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Electronic Ratification: the Collective Bargaining Implications
The ratification procedure is the last phase in the negotiation of a collective agreement, in which the union membership is given the opportunity to vote to accept or reject the proposed agreement. Traditionally, union ...
Heritage and Tourism in a 'Living Cultural Landscape': Role Perspectives of Multiple Stakeholder Groups in the Conservation of the Ifugao Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras World Heritage Site
Recognised for their unique characteristics that are considered of outstanding universal value, World Heritage Sites (WHSs), which usually constitute a primary tourism resource in their geographical locations, are generally ...
The practice of everyday life performed away from home: A reflexive ethnography of a group tour
The ‘idea’ of tourism, often understood as an escape from day to day life at home, means that the mundane performances and spaces of everyday life within the tourism experience are rarely considered. In this thesis I ...
Price Discovery between Credit Default Swap and Foreign Exchange Markets: Unidirectional or Bidirectional Granger Causality?
This thesis investigates Granger causality in mean, variance and downside risk between the corporate credit default swap (CDS) and foreign exchange markets. Using an error correction model, a vector autoregressive model, ...
Three Essays On Child Human Capital Development In Nepal
This thesis is a collection of three separate but thematic studies on child human capital development in Nepal. The first study (Chapter 3) examines the relationship between parental education and child health outcomes ...
Atmosphere, Value Propositions, and Co-Creation in a Unique Service Environment: An Exploratory Study
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the role, processes and functions associated with the creation of an atmosphere in the unique service environment of a bar. This exploratory research began with a literature review ...
Transfrontier Parks, Social Space and Local Communities’ Livelihoods: A Crisis of Representation
This study investigates the dominant and subordinate representations of Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) and their implications for local community‘s socio-economic spaces of engagement. In recognition of the ...
People, Rivers and Recreation: Fluid Relationships of Place and Experience on the Clutha River, Otago, New Zealand
The relationships between people and their outdoor environments are understood as diverse, complex and often contested with the result that examining the meanings people have for places such as rivers and placing value on ...
Local Communities and Tourism Development in Protected Areas in Malawi: Investigating Community Involvement
Wildlife in protected areas is one of the major tourist attractions in most Southern Africa countries. With the increased tourist interest in experiencing natural environments, tourism has also become a major function of ...
Essays on Skewness
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 ...