Purpose To identify the factors that influence shoppers' satisfaction with their “primary” grocery store, and those encourage them to continue patronising it despite being presented a significant inducement shop elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire containing 31 variables relating shopping behaviour was administered 934 shoppers leaving number of stores in an Australian city during two‐week period. Results were used construct two mathematical models predicting...

Since the early seventies an increasing attention has been paid to impact environmental polict nmight have on foreign trade. One of most important issues is whether countries with relatively strict regulations tend experience a deterioration international competitiveness and thus fall in exports rise imports, pollution‐intensive commodities or, other hand, benefit from improvement environmentally more sensitive industries. So far, empirical studies concluded that proportion costs total...

In this paper Kuznet's U-curve hypothesis is tested on two unbalanced panel data sets of 47 and 62 countries, for the period 1970–93, using two-way fixed random effects models. Several competing model specifications are estimated one best fitting selected by appropriate selection procedures. It shown that there no hard empirical evidence to support usual econometric formulations hypothesis.

Due to the benefits of investment diversification across markets and industries, increasing importance ASEAN capital markets, this paper attempts review recent studies on market integration implications in six selected countries. Several methodologies including VAR, GARCH, Copula DCC, Bayesian approach, CAPM factor models have been examined research. Most existing consider its at a country level, whereas extend analysis industry level integration. It also reviews uses VARMA-MGARCH-asymmetric...

Research highlights► Hedonic price models allow estimation of 'fair values' professional cricketers in a unique open-auction framework, allowing inferences on bidding patterns. ► Players from India, with an X-factor and previous Twenty20 experience attracted systematic premiums the auction. There is evidence economic 'superstar' effect—overbidding for star players underbidding lesser players.

Abstract Since the mid‐1990s there has been a proliferation of empirical models in trade literature. Focus ranged from effect particular explanatory variables to improved econometric techniques. However, appears be lack analyses on large international datasets aiming at describing “stylized facts” observed bilateral flows. Uncovering them is crucial as any model should reflect basic properties data generating process. On basis panel dataset this paper finds that trade, despite being often...

This paper is concerned with the possible bivariate Granger causality between immigration, measured as proportion of net permanent and long-term movement to resident population, unemployment, unemployed total unemployed, in Australia period 1981 1998. Using quarterly, both seasonally unadjusted adjusted data, first we try determine whether these series are stationary or have nonseasonal and/or seasonal unit roots. After having established univariate properties focus on possibility common...

Singh, J.P. and Konya, L. (2006) 'Cointegration causality between Indian export, import, GDP', Asia Pacific Journal of Economics Business, Vol. 10, pp.20-35; studied the relationship gross domestic product (GDP), exports imports from 1950/1951 to 2003/2004. A further logical step is investigate same issue for two major sectors economy: agriculture manufacturing. In both these there Granger GDP total exports, imports. particular, agricultural causes imports, cause GDP, any variables jointly...

This paper studies the possibility of human development convergence in world from 1975 through 2005. Human is measured by Development Index (HDI) trend, and across countries tested for panel data approach Ben-David (1993) bootstrap critical values. Similar analysis performed on members Organisation Economic Co-operation (OECD) European Union (EU) too. Moreover, it also whether low had been converging to high countries, less rich OECD those that joined EU 2004 2007 member states earlier. The...

This paper investigates the possibility of Granger causality between logarithms real exports and GDP in twenty-five OECD countries, 1960 1998. Two complementary testing strategies are applied. First, depending on time series properties data, is tested with Wald tests within finite-order vector autoregressive (VAR) models levels and/or first-differences. Then, no need for pre-testing, a modified procedure used augmented level VAR systems. In both cases we experiment alternative deterministic...