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Price Value Notes, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Marx's last theorem working notes by Anwar Shaikh (unpublished work) (24-30_Pric... p. 5).
• Near-linearity of wage-profit curves and standard prices: Empirical and theoretical considerations by Anwar Shaikh (unpublished work) (24-30_Pric... p. 31).
• Price with money.xmcd calculation model by Anwar Shaikh (unpublished work) (24-30_Pric... p. 6).
• Shaikh, A. (2021, April 2). Anwar's 404 x 403 vector problem coding matrix log. (Unpublished computer program documentation) (24-30_Pric... p. 3).
• Shaikh, A. (2012, June 19). H matrix in Sraffa & Marx master study notes. (Unpublished manuscript note) (24-30_Pric... p. 30).
• Shaikh, A. (2009, April 10). Marx-Sraffa prices mathematical derivatives …

Public Debt, Its Impact On Gdp & Crowding Out Effect: Evidence From The Usa, Swapnil Landge

Publications and Research

In this study, we examined the long-term relationship between public debt, GDP, private investment, and interest rates. We found two significant long-term relationships among these variables. First, interest rates are positively correlated with public debt and negatively correlated with GDP. Second, private investment is negatively correlated with public debt and positively correlated with GDP. These findings suggest the presence of a crowding out effect, where public debt limits private investment by increasing interest rates and reducing access to available funds.

Can Investment Shocks Helps To Explain The Us Business Cycles?, Swapnil Landge

Publications and Research

In this paper, I developed a standard neoclassical growth model to understand the importance of investment shock on business cycle fluctuation. In addition to investment shock, my model includes technology shock too. Using the Simulation-based PEA (Parameterized expectations algorithm) approach, i estimate the Model. The model provides evidence that investment shocks constitute a significant force behind U.S. business cycles. Model in this paper reaffirms the comovement of consumption and investment with output and accurately predicts the Investment to output,capital to output ratio and the labour for the US economy.

Certain Effects Of Random Taxes, James R. Hines Jr., Michael J. Keen

Articles

This paper explores the implications of tax rate randomness, identifying circumstances in which revenue-neutral rate variability increases profitability, economic activity, and the efficiency of resource allocation. Furthermore, with heterogeneous taxpayers, tax rate variability is shown to perform an efficiency-enhancing screening function, imposing heavier expected tax burdens on less responsive taxpayers. And while efficient tax randomness enables governments to reduce average costs of taxation, it necessarily increases the marginal cost of taxation over some ranges of expected revenue, so may reduce efficient levels of government spending.

การตัดสินใจยอมรับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดของเกษตรกรผู้ปลูกข้าวในอำเภอบางเลน จังหวัดนครปฐม, อรญา สบประสงค์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การใช้ปุ๋ยที่มากเกินจำเป็นในการปลูกข้าว ทำให้เกิดเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดขึ้น แม้ภาครัฐจะส่งเสริมการใช้ปุ๋ยสั่งตัดเพื่อช่วยลดต้นทุนปุ๋ยของเกษตรกรและเพิ่มธาตุอาหารในดินให้ตรงกับความต้องการของพืช แต่เกษตรกรที่ยอมรับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดและนำมาใช้อย่างต่อเนื่องยังมีจำนวนน้อยมาก การวิจัยนี้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อ ศึกษาปัจจัยที่มีผลกระทบต่อการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดของเกษตรกรผู้ปลูกข้าว และศึกษาปัจจัยที่มีผลกระทบต่อรายได้สุทธิของเกษตรกรที่ใช้ปุ๋ยสั่งตัด ของเกษตรกรในอำเภอบางเลน จังหวัดนครปฐม โดยการประมาณค่าแบบสองขั้นตอน ขั้นตอนที่ 1 ใช้แบบจำลองโพรบิทและวิธีกำลังสองน้อยที่สุดในขั้นตอนที่ 2 ผลการวิจัยพบว่า ปัจจัยที่ทำให้เกษตรกรมีความน่าจะเป็นในการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดสูงมากขึ้น ได้แก่ การมีหนี้สิน การได้รับการฝึกอบรม ระดับความรู้เกี่ยวกับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัด และการรับรู้ถึงความง่ายในการใช้งานเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัด ในขณะที่การรับรู้ถึงประโยชน์ของเทคโนโลยีไม่ส่งผลอย่างมีนัยสำคัญต่อการตัดสินใจใช้เทคโนโลยี สำหรับกลุ่มเกษตรกรที่ใช้ปุ๋ยสั่งตัด ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลในทางบวกต่อรายได้สุทธิ ได้แก่ จำนวนแรงงานที่ใช้ปลูกข้าวในครัวเรือน ระดับความรู้ความเข้าใจเกี่ยวกับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัด และการมีหนี้สิน ข้อค้นพบสะท้อนให้เห็นว่า การยอมรับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดที่เกิดขึ้นช้าและไม่แพร่หลายส่วนหนึ่งมาจากการที่เกษตรกรยังไม่เห็นประโยชน์จากปุ๋ยสั่งตัดมากนักเพราะต้นทุนแรงงานที่เกี่ยวข้องจากการผสมปุ๋ย หากภาครัฐสามารถสนับสนุนเครื่องมือที่ช่วยในการผสมปุ๋ย งบประมาณ หรืออุปกรณ์การตรวจธาตุอาหารหลักในดิน และการสื่อสารถึงประโยชน์ของปุ๋ยสั่งตัด น่าจะช่วยเพิ่มโอกาสและความน่าจะเป็นในการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีปุ๋ยสั่งตัดของเกษตรกรผู้ปลูกข้าวได้ในอนาคต

Export Competitiveness Analysis Of Thailand Plastic Resins To Chinese Market, Petcharat Kananuruk

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The aim of the research was to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze Thailand’s competitiveness in exporting plastic resins to China and to develop a strategy which will help increase the nation's plastic resins export potential to China. Quantitative Analysis includes a comparative advantage analysis of Thailand's plastic resins exports to the Chinese market using the Revealed comparative advantage (RCA), as well as a Constant market share (CMS) analysis utilizing annual time series data from 2012 to 2020. The Qualitative analysis uses Porter’s diamond model, SWOT and TOWS analysis study to factors that affect the plastic resins industry's competitiveness and develop a …

Marketing Strategy Analysis Of Thailand’S Tourism During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study On Phuket Sandbox, Michela Pia Di Cecco Dortona

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper utilizes three marketing tools in order to identify the marketing strategy of the Phuket Sandbox scheme. It aims to discover the target group of consumers, strengths and weaknesses of the scheme, and the type of tourism products that the Phuket Sandbox has to offer to tourists. The main findings are that the destination is strong in its medical and cultural tourism products but may suffer from crime events and degradation of tourism resources. Another finding suggests that tourists who visit Phuket through the Phuket sandbox scheme falls into the middle and upper class category within generations Z, Y, …

Impact Of New Coronavirus Pneumonia On Chinese Import And Export Trade, Hengyu Guo

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is an epidemic caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus that has led to a persistent outbreak that has become one of the terrible epidemics in human history. The epidemic has had a huge impact on the world economy and trade business. In the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, how to mitigate the negative effects of the epidemic and prevent the impact of similar diseases on import and export trade has become a major issue for the international community to address. Based on China's import trade，export trade data before the epidemic, China's import trade，export …

The Effect Of Population Aging On Household Consumption Level In China, Yifan Ma

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper mainly focuses on the aging population’s effect on Chinese household spending level by using consumption tendency ratio as a dependent variable in the model with three main researching perspectives from the whole country, comparison with three main different regions, comparison before and after outbreak of COVID-19. The main data resources are obtained from the National Breau of Statistics of China with a total of thirty-one provinces for a ten-year period from 2011 to 2020. Empirical study in this paper uses an ordinary least squares model to analyze data and get the following main conclusions. Other conditions remain unchanged, …

Strategic Marketing Analysis : A Case Study Of Spotify, Thanawat Chatsri

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This individual study explores and discusses the organizational and market aspects connected with creating a management framework that has enabled Spotify to have a disproportionate share of the music streaming industry's total earnings, Therefore, Spotify can continue dominate the market. The research comprises of two studies : one investigates the company's history, performance, and marketing initiatives, and another analyzes the market situation. The paper finds that the company's present shortcomings include its high royalty costs, unique selling proposition, payment to music owners, and current licensing agreements with music rights holders. Apart from that, the threats to Spotify include legal conflicts …

Factors Influencing Trade Between China And Thailand---Based On The Coastal Areas In Eastern China, Xinxin Li

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

As we all know, China and Thailand establish the diplomatic relations in 1975, then the concept of "Chinese and Thais are brothers" has been rooted in the hearts of the two peoples So through comparing the import and export trade data between various provinces in China and Thailand in 2020, this paper selects the bilateral trade data between the top five coastal provinces and Thailand for analysis, in order to explore the factors affect the bilateral trade between the two countries. Furthermore, this research applied the Fixed Effect Model to do the regression analysis. Based on the analysis results, this …

The Effects Of Oil Price On Thailand’S Set Index : Quantile Regression Case Study, Jutinan Ruangopas

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper attempts to explore the relationship between oil price and stock price using quantile regression for Thailand’s economic data to generate several models. The main findings are that Thailand’s oil price has a positive relationship with stock price. Increase in oil price result in increase of stock price. Additionally, short term interest rates, nominal exchange rate and CPI have a negative relationship with stock price. An increase in these variables cause stock prices to fall.

Behavioral Public Finance And Budgeting: New Approaches To Old Questions?, Salvador Espnosa, Kenneth A. Kriz, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) The growing interest in the use of behavioral insights in the study of public administration and policy is contributing to the emergence of behavioral public administration (James et al., 2017). This subfield focuses on the “analysis of public administration from the micro-level perspective of individual behavior” (Grimmelikhuijsen et al., 2017, p. 45). For some scholars, this approach offers interesting opportunities to further the study of perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of citizens, public sector staff, or public managers (Tummers, et al., 2016). The combination of behavioral theory and experimental approaches can improve the standing of the field of public …

Local Fiscal Adjustments From Depopulation: Evidence From The Post–Cold War Defense Contraction, Timothy M. Komarek, Gary A. Wagner

Economics Faculty Publications

In this paper, we estimate the long-term causal effect of population losses on local government revenue, expenditure, and debt by exploiting a quasi-exogenous change that reduced the number of US military personnel by about 40 percent between the late 1980s and 2000. Aggregating across governmental units within commuting zones, we find that real per capita total revenues and expenditures remained unchanged for remaining citizens. At the same time, however, we note several important compositional effects. First, local governments appear to have offset reductions in state intergovernmental aid by increasing property tax revenues. Second, they significantly shifted the composition of expenditures …

A Varying Coefficient Model With Two-Way Fixed Effects And Different Smoothing Variables, Taining Wang, Feng Yao

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

We propose a varying coefficient regression model for panel data that controls for both latent heterogeneities in cross-sectional units and unobserved common shocks over time. The model allows different smoothing variables to enter through either a stand-alone function or a coefficient function. Without requiring a normalization of the fixed effects, we propose a two-step estimator. First, we estimate the varying coefficients with the pilot series-based estimators, eliminating fixed effects though differencing. Second, we perform a one-step kernel backfitting to improve the estimation efficiency. We demonstrate through Monte-Carlo simulations that our estimators are computationally efficient and perform well relative to a …

Neither “Post-War” Nor Post-Pregnancy Paranoia: How America’S War On Drugs Continues To Perpetuate Disparate Incarceration Outcomes For Pregnant, Substance-Involved Offenders, Becca S. Zimmerman

Pitzer Senior Theses

This thesis investigates the unique interactions between pregnancy, substance involvement, and race as they relate to the War on Drugs and the hyper-incarceration of women. Using ordinary least square regression analyses and data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates, I examine if (and how) pregnancy status, drug use, race, and their interactions influence two length of incarceration outcomes: sentence length and amount of time spent in jail between arrest and imprisonment. The results collectively indicate that pregnancy decreases length of incarceration outcomes for those offenders who are not substance-involved but not evenhandedly -- benefitting white …

Stock Returns By Sector And Industries In A Year Into The Covid-19 Pandemic, Simon Alvin A. Casas

Honors Undergraduate Theses

In the COVID-19 stock market industries reacted and were affected in different ways. This paper will use Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes to look at how sectors and selected industries fared after a whole year in a pandemic. This will be accomplished by comparing 2019 stock returns to 2020 stock returns with a t-test and estimating the effect of COVID-19 positive case and death increases using a pooled OLS regression. All SIC sectors A-J were analyzed as well as 18 selected industries such as food stores, real estate, oil and gas extraction, health services, and communications. Results show a significant …

Board Of Director Composition: An Examination Of How Director Age And Board Innovation Committees Impact Corporate Social And Financial Performance, Sami Ghaddar

2021

This dissertation explores how director age affects a firm’s social domain, and how board-level oversight of firms’ innovation activities affects financial performance. Specifically, the dissertation points to board configurations that can potentially improve social and financial performance. The first chapter reviews the literature by examining two research streams linking board composition to corporate social performance (CSP) and innovation. The chapter presents the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of these two streams. It details the descriptive and thematic findings and offers an understanding of the different contexts in which board composition relates to both CSP and innovation. This chapter also discusses inconsistencies …

The Feasibility Of Containerization In The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System, Nick Edwards

Political Science Theses and Capstones

The use of waterways to transport goods has always been a staple of civilization dating back to some of our earliest days. And throughout history it has always played a pivotal role in our economies and affected the very way in which our civilizations developed. Perhaps one of the world's most important waterways is the Great Lakes that lie directly in the heart of the North American continent and connect the heartland of North America to the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, providing a vital mode of transportation for shipping a variety of products from North America’s heartland to the rest of …

A Dimensão Utópica Na Filosofia Do Melhoramento Social Em Adam Smith [The Utopian Dimension In The Philosophy Of Social Betterment In Adam Smith], Maria Pia Paganelli

Economics Faculty Research

Adam Smith não se concentra na criação de um mundo ideal, mas no entendimento de que mudanças sociais para melhor são um produto não intencional do comércio. Além disso, como que para destacar a concretude dessas mudanças, ele vê o crescimento populacional como a forma de medir essa melhoria da sociedade.

Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but on the understanding that societal changes for the better are an unintentional product of commerce. Furthermore, as if to highlight the concreteness of these changes, he sees population growth as the way to measure this betterment …

Debilitating Debts And Recapacitating Loans: How Fintech Made Markets For Unsecured Consumer Debt Using Alternative Data And Machine Learning, Michael Joshua Mccanless

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

This thesis investigates the production and management of consumer debt on digital platforms. First, this study investigates how borrowers navigate spaces of debt and indebtedness created by fintech consumer lenders. Second, this thesis analyzes the process and impact of ‘alternative’ data and machine learning on fintech credit scoring models. As consumer lending ‘moves online’, this research analyzes the increasingly important role of digital spaces in the creation and management of debt. Tracking the interfaces and algorithms used by online consumer lenders, I weave together insight from digital and financial geographies to argue that digital technologies are enabling firms to marketize …

Three Essays In Regional Taxation, Kenneth Tester

Theses and Dissertations--Economics

This dissertation looks at the role that geographically limited taxation and the behavioral response of economic agents to different forms of regional taxation. While geographic taxation is typically thought to be confined to state and local taxes, federal tax policy can also create designated areas that receive preferential tax treatment. In this dissertation, both types of regional taxation are examined and are unified under common themes such as tax mobility and the definition of the tax base.

In chapter 2, I examine the important effect of how the location of high income earners employment is influenced by taxes in the …

Finance And Economic Performance Across Countries, Monika Islam Khan

Theses and Dissertations--Economics

My dissertation consists of three papers on finance and economic performance across countries. The first paper applies the gravity model of international trade to quantify the impact of the banking sector and the stock market on bilateral trade patterns. Following the study of capital structure, I evaluate the mix of external financing sources used for real investment at the macroeconomic level by differentiating between the relative roles of the banking sector and stock market development in determining trade patterns. Using aggregate bilateral trade data for 87 countries over 1976-2012, I find that stock market development has a substantial impact on …

Sustainability And Economics Of White Oak (Quercus Alba) Timber Supply In Kentucky, Gaurav Dhungel

Theses and Dissertations--Forestry and Natural Resources

Sustained timber supply relies upon balanced forest age distribution, where the level of harvesting and mortality is compensated by regeneration and growth among younger age classes. However, current forest inventory trends from the white oak growing region reveal sustainability threat from declining white oak regeneration and recruitment leading to disproportionate inventory structure. Consequently, there exists growing concern among stakeholders on long-term sustainability of white oak timber and its economic implications, particularly in Kentucky, because of the significance of the species to the state’s economy. This research aims to examine past and current inventory levels of white oak in Kentucky using …

Financial Literacy And Retirement Preparedness In Sri Lanka: Evidence From The Private Sector Employees, Tiyani Lakshmi Rodrigo

Theses and Dissertations--Family Sciences

The South Asian country of Sri Lanka has a rapidly aging population, but little attention has been paid to individuals and families' financial preparedness for retirement. This study aims to overview the current system of retirement preparedness in Sri Lanka, and to examine financial and pension literacy's role on the retirement preparedness. Specifically, this study evaluated three domains of retirement preparedness: planning for retirement and perceived retirement income adequacy (subjective measures, n = 142), and wealth accumulation (objective measure, n = 115). Results show that (1) financial literacy had a positive and statistically significant association with retirement preparedness (only with …

State Of The Northwest Arkansas Region 2021 Report, Mervin Jebaraj, David Sorto

State of the Northwest Arkansas Region Report

The State of the Northwest Arkansas Region Report is an annual publication, commissioned by the Northwest Arkansas Council, that serves as a tool for evaluating economic performance. In 2018, the Northwest Arkansas Council created a strategic action agenda for 2018-2021. In this plan, the performance of Northwest Arkansas is benchmarked with other contemporary, high-performing regions: Austin, Des Moines, Madison, Durham-Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Provo-Orem. The 2021 State of the Region Report compares Northwest Arkansas with these regions in the areas of gross domestic product, employment, unemployment, establishment growth, average annual wages, research and development, and average domestic airfares. The 2020 …

Not From My Wallet: Mental Accounting For Peer-To-Peer Digital-Payments, Jason Saltzman

CMC Senior Theses

This paper examined the presence and scope of mental accounting biases for peer- to-peer digital-payment systems (Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle) that have gained popularity in recent years. Payment mechanism related biases have implications for both consumers and retailers. The experimental study in this paper looked at different aspects of biases including how participants evaluate and account for money transferred through peer-to- peer digital-payment, if participants treat this money as completely fungible, and if treatment of this money is affected by demographic variables. Participants in the study were split into two treatments that differed only in regard to the account (peer-to-peer …

Understanding Place-Based Immigration: The Proposal, Its Popularity, And Its Prospects, Mohamad Moslimani

CMC Senior Theses

The idea to create a new class of place-based visas is gaining traction in policy circles. These visas, known in some instances as “heartland visas” and as part of a class of immigration reform called “place-based immigration” (PBI), are designed to give state and local governments the ability to sponsor immigrants to live and work in their local communities. The proposal has gained traction among a variety of candidates for federal office and local immigration policy stakeholders. The reason for this support is the proposal’s ability to address a grave issue facing numerous communities across the U.S.—and its ability to …

Would “Robot Umpires” Reduce Discrimination? Measuring Racial Bias In Major League Baseball Umpires, Hank Snowdon

CMC Senior Theses

Utilizing thirteen years of Major League Baseball pitch-tracking and play-by-play data, this study investigates racial discrimination by umpires when making pitch calling decisions. Two models are formulated, one that predicts the probability of a strike erroneously being called a ball (batter favoritism) and one that predicts the probability of a ball erroneously being called a strike (pitcher favoritism). The probabilities are modeled as a function of whether or not the pitcher’s or batter’s race is the same as the umpire’s. With over 3 million pitch observations, multiple sub-sample and time trend analyses are conducted to examine with whom the discrimination …

Sufficientarianism Revised: A Look At Past Theories Of Distributive Justice And Working Prospects For Future Theories, Georgia Dietz

CMC Senior Theses

In philosophy, distributive justice is the economic, political, and social structure that constitutes a larger debate on how resources should be divided in society. What is a ‘fair’ way of distributing resources? Many philosophers have created different frameworks that attempt to answer this question. This paper will focus on the attempts that have been made by sufficientarians, then look at problems with these theories that have been pointed out by critics, and finally attempt to revise sufficientarianism altogether.