The purpose of this paper is to analyze and interpret current economic and financial crisis and its similarities to the crisis that occurred in the twentieth century, marking its causes and consequences. For this study we consider the series of product and growth rates U.S. and UK as they have...

This paper seeks to evaluate the present and future prospects of developing and developed countries in agricultural exports in general and in horticultural exports in particular. The study also evaluates the behaviour of international export prices for agricultural commodities, both for...

We examine the proper valuation of perpetuities without real growth. The case of a “pure” non growing perpetuity (zero real growth and zero inflation) is of academic interest but in practice it might be difficult to find. The findings contradict what is generally accepted in the literature....

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization changes in the land use of many developing countries have resulted into a rapid process of deforestation in tropical areas during the 80s and 90s. The impact of insecure ownership and badly defined property rights on deforestation...

The paper introduces and evaluates six soft approaches used in strategy development and planning. We take a planner’s perspective on discussing the concepts of strategy development and planning. This means that we see strategy development and planning as learning processes based on Ackoff’s...

This paper examines the impacts of external price shocks in the Malaysian economy. There are three simulations are carried out with different degrees of external shocks using Malaysian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis. The model results indicate...

Risk management in this paper is focused on multivariate risk-return decision making assuming time-varying estimation. Empirical research in risk management showed that the static "mean-variance" methodology in portfolio optimization is very restrictive with unrealistic assumptions. The...

The objective of this paper is to describe the change in the stock of human capital, between 1995 and 2006, as measured by levels of formal education attained by the economically active population (PEA), for large agglomerates of Rosario, Tucuman, Mendoza , and GBA Cordoba of Argentina and also...

Despite improved training and increased participation in the working world, most women still faced the so-called "glass ceiling": the invisible barrier that prevents them from access to the senior executives in organizations. This research analyzes the various barriers or problems at work which...

Today tourism is one of the economic fields with a bigger contribution to the GDP in some countries. Lately these countries have witnessed how this industry became key to their economy. France, Spain Italy and Greece too, the so-called “Mediterranean Arch” stand out within the framework of...