This case study presents evidence of a significant correlation between the doing business indicators and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Although this does not imply causation, the findings do support the claim that doing business reflects more about the overall investment climate than...

Analysts working with high frequency financial markets data quickly discover that even relatively simple analyses can consume significant computing time. This paper provides a method for filtering data files so that the basic price data is maintained, but 'noise' that can unnecessarily slow...

This paper considers two issues. Firstly it examines the efficacy of a mechanical trading model freely available from the 'Turtletrader' web page on the Internet. The results are tested against the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) Weak-Form as proposed by Fama (1970). The findings show that EMH...

We estimate US household monthly elasticities of demand for some of the more popular organic fruits. To our knowledge, this is the first US-wide, multi-year analysis of price and income elasticities for various organic fruits. We calculate elasticities of demand for low-income, middle class, and...

Resource Dependency Theory (RDT) and Global Value Chain (GVC) theory have been deployed in the strategic and international management literatures to address questions of power in dyadic relationships and global production networks, respectively. This paper integrates the two theoretical...