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Seminar:How Does Political Instability Influence the Effect of Tourism Demand on Economic Growth?
Authors: Shrabani Saha Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom and Ghialy Yap, Business School, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia Title: How Does Political Instability Influence the Effect of Tourism Demand on Economic Growth?” Abstract: Tourism is a growing industry in the world and it has a significant potential in generating foreign earnings and sustaining economic development for most countries. For the developing countries, tourism is one of the important sectors that generate source of tax revenue for the nations…
Event DetailsSeminar: Marketing capability and stock returns
Prof. Harminder Singh of Deakin University is giving a talk on Tuesday, 16th August in Seminar Hall 1 at 2:30 p.m. The title of his talk is: “Marketing capability and stock returns”. A brief abstract is given below. Abstract: We find that firms’ marketing capability – the ability to deploy marketing resources to achieve desired sales revenue – is predictable and persistent. Marketing capability positively predicts future operating performance and stock returns even after controlling for firm characteristics and risks. A long-short portfolio strategy…
Event DetailsSeminar: Measuring sovereign risk in peripheral euro area countries with contingent claim models: A comparison with traditional indicators
Title: Measuring sovereign risk in peripheral euro area countries with contingent claim models: A comparison with traditional indicators Date & Hour: 26-December-2018, 4:00 pm By: Dr. Manish Kumar Singh (University of Barcelona, Spain) Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Abstract: This paper proposes a modified contingent claims model that incorporates the priority structure of creditors to measure and monitor sovereign credit risk in five peripheral euro area countries during the period 2000Q1-2016Q3. Unlike traditional indicators of sovereign risk, the sovereign distance-to-default (DtD) indicator that we propose, not only uses market…
Event DetailsSeminar: Globalization, structural change and interregional productivity growth in the emerging countries.
Title: Globalization, structural change and interregional productivity growth in the emerging countries. By Dr. Jagannath Mallick,Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. Date & Hour: 31-December-2018, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the structural change effects or labor reallocation effects on the regional disparity in productivity growth in India and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The paper uses secondary data at the state level in…
Event DetailsSeminar: Basis Risk in Index Insurance: Lower Tail Dependence and the Demand for Weather Insurance
Date & Hour: 29 May 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Basis Risk in Index Insurance: Lower Tail Dependence and the Demand for Weather Insurance By: Dr. Digvijay Singh Negi, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Abstract: For a variety of reasons, agricultural insurance programs use losses against an index (rainfall, area yield) rather than losses against individual yields to make payouts. While this facilitates the supply of insurance, the resulting basis risk reduces the value of insurance and…
Event DetailsSeminar: The Refugee Allocation Problem-Matching with Indifferences
Seminar by Dr. Swarnendu Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 14 June 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: The Refugee Allocation Problem-Matching with Indifferences Abstract: This paper studies a matching model where refugee families are allowed to express preferences over hosts. In this model, we show that the size of stable matchings are always the same. This has a policy implication: if we want to implement stable matching, then there is no way to improve it in terms of the…
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