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Essays on logistics performance and economic development
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2018)
; This dissertation includes three empirical essays on logistics performance and economic development. The first essay is related to the linkages of logistics components for trade improvement. In this paper, the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its components are used to represent trade facilitation according to the first index published in 2007 until the latest in 2016 through five editions. This research aims to analyze the role of logistics components linked to global exports of agricultural and manufactured products using a ...
Bank competition and the linkage to stability and growth: international evidence and implication to Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2017)
; Over the past two decades, the impact of bank competition to financial stability as well as to economic growth has been the center of interest for both academicians and practitioners. The recent financial crises throughout the globe further exhibit the urgent need to conclude the relationship between (1) bank competition and financial stability and (2) bank competition and economic growth. This dissertation, therefore, attempts to fill in the literature gap of both competition-stability and competition-growth nexuses by using a sample of 81 cou...
Time-varying systematic risk in the stock exchange of Thailand : Evidence from multivariate garch and kalman filter estimates
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015)
; The purpose of this study was to use multivariate GARCH and the Kalman
filter to estimate the time-varying systematic risk or beta. Much research has found
that estimating systematic risk with a market model using the traditional regression
approach violated classical assumptions regarding both the stationary assumption and
independent identically distributed of the innovations. This study focuses on using
various models of multivariate GARCH and the Kalman filter to improve this beta
estimation. As the GARCH model is a popular model used...
Flood tax for Thailand : The case study of Bangkok
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015)
; Thailand has been more likely to be effected by catastrophe events especially,
flooding because of geographical reason and climate change situation. From flooding
event in 2011 in Thailand, according to the World Bank with the confirmation of Thai
Government, flooding has affected 3,151,224 people from 1,154,576 families and
damage estimated of at least 185 billion baht. Employment has been hurt when
factories flooded and workers were laid off or fired. Not all factories are expected to
reopen causing significant long term job loss in Cen...
The mismatch in thai labor market : overeducation
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015)
; Greater educational accessibility in Thailand has considerably contributed to a
collective higher level of educational attainment of the Thai labor force. Nevertheless,
with the ease of access, the number of workers with overeducation has significantly
risen. Overeducation refers to a situation in which a person’s education attainment
exceeds the requirements of a job, giving rise to a variety of unfavorable outcomes for
individuals, employers and society.
Exchange rate co-movement and volatility spill over in Africa
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015)
; Although research interest in why and how economies are related to each other
continues to accumulate (Joyce, 2013, Todd, 2008), our understanding of the
mechanisms through which economic turmoil in one region transmits to another is
still unclear. The motivations for this study were to examine the volatility
transmission in the African foreign exchange market and the global world through
financial interdependence and factors explaining exchange rate co-movement. The
thesis set out to find answers to the questions of volatility spill over...
Analysis of corruption and foreign direct investment in Africa
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2014)
; This research seeks to formulate a theory relating FDI and corruption and
empirically assess the aptness of this theory. This research seeks not only to establish
that in general corruption has a negative impact on FDI inflow to Africa but also to
show that there is a threshold referred to as the Corruption Tolerable Level of
Investment (CTLI), below which corruption is expected to have a positive impact on
FDI inflow to Africa. This research also seeks to deploy data on actual corruption to
establish that corruption has a negative impact...
The foreign portfolio investment flows, stock prices and exchange rate before and after the global financial crisis : a comparative study between Korea and Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015)
; The purpose of the present study is to investigate the behavior of foreign flows
and their impacts on the stock market, especially on stock prices and exchange rate.
This research investigates the results of two Asian countries, Thailand and Korea,
separating the analysis into three periods: pre-global financial crisis, global financial
crisis and post-global financial crisis. The daily data are used with a structural VAR
model with three endogenous variables: stock returns, currency returns and foreign
normalized net purchase...
Dynamics of poverty, inequality and Thai government provincial budget allocation
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2014)
; This dissertation examines the impact of government budget allocation (all inper capita unit) to inequality and poverty by single household level covered in 75provinces. The study is based on in-depth analysis the dynamic of governmentexpenditures and other factors such as inflation, gross provincial product (GPP) andunemployment to the two main welfare indicators (inequality and poverty). The studyapplied panel data analysis in provincial level. The study result shows thatgovernment budget allocations per capita from each ministry can alleviat...
Non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes : evidences from Thailand
(สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์, 2014)
; This study consists of both theoretical and empirical parts. In the theoretical
part, the definitions of non-cognitive skills and similar proposed concepts are revealed
as individual psychological characteristics that signal the skills or abilities to provide
individual or improve group “effort,” and these characteristics can be observed
through one’s personality, traits, behaviours, habits, and attitudes. A review of
existing effort-inclusive economic models and psychological theories of motivation
confirmed that effort involves both pre...
Technological investment of Thai industries and government support
(สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์, 2013)
; This study investigates the behavior of Thai industries’ R&D and innovation
activities using the institutional framework in analyses. The theoretical models based
on microeconomic foundations, with incorporated institutional attributes, are
developed for the analyses of firms’ strategic decisions on technological investment.
The empirical study, using firm-level data from Thailand R&D and Innovation
activities surveyed the industrial sector of 2009, examines four main hypotheses
according to theoretical models; including the variables of ...
A willingness to pay study of heritage interpretation : a case study of the historic city of Ayutthaya
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
; In general, the contingent valuation studies applied to the valuation of cultural
heritage sites are usually carried out for the purpose of physical conservation.
However, to conserve the heritage site sustainably, heritage interpretation is one of the
main factors that cannot be neglected. As a result, this study was conducted to elicit
the value of the restoration and improvement of heritage interpretation (information
board, exhibits, booklets, pamphlets, tourist guide services, etc.) with the selection of
the Historic City of Ayutthay...
Self-control against half-intuitive reactions
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
; People often make everyday decisions based on their intuition. A large number of experiments in Neuroeconomics and Behavioral Economics draw this conclusion without providing explanations on the reaction-generating processes. These intuitive reactions are efficient and appropriate in many situations. However, when the issue at stake concerns immediate rewards; intuitive reactions usually lead to suboptimal results. In fact, these continued reaction patterns may breed bad habits and act as endogenous constraints to one's making an optimal choice...
Risk, uncertainty, and insurance in Thai aricultural households
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
; For the first time, this paper uses three-wave Thai household panel data
for the entire country over the period 2005 to 2007 to investigate the impact of
income shocks and income uncertainty on Thai agricultural ...
Stock market bubbles, investment risk and the role of monetary policy in Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration. School of Development Economics., 2013)
; The dividend discounted models with rational expectation under a perfect
expectation model; CAPM, ICAPM and APT are used for the study. The results show
that there are no bubbles in Thailand under Engle and Granger co-integration test and
Development of theoretical-based multidimensional learners' evaluation in Thai higher education : a case study of the National Institute of Development Administration
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
; Screening for bid rigging in rural road procurement of Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2012)
; Developing competency model of Theravada Buddhist Monks in Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
; The public demand for a free HIV vaccination programme
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2009)
; Wage inequality in manufacturing sector
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2011)
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