The episodes of financial crises in many parts of the world during the 1990s have sparked interest in identifying channels through which such crises spread from one country to another. Researchers have identified several factors that may have sparked and induced contagion. This study further...

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-CARICOM bilateral trade and the CARICOM member's trade with the North American and European countries using the gravity model. Seventeen annual cross-sections are estimated for the period 1980 through 1996. Overall, the empirical results indicate...

Im Jahre 1991 vollzogen Argentinien, Brasilien, Uruguay und Paraguay mit der Gründung des “Gemeinsamen Marktes des Südens” (Mercado Común del Sur/MERCOSUR) einen wirtschaftspolitischen Paradigmenwechsel in Richtung Integration in die Weltwirtschaft und Nutzung komparativer...

Regional integration has been used with varying success to overcome disadvantages associated with smallsize. The fundamental premise for regional cooperation in the Caribbean has been the promotion of economicdevelopment particularly in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The opportunity...

A preliminary resource assessment, based on the best available parameters, was made to identify potentially suitable fairways. Of those examined only the Brazoria Fairway in the Frio Formation was able to produce sufficient fluid to meet the minimum requirements. These requirements are based...

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting a program to help assess impacts of energy-related developments through the year 2025 in six northwestern states--Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. ELSA (Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this...