This paper examines the existence of convergence and distribution dynamics of food price inflation rateswithin the European Union. Differences in such specific price index inflation rates and changes in their regionaldistributions reflect largely differences and developments in market conditions...

Doctor of Philosophy

A significant problem in the collection of responses to potentially sensitive questions, such as relating to illegal, immoral or embarrassing activities, is non-sampling error due to refusal to respond or false responses. Eichhorn & Hayre (1983) suggested the use of scrambled responses to reduce...

This work analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a dynamic and stochastic life cycle model. The intertemporal optimization is based on Dynamic Programming with a backward recursion algorithm.The implemented uncertainty is not based on...

We review and simultaneously introduce a convenient statistical concept for the mathematical representation of the Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) introduced by Willett (1987 and 1988). Further, we discuss, and present a critique of, a variety of statistical models with respect to long...

The objective of the present paper is to examine the behaviorand the structure of the export sector of the economy of Rio Grandedo Norte from 1996 to 2006, and to identify the products of revealedcomparative advantage. The paper also seeks to measure levels ofexport concentration of products and...

The globalization, an international process evidenced in the 80's decade, has requested the government and economic agents an orientation to reach international levels of competitiveness by the various sectors of the economy. Besides this fact, Minas Gerais state is the second state exporter in...

Magistro darbe siekiama teorinių metodų ir modelių pagalba įvertinti Lietuvos pieno pramonės konkurencingumą bei suformuoti konkurencingumo didinimo kryptis. Lietuvos pieno pramonės konkurencingumas darbe vertintas taikant PEST analizės, M. Porterio penkių jėgų bei deimanto modelius,...

The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...

The research in this paper has two objectives. Beginning with an examination of the historical development of how financial reporting standards are set in the United States and around the world, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will be...