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The inter-country diffusion of pharmaceutical products

Cullen, Ross (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1981)

A major debate has raged over the existence and causes of a phenomenon known as "drug lag". Protagonists in the debate have argued that the U.S.A. is typically late to receive new pharmaceutical products because of the ...
Housing, the ‘Great Income Tax Experiment’, and the intergenerational consequences of the lease

Coleman, Andrew (Discussion Paper, 2017)

This paper provides an analysis of how the New Zealand tax system may be affecting residential property markets. Like most OECD countries, New Zealand does not tax the imputed rent or capital gains from owner-occupied ...
The internationalisation of Chinese privately owned SMEs: From network and institutional perspectives

Xiao He, Cici (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis examines Chinese SMEs and focuses on their internationalisation. It explains how and why these SMEs internationalise with the influence of both networks and institutions. It contributes to the internationalisation ...
Gone with the Wind: International Migration

Aburn, Amelia; Wesselbaum, Dennis (Discussion Paper, 2017)

This paper adds to the literature on the determinants of international migration. First, we offer a joint analysis of the driving forces of migration capturing year-to-year variations and long-run effects. Second, we ...
Access to Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia

Regasa, Dereje; Fielding, David; Roberts, Helen (Discussion Paper, 2017)

Using Ethiopian firm-level data, we model the effect of different types of financing on firm growth. The form of financing is potentially endogenous to firm growth, and one contribution of this paper is to introduce a new ...
The impact of climate change on crop production in Ghana: A Structural Ricardian analysis

Etwire, Prince M.; Fielding, David; Kahui, Victoria (Discussion Paper, 2017)

We apply a Structural Ricardian Model (SRM) to farm-level data from Ghana in order to estimate the impact of climate change on crop production. The SRM explicitly incorporates changes in farmers’ crop selection in response ...
Health Shocks and Child Time Allocation Decisions by Households: Evidence from Ethiopia

Dinku, Yonatan; Fielding, David; Genc, Murat (Discussion Paper, 2017)

Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between alternative activities. Using longitudinal data from the Ethiopian Young Lives surveys of 2006 and 2009, ...
A Bayesian approach for identifying international norms in politics

Patnaik, Suravi Prakashchandra (Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)

Whenever a protest takes place, a politician visits a foreign country, or two countries negotiate a deal; it takes almost no time for these events to be reported in the television, newspapers and more recently, the vast ...
The true significance of ‘high’ correlations between EQ-5D value sets

Ombler, Franz; Albert, Michael; Hansen, Paul (Discussion Paper, 2017)

High correlation coefficients for EQ-5D value sets derived from different samples, e.g. across countries, are conventionally interpreted as evidence that the people in the respective samples have similar health-related ...
Roles of Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurs in Evolution of Socio-technical Systems: Two Case Studies in New Zealand

Zahraie, Babak (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Socio-technical systems are challenged by sustainability problems that emerge from multifaceted situations incorporating social, cultural, institutional, and technological aspects. These situations are described as ‘wicked ...
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Protected Areas

Hassani Esfehani, Minoo (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Following the new paradigm of protected areas (PAs) most parts of the literature focus on the importance of the local community and their cultural heritage for a PA in achieving its conservation and development goals. ...
Essays on Skewness

Zhen, Fang (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis is devoted to the study of the higher-moment risk, in particular, the skewness risk. In Chapter 2, we provide an exact formula for the skewness of stock returns implied in the Heston (1993) model by using a ...
A balancing approach: using the living standards framework to assess different retirement income policies

Coleman, Andrew (Discussion Paper, 2017)

This paper evaluates four retirement income policies that could be adopted in response to increasing longevity in terms of their marginal effects on economic performance, equity, risk, social infrastructure, and ...
Resilience and sustainability: a complementary relationship? Towards a practical conceptual model for the sustainability–resilience nexus in tourism

Espiner, Stephen; Orchiston, Caroline; Higham, James (Journal Article, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2017)

“Sustainability” has endured as an important concept for tourism scholars, and volumes have been written about how to achieve this holy grail of the tourism industry. Sustainable tourism destinations are often promoted as ...
Mixed Reality Experience Questionnaire (MREQ) -Reference

Regenbrecht, Holger; Botella, Cristina; Baños, Rosa; Schubert, Thomas (Discussion Paper, 2017)

The Mixed Reality Experience Questionnaire (MREQ) is designed to be used as a measure of a user's sense of presence and their general experienced perception of an Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, or Augmented Virtuality ...
Context identification of sentences in related work sections using a conditional random field: towards intelligent digital libraries

Angrosh, M. A.; Cranefield, Stephen; Stanger, Nigel (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper published in proceedings), 10th annual joint conference on digital libraries, 2010)

Identification of contexts associated with sentences is becoming increasingly necessary for developing intelligent information retrieval systems. This article describes a supervised learning mechanism employing a conditional ...
Opportunity Identification and Exploitation for Technology Commercialization across Borders

Nadayama, Naoto (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

MNEs’ technology commercialization across borders is a challenging task, because it involves high uncertainty in relation to both new technologies and foreign markets. Even if they develop a potential technology, they ...
Cultural Distance and Ethnic Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Comparative Inquiry of Challenges, Resources and Opportunity Exploitation in Malaysia

Abd Hamid, Hamizah (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

The core puzzle in entrepreneurship studies is entrepreneurial opportunities (Suddaby, Bruton, & Si, 2015). In enhancing the understanding of entrepreneurial opportunities, this research explores how cultural similarities ...
Consumer Culture in China: Consumption Face

Xia, Zhenhua (Raymond) (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

“Face” in China is one of the country’s most traditional social and cultural factors. Generally, “Face” in Chinese social life represents the image of a person’s social self (through the thesis I will use Face with a ...
Characterising relational view updates using relative information capacity

Stanger, Nigel (Conference or Workshop Item (Paper published in proceedings), Thirteenth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2017), 2017)

In 2013, Chris Date published a book about the view update problem in the context of the Relational Model. He presented several detailed examples of different varieties of view updates and characterised their behaviour, ...