This study analyzes the effectiveness of the present Nigerian international oil marketing model (NIOMM) through a comparative analysis of NIOMM and the international oil marketing models (IOMMs) of four other OPEC members (Algeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela). This s…
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An industrial cluster is a group of firms that are specialized by sector, located in close geographic proximity and consist of mostly small and medium sized enterprises. An introduction to these clusters is provided in Chapter One. Chapter Two develops a model to examine the con…
Malaysia is a developing country. Export has become one of the major incomes that contribute to Malaysia's economy. After the East Asian Financial crisis in 1998, to stabilize its economy, Malaysia's government pegged its currency at 3.8 (RM) to 1 (USD), and there was a signific…
This study investigates the interplay between the location decisions of advertising agencies and their desire for networking. We think of networks as a set of professional and business friendships and contacts---normally initiated and/or confined within close proximity---that al…
This thesis deals with international knowledge spillovers from advanced countries to developing countries through FDI and trade. Chapter Two develops the theoretical framework to analyze technology spillovers through FDI. This framework shows that FDI affects productivity growth…
This dissertation develops several empirical models based on recent developments in international trade theory that have emphasized the role of scale economies and imperfect competition as a basis for trade among nations. To evaluate the implications of imperfect competition and…
This dissertation tests whether economic liberalization in the 1980s increased total factor productivity in Turkey's manufacturing industries. The total factor productivity measure is modified to include the effects of imperfect competition and non-constant returns to scale. Whe…
The basic goal of the dissertation is to understand how different institutional settings, technologies and social preferences could foster different, rival, or complementary organizational forms. The first essay argues that as a consequence of generalized increasing returns to s…
From 1992 until 1995, Morocco and the European Union (EU) were in negotiations for an Association Agreement as part of a regional initiative, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (or “Barcelona process”). The free trade provisions of the agreement seemed unfavorable for Morocco: t…
This dissertation takes as a point of departure Theodore Moran's dynamic bargaining model, which posits that resource-rich developing countries ascend a bargaining learning curve in their negotiations with multinational corporations and do better for themselves over time. Moran'…
The purpose of this thesis is to check for “Dutch Disease” in the Saudi Arabian economy over the period 1980–2001. Dutch Disease is the result of an exogenous increase in the price of that country's natural resource. Accordingly, a resource boom causes the output in the non-boom…
Four essays were written to examine the efficiency, market structure, and competitive conditions in the Turkish banking industry. First essay investigates a panel of 51 commercial banks operating in the Turkish banking industry over the period 1988-1996 with respect to X-efficie…
This dissertation provides a policy analysis of the economic role of the state in the formation of industrial development in Iran during the 1960's and 1970's. It examines the various outcomes of capital formation based on an internal market-import-substitution industrialization…
Within the broad Chenery-Kuznets framework, using structural change as a major indicator of economic development, this study investigates the direction and magnitude and broad features of structural change in Iran, and the role of oil production and exports in that change. Altho…
The assertion that corruption is not favorable for business is not new. In our research we concentrate on the opposite question: can business benefit from corrupt environment? We answer this question using firm-level data from Indonesia and use firm political connection as the p…
The focus of this thesis is on the quality of education in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and the problem of unemployment. Given the non-sustainability of increased public jobs, the GCC governments…
Syria is currently witnessing dramatic changes in consumption patterns and attitudes as a result of globalization, increased advertising, and national economic forces such as heavy immigration and trade sanctions. In this study I analyzed the results of 150 surveys conducted in …