Essays on Growth, Development and Finance

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos

ISBN: 978-618-5065-17-1, 264 pages

First published in 2013 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Essays on Growth, Development and Finance: An Introduction

Gregory T. Papanikos

i

Part I: Models and Applied Sciences

1.

The Role of Structural Economic Models in Strategic Decisions

Adriana Grigorescu

3

2.

Consumption, Saving, Investment, and Unemployment. SVAR Tests of the Effects of Changes in the Consumption-Saving Pattern

Roberto Bande, Manuel Fernández-Grela and Dolores Riveiro

15

3.

Methods of Quantifying Risks in Banking Activity

Carmen Obreja, Alina-Nicoleta Radu and Ana-Cornelia Olteanu

35

4.

Green Tax and its Effects on Economic, Social and Environmental Indices in Khorasan-Razavi Province, Iran

Naser Shahnoushi, Maryam Moghimi Feyzabadi, Shahnaz Danesh, Mahmoud Daneshvar, and Bitollah Akbar

45

5.

The Dynamics of Stock Market Volatility in Central and Eastern European Emerging Markets

Ciprian Necula and Alina-Nicoleta Radu

55

6.

The Process Approach to Economic Systems Interaction Modeling

Victor Lankin, George Kleiner and Diana Arutunova

75

7.

Economic Performance and Stock Market Activity in Mexico

Ramon A. Castillo-Ponce, Edgar David Gaytán-Alfaro and Maria de Lourdes Rodríguez-Espinosa

85

8.

Long-Term Relationship between Misery Index and Stock Market: The Colombian Case

Julio César Alonso and Luis Eduardo Jaramillo

97

Part II: Growth Development

9.

Economic and Political Development of Peripheral Areas as a Result of the Establishment of "Tombs of Saints" in their Jurisdiction

Avi Sasson and Eliav Taub

109

10.

Natural Resources Abundance and Economic Development: Arabic Countries Case (An Empirical Study)

Mohammad Alsaman

121

11.

FDI Determinants in Transition Countries. The Role and the Impact of Transition Speed

Sotirios Bellos

131

12.

Building an Index of Human Isolation to Investigate the Isolation Dimensions of a Rural Area

Francesco Conto, Mariantonietta Fiore and Piermichele La Sala

149

13.

Methodology for Evaluation of Balanced Territory Development: Latvian Case Study

Inese Haite

163

14.

Human Capital Composition and the Economic Growth of the Regions. The Case of Romania

Olimpia Neagu

179

15.

Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa and Import Substitution Policy

Ana Paula Fontainhas Mendes, Mario Augusto Bertella and Rudolph Teixeira

189

16.

Political Factor Influence on Regional Development in Latvia: Political Business Cycle Analysis

Ieva Brauksa

201

17.

The Global Financial Crisis and Women’s Labour in Turkey

Senem Çakmak Şahin

211

18.

The Development of Innovative Business in Regions of Latvia in Context of Global Economy

Sergejs Hilkevics and Dace Štefenberga

229

19.

Elite Political Instability and Economic Growth: An Empirical Evidence from the Baltic States

Ladislava Grochová and Luděk Kouba

239