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Do External Shocks Have A Permanent Or A Transitory Effect On Thailand's Tourism Industry?, Reetu Verma, Ali S. Saleh, Ranjith Ihalanayake Jan 2011

Do External Shocks Have A Permanent Or A Transitory Effect On Thailand's Tourism Industry?, Reetu Verma, Ali S. Saleh, Ranjith Ihalanayake

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Given the number and the frequency of external shocks encountered by Thailand in the last two decades, this study identifies the number and the location of the breaks and tests to determine whether the breaks have a transitory or a permanent effect on international tourist arrivals to Thailand for its top 10 source countries using both univariate and panel unit root tests with structural breaks. The findings suggest that break dates coincide with the Asian financial crisis, the September 11 attack, and the SARS and the bird flu outbreaks. The univariate unit root tests with structural breaks reject the null …


Are External Shocks Permanent Or Transitory? An Analysis Of Visitor Arrivals To Thailand, Ali S. Saleh, Reetu Verma, Ranjith Ihalanayake Jan 2010

Are External Shocks Permanent Or Transitory? An Analysis Of Visitor Arrivals To Thailand, Ali S. Saleh, Reetu Verma, Ranjith Ihalanayake

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Tourism industry in Thailand has recently experienced several external shocks such as September 11 attacks, SARS outbreak, Bird Flu, Political unrest and the recent global financial crisis which may have a temporary or permanent impact on the number of visitor arrivals to the country. This paper conducts univariate and panel Lagrange Multiplier tests with a break proposed by Lee and Strazicich (2004) and Im, Lee, and Tieslau (2005) to identify the time of the structural break and to determine whether shocks to visitor arrivals to Thailand have a temporary or permanent impact. We use annual data for Thailand’s top ten …


Free Fatty Acids From The Crude Hexane Extract Of The Aerial Parts Of Heliotropium Indicum Linn. Growing In Phitsanulok, Thailand, Theeraphan Machan, Jurgen Korth, Boonsom Liawruangrath, Saisunee Liawruangrath, Apiwat Baramee, Stephen G. Pyne Jan 2007

Free Fatty Acids From The Crude Hexane Extract Of The Aerial Parts Of Heliotropium Indicum Linn. Growing In Phitsanulok, Thailand, Theeraphan Machan, Jurgen Korth, Boonsom Liawruangrath, Saisunee Liawruangrath, Apiwat Baramee, Stephen G. Pyne

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Sixteen free fatty acids from the crude hexane extract of the aerial parts of Heliotropium indicum Linn. growing in Phitsanulok, Thailand, have been identified after conversion to their methyl esters with boron trifluoride-methanol followed by quantification by GC-FID and identification by GC-MS analysis. They accounted for 95% of the chromatographable components, with 9,12-octadecadienoic acid, (39.7%), 9-octadecenoic acid (32.4%), hexadecanoic acid (14.2%) and octadecanoic acid (5.1%), as the major constituents. A small amount of 6,10,14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone and 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-2-hexadecen-1-ol as well as a homologous series of n-alkanes present at trace level and ranging from C25 to C31 was also found …


Dynamic Linkages Between Thai And International Stock Markets, Abbas Valadkhani, S. Chancharat Jan 2007

Dynamic Linkages Between Thai And International Stock Markets, Abbas Valadkhani, S. Chancharat

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper investigates the existence of cointegration and causality between the stock market price indices of Thailand and its major trading partners (Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US), using monthly data spanning December 1987 to December 2005. Both the Engle-Granger two-step procedure (assuming no structural breaks) and the Gregory and Hansen (1996) test (allowing for one structural break) provide no evidence of a long-run relationship between the stock prices of Thailand and these countries. Based on the empirical results obtained from these two residual-based cointegration tests, potential long-run benefits exist …


A Grounded Study Of Erp Adoption And Vendor Selection In Thailand, Santipat Aruthari, Helen M. Hasan Jan 2005

A Grounded Study Of Erp Adoption And Vendor Selection In Thailand, Santipat Aruthari, Helen M. Hasan

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper contributes to the literature of the adoption of ERP systems and other existing and new IT-based innovation in developing countries. There is an imperative for a framework to explain the decision-making processes in ERP system adoption and vendor selection in general but particularly in developing Asian countries where knowledge on ERP systems is limited. The authors conducted interviews with IT managers and end-users to identify factors affecting ERP system adoption and ERP system vendor selection by Thai-owned and
multinational companies (MNCs) in Thailand. The findings from the study have led to the development of a research model of …


Improving The System Of Financial Incentives For Enhancing Thailand's Industrial Technological Capabilities, Tim Turpin, Samuel Garrett-Jones, Paul Robertson, Siracha Charoenpanij, Peter Brimble Jan 2002

Improving The System Of Financial Incentives For Enhancing Thailand's Industrial Technological Capabilities, Tim Turpin, Samuel Garrett-Jones, Paul Robertson, Siracha Charoenpanij, Peter Brimble

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This report provides a summary of current international experiences with financial incentives for supporting technology development and identifies some important implications for public policy in Thailand. International experiences have demonstrated the broader public good that can be achieved through policies and public interventions that stimulate technology learning environments built around clusters or networks of firms and national support institutions. Financial incentives serve as a mediating influence to enhance the flow of knowledge from firms that are closer to a leading technological edge through to those firms where technological skills are lagging. They are therefore an essential tool available to governments …