This paper sought to address the question as to whether the exchange rate can be forecasted more accurately by a monetary model of exchange rate determination or the random walk in the case of the Japan-U.S. exchange ...

"The Internationalization of Weapons-Systems Acquisition" examines the strategic and economic aspects of past, present, and future patterns of officially sanctioned or directed armaments trade among the N.A.T.O. allies. ...

This paper presents empirical examinations of three important aspects of stock returns: Gaussianity, linearity, and stationarity by applying time series tests based upon the higher-order spectra. If the stationary time ...

The basic problem investigated in this thesis is that the free rental housing market in Houston has functioned in the past in a way that is not completely satisfactory to society; that is, it has permitted or perhaps caused ...

Port Arthur, Texas has been a chronic labor surplus area since the end of World War II. In this thesis, an effort is made to analyze continuing high unemployment levels in an area with relatively high wages. There are two ...

A model, based in the current rent control legislation, of landlord's rent setting behavior is used to simulate rents that are then compared to an actual sample of rents from Mexico City. The paper assumes that landlords ...

This thesis tests the premise that capital is perfectly mobile between countries and moves to the region of highest return. As a measure of capital mobility we use the correlation between saving and investment. Cross-country ...

In this thesis the nature of the market for physicians' services has been examined and the implications of its characteristics have been analyzed for the three basic systems of payment: fee-for-service, capitation, and ...

This thesis explores the nature of the demand and supply of money through the use of econometric tools. The interest rates are fixed in Cyprus and, therefore, an alternative way of measuring the cost of holding money has ...

This paper proposes a series of links between Keynes' Tract on Monetary Reform and his General Theory. Economists generally associate "Keynesianism” with the specific ideas represented in the General Theory. But many of ...