After an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related …
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Risk management in banking operations is a popular topic among researchers in the fields of management and banking. Due to developments in technology, research on financial technology has also become a hot topic. Banks and financial technology companies (fintechs) need to learn …
This dissertation contains three essays on technology adoption from foreign direct investment and exporting. The empirical analysis is based on a panel dataset of Indonesian manufacturing establishments from 1988 to 1996. The first essay examines how the technology that accompan…
Constraints to increased agricultural production in Niger include low and variable rainfall, low water retention and poor soil fertility. Population pressure has shortened the fallow period in most regions. The main research problem in this thesis is to identify the determinants…
This study investigates changes in ceramics at Tell Leilan, Syria, during three consecutive periods between 2500 and 2200 B.C. These changes co-occur with significant socio-political changes: urbanization of the region and fledgling statehood. The approach developed to examine c…
Since the late 1990s the government of Malaysia has increased emphasis on its Intensification of Research in Priority Areas (IRPA) program, focusing scientific research in universities and government research institutes (GRIs) on activities most likely to enhance national econom…
In the past thirty years, the IMP Group's Interaction and Network Approach has gained its increasing popularity in researching economic behaviours among resource-dependent business actors through relational linkages (Håkansson et al., 2004; Turnbull et al., 1996). Within network…
Due to its workings as a global financial nexus, activists critical of capitalism have used the City of London to stage a number of large-scale direct actions since the 1983-84 Stop the City protests. By examining protest at this renowned site of intensified observation, I argue…
The Blockchain technology that revolutionized the world was launched in 2008 with the publication of the paper undertitled ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System’, by the enigmatic pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, which described a version of electronic cash that allowed …
This project seeks to utilize the Catholic Church’s wisdom tradition to support a human-centered response to technological unemployment. The loss of jobs to various forms of technology is a serious concern, especially to those made redundant by technology who cannot find compara…
Although it has been many years since the customs union agreement was signed between the European Union and Turkey, discussions are still up to date about its positive and negative effects. Unfortunately, most of the empirical studies in the literature are insufficient since the…
The U.S. banking industry has experienced several technological and banking regulatory changes in the past two decades. This dissertation is composed of three papers that review and investigate how these banking and technological innovations have impacted depositors, bank provis…
Technological change is a powerful force in economic and social life. Technological change is both an endogenous and a disruptive process because inventors create new technologies by recombining existing technological ideas and because new technologies often drive older technolo…