAPER THEREFORE INVESTIGATES THE MAJOR...

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CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EXCHANGE RATES AND STOCK PRICES IN MALAYSIA AND THAILAND DURING THE 1997 CURRENCY CRISIS TURMOIL

Hussain, Huzaimi; Liew, Venus Khim-Sen - EconWPA - 2004

relationship between exchange rate and stock price in Malaysia, whereas a unidirectional causal relationship running from exchange …

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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