Economic Themes I

Edited by John Roufagalas

ISBN: 978-960-6672-86-6, 468 pages

First published in 2010 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Economic Analysis
Preferences and Expectations
1.	Simple Categorization and Additive Set Comparisons José C.R. Alcantud and Ritxar Arlegi	13
2.	A Comparison of Elicitation Methods for Probabilistic Multiple Hypothesis Revision Craig Emby	27
3.	Why do People Give? Motivations for Remitting in Rural Malawi Simon Davies	41
Economic Growth
4.	Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Transition Economies: New Evidence from Central and Southeastern Europe Miroslav Mateev, Nikolay Ivanov and Eftim Eftimov	59
5.	The Effects of the IMF's Programmes on Adjustment Policies and Main Macroeconomic Variables in Argentina and Turkey Rohullah Bayat	87
6.	Evolution of Growth-Retarding Institutions Alex Tokarev	99
7.	Financial Development and Economic Growth in Turkey Inci Oya Coskun, Fatih Temizel and Serkan Olgac	109
Government Size and Investment
8.	On the Validity of Three Hypotheses on Public Expenditures in Turkey: 1950-2004 Yay Turan and Huseyin Tastan	125
9.	Transportation Infrastructure Investment in the Spanish Regions Iván Barreda-Tarrazona	141
Credit Rationing
10.	Credit Rationing and Real Assets: Evidence from Italian Panel Data Antonio Affuso	161
11.	The Importance of Trade Credit for Small Business Financing: The Evidence of Polish Firms Danuta Zawadzka	177
Firm Profitability
12.	Corporate Governance, Industry Dynamics and Firms Performance: An Empirical Analysis of a Best Practice Model Jackie Krafft, Yiping Qu and Jacques-Laurent Ravix	193

13.	An Empirical Study of the Relationships between Accounting-Financial Ratios and Profitability: The Spanish Construction Sector Antonio Manuel Cortes Romero and Salvador Rayo Canton	219
Financial Markets
14.	VAR Model using Particle Swarm Optimization: A Macro-Finance Approach George Filis, Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis and Christos Floros	243
15.	Do Abnormal Gains Exist by Buying Equity in an In-play Target Company once the Takeover Announcement has been Made Peter Mayal and Kuek Wei Chin	257
Part II: Descriptive/Normative Studies
Labor and Regional Issues
16.	Balancing Demand and Supply on the ICT Labor Market in Romania Marioara Iordan, Lucian-Liviu Albu and Mihaela Nona Chilian	275
17.	Do Waiters get their Fair Share? Case Study on working Conditions of Waiters in Kempton Park (South Africa) Jacoba MM Viljoen and Phillip Frederick Blaauw	289
18.	Regional Knowledge Management and Technology Development: The Case of Revealing Technological Competence of Silesia Voivodship	307
	Piotr Kordel
Financial Issues
19.	Multinational Banks in Latin America: An Overview Roberto J.Santillán	321
20.	Over-indebtedness of Individuals and Fresh Start. The Economic Role of a Personal Bankruptcy Law and Policy Suggestions for the Italian Legislator Daniele Sabbatini and Monica Marcucci	339
21.	A Critical Examination of how Corruption Inhibits ‘Good’ Corporate Governance: Some Insights from Zimbabwe Esinath Ndiweni	351
22.	Managerial Innovation: A Glimpse at Individual-level Determinants Stefan Linder	363

Eclectic Themes
23.	Economic Development, Partnerships & Regional Planning in Queensland Anita Medhekar and Lawson R. Smith	377
24.	Brief Introduction to the Management and Financial of Humanitarian Emergency Funds in the United Nations Jesus Garcia Garcia and M. Isabel Alonso de Magdaleno	393
25.	An Institutional Analysis of Road Safety in South Africa Sophia Du Plessis	413
26.	Using Statistics to Compile an Education Satellite Account for Italy Daniela Collesi, Nadia Di Veroli and Francesca Tartamella	429
27.	The Transformation of University-industry Relations. The Case of Campania Elvira Martini and Matteo Rossi	447