Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-124). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

The goal of my thesis "Development of economies of the Czech and Slovak Republic in the last twenty years" is not only to assess and compare the economic development of Czech and Slovak Republic in the last twenty years, but also outline the economy of Czechoslovakia as a whole to have an idea of the citations and the context of the time. I only compared the development in the two economies, then also in relation to the EU. I divided the whole work into three chapters according to the various stages of development in the Czech and Slovak economies. In the first chapter, I proceed from a brief description of Czechoslovakia, ie. its creation and subsequent development up to 1989, through the transformation of the economy, focusing on the initial state of the economy, the basic operations carried out and macroeconomic page of the transition itself, to the split of Czechoslovakia into two independent states. The following chapter focuses on the characteristics of a separate economic development of the Czech and Slovak Republic until 2004, when both countries joined the EU. The final chapter then deals with the European Union, the Maastricht criteria before joining the EU and development of the economies after the entry into the Union with regard to the entry of Slovakia into the eurozone.

The growing world population accompanied by an increase in GDP is effectively raising the demand for energy. One of the options are unconventional means of oil and gas, originating mainly from shales and oil sands. The goal of this thesis is to introduce the reader to unconventional means and their influence on international business. After a short introduction and definition an analysis of the situation in the U.S. follows, where the recent years have brought an increase in production from unconventional sources. The positive influence on the economy, employment and energetic security will be mentioned same as possible impacts on the environment. Furthermore the paper provides an analysis of the potential of repeating the U.S. shale revolution in other countries, with special focus on the EU. The success of unconventional sources opens the possibility of new trade routes, influence on the trade balance and the potential of influencing the whole gas market. However, it will also have an impact on current oil and gas producers. Considering the close bond between energetic security and politics, the thesis closes with an analysis of influences on the economy and politics of both -- current oil and gas producers and countries, which might be directly and indirectly affected by changes in the oil and gas market.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lincoln Diogo Lima.pdf: 1438283 bytes, checksum: 2bfc9e1f29112f1bb26c5289a9dad140 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation aims at analyzing empirically, by means of estimates of price and income elasticities, the behavior of the trade balance between Brazil and the USA, between january 1990 and october 2011. The theoretical approaches of Elasticities and Absorption provide the theoretical relations for determinants of trade balance, allowing the construction of a workable structure for empirical research. Empirical studies on the subject shows that, recently, the form of data aggregation and development of new econometric methods, considered by many researchers more appropriate for variables that are not sure about its exogeneity, drove the emergence of new work on the trade balance. The methodology used is the technique of Johansen s multivariate cointegration and vector autoregressive models (VAR) and vector error correction (VEC). It was concluded that the real exchange variables, brazilian income, income U.S., trade balance bilateral Brazil-United States has a long term relationship and expected signs, as economic theory postules, and income elasticities, especially in the U.S, are elastic and more important than the elasticity of the real exchange (inelastic) to explain the trade balance in the long run between the two countries. This indicates that to occur a reversal in the pattern of deficit trade balances of the last three years, the slowdown in income growth in Brazil and / or the resumption of US income growth is more important than a devaluation. Nevertheless, the Marshall-Lerner condition is satisfied and the J curve phenomenon not / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar empiricamente, por meio das estimativas das elasticidades preço e renda, o comportamento do saldo da balança comercial entre Brasil e EUA, entre janeiro de 1990 e de outubro 2011. As abordagens teóricas das Elasticidades e da Absorção fornecem as relações teóricas para os determinantes do saldo comercial, permitindo a construção de uma estrutura funcional para a investigação empírica. Os trabalhos empíricos sobre o assunto demonstram que, recentemente, a forma de agregação dos dados e o desenvolvimento de novos métodos econométricos, considerados por muitos pesquisadores mais apropriados para variáveis em que não se tem certeza sobre a sua exogeneidade, impulsionaram o surgimento de novos trabalhos sobre o saldo da balança comercial. A metodologia utilizada é a técnica de cointegração multivariada de Johansen e os modelos de vetores autorregressivos (VAR) e de vetores de correção de erros (VEC). Concluiu-se que as variáveis câmbio real, renda brasileira, renda americana e saldo comercial bilateral Brasil-EUA mantêm uma relação de longo prazo e sinais esperados, como postula a teoria econômica, e as elasticidades rendas, sobretudo a americana, são elásticas e mais importantes do que a elasticidade do câmbio real (inelástico) para explicar o saldo comercial no longo prazo entre esses dois países. Isso indica que, para que haja uma reversão do padrão de saldos deficitários dos últimos três anos, a redução do ritmo de crescimento da renda brasileira e/ou a retomada do crescimento da renda americana é mais importante do que uma desvalorização cambial. Não obstante, a condição Marshall-Lerner foi satisfeita e o fenômeno da Curva J não

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jackeline Bertuolo Barron Guerra Vicente.pdf: 2125197 bytes, checksum: 4396583e4ad1516ef106634da02b97a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-12 / This work aims at analysing the impacts associated with oil extraction from the Brazilian pre-salt layers, particularly those concerning the balance of trade, the Dutch disease and the deindustrialization process. We present data indicating that Brazil is facing a deindustrialization process due, to a great extent, to the effects of the Dutch disease, which is evident from the reduction of the manufacturing sector s contribution to GDP and from the increasing importance of primary goods exports in the export basket. We consider the potential for wealth creation, the negative impacts associated with oil extraction from pre-salt layers and suggest some alternatives to minimize such impacts. Hence, in order to avoid further aggravation of foreign exchange and deindustrialization problems due to pre-salt oil exports, we present a number of suggested measures, with an emphasis on consistent industrial policies, capable of stimulating various segments, thus reverting the deindustrialization process and directing pre-salt revenues towards the country s social and economic development. Petrobras, the state-owned oil sector company, has played and still plays a strategic role in pre-salt oil discovery and extraction. Moreover, it can be used to foster investments as a way of stimulating the development of its corresponding chain of goods and services / O trabalho tem por objetivo analisar os impactos da exploração do petróleo das camadas do pré-sal brasileiro, especialmente no que se refere à balança comercial, à doença holandesa e ao processo de desindustrialização. São apresentados dados que indicam que o Brasil enfrenta um processo de desindustrialização, em boa parte causado pelos efeitos da doença holandesa, verificado pela redução da participação da indústria manufatureira na composição do PIB e pela reprimarização da pauta de exportação. Avalia-se a potencial riqueza a ser gerada, os impactos negativos da exploração do pré-sal e sugere-se algumas alternativas para reduzir tais impactos. Assim, para evitar que os problemas cambiais e também da desindustrialização se agravem devido ao resultado das exportações do petróleo do pré-sal, são apresentadas algumas discussões para a utilização dos recursos, com ênfase para a instituição de uma política industrial consistente, capaz de estimular vários segmentos, que reverta o processo de desindustrialização e destine as rendas do pré-sal para o desenvolvimento social e econômico do país. A Petrobras, estatal do setor de petróleo, teve e tem um papel estratégico na descoberta e produção do petróleo do pré-sal. Ademais, pode ser utilizada como indutora dos investimentos de modo a estimular o desenvolvimento de toda a cadeia de bens e serviços a ela associada

Thesis (M. Commerce (Economics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the impact of the real effective exchange rate on South Africa‟s trade balance and whether the J-curve phenomenon and the Marshal-Lerner condition are satisfied in the economy. Using data spanning the period 1980Q1 – 2014Q4, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test as well as the Johansen cointegration test were employed to test for the long run cointegrating relationship between the variables. The ARDL approach was employed to estimate both the long run and short run models as well as to ascertain whether the Marshal – Learner condition as well as the J-curve phenomenon are satisfied in the RSA economy. The results from the cointegration tests show that there is a stable long run equilibrium relationship between the trade balance, real effective exchange rate, domestic GDP, money supply, terms of trade and foreign reserves. The results from the Autoregressive Distributed Lag long run model show that a depreciation of the ZAR improves the trade balance, thus confirming the MarshalLerner condition. The results further reveal that domestic GDP and money supply both have a significant negative impact on the trade balance in the long run with the terms of trade reported positive as well. Foreign reserves were not found to significantly affect the trade balance in the long run. In the short run, the ARDL error correction model shows that a ZAR depreciation leads to a deterioration of the trade balance, thus confirming the J-curve effect for the RSA economy. The terms of trade effect was reported positive in the short run, thus confirming the Harberger-LaursenMetzler effect (HLME) in the process. Money supply, domestic GDP and foreign reserves are also found to have a significant negative impact on the trade balance in the short run. Finally, the error correction model reveals that about 26% of the disequilibrium in the trade balance model is corrected in each quarter.

Giovanni Boteros (1544-1617) treatise <i>The Reason of State</i> (1589) seemed somewhat uncharacteristic of sixteenth-century political thought, considering the pride of place given to economics in his text. The Age of Reformation constituted not only a period of new ideas on faith but also one of new political thinking, and as the research into the influences on Boteros economic thought progressed, I began to consider the period as one where economic thinking was becoming more common among theologians of the reforming churches and bureaucrats of the developing states. Having been trained in the schools of the Jesuits, Botero was exposed to one of the most potent and intellectually uniform of all the reforming movements of the period, and I argue it was here that he first considered economics as an aspect of moral philosophy. While it cannot be proven positively that Botero studied or even considered economics during his association with the Jesuits (roughly from 1559-1580), the fact that a number of those who shaped the Jesuit Order in its first few generations discussed economics in their own treatises leads one to a strong circumstantial conclusion that this is where the economic impulse first rose up in his thinking. Indeed, it was this background that readied Botero to consider economics as an important part of statecraft with his reading of Jean Bodins (1530-1596) <i>The Six Books of the Republic</i> (1576), in which economics is featured quite prominently. Bodins own economic theory was informed primarily by his experience as a bureaucrat in the Parlement of Paris, where questions on the value of the currency and on the kings ability to tax his subjects were in constant debate among the advocates. I argue further that, upon his reading of Bodins <i>Republic</i>, Botero saw how economics could be fused with politics, and he then set out to compose his own treatise on political economy (although he certainly would not have called it such). In <i>The Reason of State</i>, Botero brought his Jesuit conception of economic morality together with Bodins writings on political economy to create a work, neither wholly Jesuit nor wholly Bodinian, which in the end outlined an overall political and economic structure of society quite distinct from the sum of its parts.

Giovanni Boteros (1544-1617) treatise <i>The Reason of State</i> (1589) seemed somewhat uncharacteristic of sixteenth-century political thought, considering the pride of place given to economics in his text. The Age of Reformation constituted not only a period of new ideas on faith but also one of new political thinking, and as the research into the influences on Boteros economic thought progressed, I began to consider the period as one where economic thinking was becoming more common among theologians of the reforming churches and bureaucrats of the developing states. Having been trained in the schools of the Jesuits, Botero was exposed to one of the most potent and intellectually uniform of all the reforming movements of the period, and I argue it was here that he first considered economics as an aspect of moral philosophy. While it cannot be proven positively that Botero studied or even considered economics during his association with the Jesuits (roughly from 1559-1580), the fact that a number of those who shaped the Jesuit Order in its first few generations discussed economics in their own treatises leads one to a strong circumstantial conclusion that this is where the economic impulse first rose up in his thinking. Indeed, it was this background that readied Botero to consider economics as an important part of statecraft with his reading of Jean Bodins (1530-1596) <i>The Six Books of the Republic</i> (1576), in which economics is featured quite prominently. Bodins own economic theory was informed primarily by his experience as a bureaucrat in the Parlement of Paris, where questions on the value of the currency and on the kings ability to tax his subjects were in constant debate among the advocates. I argue further that, upon his reading of Bodins <i>Republic</i>, Botero saw how economics could be fused with politics, and he then set out to compose his own treatise on political economy (although he certainly would not have called it such). In <i>The Reason of State</i>, Botero brought his Jesuit conception of economic morality together with Bodins writings on political economy to create a work, neither wholly Jesuit nor wholly Bodinian, which in the end outlined an overall political and economic structure of society quite distinct from the sum of its parts.

This thesis focuses on the theoretical conception of the Balance of Payment, its method of adjustment and stress the development of the Czech republic's Balance of Payment in period 2000 -- 2010 via analytical-descriptive approach. It defines its basic terms practical relations within framework of the horizontal and vertical outlook. Thesis's Attention is spread out between status and flow quantity. Thesis is also consist of three boxes that contain a short profile of intertemporal approach to the Common Account, sustainability of investment position and excursion to the essential theories of foreign currency exchange rate that is related to the Balance of payment tight. The end is dedicated to the "traditional" indicators of external equilibrium of the Czech republic in pre-monetary crisis era and in the present.