International Journal of
Economics and Business Research
Scope of the Journal
IJEBR presents original, peer reviewed research findings in economics and business that are clearly applicable to private profit-making entities and/or to public policy institutions (governmental, cooperative and private non-profit organisations). The journal welcomes submissions of theoretical, empirical, policy-oriented, as well as experimental, papers in all fields of economics and business. Additionally, it considers contributions that combine business and economics with any other field of inquiry such as mathematics, behavioural, natural and social sciences. IJEBR, unlike its sister title, Global Business and Economics Review, does not require that authors write papers about the impact of, or implications for, "globalisation". Instead, it publishes papers with local, national, regional and international implications where "international" ranges from bilateral to multilateral and global. IJEBR is sponsored by the Business and Economics Society International.
Subject coverage: Suitable topics include, but are not limited to: • Microeconomics • Experimental economics • Behavioral economics • Health economics • Government regulation • Industrial organisation • Theory of the firm • Strategic alliances • Game theory • Law and economics • International economics • Outsourcing • Labour economics/human resources • Economic growth and development • Economic integration • Macroeconomics • Monetary economics • Government finance • Urban, rural and regional economics • Econometrics and statistics • Mathematical economics • Business governance and ethics • Business law • Accounting • Management science • Business performance management • Entrepreneurship • Business information systems • Business innovation and research • Internet and intranet • Knowledge management
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International Journal of
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Members of the Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Demetri Kantarelis Assumption College, USA Dr. Christos Floros University of Portsmouth, UK Anastassios Gentzoglanis Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Tadeusz Gospodarek Poland Pedro J. Gutierrez Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Ferda Halicioglu Yeditepe University, Turkey Neil Hart University of Western Sydney, Australia Marko Kolakovic University of Zagreb, Croatia László Kónya La Trobe University , Australia Anthony B. Lumby University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Carlos R. Palmero Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Smriti Rao Assumption College, USA Seval Selymoglu Anadolu University, Turkey Nilüfer Tetik Akdeniz University, Turkey E.I. Thalassinos University of Piraeus, Greece Thierry Warin Middlebury College, USA
Associate Editors
Vinko Belak University Of Zagreb, Croatia Nathan Berg University of Texas at Dallas, USA Steve Carter Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Yasumi Matsumoto Waseda University, Japan
Editorial Board
David E. Allen Edith Cowan University, Australia Malcolm O. Asadoorian III Lynn University, USA Zeljana Aljinovic Barac University of Split, Croatia Roberto Bergami Victoria University, Australia Jörg Borrmann University of Vienna, Austria Lisa Bradley University of Ulster, Austria Sofia Daskou Hellenic American Univeristy, Greece Andreas Efstathiades European University Cyprus, Cyprus Katalin Eibel-Spanyi Eastern Connecticut State University, USA Graham Elkin University of Otago, New Zealand
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Content of Inaugural Issue of IJEBR
VOL. 1(1), 2009
Economics, peace and laughter revisited – or learning from the Asian 21st century Mohamed A. Ramady Stakeholder vs. shareholder theory of the ethics of corporate management Tibor R. Machan A risk management approach to international real estate investment Ron Christner Causality between international trade and gross domestic product: the case of the Indian agricultural and manufacturing sectors Laszlo Konya, Jai Pal Singh Modelling the outsourcing process in small and medium size enterprises Andreas Efstathiades, Christos Rousis, George Boustras, Romaios Bratskas Unravelling financial policy linkages and corporate governance David Han-Min Wang, He-Ting Chen, Jer-Yan Lin A new approach for pricing commodity futures contracts Lourdes Gomez-Valle, Julia Martinez-Rodriguez Output gap and inflation nexus: the case of United Arab Emirates Mohamed A. Osman, Rosmy Jean Louis, Faruk Balli Trans-boundary pollution, free trade agreement/economic partnership agreement and economic welfare Kenji Kondoh
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