In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, many countries are hoping that massive increases in their money supplies will revive their economies. Evaluating the effectiveness of this strategy using traditional statistical methods would require the construction of an extremely complex economic...

Purpose: Based upon estimates of the change in consumption due to a change in out-of-pocket-health expenses (dC/dOOPHE) for 43 countries, this paper aims to argue for a reevaluation of what constitutes OOPHE when determining health insurance especially in the wake of Covid-19....

This paper uses the fourth generation of Bi-Directional Reiterative Truncated Projected Least Squares (BD-RTPLS4) to estimate the dollar change in exports due to the accumulation of an additional dollar of foreign reserves, ∂(exports)/∂(foreign reserves), for Australia, Bangladesh, China,...

Mae Moh Mine and Power Plant operates a lignite mine and a minemouth coal-fired electricity generation plant in Lampang province in northern Thailand. Mae Moh is Thailand's largest lignite mine, and Mae Moh Power Plant accounts for nearly 20 percent of Thailand's installed generating capacity...

Purpose – This paper aims to conceptually argue that China's trade surplus with the USA is not good. Design/methodology/approach – Net exporters (like China) give up current consumption in order to gain claims against future production. This paper argues that the reasons why China is trading...

Climate greatly affects the SO2 concentration abatement efforts of Mae Moh power plant which burns high sulfur content lignite in Northern Thailand. In summer months, hot air rising draws Mae Moh's SO2 emissions out of the Mae Moh valley. In contrast, temperature inversions in winter months...