This study aims to investigate the long run relationship and the possible direction of causality that may exist between financial development, international trade and economic growth in the case of Ghana for the period 1965-2017. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds (ARDL) …
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This dissertation examines the role of financial institutions as they relate to foreign currency payments and financial stability. The first chapter of this dissertation examines how the foreign currency component of international payments can be costly for importers and exporte…
The aim of this dissertation is to locate and give a comparative analysis of the historical processes of cooperative agency that engendered a decolonised Africa under the aegis of the Pan-African diplomacy and agency. More specifically, it conducts a comparative analytical study…
İslam şehirlerinde çarşılar, İslam medeniyetinin gelişiminin en önemli göstergelerinden biridir ve kentlerin gelişiminde önemli rol oynamışlardır. Tarihsel süreçte kentlerin morfolojik ve demografik açıdan geçirdiği değişimler ve karşılaştıkları çeşitli felaketlere rağmen bazıla…
Farklı disiplinler çerçevesinde çeşitli şekillerde açıklanan küreselleşme, etkileri göz önüne alındığında üzerinde net olarak tanımı yapılamamış bir kavramdır. Ekonomik alanda sermayenin yayılmacılığını içeren küreselleşme süreci, altyapı-üstyapı ilişkisi çerçevesinde sosyal, kü…
What role does the People’s Republic of China currently play on the world stage? This paper addresses this compelling question. Chinese society has existed for almost 5,000 years (“History of China,” Par. 1). Chinese history has had its high and low points. We are currently witn…
New directions in terrorism have been enabled and invigorated by the extraordinary 9/11 terrorist attacks. This surge of interest in terrorism has led to the investigation of some overlooked, but potentially important empirical questions involving the causes and consequences of …
The first chapter uses violations of the law of one price of Bitcoin to uncover sources of demand for cryptocurrency. In line with Hayek, we show that distrust breeds demand. We proxy Bitcoin demand with transitory price deviations---Bitcoin prices in a local currency, converted…
In this paper, network analysis is used to examine the changing role that China hasplayed in the World Trade Network in the years 1995, 2005, and 2014. A network is constructed from a World Input-Output Matrix consisting of 43 countries and 56 industries.This matrix is transform…
This dissertation examines the emergence of the Qājār monarchy of Iran (1786 – 1925) from the vantage point of the Caspian Sea. It examines the ways in which eighteenth-century autonomous rulers of northern Iran harnessed the resources and wealth of the Caspian littoral to conso…
This dissertation consists of three essays that deal with trade and finance in the interwar period. The first essay estimates the individual contributions of different trade costs to the collapse of world trade during the 1930s. The second essay narrates the early history of the…
The socio-economic development of many developing countries depends heavily on the flow of foreign capital brought about by multinational enterprises' (MNE's) activities. However, there is evidence that the actual benefits derived by host countries from these enterprises are oft…
This thesis is concerned with the analysis of shipping cost in theory and in the practice of Saudi shipping companies. Previous studies on cost structures and cost functions have been surveyed. Factors which affect each cost element have been derived from the surveyed studies to…
Intellectual property protection (IPP) attained its importance in recent years because of the steady increase of intellectual property-endowed goods and technology in global trade. Technology producers, among them multilateral pharmaceutical companies (MPCs) felt that the Paris …
The implications of the single European market on India's exports of textile and clothing industries to the EU can be summarised in the following four statements: 1. The trade creation effect has been witnessed for many of India’s textile and clothing exports. It is the consumpt…
This investigation attempts to improve understanding of the behaviour of internet consumers from an empirical basis. It reports on the results of studies into decision-making processes of consumers on the internet in the context of apparel retailing. Consumers consisting of a pr…
There is common theme within the literature that a store represents the tangible and intangible values of the company's commercial and retail organisational philosophy. Given this, it could be considered as a brand, with all the associated competitive advantages that correspond …
Non-native plant pests and pathogens threaten biodiversity, ecosystem function, food security, and economic livelihoods. Preventing, minimizing, and mitigating damage from invasive non-native plant pests involve dynamic, multiscale strategies that are agile enough to respond to …