Quantifying the Excess Supply of Labour in the Syrian Economy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Hunter M. Holzhauer

This chapter begins with a breakdown of recent growth trends for the overall commodities market. However, the long-term future of the market will heavily depend on three pressing issues: excess supply, increased regulations, and algorithmic trading. The section on excess supply explores how traders are changing strategies to adjust to the current imbalance between supply and demand, especially in the steel industry, and how that imbalance might change in the future based on global population trends and climate change concerns. The next section examines several regulatory trends, including the dramatic exodus of some investment banks from certain segments of the commodities market followed by a section focusing on how algorithmic trading is influencing how commodities are traded. A discussion of potential scenarios for the commodities market follows. The chapter concludes by examining a few ways in which the market and commodity traders may both survive and even thrive in the future.


Planta ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 220 (5) ◽  
pp. 794-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Gaio-Oliveira ◽  
Lena Dahlman ◽  
Kristin Palmqvist ◽  
Maria Am�lia Martins-Lou��o ◽  
Cristina M�guas

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 338-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Casares ◽  
Antonio Moreno ◽  
Jesús Vázquez

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Bhanupong Nidhiprabha

During Thailand's economic development, the shares of output and employment in agriculture have been consistently higher than in other countries at the same level of income. There are push and pull factors for labor transformation. This paper demonstrates that the slow transformation from rural to urban economy is the result of the agricultural trap, which keeps agrarian labor inside the farm sector. In addition to the lack of public investment in human capital, extremely wasteful farm subsidies have weakened the natural process of structural transformation. Farm subsidies encourage land expansion, which usually lags behind commodity booms, resulting in the excess supply of farm products. In turn, when commodity prices collapse, excess supply perpetuates further subsidies and emboldens the pork barrel activities of incumbent governments.


Author(s):  
G. Cornelis van Kooten ◽  
Harry Nelson ◽  
Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh

Abstract In this chapter, we examine the importance of softwood lumber production to Canada's economy and provide a brief history of the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute and its resolution on various occasions using U.S. countervailing and anti-dumping duties, export taxes or various types of quota regimes, including tariff rate quotas. The construction of excess supply and demand functions is explained, as are the gains from trade. This helps inform the modeling approaches that are identified in later chapters.


1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Fred White ◽  
Luther Tweeten ◽  
Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Intermittent periods of excess supply as well as excess demand are likely to characterize American agriculture in the years ahead. Government again may choose to intervene to clear the market at acceptable prices during periods of excess supply. The principal means of removing excess capacity has been to restrain output through voluntary programs which pay farmers to divert cropland to soil-conserving uses and through aid programs which dispose of surpluses in needy countries, presumably in ways that do not interfere with commercial exports. But have these programs provided (a) maximum net farm income, (b) maximum real foreign aid, or (c) minimum U.S. Treasury Cost?This study reports a model to estimate the most efficient allocation of agricultural capacity with a domestic general land retirement program and food aid to foreign nations.


Tourism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Chew Ging Lee

Demand function, inverse demand function or market equilibrium condition has been used to estimate the empirical models that explain the movement of hotel room rates. However, hotels generally face excess supply of rooms. This research paper develops a simple theoretical model to link hotel room rates to excess supply of hotel rooms. The annual data of Singapore from 1991 to 2017 is used to test this framework. Due to small sample size, with only 27 observations, the bounds testing approach to cointegration is applied on the annual data of hotel industry in Singapore because the obtained estimators are super-consistent. It is found that average hotel room rate and average hotel occupancy rate are cointegrated to confirm hotel room rates and excess supply of hotel rooms are inversely correlated. In order to avoid model mis-specification, major crises are captured by dummy variables which are treated as fixed regressors in the bounds testing approach to cointegration. The empirical and theoretical frameworks used in this study suggest that when hotel occupancy rate is used as an independent variable in modelling the determination of hotel room rates, a researcher is adopting excess supply framework developed in this paper. Furthermore, this framework teaches students in tourism a simplified way to explain the movement of hotel room rates, while still reminding students about the complexity of hotel industry.


2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Curott

This paper addresses a long-running debate in the economics literature—the debate over Adam Smith’s theory of money and banking—and argues that recent reinterpretations of Smith’s monetary theory have erroneously diverted historians of monetary thought from the correct, but briefly articulated, initial interpretations of Henry Thornton (1802) and Jacob Viner (1937). Smith did not present either the real-bills theory or a price-specie-flow theory of banknote regulation, as is now generally presumed, but rather a reflux theory based upon the premise that the demand for money is fixed at a particular nominal quantity. Smith’s theory denies that an excess supply of money can ordinarily make it into the domestic nominal income stream or influence prices or employment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 106 (S1) ◽  
pp. S142-S145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta Dobenecker

Developmental skeletal problems are often connected to mistakes in feeding, i.e. a deficiency or excess supply of nutrients, especially minerals. The energy consumption, the resulting growth intensity and the breed of animals are also known as factors that influence developmental orthopaedic diseases. In most clinical trials, excess Ca was connected to alterations in normal, healthy skeletal development, which led to severe clinical symptoms in some dogs, subclinical changes in the radiographic or histological examinations in other animals, or even no observable symptoms. These results correspond to practical experience in the field of clinical nutrition consultation, since excess Ca has been shown to have various impacts in growing dogs. The present review of results published in the literature and from my own trials led to the hypothesis that P is an important co-factor that can alleviate or aggravate the development of skeletal problems in growing dogs.


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