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Structural Reform and Firm Profitability in Developing Countries
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Dau, Luis Alfonso - 2008
We extend agency theory to propose that structural reform positively impacts firm profitability in developing countries because the improvements in external monitoring that accompany structural reform decrease the agency costs faced by firms. However, we also argue that not all firms benefit...
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Panel Data Tests Of PPP: A Critical Overview
Caporale, GM; Cerrato, M - 2004
This paper reviews recent developments in the analysis of non-stationary panels, focusing on empirical applications of panel unit root and cointegration tests in the context of PPP. It highlights various drawbacks of existing methods. First, unit root tests suffer from severe size distortions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481458
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Exportacion de un tomate en Canarias: un patron estacional estable?
Rodriguez, Gloria Martin; Cano, Victor; Hernandez, Jose … - 2002
RESUMEN: En este trabajo se analiza el patrón estacional de la exportación semanal de tomate canario desde el ingreso de España en la Unión Europea. Un primer examen de los componentes determinísticos de la serie revela la inestabilidad de éstos, claramente vinculada a los cambios en la...
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PRESENÇA DE CICLOS ECONÔMICOS NA PRODUÇÃO, PREÇOS E EXPORTAÇÕES DE CAFÉ NO BRASIL: ABORDAGEM PELA ANÁLISE ESPECTRAL
Fernandes, Elaine Aparecida; Miranda, Romulo J.S.; … - 2008
A cultura cafeeira foi e continua sendo de primordial importância para a economiabrasileira. Além de importante fonte de renda para a economia brasileira, o café temdestacada participação nas receitas cambiais, na transferência de renda entre setores e naformação de capital no setor...
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Contemporary Issues in Estimating Yield Distributions
Pujula, Aude Liliana; Maradiaga, David Isaias; Dicks, … - 2010
In the research area of crop yield density estimation and in particular in risk analysis, little emphasis has been given to the appropriateness of transformation methods (e.g., removing a linear trend) and how such transformations impact the reliability of the empirical distribution functions...
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Rival Macroeconomic Models And Australian Stylised Facts
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - 1999
This paper reports the stylised facts resulting from the tests of rival macroeconomic models in explaining the Australian business cycle during the sample period 1966(3)-1995(3). The dominant rival paradigms such as the New Classical, Keynesian the Real Business Cycle theories have been tested...
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Macroeconomic Shocks, Depreciation and Inflation: an Australian Perspective
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - 2002
The general equilibrium approach demonstrates that macroeconomic shocks link the exchange rate and the inflation rate through diverse transmission channels. Therefore, the one-track focus of the partial equilibrium 'pass-through' approach that predicts that exchange rate depreciation causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448061
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Is There a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall? Econometric Evidence for the U.S. Economy, 1948-2007
Basu, Deepankar; Manolakos, Panayiotis T. - 2010
The law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit has been at the center of theoretical and empirical debates within Marxian political economy ever since the publication of Volume III of Capital. An important limitation of this literature is the absence of a comprehensive econometric analysis...
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Modeling Transactions Costs Band and Nonlinear Price Dynamics in Forest Commodity Markets
He, Dequan - 2005
This study first shows that a transactions costs band may exist in commodity spot and futures markets and spatially separated markets as a result of the arbitrage process. Then, by using a bivariate vector error correction model (VECM), this thesis shows that the null hypothesis of linearity can...
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[Mathematical models of hysteresis]. Progress report No. 4, [January 1, 1991--December 31, 1991]
Mayergoyz, I.D. - 2008
``Mathematical Models of Hysteresis``. Thus, before discussing the proposed research in detail, it is worthwhile to describe and … of hysteresis. All these models have a common generic feature; they are constructed as superpositions of simplest … these models and such topics as: the critical state model for superconducting hysteresis, the classical Stoner …
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