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Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 6, Number 10, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

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Determining Suitable Green Biorefinery Locations In Ireland For Irish Agriculture Using Co-Design, Economic And Geographical Information Systems, Alice Hand

Theses

The aim of this thesis is to investigate potential locations for a suitable green biorefinery model in Ireland, which would offer an opportunity for sustainable diversification to grassland farmers. A mixed method approach was used to collect data to support the design and analyse a green biorefinery model. A three phased methodology was applied representing the Co-design, Economic and the Geographical Information Systems analysis phase. Key stakeholders identified in the co-design phase included farmers, cooperatives, market partners as having a direct impact on a biorefinery. This provided insight to the farmers preferred model. Using these findings, an economic assessment was …

Digital Nudging: Potentional And Pitfalls, Avishalom Tor

Journal Articles

From the Article

Digital nudges — that is, significantly behavioral interventions that use software and its user-interface design elements — are an increasingly pervasive feature of online environments that can shape people’s behavior both online (e.g. changing website cookie settings) and offline (e.g. taking a flu vaccine due to a text message reminder). While sharing many characteristics of offline behavioral interventions, digital nudges merit specific attention and analysis due to their growing ubiquity and potential potency, the opacity of their technological and behavioral mechanisms, and the central role of private actors in their implementation.

The Economic Impact Of Keeneland Race Course On The Lexington Metro Area With Projections For This Year’S Breeders Cup, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky has had a long tradition for quality horse racing going back to its inception in 1936 (Keeneland 2022). With the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships coming to the race track this November, this paper examines what economic impact the race track has on the Lexington metro area (Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Scott, and Woodford counties in Kentucky) on an annual basis and how the 2022 Breeders’ Cup will boost the impact of the race track when compared to a typical year.

British Public Investment, Government Spending, Housing, And The Industrial Revolution: A Study Of Governmental And Social Surplus Absorption, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

When it comes to the British Industrial Revolution of the 18^th Century, much of the mainstream economics literature has tended to focus on how property rights, limitations on the crown or government, and changes in agricultural and manufacturing techniques have caused a great transformation in the nation’s economic formation. Marxian and other heterodox economics views acknowledge these developments but also emphasize the enclosure movement and the development of a class of people that becomes an exploited proletariat. Both sets of views acknowledge the role of the British government in facilitating the Industrial Revolution, but in doing a review for …

Willingness To Pay For Policies To Reduce Health Risks From Covid-19: Evidence From U.S. Professional Sports, Brad Humphreys, Gary A. Wagner, John C. Whitehead, Pamela Wicker

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Airborne transmission of COVID-19 increased the need for health policies to reduce transmission in congregate settings associated with minimal risk before the pandemic. While a large literature estimates tradeoffs between policies designed to reduce negative health outcomes, no empirical research addresses consumer willingness to pay for health policies designed to reduce airborne virus transmission. Using survey data from 1,381 fans of professional sports teams, we estimate consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced likelihood of coronavirus transmission through mask and social distancing policies using a stated preference approach. The results indicate increased attendance likelihood if the venue requires masks and …

The Effect Of Monitoring And Crowds On Crime And Law Enforcement: A Natural Experiment From European Football, Brad R. Humphreys, Alexander Marsella, Levi Perez

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Technological advancements like the presence of smart phones and body cameras have led to increased monitoring of police, but little evidence exists on their impact. We address these problems using data on fouls from football matches in five European football leagues over six seasons. This period contains exogenous changes in monitoring rule enforcers through introduction of Video Assistant Referee review and limited "bystanders" from Covid-19 restrictions. Results from difference-in-differences models estimated separately for each league indicate that both events influenced the number of fouls called with substantial heterogeneity across leagues and home/away teams.

Evolving Swiss Neutrality: Foreign Policy, Identity, And A Changing World, Dan A. Cohen

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In the minds of many, both within Switzerland and abroad, when one thinks of Switzerland one thinks neutrality, and often when one thinks neutrality one thinks Switzerland. It is perhaps for this reason that when Switzerland chose to sanction Russia much of the world was caught by surprise. Sensationalist newspapers were quick to jump to the conclusion that the age of Swiss neutrality is over. The government insists that there isn’t a kernel of truth in the matter. However, as is always the case, the truth is much more nuanced than either extreme. Using previous publications, current and historical data …

Market Feminism In Morocco, Claire Madsen

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Despite widespread views of “Moroccan Exceptionalism,” Morocco continues to rank poorly on international evaluations of gender equality. This project seeks to understand the extent of the influence neoliberal economic forces in Morocco have had on the feminist landscape. Analysis of Moroccan political history, Foucauldian theories of power relations, and relevant literature on state feminism set the groundwork for the evaluation of the extent state feminism in Morocco can be understood as market-based, in accordance with the definition from From State Feminism to Market Feminsim (2012) by Kantola and Squires. Through interviews of three experts, three meetings with women’s empowerment NGOs, …

The Effects Of Trauma And Statelessness On Refugee Employment Outcomes, Seth Hershberger

Theses and Dissertations

An empirical study, this paper examines the relationship of pre-resettlement refugee characteristics on their respective economic outcomes post-resettlement. In particular, it places special focus on the correlation that a refugee’s level of trauma and duration of statelessness, or time spent in a temporary country of asylum, have with that refugee’s real wages, probability of being employed at 180 days post-resettlement, and duration of initial unemployment in the country of final resettlement. Through the development of three sets of models, this paper finds a quadratic relationship between the length of a refugee’s statelessness and real wages post-resettlement, where increases in duration …

Commonality In Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory And Intermediary Distress, Zhiguo He, Paymon Khorrami, Zhaogang Song

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Two intermediary-based factors—a corporate bond dealer inventory measure and a broad intermediary distress measure—explain more than 40% of the puzzling common variation in credit spread changes beyond canonical structural factors. A simple intermediary-based model with partial market segmentation accounts for intermediary factors’ explanatory power and delivers three further implications with empirical support. First, whereas bond sorts on risk-related variables produce monotonic loading patterns on intermediary factors, non-risk-related sorts produce no pattern. Second, dealer inventory comoves with corporate-credit assets only, whereas intermediary distress comoves with both corporate-credit and non-corporate-credit assets. Third, dealers’ inventory responds to (instrumented) bond sales by institutional investors.

Made In Singapore, Pao-Li Chang, Tran Bao Phuong Nguyen

Research Collection School Of Economics

In this paper, we characterize the position of Singapore in global value chains and identify Singapore’s key upstream and downstream trade partners. We trace how the position of Singapore in global value chains has changed in the past two decades: whether it has moved upstream or downstream, how involved it is in global value chains, how its trend compares with the other major Asian exporters (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong), and which key sectors of Singapore play a major role in these global trade networks.

The Alphabet Soup In Reporting And Measuring Esg, Hao Liang, Kam Chee Chan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Harmonising frameworks with the Impact-Weighted Accounts Framework.

Price Dynamics Of Swedish Pharmaceuticals, Aljoscha Janssen

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper investigates price patterns of off-patent pharmaceuticals in Sweden. I show that price dynamics are dependent on the number of competitors in the market. The price patterns follow predictions from a model of dynamic price competition in which the demand for pharmaceuticals incorporates the known biases of consumers: habit persistence and brand preferences. Using the regulated market of Swedish pharmaceuticals, I show that price dynamics may help in identifying possible tacit collusion by manufacturers in markets where consumers experience behavioral frictions.

Good Names Beget Favors: The Impact Of Country Image On Trade Flows And Welfare, Pao-Li Chang, Tomoki Fujii, Wei Jin

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper estimates the effects of time-varying consumer preference bias on trade flows and welfare. We use a unique data set from the BBC World Service Poll, which surveys (annually during 2005–2017 with some gaps) the populations of a wide array of countries on their views of whether an evaluated country is having a mainly positive or negative influence in the world. We identify the effects on consumer preference parameters due to shifts in these country image perceptions and quantify their general equilibrium effects on bilateral exports and welfare (each time for an evaluated exporting country, holding the exporting country’s …

Disentangling The Effects Of Gatt/Wto On Variable And Fixed Trade Costs: Trade Status, Trade Margins, And Export Sales Distribution, Pao-Li Chang, Renjing Chen, Wei Jin

Research Collection School Of Economics

In this paper, we develop an estimation procedure to identify the partial (direct) effects of the GATT/WTO membership on the variable and the fixed trade cost, re-spectively. This extends the techniques of Anderson and Van Wincoop (2003) on the structural relationship of multilateral resistance terms and of Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) on the structural modelling of trade incidence. We then develop a general equilibrium framework (that allows the presence of zero trade) to simulate the impact of variable, fixed, and total trade cost changes on the firm-level trade structure (including bilateral export productivity cutoff, weighted/unweighted extensive margin of export, …

Robust Testing For Explosive Behavior With Strongly Dependent Errors, Yiu Lim Lui, Peter C. B. Phillips, Jun Yu

Research Collection School Of Economics

A heteroskedasticity-autocorrelation robust (HAR) test statistic is proposed to test for the presence of explosive roots in financial or real asset prices when the equation errors are strongly dependent. Limit theory for the test statistic is developed and extended to heteroskedastic models. The new test has stable size properties unlike conventional test statistics that typically lead to size distortion and inconsistency in the presence of strongly dependent equation errors. The new procedure can be used to consistently time-stamp the origination and termination of an explosive episode under similar conditions of long memory errors. Simulations are conducted to assess the finite …

On The Optimal Forecast With The Fractional Brownian Motion, Xiaohu Wang, Chen Zhang, Jun Yu

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper examines the performance of alternative forecasting formulae with the fractional Brownian motion based on a discrete and finite sample. One formula gives the optimal forecast when a continuous record over the infinite past is available. Another formula gives the optimal forecast when a continuous record over the finite past is available. Alternative discretiza-tion schemes are proposed to approximate these formulae. These alternative discretization schemes are then compared with the conditional expectation of the target variable on the vector of the discrete and finite sample. It is shown that the conditional expectation delivers more accurate forecasts than the discretization-based …

Low-Rank Panel Quantile Regression: Estimation And Inference, Yiren Wang, Yichong Zhang, Yichong Zhang

Research Collection School Of Economics

In this paper, we propose a class of low-rank panel quantile regression models which allow for unobserved slope heterogeneity over both individuals and time. We estimate the heterogeneous intercept and slope matrices via nuclear norm regularization followed by sample splitting, row- and column-wise quantile regressions and debiasing. We show that the estimators of the factors and factor loadings associated with the intercept and slope matrices are asymptotically normally distributed. In addition, we develop two specification tests: one for the null hypothesis that the slope coefficient is a constant over time and/or individuals under the case that true rank of slope …

Understanding Covid-19’S Impact On Local Transportation Revenue –A Mid-Crisis View From Experts, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Serena Alexander, Ashley M. Hooper

Mineta Transportation Institute

When COVID-19 swept into the United States in early 2020, it upended two patterns of behavior critical to transportation funding: how people traveled and where economic activity occurred. This study explored how, one year into the pandemic, experts in California believed that the COVID-19 pandemic was impacting local transportation budgets. We interviewed 34 funding experts who represented local transportation and public works departments, state officials, and municipal finance experts. In these conversations, conducted from December 2020 to March 2021, we asked interviewees how they saw COVID-19 impacting their overall local transportation budgets in the short and long term as well …

Litigation With Negative Expected Value Suits: An Experimental Analysis, Cary Deck, Paul Pecorino, Michael Solomon

ESI Working Papers

The existence of lawsuits providing plaintiffs a negative expected value (NEV) at trial has important theoretical implications for signaling models of litigation. The signaling equilibrium possible absent NEV suits breaks down with NEV suits because plaintiffs do not have a credible threat to proceed to trial undermining the ability to signal type. Using a laboratory experiment, we analyze behavior with and without the possibility of NEV suits. Absent NEV suits, behavior largely follows predicted patterns. However, the possibility of NEV suits does not cause the signaling equilibrium to unravel and does not cause the dispute rate to increase. Plaintiffs only …

Financial Wellness Of Singaporean Youth, Aurobindo Ghosh, Smu Office Of Research

Research@SMU Infographics

Financial wellness is an important aspect of an individual’s overall wellness. Individuals with sufficient financial wellness can make better informed economic decisions and judgements. Financial wellness includes four broad categories: Earning, Saving, Risk Appetite, and Financial Technology (FinTech) and Digitalisation. SMU Assistant Professor of Finance (Education) Aurobindo Ghosh conducted a benchmarking survey to assess the state of financial wellness of Singaporean youth.

استجابة الدورة المصرفية للتقلبات الاقتصادية في مصر للمــــــدة ( 2004 – 2020 ), إبراهيم أحمد عبد, غسان طارق ظاهـر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى تحليل استجابة الدورة المصرفية للتقلبات الاقتصادية في مصر وسبل التحوط المصرفي ، لذا صيغة مشكلة البحث للإجابة على التساؤل هل تؤثر التقلبات الاقتصادية على الدورة المصرفية وماهي ردود فعل المصارف التجارية اتجاه تلك التقلبات؟ فالمصارف التجارية تعاني من حساسية مفرطة اتجاه التقلبات، وتم تحليل مؤشرات التقلبات الاقتصادية على مؤشرات الدورة المصرفية باستخدام الدالة اللوغاريتمية لأنها اعطت افضل نتائج ، بعد تحليل استقراريه السلاسل الزمنية ، لذا دلت النتائج على وجود علاقة طردية بين الناتج المحلي الاجمالي والدين الداخلي مـع اجمالي الائتمان، فيما ارتبط التضخم بعلاقة سلبية مع الائتمان، واثبتت نتائج اختبارات النماذج الخاصة بجمهورية مصر العربية الى …

The Use Of Data Envelopment Analysis To Improve The Efficiency Of The Scientific Departments In The Technical Institute Of Al-Suwaira, Muna Shaker Salman, Ruqayah Yassir Abdul Ameer, Athraa Kamel Al Mashhadani

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The mechatronics system is considered one of the most important systems developed globally due to its effective importance in implementing various works such as producing goods, services, industrial products, and communication systems. It is concerned with designing products and integrating industrial, electrical, mechanical, and computer processes into a modern production system. Therefore, the effective performance and organization’s effective achievement of its goals and the emphasis on the quality of performance, as the system is one of the keys to success and how to provide advanced technological products, as the design of the mechatronics system is characterized by efficiency and competitiveness …

حكم البيع عن طريق الانترنيت في الشريعة الإسلامية ومدى إستجابة المجتمع الإسلامي لتطبيقها ) دراسة ميدانية في محافظة أربيل في أقليم كردستان العراق كنموذج بإستخدام الاختبار الانحدار اللوجستي, خوشى عثمان عبد اللطيف, اميرة ولي عمر, سمية محمود نجم الدين

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

الإنترنت هو أحد تطورات الثورة التكنولوجية ومظهر من مظاهر العولمة الاقتصادية ، والتي هي باختصار تقارب إرادة البائع والمشتري للتسويق من خلال الاتصال غير المباشر بين أطراف العقد والمعاملة عبر الإنترنت .إن زيادة مساهمتها في التجارة الخارجية ، وكذلك تطوير قطاعاتها الإنتاجية والتسويقية المحلية ، وتوفير فرص كبيرة للنمو الاقتصادي ، من المتطلبات الملحة والتنموية. يشجعنا ديننا الإسلامي على الاستفادة من كل ما هو جديد لمواكبة العصر، ولكن كل هذا يجب أن يتم وفقًا لإرشادات ومعايير الشريعة الإسلامية. الكثير من الأشياء ممنوعة بموجب االشرع ، كالربا ، والغرروالخداع والاحتيال ، على سبيل المثال لا الحصر في شريعتنا الإسلامي أفضل الإجابات …

دور بناء العلامة التجارية في تعزيز ولاء زبائن المصرف(دراسة تحليلية لعينة من مصارف القطاع الخاص العراقي), سلام جاسم حمود العارضي, حنين ميثم علي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الحالي الى تحليل العلاقة بين بناء العلامة التجارية كمتغير مستقل وولاء زبائن المصارف العراقية الخاصة كمتغير معتمد، اذ ينطلق من فرضية مفادها (يؤثر متغير بناء العلامة التجارية تأثيرا ذو دلالة احصائية بمتغير ولاء الزبائن). يتبع هذا البحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي بعينة مقدارها 200 مستجيب موزعة على متخذي القرار في عينة مكونة من(15) مصرف من المصارف التجارية الخاصة في وسط وجنوب العراق ، ومن خلال تطبيق معادلة النمذجة الهيكلية SEM وتحليل المسار Path Analysis ضمن برنامج SPSS.V.23 وكذلك AMOS.V.23. كانت اهم الاستنتاجات هي ان طبيعة العلاقة بين بناء العلامة التجارية و ولاء الزبون خطية إيجابية أي ان جهود المصارف …

ريادة الاعمال ودورها في تحقيق الاداء المصرفي المستدام: دراسة تحليلية لآراء مجموعة من قادة مصارف القطاع العام, كمال كاظم طاهر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

سعت الدراسة الحالية الى استشراف الدور الذي تمارسه ريادة الاعمال بأبعاده (الابداع، المخاطرة و الاستباقية او المبادرة) في الاداء المستدام بأبعاده(الاستدامة الاقتصادية، الاستدامة الاجتماعية، الاستدامة البيئية و الاستدامة الاخلاقية) في المنظمات المبحوثة (مصارف القطاع الحكومي في الجنوب والفرات الاوسط) التابعة الى وزارة المالية, وكانت عينة البحث قصدية تضمنت (200) عضواً مجلس الادارة ( مدير عام , معاون مدير عام , مدير قسم). استعملت الدراسة الحالية الاستبانة كأداة رئيسة لجمع البيانات، وباستخدام مجموعة من التحليلات الاحصائية المتمثلة بالتحليل العاملي التوكيدي ومعادلة النمذجة الهيكلية باستخدام تحليل المسار وباستعمال البرامج الاحصائية (AMOS v.24 & SPSS v.24) اختبرت فرضيات الدراسة الرئيسة. وقدمت الدراسة مجموعة …

الملاءة المصرفية وتأثيرها في مخاطر السيولة دراسة تحليلية لعينة من القطاع المصرفي العراقي الخاص للمدة (2013-2020), سعد مجيد الجنابي, أحمد حاضر عبد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى تحليل وقياس تأثير الملاءة المصرفية في مخاطر السيولة للمصارف التجارية الخاصة عينة البحث من اجل معرفة قدرة ادارة هذه المصارف على سداد التزاماتها في الاجلين الطويل والقصير، اذ افترض هذه البحث بأن الملاءة المصرفية تؤثر في مخاطر السيولة من خلال الاعتماد على الاساليب الاحصائية والمالية المتمثلة بالبرنامج الاحصائي 26SPSS v. والنسب المالية ( للملاءة المصرفية ومخاطر السيولة) لمعرفة تأثر الملاءة المصرفية في مخاطر السيولة للمصارف التجارية الخاصة عينة البحث، اذ تم استعمال عينة من المصارف التجارية الخاصة التي تتكون من (10 ) مصارف تنتمي الى مجتمع يتكون من (43) مصرف مدرجة في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية للمدة …

أثر مهارات المدقق الخارجي في جودة التدقيق, محمد محمود جاسم الطائي, حيـدر سمــير عبد الكــاظم جابر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث بشكل رئيس إلى دراسة أثر مهارات المدقق الخارجي في جودة التدقيق. كما يهدف إلى الوقوف على تصنيف مهارات المدقق الخارجي العشر المدروسة من وجهة نظر المدققين عينة البحث. تكونت عينة البحث من (215) مدقق خارجي من فئتين هما فئة مدققي ديوان الرقابة المالية الاتحادي، وفئة مراقبي الحسابات والمدققين العاملين معهم في مكاتب التدقيق المجازة بممارسة المهنة، وذلك في (8) محافظات تمثل منطقة الفرات الأوسط والمنطقة الجنوبية من العراق وهي (الديوانية، المثنى، النجف، كربلاء، بابل، البصرة، ذي قار، ميسان). استخدم الباحثان أداة الاستبانة المُحكمة لغرض جمع البيانات المطلوبة للبحث، ومن ثم إدخال البيانات وتحليلها باستخدام البرنامج الإحصائي SPSS …

اثر الناتج المحلي الاجمالي على فاعلية السياسة النقدية في ظل داخلية عرض النقود (العراق انموذجاَ), علي جابر عبد الحسين, رقية عزيز غانم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف هذه الدراسة الى بيان العلاقة بين اثر الناتج المحلي الاجمالي على السياسة النقدية التي تعكسها متغيرات السياسة النقدية المختلفة بما فيها داخلية عرض النقود , وحصر تأثير تقلبات عرض النقود كمتغير داخلي وانعكاساتها على مدى قدرة السياسة النقدية في تحقيق أهداف الاستقرار الاقتصادي والنقدي، وضمان استقرار النظام المالي وتحفيز النمو الاقتصادي. إن رأي المختصين في مجال النظرية النقدية يميزون بين اتجاهين فكريين في تفسير طبيعة التغير الحاصل في عرض النقود وهذا التمييز قد وسع من دائرة الجدل والنقاش بشأن مدى فاعلية السياسة النقدية في تحقيق أهدافها عندما يكون عرض النقود متغيراً خارجياً أو داخلياً عن طريق استهداف المجاميع النقدية.