Consumer purchases in many markets are characterized by a choice between many firms and a long-term relationship with the firm selected. This thesis addresses the source of these relationships and the impact of accrued experiences on future purchase choices. Chapter 1 defines a …
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This study treats East and Southeast Asia as a regional economy. The regionality of East and Southeast Asia is defined by the linkages between two regional business networks, the Japanese enterprise networks and the ethnic Chinese business networks, and the economy of China. The…
The debate over the movement of the Net Barter Terms of Trade series in Developing countries has raged on since the P-S hypothesis in 1950. The persistent economic problems of the Developing countries, the phenomenal success of the South East Asian nations, and Oil price shock o…
Forecasting occupancy rates is important for effective hotel management. This study examines empirically the use of five time series models (moving average, Brown's, Holt's, Winter's and ARIMA) in forecasting hotel occupancy rates in Egypt. These models were fitted and tested us…
This dissertation presents a collection of essays addressing four issues. The first essay (Chapter II) examines the "external" sources of the incentive to cheat in OPEC in a strategic set-up. Also examined is the role of Saudi Arabia in enforcing cartel policies. Specifically, i…
This study examines the fresh produce marketing system in north-central Morocco. It evaluates claims that the existing system produces excessive profit margins for the merchants who act between farmer and consumer. An earlier study in the same region concluded that an official m…
The problem. The purpose of this study was to rectify the lack of knowledge regarding the influences of culture or what Hofstede (1980) called "culture's consequences" on the attitudes, behaviors, and leadership styles of business leaders in the Middle East, with a particular fo…
The travel and tourism industry in Massachusetts, already mired in a recession, suffered severe financial hardship after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Tourism leaders tried to stop the economic hemorrhaging by promoting more local and regional travel. However, since …
Rapid cost escalation and structural change have created new incentives for health care providers in every country. In the United States, the hospital sector has experienced the growth of managed care, formation of provider networks, and the increased specialization of hospitals…
The emergence of the global service economy has altered the flows of information and capital among the worlds nations. Electronic international banking networks now provide the economic infrastructure for the "global village" as millions of financial transactions are processed e…
The political economy of Egypt and Mexico displayed striking similarities pre-reform, yet they have pursued divergent paths of labor market reform. The objective of this thesis is to explain this divergence in policy. This study contends that the differential strength of Egyptia…
Why have benefits to labor in Egypt remained constant after neoliberal economic reform began, whereas benefits to labor in Mexico have clearly decreased? Interestingly, the political economy of Egypt and Mexico displayed striking similarities pre-reform. Yet, despite the similar…
An important feature of the Uruguay Round was the agreement by the developed countries to abolish the Multifibre Arrangement quotas that (with their predecessors) have restricted exports of textile and clothing products from developing countries for almost forty years. This iniq…
Essay I. Intra-industry contagion and competitive effects associated with corporate liquidation announcements: Does shareholder governance influence the results? This essay extends earlier research by investigating the role shareholder governance may play in the abnormal stock r…
The markedly different financial structures of firms in the developing and industrialized countries provide the motivation for this dissertation. What explains the financial structure choice of firms in developing countries? Many theories in Finance have been developed to explai…
Most industrial buyers are constrained by the need to make effective and efficient business purchasing decisions which will meet their organizational goals. After the formation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), this decision choice became more complex as Mexico…
The thesis covers three different topics in empirical microeconomics. The first chapter looks at how firms' organizational form affects investment financing constraints. I show conditions in which information asymmetry is severe and bankruptcy courts are ineffective, organizatio…
My dissertation has three main goals: (1) to extend the literature on contracting to include an analytical treatment of the governance choices for newly privatized enterprises; (2) to highlight the advantages that may accrue to governments and private investors by choosing one g…
This dissertation confronts the difficulty in explaining the market pressures against the rupiah and the won during their currency crises of 1997–98. The crises are viewed in the context of multiple equilibria in financial markets, where the sudden rise in the market pressure is…