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Dynamics of foreign earnings, assistance and debt servicing in Bangladesh

Wasiqur Rahman Khan, M.; Akbar Ahmed, Haydory - In: International Journal of Development Issues 11 (2012) 1, pp. 74-84

assistance and debt servicing in Bangladesh have been empirically examined using recent developments in time‐series econometrics. …

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Determinants of growth and profitability in small entrepreneurial firms

Glancey, Keith - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 4 (1998) 1, pp. 18-27

Using accounts data for a sample of 38 small manufacturing firms located in Tayside Region, this paper investigates the relationship between company characteristics including size, age, location and industry group, and profitability and growth. The trade‐off between the possibly conflicting...

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Renewable energy RD&D expenditure and CO 2 emissions in 15 European countries

Mourshed, Monjur; Quddus, Mohammed A. - In: International Journal of Energy Sector Management 3 (2009) 2, pp. 187-202

generate CO 2 emissions. A number of panel data econometric models that are able to take into account both country‐ and time …‐specific unobserved effects were explored. Findings – It was found that random effect models were more appropriate to examine the study … emissions per capita in all models, whereas expenditure on ERD&D is statistically insignificant ( ceteris paribus ). Originality …

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Broadband availability and economic growth

Bojnec, Štefan; Fertő, Imre - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 112 (2012) 9, pp. 1292-1306

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a model to measure the effect of broadband availability on economic growth in developed OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach – The effect of the broadband availability‐related variables on economic growth is analyzed by using...

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Do Value Judgements Affect Testing Economic Theory?

Beed, Clive - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 2, pp. 6-24

Analyses the influence of value judgements in the mechanics of testing econometric theories against empirical data. The orthodox view of mainstream, positive economics is that value judgements play no part in the above process. Contests this view; defines value judgements and shows the orthodox...

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Ranking Leading Econometrics Journals using Citations Data from ISI and RePEc

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

See also the article in <I>Econometrics</I> (2013). Volume 1(3), pages 217-235.<P> The paper focuses on the robustness … of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson …

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Strategies on initial public offering of company equity at stock exchanges in imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with induced nonlinearities

Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...

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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SORGHUM PRODUCTION IN HONG LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA

MOHAMMED, WAKILI ABBA - In: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 6 (2012) 3, pp. 10-15

This paper investigates the technical efficiency of sorghum production and its determinants, using the stochastic frontier production function which incorporates a model of inefficiency effects. Farm level data were collected from a sample of 100 sorghum farmers in Hong local government area of...

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It's Magic. It's Disney !Do themeparks deserve their succes?

Verardi, Vincenzo; Gothelf, Nicolas; Herbaux, Denis - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, …

This paper focuses on cultural goods such as entertainment goods, especially theme parks. We have built a dataset regrouping the largest parks in Europe and looked at the relation between the costs and the quality of a theme park, thereby trying to estimate if a theme park deserves its...

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Fertilizer adoption, credit access, and safety nets in rural Ethiopia

Tadesse, Million - In: Agricultural Finance Review 74 (2014), pp. 290-310

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of access to credit and safety nets on fertilizer adoption in rural Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach –A panel data set collected in 2005 and 2007 on 278 households and over 5,700 plots from the Southern Highlands of...

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