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Trade Liberalisation, Economic Crises And Growth, Rodney Falvey, Neil Foster, David Greenaway Jul 2014

Trade Liberalisation, Economic Crises And Growth, Rodney Falvey, Neil Foster, David Greenaway

Rodney Falvey

Many economic reforms are undertaken at a time of economic crisis. But is this a good time for a country to undertake trade reform? In this paper we investigate whether an economic crisis at the time of trade liberalisation affects a country’s subsequent growth performance. We employ threshold regression techniques on five crisis indicators commonly used in the literature, to identify the relevant “crisis values” and to estimate the differential postliberalisation growth effects in the crisis and non-crisis regimes. We find that the magnitude of the acceleration in postliberalisation growth depends on the characteristics of the crisis. Although trade liberalisation …


The Effects Of Financial Crises On International Stock Market Volatility Transmission, Indika Karunanayake Athukoralalage, Abbas Valadkhani, Martin O'Brien Feb 2014

The Effects Of Financial Crises On International Stock Market Volatility Transmission, Indika Karunanayake Athukoralalage, Abbas Valadkhani, Martin O'Brien

Martin O'Brien

With the integration of national economies through international trade and finance, the exploration of financial market interdependency has become profoundly important among market participants and scholars. Focusing on the Asian and global financial crises of 1997-98 and 2008-09 for Australia, Singapore, the UK, and the US, this paper examines the nature of such an interaction between stock market returns and their volatility. We use a multivariate generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) model and weekly data (January 1992-June 2009). Based on the results obtained from the mean return equations, we could not find any significant impact on returns arising from the …


Internationalization Of Malaysian Firms And The Effects Of Major External Economic Crises, Ah Ba Sim Jan 2014

Internationalization Of Malaysian Firms And The Effects Of Major External Economic Crises, Ah Ba Sim

Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)

This paper examines and analyzes the internationalization of international firms from Malaysia over two time periods of major external economic crises, the Asian financial crisis and the global economic crisis based on a study of four case firms. The findings indicate variations and changes in strategies during early and continued internationalization over the 11 year time studied. These findings and their research implications are examined and discussed.


Global Financial Crises, Kimberly D. Scott Dec 2013

Global Financial Crises, Kimberly D. Scott

Kimberly D Scott

The purpose of this research is to identify various global financial crises throughout the years. Global financial crises are not new to developed nations; however, they have grown more common and the financial burden has become loftier and explosive as time evolve.