Part A:

Part B:

Name of U of A class or sport: MGMT 3013 Strategic Management

Instructor/Coach of class or sport: Vikas Anand

Part C:
Theses/Dissertation One:
1. Who is author?
Amat Adarov

2. What is the name of the theses/dissertation?

Essays on International Trade and Finance

3. What is the year of the theses/dissertation?

2012

4. What institution did the author go to? (Usually on title page.)

University of Arkansas

5. What was the purpose of the study? (You can retype it. It’s okay if it is word for
word.) The dissertation consists of three papers exploring the macroeconomic
implications of heterogeneity of countries in financial development, economic
interconnectedness via trade and financial linkages.

6. What was the conclusion of the study? (Usually on last page. You can type it
word for word.)
The dissertation contributes to the discussion on the implications of country
heterogeneity and interconnectedness along financial and trade dimensions. In
the first chapter a network approach is used to analyze cross-country financial
synchronicity. The study suggests that the network position of a country in the
global trade network, as measured by random walk betweenness centrality, is an
important factor explaining stock market synchronicity. The study has important
policy implications as it demonstrates the importance of network centrality in
the world economy for financial synchronicity and global shock propagation.
This contrasts sharply with conventional measures of economic integration, e.g.
trade openness, which do not reflect the risks associated with economic
partners. Therefore, the network-based approach may serve as an important tool
for monitoring systemic risks and resilience of the world economy, as well as
risk exposures of individual countries to global financial shocks. The second
chapter focuses on the macroeconomic and institutional factors that can help
explain the heterogeneity in the development of private financial markets across
countries, and specifically focuses on emerging economies. The study suggests
that actual depth of financial market segments, including the credit, equity, and
private bond markets, in EMEs corresponds to the expected levels conditional
on their macroeconomic fundamentals only in the case of the Latin American
EME group, while European EMEs are found to be systematically lagging, and
Asian EMEs—overperforming relative to their expected levels. However, the
institutional development factors do not contribute much to explaining these
misalignments. The paper has important policy implications as it demonstrates
that among EMEs only European EMEs are truly underdeveloped financially,
i.e. financial markets are lagging behind both relative to advanced economies
 and relative to peer economies with similar macroeconomic environment, while
for other EMEs growth of financial markets is constrained by their overall level
of economic development and macroeconomic stability. Finally, the third
chapter offers an interesting perspective on the evolution of global trade and
export specialization in the 20th century using a network approach to model
synergies between individual goods. It is shown that the structure of the product
space network has been changing significantly and has evolved into a clearly
identified core-periphery structure, where the highly interconnected core
consists of only three industries—chemicals, industrial machinery, and crude
materials. Product synergies with the rest of the product space that the core
sectors yield may be strategically important for industrialization policies. This
has significant policy implications and may provide important guidance in
designing development and industrialization policies in the most efficient
manner, which may be especially critical for developing nations facing binding
constraints with regard to their capital investment choices.
Source: Adarov, Amat, "Essays on International Trade and Finance"
(2012). Theses and Dissertations. 307.
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/307

7. Why would this particular study be important in your field? (We are assuming it
is important.)

It is important because you learn about international trade, international finance,

and the financial development in different countries. Also, by learning this, you
can compare how it is different from the United States. It allows you to see if
the US is doing just as good as other countries or doing better.

8. Pretend that you want to do a similar study to this one. What would you do
different? Why? (This must be a complete paragraph. Five – eight sentences.
Extraneous material will not be counted. Nor, will I could sentences such as “I
would do a lot different.” Your response must be very specific.

If I were to do a study similar to this one, I would focus more on international

banks. With focusing on international banks, I would look further into their
interest rates and compare them to other international banks. I would also look
at the history of currency rates and compare them to the United States and to
other countries. I would do this because you could get a prediction for future
interest rates and currency rates and see if it will work in the long run for the
country you were analyzing.
Theses/Dissertation Two:

Still using the search criteria “Theses/Dissertations” find a dissertation of one of

your professors. Any professor that has a Dr. in front of his/her name has written a
dissertation. Answer the following questions:

1. Who is the professor that you have taken a class with? or a professor that you
are currently taking a class with? Dr. Vikas Anand
2. What year did he/she write their dissertation? 1999
3. What is the name of the dissertation? Using an organizational memory
framework to study the effect of organizational knowledge
4. What institution did the professor go to when he/she published their
dissertation? Arizona State University
5. Skip to the end of the dissertation. What was the conclusion of the study? (You
can type this word for word.)
This study has shown the possibility that external knowledge sources can be
categorized into three types: stakeholder, network and secondary. It has also
indicated that these three external knowledge sources have different effects on
organizational outcomes. Further research is needed to determine what kinds of
knowledge is each kind of source most capable of providing? When should
managers use a specific external knowledge resource, and when not?
Source: Anand, V. (1999). Using an organizational memory framework to study
the effect of organizational knowledge (Order No. 9937400). Available from
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304502917). Retrieved from http://0-
search.proquest.com.library.uark.edu/docview/304502917?accountid=8361