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Globalization--the increased integration of national economies--has become a blanket term covering a number of facts and fictions. What are the facts? First, it can be argued that in important respects [...]

Byline: Dave Crick (1) Keywords: Export; internationalisation; public policy; SMEs Abstract: Findings from a follow-up study to an investigation concerning reasons why a sample of firms discontinued export activities and perceptions towards assistance that may motivate them to recommence overseas activities in the future are discussed in this article. A longitudinal, qualitative perspective is provided that contributes to knowledge at the international marketing/entrepreneurship interface by reporting on their business activities 18 months after the initial study was undertaken. Analysis establishes that differences exist between two groups of firms that had indicated in the original study that their discontinuation of exporting was a short-term measure compared with those that viewed the decision as longer term. Recommendations for policy makers in the provision of trade assistance programmes are offered as a result of the study. Author Affiliation: (1) University of Central England, UK Article History: Registration Date: 06/10/2004

Economic theory--much less modeling based on historical data--has a difficult time keeping up with structural change in the contemporary economy. Anecdotal evidence and a feel for the economy based on [...]

Regulators may purposely not regulate prices of final products to value production over the producer.

Byline: David E. Wildasin (1) Author Affiliation: (1) Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, U.S.A Article History: Registration Date: 30/09/2004

Article History: Registration Date: 06/10/2004

Results show that there are no regional differences in the response to monetary policy in Canada. The Bank of Canada's implementation of monetary policy implicitly assumes that its effects will [...]

MIGUEL-ANGEL GALLNDO [*] To analyze how capital mobility affects economic growth and convergence, this paper will use the analytical solution to the neoclassical growth model with a constant saving rate, [...]

KRYSTYNA PRUSKA [*] In small area statistics, many problems deal with the estimation of unknown parameters. This paper will consider interval estimation. Three bootstrap confidence intervals of the total value [...]

This paper presents the finding of a comparative study of dividend policies in Australia and Japan. These two countries are the most developed in the Asia Pacific region, but are [...]