Economics, History, and Causation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics by using instrumental variables econometrics, and history by weighing the plausibility of alternative narratives. Instrumental variables can lose value with repeated use because of an econometric tragedy of the commons: each successful use of an instrument creates an additional latent
Yeung, Bernard, Morck, Randall
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Revenue, welfare and trade effects of European Union Free Trade Agreement on South Africa
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2017 Background: Using the partial equilibrium WITS-SMART Simulation model to assess the impact of liberalisation under the Trade Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) of a free trade area between the European Union and South Africa. The identification
Kore M.A. Guei +2 more
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Institutional aspect of the Russian economy regional development [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2018 The urgency of the issue under research takes place due to the fact that the institutional system forms prerequisites for economic development of regions and affects the rate of economic growth and welfare of the population not only at the local, but ...
Yuri V. Matveev +3 more
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Economic and Environmental Factors in the Concept of Regional Sustainable Development [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Ultimately, the goal of economic development is to improve the quality and standard of living of the population. Today, this integral indicator is determined not only by economic parameters, but also by a number of other components, among which an ...
Amirova Naylya +2 more
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Zero Waste Technologies and Solution of Economic and Environmental Problems of Sustainable Development [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Economic and environmental problems are closely related, and solving some of them, the others cannot be solved. The state of the environment directly forms the potential of the economic sphere. For example, resources for industrial enterprises are formed
Dotsenko Elena +2 more
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Institutional Traps and Externalities of Sustainable Development of the Mining Country in Transition to Digital and Knowledge Economy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The content, boundaries, development vector and expected results of the sustainable development policy today rightfully belong to one of the most debated issues in the scientific community.
Dotsenko Elena +3 more
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Making history matter more in evolutionary economic geography
ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2022 Our focus in this paper is on a somewhat curious feature of evolutionary economic geography, namely that although concerned with evolution – with processes of historical change and transformation – evolutionary economic geography seems not to take ...
R. Martin, P. Sunley
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Volatility spillovers in equity and foreign exchange markets: Evidence from emerging economies
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2022 Orientation: This study investigated the relationship between the equity markets and foreign exchange markets in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).
Tsepiso Nyopa, Sibanisezwe A. Khumalo
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Effective Exchange Rates in Japan, 1879-1938 [PDF]
, 2004 This paper constructs nominal and real multilateral effective exchange rates ffor Japan during the period 1879-1938. Existing studies of Japanese quantitative economic history have tended to use the dollar-yen bilateral exchange rate.
Shimazaki, Masao, Solomou, Solomos
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Does national sporting performance affect stock market returns in South Africa?
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013 This study explores whether South African national sporting performance can influence investors in such a way that it has the ability to impact on market returns.
Ferdi Botha, Carl de Beer
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