Without change, stagnation is inevitable. Never has this truth been more obvious than during the current epoch of industrial decline in North America. This research provides two economic narratives that exemplify the struggles of industrial communities as they strive to regenerate. The research...

When a farmer delivers his cotton to the Société des Fibres Textiles (SOFITEX), a quasi-monopsony in Burkina Faso, a cut of two kilograms, is taken off of the final buying price, accounting for “transportation losses”. Often the farmers spend the night filling the containers of the SOFITEX...

This thesis groups three papers examining the role of multi-location firms in the geographic diffusion of knowledge. The first chapter examines whether a firm's headquarters can tap into the knowledge pool in a remote location through FDI. Using U.S. patent data, I show that an R&D headquarters...

In the aftermath of the Islamic resurgence movement, the call for theabolition of interest and the introduction of profit and loss sharingschemes gained momentum. Islamic writers have concentrated ondescribing the operations of an Islamic bank in an interest basedeconomy and others have outlined...

Existing appraisal and evaluation methodologies provide for aseparate assessment of technical, financial, economic, institutional,social and environmental aspects of projects without a unifying theoryto combine these aspects into a single measure of project performance.Data Envelopment Analysis...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-01, Section: A, page: 0177.

Based on previous evidence that there are information heterogeneities in capital markets, three essays including empirical frameworks for examining the information processes that impact portfolio investments and corporate investments was proposed. The first essay considers information channels...

Euroregionai Europoje egzistuoja jau nuo šeštojo XX a. dešimtmečio. Tačiau universalios euroregiono sampratos dar nėra. Pateikiamuose euroregiono apibrėžimuose aiškiai pabrėžiama, kad tai struktūros, turinčios teritorinį apibrėžtumą. Svarbus aspektas – euroregioną...

Peculiarities of Vilnius economics in Lithuanian extent are determined by its role as administrative centre – capital, and therefore it has bigger significance as business organisation centre and more intensive international economical relationship in comparison with other cities of the...

Although Vilnius is the largest city of the republic, a centre of industry and culture, the largest Lithuanian administrative centre, where the most important political, financial, economic, social and cultural centres are located, nevertheless there are plenty of unemployed and socially...