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University of Wollongong

2005

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Economic

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The Australian Dollar's Long Term Fluctuations And Trend: The Commodity Prices Cum Economic Cycles Hypothesis, Elias Sanidas Jan 2005

The Australian Dollar's Long Term Fluctuations And Trend: The Commodity Prices Cum Economic Cycles Hypothesis, Elias Sanidas

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The Australian dollars exchange rate (mainly in relation to the American dollar) has received a considerable attention in research and several models have been proposed to explain its trend and fluctuations.


Sources Of Economic Growth In Iran: A Cointegration Analysis In The Presence Of Structural Breaks, Mosayeb Pahlavani Jan 2005

Sources Of Economic Growth In Iran: A Cointegration Analysis In The Presence Of Structural Breaks, Mosayeb Pahlavani

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper examines the major determinants of GDP growth in Iran using annual time series data spanning form 1960 to 2003.


On The Evolution Of Firm Organization, Smes And Economic Growth In The Usa And Japan, Elias Sanidas Jan 2005

On The Evolution Of Firm Organization, Smes And Economic Growth In The Usa And Japan, Elias Sanidas

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The evolution of the organization of firms throughout history has only recently been extensively analysed. This evolution, especially in countries like the USA and Japan, i is important to know and understand for many reasons, and in particular for its contribution to economic growth.


Changing Forms Of Organising In Regional Intergovernmental Cooperative Network: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Matthias P. Ngui, Michael Zanko Jan 2005

Changing Forms Of Organising In Regional Intergovernmental Cooperative Network: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Matthias P. Ngui, Michael Zanko

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The organizational theory literature suggests that organisations should adapt to highly competitive business environments by strategically replacing or transforming the traditional with more innovative forms of organising. These innovative and more flexible forms of organizing are often portrayed as dichotomous and antithetical. Recent research by Pettigrew, Fenton, Palmer, DiMaggio and others discovered that one of the emergent themes in contemporary firms is that they engage in apparently contradictory practice, where the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ changes are practiced simultaneously. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), one of the major regional intergovernmental cooperative networks in the Asia Pacific region is investigated …


Recent Economic Trends In The Asia-Pacific Region, Van Hoa Tran Jan 2005

Recent Economic Trends In The Asia-Pacific Region, Van Hoa Tran

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No abstract provided.


Impact Of Economic Policy Reform And Regional And Global Shocks On Trade And Growth In East Asia: Econometric Evidence For China, Van Hoa Tran Jan 2005

Impact Of Economic Policy Reform And Regional And Global Shocks On Trade And Growth In East Asia: Econometric Evidence For China, Van Hoa Tran

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The paper introduces the generalised gravity theory (Tran Van Hoa 2004) to construct a simply flexible simultaneous-equation econometric model of growth and trade of China and its five major trading countries or blocs (Japan, ASEAN-6, the European Union, the US, and Austrralia).


The Contribution Of Micro-Enterprises To Regional Economic Recovery And Poverty Alleviation In East Asia, Charles Harvie Jan 2005

The Contribution Of Micro-Enterprises To Regional Economic Recovery And Poverty Alleviation In East Asia, Charles Harvie

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The economic and social crisis theat afflicted East Asia from mid-1997 produced the biggest setback to poverty reduction in the region for several decades.


Regional Economic And Monetary Integration - A Modelling And Policy Analysis, Charles Harvie Jan 2005

Regional Economic And Monetary Integration - A Modelling And Policy Analysis, Charles Harvie

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This chapter is concerned with developing a two-country model, a large country and a small country, with the objective of identifying the circumstances under which it would be conducive to conduct coordinated macroeconomic policy with the objective of minimizing volatility in terms of key macroeconomic varibles usch as domestic prices, the exchange rate, the domestic interest rate and domestic output.