This thesis investigates the chemical composition of both silver and bronze coinage from the Ptolemaic Dynasty through the use of microwave plasma atomic emissions spectrometry (MP-AES). The aim of this examination is to broaden the understanding of Ptolemaic currency by using t…
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Every government needs to understand how can local cultural resources generate economic results. There are over 1000 ancient towns in China, with its five-millennium history. All these towns have abundant cultural and touristic resources waiting to be transformed into economic b…
Predecir el precio del cobre no es una tarea fácil. Productores, consumidores, inversionistas e incluso algunos gobiernos deben enfrentarse a este tema. Existen muchas fuentes de información y diferentes modelos para completarla, sin embargo, no hay un consenso claro de cuándo e…
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 …
Local firms producing prescription drugs for their domestic markets can be a resource for national health systems, but the range and quality of their products is constrained or encouraged by a complex structure of regulation that operates in different ways at the national and in…
This dissertation examines the political basis of agricultural trade and production networks within the global economy. Although such networks have been widely studied outside political science, as global value chains in sociology or supply chains in economics and business, a po…
The primary focus of this study is to ascertain the identification and origins of the commodities in trade between the Levant and Aegean during the Persian period, ca. 540-330 B.C. Using Semitic and Greek textual sources, as well as numismatic, epigraphic and archaeological evid…
To leverage Africa's growth trajectory the continent's large infrastructure deficit needs to be addressed, which is likely to be funded through raising debt. Sub-Saharan African sovereigns have often looked to international markets to raise debt which exposes them to exchange ra…
Within the broader sub-discipline of environmental sociology, more scholars have begun to focus on the socioecological dynamics of marine systems, coastal communities, and the seafood industry. Environmental sociologists refer to this waxing scholarship as marine sociology, or a…
Infrastructure is a popular unit of analysis among geographers and planners. The broad field of infrastructure studies provides a means of exploring the ways in which we materialize certain aspects of our communities. This study mines the extensive research into infrastructure a…
This study empirically compares the performance of risk parity (RP) investment strategy with other common investment strategies, resulting either from mean variance theory (MVT) - tangent and minimum variance portfolios - or naïve investments such as the 60/40 or the homogeneous…
This dissertation includes three working papers showing my research on the macroeconomic impact of uncertainty and bubbles. The first two papers look at uncertainty shocks in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework, while the last one focuses on economic bubbles and c…
This research looks at the Siam-Singapore rice trade after the signing of the Bowring Treaty between Siam and Britain in 1855 up to the First World War. As a result of the opening up of export opportunities, Siamese rice trade experienced exponential expansion. Examining both We…