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Public Expenditures, Private Investment and Economic Growth in Togo
(Scientific Research, 2017-02)
This paper assesses firstly the impact of the level and the composition of
public expenditures on growth and secondly the link between public investment
and private investment in Togo. For this purpose, a neoclassical ...
Identification of the Type of Strategic Policy for Sustainable Development on the Basis of Territorial Characterization. A Case Study in Canton Baños de Agua Santa, Tungurahua, Ecuador
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
This study was carried out in Baños de Agua Santa, Province of Tungurahua-Ecuador;
From the time of Spanish colonization to the present day, the
failure to implement sustainable development policies has led to the decline ...
Convergence of the Unmanned Aerial Industry
(Scientific Research, 2017-02)
Industry convergence—the merger of previously unrelated industries—is a
model that has had a strong influence on various industries and received substantial
attention among practitioners over the past years. Despite this, ...
Can Reputation Ensure Efficiency in the Structured Finance Market?
(Scientific Research, 2017-01)
Structured finance products are opaque and their ratings are unverifiable. Therefore,
a credit rating agency (CRA) cannot credibly fully reveal its information about the
quality of a rated structured finance project. Can ...
The Crude Oil Price Influence on the Brazilian Industrial Production
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)
The oil price is a relevant variable for economic policy makers in countries
where this commodity is the main energy source as well as in other countries
where crude oil is not the only energy source. The sudden variations ...
The Interaction between Public Sector Wage, Inflation and Exchange Rate Volatility in Ghana
(Scientific Research, 2017-03)
Continuous depreciation of the cedi has been in the orbit of concern of policy
makers for time immemorial. This is because, in spite of many policy actions
to restore the continuous depreciation of the cedi amidst wage ...
Strategic Choice of Market Instrument
(Scientific Research, 2017-06)
This paper proposes a model where both regulator and industry behave strategically
to endogenously choose the optimal market instrument. The regulator
payoff function includes political gains from investment in abatement ...
The Impacts of Joint Energy and Output Prices Uncertainties in a Mean-Variance Framework
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
In this paper, we analyze the impacts of joint energy and output prices uncertainties
on the inputs demands in a mean-variance framework. We find that
the concepts of elasticities and variance vulnerability play important ...
Theoretical Foundations of Africa’s Economic Transformation and Growth
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
This paper provides the theoretical underpinnings of growth models to explain
structural economic transformation in Africa. The paper suggests that
endogenous growth model is the key for understanding long-run growth ...
Measuring the Technical Efficiency for the Shipping Banks—An Approach Using Data Envelopment Analysis
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)
The international transportation industry involves various sectors, shipping
being one with particular characteristics which differentiates it from others
especially as relevant capital risk is concerned. Within this ...