Claims have been made about the role of ICTs in regional sustainability for some time. However, ICT initiatives have … realistic models of the role of ICTs in regional development? From the participatory action research we have conducted in two …

playwright. The issues of marketing and career progression are considered in a regional context. The thesis comprises the … analysis of that journey in the context of regional theatre practice in Queensland. Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of the …-making in regional Australia. The paper establishes strategies by which the playwright, when also undertaking the role of …

conditions. This requires a consideration of the nature and causes of regional economic disparities in the UK, and how these … transmitted to the different regions. The possibility is considered that there may be regional differences in how a particular … monetary policy is translated into different financial conditions in different regions. In other words there may be a regional …

regional firm. These models are used to develop a typology of firms that attempts to explain the fit between a small firm and … its regional location. The standard theories based on "industry organization", "resources", and "dynamic capabilities …" explain much of the variation observed in the case studies , however a more complete coverage of the regional effects on the …

regional firm. These models are used to develop a typology of firms that attempts to explain the fit between a small firm and … its regional location. The standard theories based on "industry organization", "resources", and "dynamic capabilities …" explain much of the variation observed in the case studies , however a more complete coverage of the regional effects on the …

control for the inflation rate. Fourth, traditional New Keynesian approaches analyze the impacts of fiscal stimuli on …

-nested RE models, whose parameter vector is estimated either by GMM, in Chapter 1, or by the continuous updating estimator in … variant of it covered in Durlauf and Maccini (1995). All statistics used for model comparison are evaluated at the GMM …

GMM provides a computationally convenient estimation method and the resulting estimator can be shown to be consistent …

costs incurred when they work back gradually to the optimal level. Arellano-Bond (1991) GMM estimator is applied to obtain …

Using many moment conditions can improve efficiency but makes the usual generalized method of moments (GMM) inferences … inaccurate. Two-step GMM is biased. Generalized empirical likelihood (GEL) has smaller bias, but the usual standard errors are … under many weak moments. In addition, we introduce a jackknife GMM estimator, but find that GEL is asymptotically more …