This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in applied economic research with an emphasis on advances in panel data analysis. Featuring papers presented at the 2017 International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) held at Coventry University, this volume provides current research on econometric panel data methodologies as they are applied in microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial economics and agricultural economics.
International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) is an annual conference that started in 2008 designed to bring together economists from different fields of applied economic research in order to share methods and ideas. Applied economics is a rapidly growing field of economics that combines economic theory with econometrics to analyse economic problems of the real world usually with economic policy interest. In addition, there is growing interest in the field for panel data estimation methods, tests and techniques. This volume makes a contribution in the field of applied economic research in this area. Featuring country specific studies, this book will be of interest to academics, students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in applied economics and economic policy.
Chapter 1: Spatial Analysis of Research-Productivity Nexus: A Case of
Thai Rice Sector.
Chapter 2: Application of Thermodynamics Entropy Concept
in Financial Markets.
Chapter 3: Economic and Business Cycle of India:
Evidence from ICT Sector.
Chapter 4: Patents and R&D Cartels.
Chapter 5: A
mean-variance analysis of the Global Minimum Variance Portfolio Constructed
using the CARBS indices.-Chapter 6: Univariate and Multivariate GARCH Models
Applied to the CARBS Indices.
Chapter 7: Value-At-Risk Forecasting of the
CARBS Indices.
Chapter 8: A vector error correction model (VECM) of FTSE/JSE
SA Listed Property Index and FTSE/JSE SA Capped Property Index.
Chapter 9:
Liquidity Proxies Based on Intraday Data: The Case of the Polish Order-Driven
Stock Market.
Chapter 10: Measuring Dynamics of Financial Integration on the
Euro Area Stock Markets, 2000 2016.
Chapter 11: The effect of inflation
targeting policy on economic growth in AEC countries.
Chapter 12: Economics,
Marketing andPerformances of U.S. Classical Music: journeyin together to the
promise land.
Chapter 13: Investigation of the essence of the categories
"efficiency", "efficiency of the investment project".
Chapter 14: An
Analysis of ICT Sectors and Economic Growth: Evidence from ASEAN Countries.-
Chapter 15: FDI spillover effects in Chinas manufacturing sector: New
evidence from forward and backward linkages.
Chapter 16: Environmental
Kuznets Curve and Turkey: An ARDL Approach.
Chapter 17: Selected Aspects of
Managerial Success Perception: The Case of Polish Born Globals.
Chapter 18:
CSR communication on social networks.
Chapter 19: Tax bonus versus Tax
allowance in Slovak and Czech Republic.
Chapter 20: The Application of
Nonparametric Methods in Nonprofit Sector.
Chapter 21: Why You Should Use
High Frequency Data to Test the Impact of Exchange Rate on Trade.
Chapter
22: On the radio spectrum value for telecommunication market participants.-
Chapter 23: Real Options Games Between Asymmetric Firms on a Competitive
Market.
Chapter 24: The Dynamic effect of Bank size on Earnings volatility
in Iranian banking system.
Chapter 25: The selection of human resources in
Slovak companies.
Chapter 26: The issue of investment decision making of
leveraged projects.
Chapter 27: Volatility modelling of agricultural
commodities: Application of selected GARCH models.
Chapter 28: Increase the
standard of living of regions by increasing the quality of the business
environment.
Chapter 29: Building a sustainable brand.
Chapter 30: Facility
management as a tool for optimizing business costs.
Chapter 31: The Brand
Value and Factors Affecting It.
Chapter 32: Does The Fall in Crude Oil
Prices Really Affect The Malaysian Ringgit?.
Chapter 33: The Impact of
Exchange Rate Regimes on Economic Growth.
Chapter 34: Utilization the
Process BIM Building Information Modeling in Facility Management.
Chapter
35: Modeling and Forecasting of British pound/U.S.dollar Exchange Rate: An
empiricalanalysis.
Chapter 36: Modelling and Forecasting of US Health
Expenditures Using Arima Models.
Chapter 37: Industry competitiveness using
firm-level data: A case study of the Nigerian insurance sector.
Chapter 38:
Business Cysles Transmission From BRICs to developing countries, "Some New
Evidence.
Chapter 39: Assessment of Financial Risks in the Insurance Sector
Using the Sensitivity Analysis.
Chapter 40: Calculation of Tax Shields Using
the Method of Adjusted Present Value.
Chapter 41: Some Remarks on the
Quantification of the Company Financial Health.
Chapter 42: Measuring the
Globalization Degree of Foreign Direct Investments from 2001-2012: First
Interpretations.
Chapter 43: Gender Barriers in Employment and their Policy
implications in Transition Economies.
Chapter 44: Intergenerational
Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil.
Chapter 45: Consequences of External
Macroeconomic Shocks Transmission through International Trade Channel: The
Case of the Central and Eastern European Countries.
Chapter 46: Investment
and Economic Growth.
Chapter 47: Does Financial Regulation influence bank
efficiency? - A study on UAE banking sector.
Chapter 48: Competitiveness
Index.
Nicholas Tsounis is a Professor of Economics at the Department of International Trade, Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences and an adjunct faculty member at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has a PhD in International Trade Theory since 1992 from the Department of Economics, University of Manchester-UK. His research interests are on applied international economics, economic integration and applied microeconomics. He has published more than 50 articles in international scientific periodicals and conferences and 15 books. He is a referee/peer reviewer for several scientific periodicals and research calls of various countries, including the EU. He is the co-founder of the ICOAE conferences (with Aspasia Vlachvei) and an academic advisor to the Hellenic NARIC.
Aspasia Vlachvei is Professor of Marketing, in Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences since 2002. Prior to that she has been employed in various capacities at the University of Macedonia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly and TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been Visiting Professor in Kiev National University of Taras Shevhenko, Ukraine. She holds a BA degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MSc in Rural Economics and Development from Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania and a PhD degree on Agricultural Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, since 1997. Her research interests focus on international marketing strategies, competitiveness, wine tourism and wine marketing, e-marketing, social media. She is director of MSc Public relations and marketing with new technologies and co-director of MBA of Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences. She is co-editor of the proceedings and member of scientific and organizing committee of International Conference on Applied Economics. She has been guest Editor in Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, and International Journal of Financial Economics and Econometrics. She has published in several professional journals such as Applied Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, British Food Journal, Journal of European Economy, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics and New Medit.
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