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  • African Maize Supply Response to the World Price 
    Olakunle, Oladipo Samuel (Eastern Mediterranean University EMU, 2015-08)
    This thesis empirically examines the supply response of maize in Africa to the changes in the world price of maize. Secondary data have been analysed for eight African countries of Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, ...
  • Analysis of the Comparative Advantage of Crude Oil Production: Evidence from Panel Data Econometrics 
    Elsalih, Osama Mohammed A. (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2019-12)
    The thesis is structured into three parts. The first part measures the comparative advantage of crude oil in 28 oil-producing countries over the period 1990-2016 using the Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage ...
  • Analyzing the Impact of Oil Price Movements on the Economic Activity of Hungary 
    Ezeh, Pascal Onyedikachi (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2020)
    This paper focuses on the investigation of both theoretical and empirical comprehension of the relationship between oil price movements and economic activity for a net crude oil importing country, Hungary, as a case study. ...
  • Analyzing the Relationship between Environmental Pollution, Electricity Consumption, and Economic Growth in Ghana: ARDL Approach 
    Nyarko, Manfred (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2022-01)
    The research investigated the nexus among environmental pollution, electricity consumption, productivity, and economic growth in Ghana embarking on time series data spanning from 1985 to 2020 adopting ARDL- autoregressive ...
  • Central Bank Independence and Inflation: Empirical Analysis 
    Nwambe, Chioma Sylvia (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2015-02)
    Many countries have implemented reforms on their Central Banks granting them more independence from political influences. This can be attributed to the recent research in this area which showed that making the Central Banks ...
  • Common Cycles in Commodity Prices 
    Uzuner, Gizem (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2016-02)
    This study empirically investigates the short- and long-run co-movement among commodity prices using six commodity group price indices. The commodity group indices used in the study include foodstuffs, livestock and products, ...
  • The Connectedness of the Housing Market, Energy Market and Agricultural Commodities in the United States 
    Alola, Andrew Adewale (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2019)
    In the first part of this dissertation, we investigate the dynamic response of renewable energy consumption to long-run and short-run impact of agricultural land usage for the period 1995-2014 in sixteen Coastline Mediterranean ...
  • Contemporary Energy Issues: The Roles of Democracy, Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Real Sector 
    Olanipekun, Ifedolapo Olabisi (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2019)
    The first essay revisits the position of the EKC hypothesis by incorporating the role of energy consumption and democracy in the environmental degradation function for a panel of nine countries between 1990 and 2014.Using ...
  • Contract Farming its Promises and its Risks: A Quantitative Analysis 
    Kabungo, Arkins Mwila (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2016-06)
    The objective of this study is to pinpoint the key opportunities and risks facing each of the stakeholders in export-focused contract farming value chain in Zambia. Although a deterministic cost–benefit analysis indicated ...
  • Contribution of Tourism Development to Economic Growth in Mexico 
    Saidu, Bello Zainab (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2016-02)
    One of the major sectors that have been experiencing rapidly increasing economic growth in Mexico is the Tourism sector. This research study aims to inquire into the contribution of tourism development on economic growth ...
  • Convergence of Energy Efficiency, Energy Intensity and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the European Union 
    Emir, Fırat (Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi, 2019-01)
    Energy is a vital source for production, as well as for economic growth. Energy use in production process is in turn responsible for environmental degradation and climate change. Energy use in production is estimated ...
  • The Determinants of Household Expenditures on Education and Health in Nigeria 
    Anyabolu, Hope Amala (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2019-09)
    Household expenditures on education and healthcare have become an increasing share of total education and healthcare financing in Nigeria. Households commit more of their expenditures despite the government knowing the ...
  • Determinants of wages: Evidence from Nigeria 
    Oni, Abimbola Olanrewaju (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2014-08)
    The structure of the labor market has a significant consequence on employment status which indirectly also serves as an important determinant of household income and welfare. Hence this research work explored the determinants ...
  • Does Globalization Affect Energy Consumption in Turkey? Its Implication on Environmental Quality 
    Olubamiro, Owotomiwa Christiana (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2019)
    This study employs time series econometrics techniques to examine the direction of causality relationship between globalization, carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in the case of Turkey. The objective ...
  • Dynamic Linkages among the Real Economic Activity, Asset Prices and Macroeconomic Policy in Turkey 
    Tören, Evrim (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2020)
    The purpose of this study is to analyze dynamic linkages among the real economic activity, asset prices, and monetary policy in Turkey. Thus, the effect of stock prices on consumption and interest rate through a time-varying ...
  • Dynamics of Aggregate Consumption in Niger 
    Sow, Safiatou Latifa (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2020)
    This study attempts to analyse the relationship between consumption expenditure and income from 1960 to 2018 in Niger. We used the Dual Adjustment approach which models the dual co-movements of the variables, as an ...
  • Dynamics of CO2 Emissions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from BRICs, MINTs and Iran over 1990-2011 
    Rüstemoğlu, Hasan (Eastern Mediterranean University EMU - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2016-02)
    Human induced environmental impacts were started more than 10000 years ago with the agricultural revolution. However, after beginning of the industrial revolution which was almost 200 years ago, the most destructive human ...
  • Economic Analysis of Insurance, Uncertainty and Economic Growth 
    Williams, Godwin Oluseye Olasehinde (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2018)
    The first essay examines whether there is a relationship between Africa’s economic growth and insurance-market activity (life, non-life, and total). Applying panel-estimation techniques that are robust to heterogeneity and ...
  • Economic and Social Factors Contributing to CO2 Emission 
    Paskeh, Mersedeh Khaligh (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2019)
    This research studies the economic and social factors of carbon emissions in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) over period 1995-2014. More especially the thesis studied the link between CO2 emissions ...
  • An Economic Evaluation of Electricity Generation Options in Nigeria 
    Eziyi, Ijeoma L. (Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ), 2014-02)
    Over the past two decades, electricity prices have been highly subsidized for consumers in Nigeria. Because of this, investment in the power sector has not been competitive, leaving the economy with a capacity deficient ...