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Performance Analysis of Production and Trade of Indian Silk under WTO Regime

Umesh, Kotrakerebasegowda; Akshara, Mutuguppe; Shripad, Bhat - 2009

India is the second largest producer of silk and also the largest consumer of silk in the world having a strong tradition bound domestic market. In this paper, growth functions were estimated for India’s aggregate production and trade parameters using annual data from 1984/85 to 2006/07. To...

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Grain Markets and Large Social Transfers - An Analysis of Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia

Rashid, Shahidur; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum - 2009

In 2005, Ethiopia implemented a major new social transfer program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) that involves some form of work requirement in exchange for either cash or in‐kind transfers (or a mix of the two), with the composition of the transfers administratively set to be...

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TRANSMISSÃO DE PREÇOS DA SOJA ENTRE OS MERCADOS EXTERNO E INTERNO: UMA ABORDAGEM PARA A REGIÃO DE MARINGÁ.

Tonin, Julyerme Matheus; Barczsz, Silvio Silvestre - 2008

Esse artigo buscou analisar a relação de preços entre o mercado interno, especificamente a região de Maringá e o mercado externo da soja no período de julho de 1994 a dezembro de 2007. A teoria que embasa o trabalho é a Lei do Preço Único. Em se tratando de preços nos mercados interno...

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Transition in Russia: It's Happening

Berkowitz, Daniel; DeJong, David N.; Husted, Steven - 1997

Working with 110 pairs of time series of state and market commodity prices in Russia, we search for signs of transition in Russia from a command to a market economy. Beginning with inter-city comparisons of state and market prices, we find that differences in the levels of these prices have...

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Performance measurement in the Australian online securities marketplace

Dubelaar, Chris; Tsarenko, Yelena; Gabbott, Mark - 2003

This study examines performance measurement in on-line securities companies in the Australian marketplace. Marketing managers of seven on-line stock brokerage companies in Australian capital cities were interviewed and their on-line strategies and approaches were systematically reviewed and...

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Why Are the First Day Returns of China’s IPOs So High?

Ma, S. - 2005

We investigate the causes of the high first day returns of Chinese firms making an initial public offering (IPO) of A-shares from 1991 to 2003 on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. Our results show an average underpricing of 175.21 percent. We argue that the IPO underpricing is an...

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Essays On Political Economy

Murgo, Daniel O - 2010

The first chapter analizes conditional assistance programs. They generate conflicting relationships between international financial institutions (IFIs) and member countries. The experience of IFIs with conditionality in the 1990s led them to allow countries more latitude in the design of their...

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Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Pricing of IPOs

Dolvin, Steven D.; Pyles, Mark K. - 2007

Purpose - It has been found that stock market returns vary seasonally with the amount of daylight, and they attribute this effect to seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which is a psychological condition that causes depression and heightened risk aversion during the fall and winter months. The...

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What if the UK has Joined the Euro in 1999? An Empirical Evaluation using a Global VAR

Pesaran, M Hashem; Smith, L Vanessa; Smith, Ron P - 2005

entry to the euro. We derive conditional probability distributions for the difference between the future realisations of …, Pesaran and Smith (2005). The paper briefly describes the GVAR which has been estimated for 25 countries and the euro area … euro area as a result of entry. It examines the sensitivity of these results to a variety of assumptions about UK entry. …

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Strategic Interactions of Monetary Policymakers and Wage/Price Bargainers: A Review with Implications for the European Common-Currency Area

Franzese, Robert J. - 2001

This paper reviews recent work on macroeconomic management with varying organization of wage/price bargaining and degrees of credible monetary conservatism. The emerging literature synthesizes and extends theory and empirics on central bank independence (CBI) and coordinated wage/price...

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