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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0458.v1

COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Socio-Economic Analysis Towards the Future Correspondence

Momotaj Begum, Md. Shaikh Farid, Swarup Barua, Mohammad Jahangir Alam

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: COVID-19; socio-economic; impact; Bangladesh

Online: 25 April 2020 (10:31:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0240.v1

Factors that Determine and Influences Foreign Exchange Rates

Rabeya Akter

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Foreign exchange rate, economy, inflation

Online: 8 June 2021 (15:59:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0159.v2

Investment and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis for Tanzania

Manamba Epaphra, John Massawe

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: public investment; domestic private investment; FDI; crowding out effect; economic growth

Online: 30 August 2016 (04:03:38 CEST)

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This paper analyzes the causal effect between domestic private investment, public investment, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Tanzania during the 1970-2014 period. The modified neo-classical growth model is used to estimate the ieffect of investment on economic growth. Also, the economic growth models based on Phetsavong and Ichihashi (2012) [1], and Le and Suruga (2005) [2]are used to estimate the crowding out effect of public investment on domestic private investment on one hand and foreign direct investment on the other hand. In the same way, the crowding out effect of foreign direct investment on domestic private investment is estimated. A correlation test is applied to check the correlation among independent variables, and the results show that there is very low correlation suggesting that multicollinearity is not a serious problem. Moreover, the diagnostic tests including RESET regression errors specification test, Breusch-Godfrey serial correlation LM test, Jacque-Bera-normality test and white heteroskedasticity test reveal that the model has no signs of misspecification and that, the residuals are serially uncorrelated, normally distributed and homoskedastic. Broadly, the empirical results show that the domestic private investment and foreign direct investment play an important role in economic growth in Tanzania. Besides, a revealed negative, albeit weak, association between public and private investment suggests that the positive effect of domestic private investment on economic growth becomes smaller when public investment-to-GDP ratio exceeds 8-10 percent. Similarly, foreign direct investment tends to marginally reduce the impact of domestic private investment on growth. These results suggest that public investment and foreign direct investment need to be considered carefully in order to avoid a reduced positive impact of domestic private investment on growth. Domestic saving may be promoted to encourage domestic investment for economic growth.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0148.v1

Effect of COVID-19 on the Indian Economy and Supply Chain

Shruti Agrawal, Anbesh Jamwal, Sumit Gupta

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Covid-19; Indian economy; supply chain; manufacturing industries; barriers

Online: 9 May 2020 (10:01:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0176.v1

The Effects of One-Child Policy on the Economy and the Environment in an OLG Framework

Peter J. Stauvermann, Jin Hu, Ronald Ravinesh Kumar

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: one-child policy; environment; OLG model; fertility; human capital; child tax

Online: 20 March 2018 (09:09:16 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0219.v1

Socio-economic Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Smallholder Livelihoods in Zimbabwe

David Mhlanga, Emmanuel Ndhlovu

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: COVID-19; livelihoods; smallholders; Zimbabwe

Online: 14 April 2020 (08:50:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0065.v3

The Consequences of Corruption on Economic Growth in Mediterranean Countries: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis

Hicham Boussalham

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Corruption; Economic growth; Panel Data

Online: 26 February 2018 (15:38:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0183.v1

Financial Inclusion in Bangladesh: Policy Recommendations for Modified Unit Banking System

Hossain Mohammed Omar Khayum, Noshin Tasneem

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: financial inclusion; unit banking; banking in Bangladesh; banking policy

Online: 21 March 2018 (03:18:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0209.v1

The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy on Economic Growth in South Africa: An Empirical Analysis

Dumisani Pamba

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Economic Growth; Gross Fixed Capital Formation; Government Expenditure; Government Deficit; Vector Auto-Regression and South Africa

Online: 14 January 2022 (11:36:07 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0092.v1

Economics of Yam (Dioscoreaceae Dioscorea) Marketing: New Insights from Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria.

Festus Victor Bekun

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Yam marketing, Ordinary Least squares, Bosso Nigeria.

Online: 13 October 2017 (16:13:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0068.v1

SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF WETLAND ECOSYSTEM (IN CASE OF LAKE ZIWAY)

Gezahegne Gebremedhin, Satishkumer Belliethathan

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Fishermen; Lake Ziway; Small scale irrigation users; Socioeconomic benefit; Wetland ecosystem service

Online: 22 July 2016 (16:02:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201609.0058.v1

The Political Economy of Russian Migration Politics

Vladimir Malakhov, Mark Simon

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: labor migration; migration policy; Russia; Post-Soviet space; governmentality; labor legalization

Online: 18 September 2016 (09:45:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0067.v1

Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants on Maize Seed Production in Palpa District, Nepal

Mahesh Sapkota, Niraj Prakash Joshi, Rishi Ram Kattel, Mahima Bajracharya

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: cost effective; stochastic frontier; maize; technical efficiency; tobit

Online: 8 May 2017 (17:25:58 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

On Islamic Economic Development

Mehmet Bulut, Cem Korkut

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Islamic development; economic development; waqf

Online: 7 March 2020 (02:38:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0224.v1

Determinants of Smallholder Teff Farmers’ Market Participation; A Case Study In Gena-Bossa District, Dawro Zone, Ethiopia

Deresse Dalango, Wondaferhu Mulugeta, Tesfaye Melaku

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Teff, Smallholder, market participation, Heckman two stages, Gena-Bossa.

Online: 8 November 2018 (15:11:03 CET)

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Increasing market participation among smallholder farmers have a big potential to uplift living standards of poor through increasing production and consumption pattern. Although, smallholder farming made 95% of total crop production in Ethiopia, they are exposed to a marketing bottleneck that hinders benefits from their produce. The objective of this study was analyzing factors determining smallholder Teff farmer decision to participate in output market and level of marketed output.The study used data from 190 respondents from four selected Teff dominant kebeles of Gena-Bossa districts in Dawro Zone, through structured questioner. This investigation was imperative because no adequate research has been done in study area in examining the hindering factors of farmers’ market participation. Moreover, in the prior study, different authors come up with varied outcomes in diverse country and geographic location concerning poor farmers’ market participation decision. The descriptive statistics and Heckman two stage econometric methods were employed to analyze data collected from sampled household. The significance of coefficient of inverse Mill’s ratio ( ) indicates the presence of self-selection bias and the effectiveness of applying Heckman two stage model. The results of study show that the smallholder decision to participate in output market were positively influenced by size of land holding, availability of family labor force, education status of household head, accessibility of credit service and access to market price information. On the other hand, size of family member, sex of house hold head being female and distance to market place discourage probability of Teff farmer market participation decision. Moreover, the second stage estimation reveals that, the education status of house hold head, size of farm land, amount of Teff crop produced, accessibility of market information, the size of family labor force and being member to farm cooperative increase the quantity of marketable output, whereas, large number of family size decline the level of Teff crops marketed. The policy that assist poor farmers in obtaining market skills; create affordable credit service; strengthen community based producer groups and capacitating the females socially and economically in the community believed to minimize the problems encountering small farmers in a way to market their crop

Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0536.v1

Hedging Feasibility Perspectives against the COVID-19 for the International Tourism Sector

Angeliki N. Menegaki

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: corona-virus; COVID-19; tourism sector; review; risk hedging

Online: 30 April 2020 (14:15:28 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0121.v1

Sub-Saharan African Countries Public Expenditure and Economic Growth: Wagner’s Panel Cointegration and Causality Applications

Elsadig Musa Ahmed, Choudhry Mohammad Hanif

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: economic growth; public expenditure; panel cointegration; sub-Saharan Africa

Online: 8 May 2018 (05:20:33 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0052.v1

Gender Inequality in Literacy Status and Households Economic Well-Being in Burkina Faso: A Semiparametric Bi-variate Sample Selection Modeling Approach

Ibrahim Niankara

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Burkina Faso, Economic Well-Being, Gender inequality, Literacy status, Sample Selection

Online: 7 March 2018 (09:27:26 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0212.v1

FDI Inflows, Price and Exchange Rate Volatility: New Empirical Evidence from Latin America

Silvia Dal Bianco, Loan Nguyen Cong To

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: FDI; GARCH; real exchange rate and price volatility; Latin America and the Caribbean

Online: 26 August 2016 (09:59:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0064.v1

Asymmetric Impacts of Oil Price on Inflation: An Empirical Study of African OPEC Member Countries

Umar Bala, Lee Chin

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: oil price; inflation; food production; asymmetric; Algeria; Angola; Libya; Nigeria

Online: 3 August 2018 (11:35:04 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0151.v1

Nigeria and Its Dwindling Economy: What is the Way Forward?

SALAUDEEN LATEEF, Assoc. Prof Aliyu Rufai Yauri, Dr. Garba Muhammad

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Dwindling Economy; Nigeria Economic Sector; Fraud; Insecurity; Policy Implementation

Online: 6 August 2020 (10:26:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0222.v2

Nonlinearities in Inflation and Growth Nexus: The Case of Tanzania

Manamba Epaphra

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: inflation; economic growth; threshold effects

Online: 30 August 2016 (08:54:34 CEST)

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Achieving high economic growth rate while maintaining low inflation rate, has become the main objective of monetary authorities all over the world. Indeed, empirical literature reflects that high inflation rates are detrimental to long run growth and entail welfare costs. To achieve this objective, central banks have availed different options from time to time which include inflation targeting. Monetary authorities in Tanzania have been targeting an inflation level of around 5 percent per annum for economic policy purposes. However, when high inflation is to be controlled, tight monetary policy is put in place which might in turn affect the economic activity. Also, the Tobin effect suggests that inflation causes individuals to substitute out of money and into interest earning assets, which leads to greater capital intensity which in turn promotes economic growth. Against these major points, this paper examines a non linear relationship between inflation and economic growth using both a quadratic and threshold endogenous models and attempts to identify the existence of threshold effects between these variables. The paper uses a data set spanning from 1967 to 2015. The most interesting finding of the estimations is that the estimated coefficient of the linear term of inflation is negative while the estimated coefficient of the square term of inflation is positive, suggesting a U-shaped effect as opposed to inverse or inverted U-shaped relationship found in other countries by previous studies. These results suggest that the Tobin effect may be valid for high inflation, in which people strongly realize the importance of substituting money for interest-bearing assets. This leads to an increase in capital investment, and in turn, an increase in economic growth even with high inflation rate. However, this U-shaped relationship between inflation and economic growth suggests that, the economy is better off at extremely low inflation episodes. The optimal inflation rate that ranges between 3.25 percent and 3.75 percent is obtained by minimizing the residual sum of squares and/or maximizing adjusted R-squared. These findings have some policy implications for the policymakers and development partners. The paper is consistent with policy suggestions by international agencies. Efforts to minimize inflation to a very low level are likely to have a positive effect on economic growth.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0253.v1

Export competitiveness: Assessment through the Balassa index (the case of Armenia)

Arpine Sargsyan

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Trade, competitiveness, export, index, assessment, method, data, revealed, comparative advantage, development, diversification, centralization

Online: 15 June 2018 (12:27:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0062.v1

Nonlinear growth effect of remittances in recipient countries: an econometric analysis of remittances-growth nexus in Bangladesh

Gazi Mainul Hassan, Shamim Shakur

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Remittances; Economic Growth; Bangladesh; Remittances Utilisation

Online: 20 July 2016 (10:27:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0004.v1

Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants of Rice Production in Cambodia

Sokvibol Kea, Hua Li, Linvolak Pich

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: technical efficiency; SFA; rice production; Cambodia; agriculture; productivity

Online: 1 August 2016 (10:09:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0017.v1

Flexible Employment Arrangements and Workplace Performance in Great Britain

Eleftherios Giovanis

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: financial performance; flexible employment; labour productivity; teleworking; workplace employment relations survey

Online: 4 January 2017 (10:00:05 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201610.0135.v1

An Analysis of Technical Efficiency for Household's Rice Production in Cambodia: A Case Study of Three Districts in Battambang Province

Sokvibol Kea, Hua Li, Linvolak Pich

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: technical efficiency; stochastic frontier production function (SFA model); rice production; Battambang; Cambodia; agricultural productivity

Online: 31 October 2016 (03:31:11 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0078.v2

Segmentation of Coffee Consumers Using Sustainable Values: Cluster Analysis

Grzegorz Maciejewski, Sylwia Mokrysz, Łukasz Wróblewski

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: market segmentation; coffee market; consumer behaviour; sustainable consumption; sustainable values; factor analysis; cluster analysis

Online: 27 November 2018 (05:19:25 CET)

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The driving force behind adopting the idea of sustainable development are producers and retailers. Unfortunately, when preparing their product range for consumers, many of them still only pay attention to the size of the customers’ earnings, how often they shop and how much they buy when shopping. In consumer segmentation, sustainable values that consumers apply when making their purchasing decisions are rarely taken into account. The aim of this article is to show that values such as environmental protection, the ethical behaviour of producers, fair trade or maximising the utility function of consumption are so important in the purchasing process in the coffee market that they can be used as segmentation variables. The Polish coffee market was selected to carry out segmentation taking into account the consumers' sustainable values. The main source of the article is the results of a standardized online survey conducted on a nationwide sample of 800 coffee consumers in July 2018. Multi-dimensional analyses such as extrapolative factor analysis (EFA) and cluster analysis (CA) were used to describe the obtained results. As a result, six segments of coffee consumers were identified and described: “responsible, aspiring to be connoisseurs”, “loyal coffee enthusiasts”, “pragmatic users”, “coffee laypersons”, “sophisticated connoisseurs”, “consumerists, connoisseurs, but not at any price”. Among the identified segments, the sustainable consumption values most often mentioned refer to "responsible, aspiring to be connoisseurs", and the least often - ”consumerists, connoisseurs, but not at any price”. The conclusions presented in the last part of the article may be used by manufacturing and trade enterprises, operating on the coffee market, in order to respond to the identified needs and expectations of consumers and by governmental and social organisations so as to determine the directions of pro-ecological education of consumers.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0046.v1

An Analysis of Technical Efficiency for Household’s Rice Production in Cambodia: A Case Study of Three Districts in Battambang Province

Sokvibol Kea, Hua Li, Linvolak Pich

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: agricultural productivity; Battambang; Cambodia; rice production; stochastic frontier production function (SFA model); technical efficiency

Online: 8 November 2016 (08:51:50 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0436.v1

The Impact of Training and Support Interventions on Small Businesses in the Expanded Public Works Programme – Pretoria Region

Lungisani G Dladla, Emmanuel Mutambara

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Expanded Public Works Programme; EPWP; SMMEs; Training; and Support

Online: 21 September 2018 (10:44:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0285.v1

Socio-Economic Impacts of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: A Study in Chon Buri Sports City Residents

Dittachai Chankuna

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: FIFA; World Cup; Socio-economic impacts; Non-host city resident; Chon Buri

Online: 15 December 2022 (14:59:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0161.v1

Comparison of Cambodian Rice Production Technical Efficiency at National and Household Level

Sokvibol Kea, Hua Li, Linvolak Pich

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Agricultural productivity; Cambodia; Rice production; Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA); Technical Efficiency

Online: 29 September 2017 (18:21:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0034.v1

Rebound Effects of Exchange Rate and Central Bank Interventions in Selected ECOWAS Countries

Mustapha Akinkunmi

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Rebound Effect; Intervention; monetary policy rate; panel data

Online: 10 February 2017 (17:39:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0445.v1

Financial Inclusion, Saving and Borrowing Behaviors in the United Arab Emirates and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Ibrahim Niankara, Riham Muqattash

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: borrowing; economic growth; financial inclusion; saving; UAE; USA

Online: 24 July 2018 (06:13:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201610.0053.v1

The Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Foreign Exchange Rate: Case Study of Turkish Lira versus Pound Sterling

Mansoor Maitha, Jehar Mustofa, Ugur Gok

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: terrorism; exchange rate; ARDL; error correction

Online: 14 October 2016 (10:30:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0680.v2

The Impacts of the Sharing Economic Model on Vietnam

Thanh Nga Pham

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: sharing economy; model; impacts; Vietnam

Online: 1 September 2020 (12:08:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0061.v1

Consumers’ Sense of Farmers’ Markets: Tasting Sustainability or Just Purchasing Food?

Elisa Giampietri, Dieter Koemle, Xiaohua Yu, Adele Finco

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: sustainability; farmers’ markets; choice experiment; consumers; willingness to pay

Online: 6 August 2016 (08:12:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0004.v2

Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants of Rice Production in Cambodia

Sokvibol Kea, Hua Li, Linvolak Pich

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: technical efficiency; SFA; rice production; Cambodia; agriculture; productivity

Online: 13 September 2016 (10:20:53 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0219.v1

A Model to Estimate the Cost-Effectiveness of Water Pollution Management Strategies in Developing Countries: The Cocody Bay Case, Côte d’Ivoire

Vassiki Sanogo

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: pollution; cost-effectiveness analysis; Cocody; environmental policies; environmental constraints

Online: 27 August 2016 (11:01:22 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0032.v1

Estimating Recreational Value of Foy's Lake: An Application of Travel Cost Count Data Model for Truncated Zeros

Md. Touhidul Alam, Anis-Ul-Ekram Chowdury, Md. Sajib Hossian

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: individual travel cost method; zero truncated poisson regression model; endogenous stratification; consumer surplus

Online: 10 February 2017 (11:10:04 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0124.v1

Decoupling Water Consumption and Environmental Impact on Textile Industry by Using Water Footprint Method: A case study in China

Yi Li, Linyi Lu, Yingxi Tan, Laili Wang, Manhong Shen

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: textile industry; water footprint; economic growth; decoupling; decomposition

Online: 26 January 2017 (17:07:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0121.v2

Residential Demand for Water in a Nature Reserve of Mexico: Evidence of Effects of Perceived Price

Marco Almendarez, Gerzain Aviles, Victor Hernandez, Alfredo Ortega, Luis Beltran

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: lagged consumption; dynamic function; water management; average price; marginal price

Online: 12 August 2016 (09:29:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0314.v2

Financial Performance Analysis of Distressed Banks in Ghana: Exploration of Financial Ratios and Z-score

Matey Juabin

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Bank; Debt: Distress; Performance; Credit Management Practice; Z-score

Online: 29 November 2019 (11:23:43 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0204.v1

A Grey Forecasting Approach for the Sustainability Performance of Logistics Companies

Min-Chun Yu, Chia-Nan Wang, Nguyen-Nhu-Y Ho

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: logistics industry; sustainability; data envelopment analysis (DEA); grey forecasting

Online: 25 August 2016 (10:12:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0046.v1

Small Scale Hydroelectric Power Plants in Norway. Some Microeconomic and Environmental Considerations

Johannes Idsø

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: small scale hydroelectric power; neumann-mortenstern utility theory; environmental effects of hydro power; hydropower and risk

Online: 5 May 2017 (05:32:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0315.v1

The Modern Retail Center: A Study on the New Role of Retails Centers as a Place for Spending Leisure Time

Sepideh Baghaee, Farshid Aram, Francisco Lamíquiz Daudén, Peter Denzin

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: retail center; public space; shopping; leisure; outdoor activities

Online: 28 July 2019 (14:45:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0682.v1

Determinants Of Non-performing Loans in Pakistan

Tanweer Islam, Faiza Zafar, Naimal Fatima, Nayab Tahir

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Business fluctuations; financial stability; output gap; weighted maturity

Online: 28 July 2020 (12:34:23 CEST)

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Preprint CASE REPORT | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0122.v1

Public Expenditure Management in Indonesia: Islamic Economic Review on State Budget 2017

Aan Jaelani

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: state budget; fiscal policy; public expenditure; Islamic economic

Online: 27 June 2017 (07:09:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0176.v1

Sustainability Reporting and Value Relevance of Financial Statements

Bambang Sutopo, Sebastian Kot, Arum Kusumaningdyah Adiati, Lina Nur Ardila

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: sustainability reporting award (SRA), financial statements, value relevance, earnings per share (EPS), earnings per share change (CEPS), book value per share (BVPS)

Online: 27 February 2018 (05:26:26 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0253.v1

Technical Efficiency of Barley Production: The Case of Smallholde Farmers in Meket District, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Getachew Wollie

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Technical Efficiency; Stochastic Frontier; Trans-log; Meket; Barley

Online: 26 January 2018 (15:51:45 CET)

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This study analyzed the technical efficiency of barley production by smallholder farmers in Meket district, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. A cross sectional data from a sample of 123 barley producers during the 2016/17 production season was collected by applying two stage random sampling. To address the objective of the study, both descriptive statistics and econometric models were used to analyze the data. The trans-log functional form of the production function simultaneously with single stage estimation approach was used to estimate the production of barley output and technical inefficiency factors. The estimated stochastic production frontier model indicated that input variables such as fertilizer, human labor and oxen power were the significant variables to increase the quantity of barley output while, barley seed had a negative effect. The estimated mean levels of technical efficiency of the sample farmers were about 70.9% which revealed that, presence of a room to increase their technical efficiency level on average by 29.1% with the existing resources. The discrepancy ratio gamma indicated that 63% of the total variation from the frontier comes due to technical inefficiency while, the remaining 37% comes due to factors outside the control of farmers. Among the hypothesized factors that affect technical inefficiency; education level, extension contact and number of barley plots significantly and negatively affected technical inefficiency score. Besides, practice of crop rotation, distance of residence from the nearest main market, total expenditure and soil fertility was found to have a positive and significant effect. Hence, emphasis should be given to decrease the inefficiency level of those more inefficient farm households via experience sharing among the farmers and usage of improved or certified barley seed. Besides to this, policies and strategies of the government should be directed towards increasing farmers’ education, improve the system of input distributions and institutional facilities.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0198.v1

Teleworking Effect on Traffic and Air Pollution

Eleftherios Giovanis

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Air Quality; Fixed Effects; Instrumental Variables; Panel Data; Teleworking; Traffic

Online: 29 May 2017 (11:11:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0164.v1

Decentralization and Transboundary Pollution: Evidence from the Change of Water Pollution Levels in China

Yongliang Yang, Manhong Shen

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Boundary effect; Transboundary pollution; Propensity Score Matching

Online: 20 March 2017 (17:33:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0090.v1

Containing Volatility: Windfall Revenues for Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries

Octave Keutiben, Anton Dobronogov

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Economic growth; Foreign aid; Natural resources; Rent-seeking; Volatility

Online: 29 July 2016 (07:48:51 CEST)

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The Monty Hall Problem as a Bayesian Game

Mark Whitmeyer

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Monty Hall; Equiprobability Bias; games of incomplete information; Bayes Nash Equilibrium

Online: 25 May 2017 (08:57:06 CEST)

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Covid-19 and Economy of Bangladesh

Farzana Sharmin

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Covid-19, Economy, Bangladesh

Online: 17 May 2021 (17:06:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0049.v2

Understanding Farmers’ Decision Making in Agricultural Water Fee Payment in China: The Role of Mental Accounting

Weikang Zhang, Xinhong Fu, Jing Lu, Lin Zhang, Kwamega Michael, Guoqiang Liu, Yuying Liu, Fan Yang

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: mental accounting; agricultural water fee; behavioral economics; decision making; information processing; representativeness; negative psychological externalities

Online: 25 August 2016 (10:12:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0097.v1

Structural Equation Model into Interaction Mechanism between Forest Industry and Ecology with Environmental Mediator Introduced

Bing Liao, Zhiguang Zhang, Chunxiang Liu, Yuanzheng Wu

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: forest industry and ecology; environmental capacity; interaction mechanism; SEM; PSIR

Online: 18 November 2016 (10:01:42 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0020.v1

The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

Eleftherios Giovanis

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Gender Roles; Household Production; Telecommuting; Teleworking; Well-Being

Online: 4 January 2017 (10:43:32 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0168.v1

Examining the “Natural Resource Curse” and the Impact of Various Forms of Capital in Small Tourism and Natural Resource Dependent Economies

Petar Kurecic, Filip Kokotovic

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: natural capital; human capital; economic growth; small economies; Vector Auto regression; natural resource curse

Online: 18 August 2016 (05:13:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0578.v1

Regional Linkage in Tourism Development of Vietnam

Van Hoa Hoang, Manh Dung Tran, Thi Van Hoa Tran, Vu Hiep Hoang

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Midlands and Northern Mountains, tourism linkage, Vietnam.

Online: 30 July 2018 (10:10:04 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0082.v1

Ranking of Sustainability Indicators for Assessment of the New Housing Development Projects: Case of the Baltic States

Laura Tupenaite, Irene Lill , Ineta Geipele, Jurga Naimaviciene

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: sustainability indicators; housing development; new projects; AHP; ranking

Online: 24 August 2017 (18:10:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0028.v1

Oil revenues, External debt, and Growth in Nigeria

Ibrahim Mohammed Adamu

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Oil revenue; External debt; Economic growth; ARDL

Online: 4 December 2017 (17:33:46 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0002.v1

Identification and Analysis of Agricultural Externalities (A Valuation Methodology on Examples)

Rafał Baum, Magdalena Kozera-Kowalska

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Agricultural ExternalitiesPublic GoodsSustainable Agricultural Development Multifunctional Agriculture

Online: 1 November 2018 (18:31:26 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201610.0136.v1

Food Security Condition of Smallholding Farmers in Kilte Awelalo, Ethiopia

Tinsaye Tamerat, Dharitry Borah

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: food security, rural livelihoods

Online: 31 October 2016 (07:59:32 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0007.v1

Drivers of Sustainable Land Management in Eastern Africa

Oliver Kirui

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: adoption; land degradation; poisson regression; sustainable land management practices

Online: 1 May 2017 (08:33:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0288.v1

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Indonesian Poverty and Unemployment

Muhamad Bahri

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: COVID-19; Indonesia; socioeconomic impacts; unemployment; poverty; coronavirus impacts

Online: 12 August 2020 (16:33:59 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0114.v1

A Systematic Review: Costing and Financing of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools

Shannon McGinnis, Thomas McKeon, Richa Desai, Akudo Ejelonu, Stanley Laskowski, Heather M. Murphy

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: WASH; school; developing countries; costing; financing; cost

Online: 16 March 2017 (09:28:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0031.v1

The Purpose of Project Economic Models

Uyiosa Omoregie

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Models; Projects; Modelling; Quality Assurance

Online: 5 April 2017 (18:09:25 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0357.v1

The Macroeconomic Determinants and the Impact of Sanctions on FDI in Iran: A Case Study

Mehdi Rasouli Ghahroudi, Li chy Chong

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: FDI inflows; sanctions; political stability; macroeconomic factors; GDP growth; Iran

Online: 28 November 2019 (09:45:49 CET)

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Impact of High Non-performing Loan Ratios on Bank Lending Trends and Profitability

Eric Jing

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: NPL Ratio; non-performing loans; economic recovery

Online: 7 August 2020 (09:22:14 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0068.v1

Total Factor Energy Efficiency of China’s Industrial Sector: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Xiaobo Shen, Boqiang Lin

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: malmquist productivity index; total factor energy efficiency; stochastic input distance function; China’s industry

Online: 13 April 2017 (04:35:55 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0461.v2

COVID-19 Pandemic Burden on Global Economy: A Paradigm Shift

Yusha Araf

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: COVID-19; Economy; GDP; Global; Impact; Market; Pandemic

Online: 29 May 2020 (12:27:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0450.v1

Crowding in or crowding out? Public Investment and Private Investment in South Africa: An ECM Approach

Dumisani Pamba

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Credit to Private Sector; Foreign Direct Investment; Government Consumption Expenditure; Public Investment; Error Correction Model and South Africa

Online: 31 January 2022 (11:15:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0615.v1

Process and Product innovation in the Eyewear sector: The Role of Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies for Managing Consumer Health

Federica Murmura, Laura Bravi, Gilberto Santos

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Industry 4.0; Enabling technologies; Eyewear Sector; Case Study; Innovation

Online: 24 November 2020 (13:22:26 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0305.v1

Integrating Dimensions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Within Umranic Framework

Atih Rohaeti Dariah, Muhammad Syukri Salleh, Mahyudin Bin Yahaia, Ade Yunita Mafruhat

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: SDGs; sustainable development; Umranic theory

Online: 29 August 2019 (05:24:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0144.v1

Role of Linear Programming Based Cropland Allocation to Enhance Performance of Smallholder Crop Production: A Pilot Study on Abaro Kebele, Shashemene Zuria District, West Arsi Zone, Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia

Meselu Mellaku, Travis Reynolds, Teshale Woldeamanuel

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Cropland allocation, linear programming, Crop production performance, Smallholder, resource management

Online: 7 September 2018 (15:41:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0119.v1

Estimating Resident’s Preference of the Land Use Program surrounding the Forest Park, Taiwan

Chun-Hung Lee, Chiung-Hsin Wang

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: land use preference; ecosystem service; natural conservation

Online: 23 November 2016 (18:08:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0055.v1

Comprehensive Evaluation on Employee Satisfaction of Mine Occupational Health and Safety Management System Based on FAHP and 2-Tuple Linguistic Information

Jiangdong Bao, Lena Abrahamsson, Jan Johansson, Jingdong Zhang

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: employee satisfaction; mine; OHSAS18001; FAHP; 2-tuple linguistic information

Online: 9 December 2016 (10:22:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0491.v1

Productive Capacities, Economic Growth and Economic Growth Volatility in Developing Countries: Does Structural Economic Vulnerability Matter?

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Productive capacities; Economic growth; Economic growth volatility; Structural Economic Vulnerability.

Online: 19 April 2021 (13:30:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0063.v1

Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Combined with HIV Vaccines in the United States

Blythe J.S. Adamson, Josh J. Carlson, James G. Kublin, Louis P. Garrison, Jr.

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: economic evaluation; mathematical modeling; HIV vaccines; pre-exposure prophylaxis; cost-effectiveness

Online: 8 May 2017 (12:13:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201903.0144.v1

Dynamic Urban Growth Model: Phases of Urban Developmen

Sergey Avetisyan

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Urban growth, urban development

Online: 13 March 2019 (09:36:39 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0002.v1

Iterated Economic Games, Logic Gates, and the Flow of Shared Information in Strategic Interactions

Michael Harré

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: information theory; transfer entropy; game theory; logic gates; multilayer perceptrons; strategic behaviour; decision theory

Online: 1 March 2017 (09:26:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0611.v1

Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Bangladesh Economy: a Time Series Analysis from 1972 to 2013

Rumana Rashid, Sk. Sharafat Hossen

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Time-series analysis; Foreign Direct Investment; economic growth; Bangladesh economy

Online: 24 December 2020 (09:30:19 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0156.v1

Heads of Households’ Educational Attainment and Households Food Insecurity and Monetary Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Joint Semi-parametric Bivariate Modeling Approach

Ibrahim Niankara

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Burkina Faso; discrete choice; education; food insecurity; monetary poverty

Online: 26 February 2018 (09:09:43 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202110.0180.v1

Efficiency of Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia: Evidence from Data Envelope Analysis Model

Abebe Birhanu Ayele

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: MSEs; Technical Efficiency; DMU

Online: 12 October 2021 (12:49:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0035.v1

Enhancing Singapore’s Pension Scheme: A Blueprint for Further Flexibility

Koon-Shing Kwong, Yiu-Kuen Tse, Wai-Sum Chan

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: inflation risk; investment returns; life annuity; longevity risk; post-retirement benefits

Online: 7 December 2016 (10:27:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0159.v1

Investment and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis for Tanzania

Manamba Epaphra, John Massawe

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: public investment; domestic private investment; FDI; crowding out effect; economic growth

Online: 16 August 2016 (11:07:02 CEST)

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This paper analyzes the causal effect between domestic private investment, public investment, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Tanzania during the 1970-2014 period. The modified neo-classical growth model that includes control variables such as trade liberalization, life expectancy and macroeconomic stability proxied by inflation is used to estimate the impact of investment on economic growth. Also, the economic growth models based on Phetsavong and Ichihashi (2012), and Le and Suruga (2005) are used to estimate the crowding out effect of public investment on private domestic investment on one hand and foreign direct investment on the other hand. A correlation test is applied to check the correlation among independent variables, and the results show that there is very low correlation suggesting that multicollinearity is not a serious problem. Moreover, the diagnostic tests including RESET regression errors specification test, Breusch-Godfrey serial correlation LM test, Jacque-Bera-normality test and white heteroskedasticity test reveal that the model has no signs of misspecification and that, the residuals are serially uncorrelated, normally distributed and homoskedastic. Generally, the empirical results show that the domestic private investment plays an important role in economic growth in Tanzania. FDI also tends to affect growth positively, while control variables such as high population growth and inflation appear to harm economic growth. Results also reveal that control variables such as trade openness and life expectancy improvement tend to increase real GDP growth. Moreover, a revealed negative, albeit weak, association between public and private investment suggests that the positive effect of domestic private investment on economic growth reduces when public investment-to-GDP ratio exceeds 8-10 percent. Thus, there is a great need for promoting domestic saving so as to encourage domestic investment for economic growth.

Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0383.v1

An Analysis of Economic Issues during First and Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in India: A Literature Survey

Manuranjan Gogoi, Pranjal Protim Buragohain, Purabi Gogoi, Atanu Hazarika

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: COVID-19; Indian Economy; First wave; Second Wave; Economic Revive

Online: 22 September 2021 (12:31:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0118.v1

Financial Inclusion Strategy and Economic Growth in Nigeria: A Short-Run Empirical Analysis

Callistar Obi

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Adult Population; Economic Growth; Financial Exclusion; Financial Inclusion; Financial Institutions; Financial Inclusion Strategy

Online: 10 October 2022 (10:07:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0301.v1

Inflation Threshold Effects on Growth in Ethiopia: Evidence from Food and Non-food Sectors

Dagmawe Tenaw, Helen Demeke

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Food and non-food inflation; Threshold; TAR model; Economic Growth; Ethiopia

Online: 13 December 2020 (21:32:13 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0361.v1

Public Debt and Economic Growth Nexus: Evidence from South Asia

Saira Saeed, Tanweer Islam

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: endogeneity, non-linearity, threshold, FMOLS

Online: 27 April 2018 (15:17:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0091.v1

The Government Support and the Innovation of the New Energy Firms

Weijian Du, Mengjie Li

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Government support; Innovation probability; Innovation destiny; Propensity score matching

Online: 10 May 2017 (18:04:33 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0161.v1

Sources of Economic Growth in Zambia, 1970-2013: A Growth Accounting Approach

Kelvin Mulungu, John Ng'ombe

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Total factor productivity; growth accounting; economic growth; Zambia.

Online: 20 March 2017 (16:03:06 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0119.v1

Poverty Alleviation Research in Rural China: Three Decades and Counting

Xing Jian Luo

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Poverty alleviation; poverty analysis; depressed areas; welfare; regional policy

Online: 11 September 2019 (13:01:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0078.v1

Segmentation of Coffee Consumers Using Sustainable Values: Cluster Analysis on the Polish Coffee Market

Grzegorz Maciejewski, Sylwia Mokrysz, Łukasz Wróblewski

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: market segmentation; coffee market; consumer behavior; sustainable consumption; sustainable values; factor analysis; cluster analysis

Online: 5 November 2018 (03:20:47 CET)

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In the face of the ongoing degradation of the natural environment and increasingly worrying climate change, societies and their governments should pay more and more attention to the issue of the development of sustainable consumption and pro-environmental consumer behaviour. It has been known for a long time that producers and retailers are the driving force behind adopting the idea of sustainable development. Unfortunately, many of them, when preparing the offer of their goods and services, still take into account only such consumer characteristics as their wealth, the purchasing frequency and volume. In consumer segmentation, the sustainable values that consumers follow when making their purchasing decisions are rarely taken into account. The purpose of the presented article is to try to fill the research gap in this area. The Polish coffee market, on which this type of research has not been conducted so far, was chosen as an example of segmentation taking into account the sustainable values of consumers. The article’s main source of information is the results of primary research carried out using the CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) technique on a nationwide sample of 800 coffee consumers in July 2018. Multi-dimensional analyses such as extrapolative factor analysis (EFA) and cluster analysis (CA) were used to describe the results which were obtained from the research and statistical analysis. This made it possible to identify and describe six segments of coffee consumers, taking into account their demographic, social and economic characteristics as well as being guided by sustainable values in their purchases. The conclusions presented in the last part of the article may be used by manufacturing and trade enterprises, operating on the coffee market, in order to respond to the identified needs and expectations of consumers and by governmental and social organisations so as to determine the directions of pro-ecological education of consumers.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0384.v1

Health Expenditure, CO2 Emissions, and Economic Growth: China vs. India

Sampson Agyapong Atuahene, Kong Yusheng, Geoffrey Bentum-Micah

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: health expenditure; economic growth; carbon emissions

Online: 17 September 2020 (07:50:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0556.v1

An Analysis of Calorie Consumption and Elasticity in Vietnam

LINH HOANG VU

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Food; calorie; Vietnam; elasticity

Online: 25 August 2020 (13:42:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202110.0172.v1

The Effect of Productive Safety Net Programme on Household Food Consumption and Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia

Mebratu Feyisa

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: PSNP; household food consumption; household dietary diversity; random effect; instrumental variable

Online: 11 October 2021 (17:15:51 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0062.v1

Environmental Inequality in China: A ‘Pyramid Model’ and Nationwide Pilot Analysis of Prefectures with Sources of Industrial Pollution

Qi He, Hong Fang, Han Ji, Siran Fang

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: environmental inequality; environmental justice; industrial pollution; prefectures; demographic and socioeconomic factors; China

Online: 10 October 2017 (11:47:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0267.v1

Scientific Media Dieting and Students Awareness and Expectations about the Environmental Issues of Deforestation and Species Extinction in the Middle East and North America: An Integrated cross Cultural Ecologic-Economic Analysis

Ibrahim Niankara

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: deforestation; environmental awareness; media consumption; sustainable development; species extinction

Online: 20 April 2018 (12:01:26 CEST)

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