Economics Projects

Islamic finance is growing across the globe. At an estimated 15% increase in assets every year, it outpaced the growth of traditional banks. And yet ...

Essay 1: Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher-order polynomials in wealth in estimating the relationship with entrepreneurship. They find evidence conflicting with the existence of ...

Two DSGE models are calibrated and simulated to investigate how the role of monetary policy differs between a closed and an open economy. The central ...

This paper evaluates if international stock markets are exposed to fluctuation in the exchange rate and whether this exposure is related to exports, imports and ...

This paper investigates the environmental effectiveness of the energy taxes. That is, whether these have decreased the CO2 emissions and how they have changed the ...

Why were most transactions in the Russian industry in the 1990s carried out without the use of money? Theories explaining the phenomenon, when carefully assessed, ...

In the beginning of 1990s Sweden implemented several measures in order to maintain price stability. These measures have resulted in an environment in which inflation ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether foreign direct investment, FDI, has any impact on economic growth in Mexico. In order to find ...

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investments, FDI, on economic growth in developing countries. This is done by the presentation of a theoretical ...

The strong complementarity between components of a system makes the competition in system markets qualitatively different from those in other markets. When there are multiple ...