Academic Journal of Economic Studies

19-27

Authors: Trisniarty Adjeng Moelyatie, Omar Hendro, Dewi Susanti

The purpose of this study is to establish the internal factors and external factors Bambang Lanang seed business in the village of Muara Muara Payang Payang Lahat District - South Sumatra - Indonesia. This research is a qualitative research. This research was conducted using primary and secondary data. Data were collected to analyze the Business Development Strategy Seed Bambang Lanang (Michelia Champaca L.) in the village of Muara Muara Payang Payang Lahat included primary data and secondary data. The population in this study is all members of the Group of Productive Purnomo totaling 47 people. The sampling technique used is samling saturated, because the population is less than 100 people, the technique of sampling taken are all members of a population of as many as 47 members of Productive Business Group (CTP) Purnomo in the village of Muara Muara Payang Payang Lahat regency. The analysis method used is the matrix of factors external strategy (EFE) and Phase Matrix Development Strategy Internal Factor (IFE). The results concluded that the appropriate strategy for business development is an aggressive growth strategy with the use of force to take advantage of opportunities through horizontal integration. Alternative business development strategies seed bambang lanang in the village of Muara Payang Muara Payang Lahat right there are four (4) is SO (Strength-Opportunity), ST (Strength-Treaths), WO (Weakness-Opportunity) and WT (Weakness-Treaths).

36-40

Authors: Gizem Uzuner, Festus Victor Bekun, Seyi Saint Akadiri

Going by Adolph Wagner’s theory, increased in public expenditure would have a significant influence growth. However, the endogenous growth theories posit that public sector either has direct or indirect impacts on economic growth. It is on this premise, we seek to examine and validate Wagner’s theory on the impact of current, investment and transfer expenditures on economic growth over the periods 1975-2014 for Turkey, using Johansen co-integration test and Granger causality test. Findings confirm Wagner’s law through the existence of a long term relationship between the variables, while public expenditures display a significant positive impact on economic growth.

48-54

Authors: Christopher Daniel Watson

With the on-going negotiation of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU), there are many issues in which both governments are having difficulty in reaching adequate and fruitful compromise. In regards to market access, specifically involving EU imports of US Non-Hormone Treated Cattle (NHTC) beef, the EU has not yet committed to the specifics for this particular issue. This paper presents a potential TTIP proposal with respect to EU imports of US beef. Basing the framework of the primary policy initiative off a similar concession that was granted to Canada by the EU in the Canada – European Union: Comprehensive Trade and Economic Agreement (CETA). This policy proposal will be demonstrated and illustrated utilizing economic, quantitative, and qualitative analysis.

60-67

Authors: Jeyhun Mikayilov, Vusal Shukurov, Sabuhi Yusifov

In this study, we have examined impacts of energy consumption, real GDP and population on the pollution from the automobile transport in Azerbaijan case. We employed annual time series data for the 1990-2014 time span. First the data tested for stationarity and then we employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lags Bounds Testing approach to cointegration. Estimation results indicated that population has significant impacts on the transport emission in Azerbaijan; however impacts of energy consumption are not trivial. Real GDP has statistically insignificant but positive impact over emission. Findings of the study may be useful in making appropriate decisions in the fields of diminishing atmospheric pollution from automobile transport.

76-87

Authors: Siham Matallah, Amal Matallah

The present paper examines the impact of globalization and economic freedom on economic growth in 14 MENA countries over the period 1995-2011, through the use of panel data analysis. According to Hausman test, the fixed effects model is the most appropriate one, and it illustrates that the globalization index displays a positive influence on the MENA region’s economic growth; also economic freedom exhibits a significant positive effect on economic growth in 14 MENA countries. Based on these findings, it could be concluded that there is a great opportunity for MENA countries to achieve high growth rates through implementing sound trade policies, fostering the financial system development and creating more favorable investment climate, it is also recommended to enact suitable macroeconomic policies and pay more attention to the coherent work of the triptych resources, technology and competition. As well as, the MENA region is committed to strengthen the institutional quality that supports the proper functioning of markets and curbs the pervasive corruption.

97-103

Authors: Cristina Teodora Balaceanu, Daniela Penu

In an increasingly globalized world, where the effects of technology have an overwhelming impact on people's lives, meaning an increase in appetite for consumption of luxury goods, of lifestyle, it seems that conventional resources are becoming fewer and their use in industrial processes lead to environmental harm, at least from pollution. Essentially, oil prices influence governments, companies, and markets of raw materials markets of finite economic goods, markets of conventional and unconventional energy and an assumed oil crisis would lead to stronger inflections on the market, with repercussions on the overall level of prices, the oil price being generally regarded as decisive for the other prices in the economy.

110-115

Authors: Mirela Catalina Türkes

The main research aims to highlight differences in the number of Internet users in Romania compared to Turkey in the period 1993-2016. For a better understanding of the topics studied in the mirror was present evolution of the number of total population of the two countries. Data for the analysis were taken from the National Institute of Statistics recording in the two countries Hypothesis testing and data analysis was performed using ANOVA and descriptive statistics. The research results reveal that although in the period 1993-2016 averages on the population growth in the two countries were very different however averages for the number of Internet users remained equal. At the end of 2016, Turkey had a total population of 3.4 times higher; whereas Romania had 1.04 times more Internet users.