The absolute deterministic version of purchasing power parity (PPP), in which nominal exchange rates move precisely to offset changes in aggregate price levels between national economies, is not generally supported by empirical evidence. Testing PPP with standard regression models permits some...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Erklärungen für die im Vergleich zu Industriestaaten oft deutlich schwerer wiegenden Währungskrisen in Emerging Market Economies zu finden. Damit verbunden ist die Frage nach den Determinanten des Krisenausmaßes. Dazu wird zunächst ein detailierter Überblick...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative study of prediction performances of an artificial neutral network (ANN) model against a linear prediction model like a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) with regards to forecasting corporate credit ratings from financial...

Taiwan had approximately 3,000 buildings damaged by floods with an economic loss of NT$12.8 billion annually, a figure 4.5 times more than economic losses due to fire damages. Many insurers become extremely cautious when underwriting their flood policies for people living in areas that are...

Faced with the imminent opening up of the trade in México in 2008, cultivation sugarcane (Sacchrum spp.) It has a strong competitive pressure from other producing countries thatare operating with cost and low prices. Hence the need to seek production alternatives thatcould improve the...

Este trabalho propõe analisar o desempenho financeiro da piscicultura no sistema semi-intensivo, praticado por pequenos produtores da regional do Baixo Acre e avaliar os fatores que atuam como ameaças ao desenvolvimento da cadeia produtiva. A análise financeira foi realizada com o método do...

Although agriculture generates a significant portion of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, it also has the potential to sequester large quantities of emissions through changed land use management such as agroforestry. Whilst there is an extensive amount of agroforestry literature, little...

Diameter-limit cutting of stands in the US northeast is a common practice often thought to give the landowner the highest financial returns. A landowner's decision to diameter-limit cut or use some other harvesting option on a given stand involves examining mutually exclusive investments....