A time series analysis of exports and price relationships : the case of steel industry

There have been several studies that explain the change in the world trade structure for agricultural products in recent years. These studies are done by Benejie in 1972, Coffin in 1971, and the most important of all by Barr in 1973. His famous price equation for wheat, well explains the changes. in wheat prices. A is the three years moving average of domestic use of wheat for food, TE is the total ending U.S. wheat carryover stock, and a, b, and c, are parameters to be estimated. Although these studies have provided a fairly good explanation of what has occured in the grain market lately, they left unanswered the question of how the change in other product markets, for example, steel, should be explained. Moreover, Barr has chosen parameters C in his price equation equal to 5 without having a satisfactory explanation for it. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to verify the possibility of such an existing relationship in steel products and to develop productive models for price and volume of exports in the steel industry.peer-reviewe

Measuring the effects of political unrest on the tourist industry : the case of Cyprus

The objective of this paper is to determine how political events, such as the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, the Lebanese Conflict and the Gulf War, affected the growth of tourism in Cyprus. The paper, by using four regression models, proves that political instabilities in Cyprus and/or neighboring countries had detrimental effect on the tourism of Cyprus.peer-reviewe

In search of an attitudinal model of the management behavior of UK non-exporters versus exporters : A useful tool for the UK entrepreneurs for exporting goods and services

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The international marketing environment: textbook content versus educators' views

The article analyzes the content of 18 international marketing academic textbooks with regard to factors comprising the global marketing environment. Three broad categories of factors are identified, the macro (i.e., physical, demographic, and socio-cultural), meso (i.e., economic, political-legal, and technological), andmicro (i.e., intermediaries, competitors, market, and customers). In each of the subcategories, 10 different factors affecting global marketing were extracted. By measuring the extent of coverage given to each factor in each textbook, the relative emphasis placed collectively was established. These results were subsequently compared and contrasted to the views of 71 academics teaching international marketing; revealing the existence of gaps between the importance attached to most of the elements comprising the international marketing environment, and the coverage provided in academic textbook

Effects of fat on the properties of halloumi cheese

Halloumi cheese was produced from 11 bovine milks with fat contents of 1.61-4.04%, giving a range of 32-53% fat in dry matter (FDM) in the cheeses. Starter culture and/or microparticulated whey protein (Simplesse((R)) 100(E)) was also added to selected batches of milk. Hardness decreased with increasing FDM, with increase in moisture and with lower pH. On sensory evaluation, there was an increase in preference score with FDM (R-2 = 0.8). Inclusion of microparticulated whey protein may have had a fat mimetic effect, as preference scores otherwise decreased with increasing protein levels (R-2 = 0.75)