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The Impact of Oil Prices on the Real Exchange Rate of the Dirham: a Case Study of the United Arab Emirates
Al-mulali, Usama; Che Sab, Normee - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study investigated the impact of oil shocks on the real exchange rate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dirham. Time series data were used for the period 1977 to 2007 covering four important oil shocks. Five variables have been used in this study, with the real exchange rate of the dirham...
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Is Grass Greener on the Other Side?: A Glimpse of the Worker Camps in UAE
Sasidharan, Anand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
More than a million Indians work in UAE, and a third of them lives in worker camps. It is the expectation of higher wages that makes the ‘grass greener’ in UAE. But the wage differential, if it exists, does not seem to compensate for the living conditions in these camps. The article...
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United Arab Emirates FDI Outlook
Mina, Wasseem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
FDI is important in building a sustainable and diversified knowledge-based UAE economy. The stock of FDI grew at an average annual growth rate of 45.3 percent over the past decade reaching US$ 95 billion or nearly 27 percent of GDP in 2012. FDI flows have not recovered from the global financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109286
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The Role of Information Communication Technology and Economic Growth in Recent Electricity Demand: Fresh Evidence from Combine Cointegration Approach in UAE
Shahbaz, Muhammad; Sbia, Rashid; HAMDI, Helmi; Ur … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates relationship between information communication technology (ICT), economic growth and electricity consumption using data of UAE over the period of 1975-2011.We have tested the unit properties of variables and the Bayer and Hanck combined cointegration approach for long run...
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Labor Market Flexibility and FDI Flows: Evidence from Oil-Rich GCC and Middle Income Countries
Mina, Wasseem; Jaeck, Louis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper we empirically examine the impact of labor market flexibility on FDI flows to oil-rich GCC and compare it to middle income countries in 2006-2011. We account for potential endogeneity and nonstationarity and adopt system GMM and IV estimation methodologies. Our findings show that...
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Modeling with scenarios: technology in north-south development
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Cole, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978
This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development. Its main purpose is to describe the methodology being developed in the pilot phase of the study. This is of interest because it links together a number of analytic...
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Mutual Funds and Segregated Funds: A Comparison
Palombizio, Ennio A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Mutual Funds are the most common form of investment for the average household. They offer a fair amount of return for a limited amount of risk. Segregated Funds, which are, simply put, mutual funds with additional features, have grown in popularity as of late. It is something of great interest...
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Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...
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Gap Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perception in Tourism Industry
Chavan, Rajashri Ramesh; Bhola, Sarang Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper mainly focused to determine the stakeholder profile and establish the perception gap between tourist and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258701
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Students’ Perception About Management Education in India and USA
Shetty, Bhavna R.; Gujarathi, Rajashree - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The purpose of this research was to gain an insight into students’ perception about the quality of management education … were comparing students’ perception regarding the quality parameters input, process and output of the two MBA programs. The … hypothetical associations of students’ perception of high quality education with input, process and output of management schools …
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