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Training the disadvantaged youth and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh
In: Journal of development economics, Band 149, S. 102585
ISSN: 0304-3878
Why some accounting innovations fail? A case study of a New Zealand public tertiary education institution
This paper examines why activity-based costing (ABC) and the balanced scorecard, two most significant accounting innovations in recent years, failed to be successfully implemented in a large tertiary education institution in New Zealand. The findings demonstrate that the implementation of both systems presented significant challenges. ABC failed because it was perceived to offer a low relative advantage, was highly complex, its implementation was not trialled, the benefits were not visible, and there was lack of communication, inadequate training and no change agent facilitating adoption. The balanced scorecard failed because the institution was caught in a performance evaluation trap with bureaucratic compliance to government requirements preventing any real improvements, adoption was symbolic to give legitimacy but suffered from a lack of rationale or logic, and there was no real observable influence on performance improvements. The politically imposed measures with an emphasis on financial performance forced the institution to play the numbers game rather than deliver 'real' performance.
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Clean energy for the Pacific Island countries: Does donor funding promote this transition?
In: Energy economics, Band 134, S. 107567
ISSN: 1873-6181
Are shocks to national income persistent? New global evidence
In: Journal of economic studies, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 218-230
ISSN: 1758-7387
Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from Developing Countries
In: Energy Policy 38(1): 661-666, 2010
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DO PERMANENT SHOCKS EXPLAIN INCOME LEVELS? A COMMON CYCLE–COMMON TREND ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL INCOME LEVELS FOR CHINA
In: Pacific economic review, Band 13, Heft 5, S. 656-662
ISSN: 1468-0106
Abstract. In this paper, we analyse per capita income levels of China's three main regions: the western region, the eastern region and the central region using common cycle and common trend tests. Our main contribution is that we impose the common cycle and common trend restrictions in decomposing shocks into permanent and transitory components. We find that: (i) there is evidence for two cointegrating relationships and one common cycle; and (ii) the variance decomposition analysis of shocks provides evidence that over short horizons, permanent shocks play a large role in explaining variations in regional per capita incomes.
EXAMINING THE ASYMMETRIC BEHAVIOUR OF MACROECONOMIC AGGREGATES IN ASIAN ECONOMIES
In: Pacific economic review, Band 13, Heft 5, S. 567-574
ISSN: 1468-0106
Abstract. The goal of this paper is to test for asymmetric behaviour of macroeconomic aggregates for three Asian economies; namely, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Korea. Whether macroeconomic aggregates can be characterised as asymmetric has important implications for policy‐making and econometric modelling including forecasting. We examine two forms of asymmetries; specifically deepness, which arises when a detrended time series contains an asymmetric distribution, and steepness, which arises when the first difference of a series contains an asymmetric distribution. Overall, our findings suggest that for all three countries, the bulk of the series display asymmetry behaviour.
DOES MILITARY EXPENDITURE DETERMINE FIJI'S EXPLODING DEBT LEVELS?*
In: Defence & peace economics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 77-87
ISSN: 1476-8267
DOES MILITARY EXPENDITURE DETERMINE FIJI'S EXPLODING DEBT LEVELS?
In: Defence and peace economics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 77
ISSN: 1024-2694
Estimating the Demand for Money in an Unstable Open Economy: The Case of the Fiji Islands
In: Economic Issues, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 71-91
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Does Environmental Quality Influence Health Expenditures? Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Selected OECD Countries
In: Ecological Economics, Band 65, Heft 367-374
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Does Military Expenditure Determine Fiji's Exploding Debt Levels?
In: Defence and Peace Economics 19(1): 77-87, 2008
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The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks in Explaining International Health Expenditures
In: Health Economics 17(10): 1171-1186, 2008
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