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The Macroeconomic Impacts Of Entitlements, Ateeb Akhter Shah Syed, Kaneez Fatima, Riffat Naseer

The Hilltop Review

The worries expressed by Alan Greenspan that the long run economic growth of the United States will fade away due to increasing burden of entitlements motivated us to empirically investigate the impact of entitlements of key macroeconomic variables. To examine this contemporary issue, we estimate a vector error-correction model to analyze the impact of entitlements on the price level, real output, and the long-term interest rate. The results show that a shock to entitlements leads to decrease in output and lends support to the assertion made by Alan Greenspan. Several robustness checks verify that the results remain unchanged qualitatively.

Apakah Belanja Pendidikan Dan Kualitas Guru Dapat Meningkatkan Kualitas Pendidikan?, Narulita Ratih Wulansari, Khoirunurrofik Khoirunurrofik

Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi

This study aims to analyze the relationship between education expenditure and teacher quality on education quality at the senior secondary level in Indonesia. Based on data analysis across provinces using the Fixed Effect Method, an inverted U-shaped relationship was identified between education expenditure and education quality. This study also shows that teacher quality has a significant effect in improving education quality. The interregional analysis shows that education expenditure has an inverted U-shaped relationship and teacher quality has a positive relationship with education quality at the outside Java-Bali region. However, education expenditure and teacher quality do not show a significant result …

Increasing Consumer Opportunities For Self-Employment In Vocational Rehabilitation, University Of Montana Rural Institute

Employment

Self-employment is an important option for people with disabilities, especially for those living in rural communities where economic choice and opportunity may be more limited. Although people with disabilities are self-employed at higher rates than people without disabilities, few vocational rehabilitation (VR) consumers become self-employed partly due to lack of knowledge and barriers within VR systems. This research report explains some reasons for low rates of self-employment within the VR system, and presents the Vocational Rehabilitation Self-Employment Guide-an online resource providing guidance and tools to assist people with disabilities and VR counselors with the self-employment process. This guide was …

College Street Journal (October 2021), College Of The Holy Cross

College Street Journal

College Street Journal serves as a student platform for business-related news, opportunities and resources at Holy Cross. Readers will discover a broad range of topics including relevant news and economic issues, career development opportunities and advice, as well as Ciocca center and campus-wide opportunities to grow outside of the classroom.

This edition includes student and professor articles on macroeconomic topics, market-moving issues, inflation, semiconductor shortage, ESG investing and government regulation as they relate to the environment and crypto, and research surrounding capital flows, U.S. foreign debt, and pension reforms around the globe.

Income And Happiness: A Philippine Context, Rosalina Palanca-Tan

Economics Department Faculty Publications

This paper adds to the relatively scant developing country perspective in the economic literature on happiness by investigating the relationship between income and happiness in the context of Koronadal, a low-income city in Mindanao, Philippines. Subjective happiness and potential contributory factors to happiness (demographic, economic, and social capital variables) are elicited through a survey and analyzed using descriptive and regression analyses. The study provides empirical evidence for the “happy poor” image of the Filipinos, with its survey data revealing that despite high poverty incidence and generally low-income levels, people in Koronadal are pretty happy with a mean self-reported happiness score …

Ursinus College Women's Investment Management Company, Fall 2021, Maddy Sorokanych, Taylor Beaumont, Shelby Boyle, Laura Bradley, Olivia Defusco, Rachel Grossbauer, Jess Gutekunst, Rebecca Lewis, Alice Nathanson, Madelyn Nau, Ketlee Staz, Marcella Thanh-Guyet, Theodora Zeibekis

Business and Economics Presentations

The Ursinus College Investment Management Company (UCIMCO) consists of groups of student analysts who manage endowment-style and stock selection funds on behalf of the college endowment. In 2020, a group of women students began to manage their own fund. This presentation reviews activities of the Fall 2021 semester and analyzes the stock performance of various companies including: Anthem, Inc., American Well Corporation, Netflix, Travel and Leisure Company, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Oshkosh and the Hershey Company.

Why Is Chester, Pennsylvania, So Poor?, John P. Caskey

Economics Faculty Works

Chester is one of the poorest cities in Pennsylvania. Chester’s poverty is often blamed on a lack of local job opportunities. But a far more important factor is the concentration of the region’s low-cost rental housing in the City. Much of this housing consists of project-based government-subsidized apartments that are restricted to low-income households. In addition, Chester has an abundant supply of antiquated private housing with low rental rates. Low-cost housing is relatively scarce in the county surrounding Chester. Poor households move to Chester, or remain in Chester, because that is where they can afford to live.

Analysis Of Factors Influencing The Bailout Of Distressed Enterprises By Local Asset Management Companies, Houwen Li

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

In recent years, the number of distressed enterprises in China has gradually increased due to radical enterprise strategies, excessive expansion, poor management, and a trend of accelerating growth. Unable to adapt to fierce market competition, a large number of “zombie enterprises” disrupt the market order, reduce the use efficiency of social resources, and aggravate market risks. However, some enterprises are
temporarily caught in financial distress due to a deterioration of their financial situation caused by factors such as debt structure or capital liquidity. If such enterprises can be bailed out in time, they can escape their distress, which not only …

Business Models For Post-Crisis Information Ecosystems, Antje Mays

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Since early 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted activity across business, education, research, and communities. Public health safety precautions have forced drastic reductions in economic and educational activity, resulting in widespread economic uncertainty and sizeable budget cuts. With library budgets already declining since the 2001-2002 recession following the dotcom crash and more steeply since the 2007-2009 Great Recession spawned by the financial crash, the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already underway. Libraries’ reduced purchasing power places the information ecosystem at risk of contraction in the race to contain costs. While economic contexts and publishing forms have changed considerably. …

Family Structure Variables As Proxies For Socialization And Their Effect On Cognitive Decline: An Empirical Analysis, Peter Amato

Theses and Dissertations

The risk of several common diseases causing dramatic cognitive decline (Alzheimer’s, dementia, anterograde memory loss) and short-term memory impairment are all common, even inevitable ailments as one continues to age. There is a body of literature that suggests stronger social networks reduce the chance of cognitive decline through mentally stimulating activities or socializing. This study examines the rates of cognitive decline in people with larger families by using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and a cox hazard proportion hazards model to examine the protective effects of different family structures on the rates of cognitive decline using the American Community Supplement …

A Latent Class Approach To The Utilization Effects Of The Aca, Dennis Jones

Theses and Dissertations

The dependent coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act raised eligibility for young adults to remain eligible their parents’ health care up to the age of 26. This study uses a combination of latent class analysis and difference-in-difference regression to examine the effect the intervention had on health care utilization.

Implications Of Online Gambling Legalization, William M. Schmidt

Student Publications

The tradition of gambling has been around for thousands of years, but has undergone a recent evolution into what it is perceived as today. This has turned it into an industry of its own, which will only continue to grow with the ongoing legalization of online gambling. Past trends in these legislations would project further economic growth tied to the gambling industry. However, the mental health implications that have been seen to stem from the practice of gambling are as present as ever. This problem associated with the industry will also be expected to climb as gambling becomes both more …

Paso Del Norte Economic Indicator Review, October, Hunt Institute For Global Competitiveness

Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

An Empirical Examination Of The Impact Of Economic Structural Change On Income Inequality: Dynamic Heterogeneous Panel Approach, Maha Elhini, Rasha Hammam

Economics

This paper employs structural growth perspective to the analysis of income inequality in 43 countries over the period 2003-2017.The study utilizes two different panel estimation techniques. First, the panel least squares regression examines the relevance of Kuznets effect of the different economic sectors; agriculture, manufacturing and services on income inequality. Second, the pooled mean group (PMG) estimation of dynamic heterogeneous panels gauges the long run impact of the change in sectoral value added as a proxy for structural change on inequality. PMG presents short run adjustments to be country-specific due to the widely different impacts of macroeconomic conditions and vulnerability …

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 5, Number 10, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Innovating In Traditional Real Estate Business Development Based On Value Co-Creation, Ya Zhang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

The real estate industry is an important aspect of China's social development and plays a pivotal role in economic growth. With the development of urbanization in my country, the supply relationship in the real estate industry has changed, consumer demand has become more rational, and the real estate industry’s financial and investment attributes have been superimposed on the influence of the real estate industry. The competition among small and medium real estate companies with relatively weak resource endowments has become increasingly fierce. Some land expansion models can no longer adapt to the development of the new situation. How to survive …

A Study On Constructing The Fourth Financial Statement For The Performance Prediction And Value Assessment Of Internet Enterprises In The Food Industry, Jianxin Zhang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

For a long time, industry, financial institutions, PE investment funds, and capital market investors have determined the business performance and market value of a company, usually based on the data of the three audited financial tables provided by the company, and further comprehensive analysis will be carried out the evaluation. Due to the limitations of accounting standards, the three financial tables cannot truly reflect all the business conditions of the enterprise. At the same time, the economic stage with traditional manufacturing as the main body and the economic stage with the digital economy as the main body are concerned with …

Financial Toxicity During Breast Cancer Treatment: A Qualitative Analysis To Inform Strategies For Mitigation, Laila A. Gharzai, Kerry A. Ryan, Lauren Szczygiel, Susan Goold, Grace Li Smith, Sarah T. Hawley, John A.E. Pottow, Reshma Jagsi

Articles

Financial toxicity from cancer treatment is a growing concern. Its impact on patients requires refining our understanding of this phenomenon. We sought to characterize patients' experiences of financial toxicity in the context of an established framework to identify knowledge gaps and strategies for mitigation. Semistructured interviews with patients with breast cancer who received financial aid from a philanthropic organization during treatment were conducted from February to May 2020. Interviews were transcribed and coded until thematic saturation was reached, and findings were contextualized within an existing financial toxicity framework. Thirty-two patients were interviewed, of whom 58% were non-Hispanic White. The mean …

Ab 5 And Ab 2257 Impacts On Small California Public Agencies, Sarah Robustelli

Master's Projects

With the recent changes, government agencies are struggling to define worker status under the new laws (DeBlanc and Safarloo, 2020). The interest in eliminating independent contractors is tied to concerns about workers in the private sector, specifically the gig economy, being denied appropriate pay and benefits, yet even government agencies are affected by AB 5 changes (Andoyan, 2017, Bergman, 2020). Traditionally, small public agencies use contractors frequently for professional services, specialists, backfill positions, recreation, geographic information systems (GIS), and much more. This research analyzes the following question: What is the impact of Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) and Assembly Bill …

Introduction To The Principles Of Economics, Lynn University Digital Press, Andrea Camargo (Editor)

Lynn University Digital Press Books

Introduction to the Principles of Economics is explicitly edited for the accelerated course in BUS 180: Principles of Economics. The compilation textbook is designed to make introductory economics accessible to college students and is divided into three parts: Introductory Concepts, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics. Theoretical economic foundations have been applied and related to actual events and policies to increase reader comprehension and practical application. Course: BUS 180

Development-Induced Displacement In Kiryandongo District: A Case Study Of The Karuma Hydroelectric Power Plant, Remington Fritz

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This paper assesses the effects of the development induced displacement due to the Karuma Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Awoo village and surrounding areas in Karuma Town. Recently, Uganda has pursued several large-scale development projects that have repeatedly displaced people. Despite having strong displacement and resettlement framework, there is a continued pattern of failing to implement such framework, threatening the livelihood and well-being of those displaced.

Interview with key informants from several government agencies, such as the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development the National Environmental Management Authority and Ugandan Generation Electricity Company Ltd have illustrated the political framework and …

Covid-19 Vaccine Diplomacy In West Africa: Empathetic Soft-Power Or Neocolonial Intentions?, Mary Sperrazza

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

With the impending roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines, many questions have been raised concerning the roll-out of the vaccines beyond the Global North. While some countries across the Global South have been able to purchase limited numbers of vaccines; many countries in the Global South remain highly or entirely dependent on various programs for the distribution of vaccines, such as the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) program. Another means of distribution is of individual countries of the Global North that have either higher purchasing power or are producers of one or more vaccines that have begun donating an allocated amount of …

Air Pollution, Behavioral Bias, And The Disposition Effect In China, Jennifer (Jie) Li, Massimo Massa, Hong Zhang, Jian Zhang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Inspired by the recent health science findings that air pollution affects mental health and cognition, we examine whether air pollution can intensify the cognitive bias observed in the financial markets. Based on a proprietary data set obtained from a large Chinese mutual fund family consisting of complete trading information for more than 773,198 ac-counts in 247 cities, we find that air pollution significantly increases investors' disposition effects. Analysis based on two plausible exogenous variations in air quality (the vast dissi-pation of air pollution caused by strong winds and the Huai River policy) supports a causal interpretation. Mood regulation provides a …

Three Essays On Agency Costs In Corporate Finance, Eyad Alhudhaif

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation attempts to explain several firm corporate choices under the classical framework of contractual agency problems in corporate finance. Essay 1 examine firms’ debt maturity structure following exogenous changes in growth opportunities due to the COVID-19 shock. I Find companies experiencing an increase in growth options choose longer-term debt, a result that supports the arguments presented by Diamond and He, 2014 and Childs et al., 2005. Essay 2 examine the effect of firm’s risk exposure concentration on debt maturity choices. We find shortterm debt is preferred over covenants in mitigating debt-related agency problems of risk-shifting. These results indicate that …

Local Religiosity, Workplace Safety, And Firm Value, Md Ruhul Amin, Incheol Kim, Suin Lee

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This paper examines the effect of local religiosity on employee treatment, proxied by workplace safety incidents. Using the establishment-level data compiling on the incidents of work-related injuries, we find that employees of the establishments in more religious counties get less injured than those in less religious counties. We further find that a reduction in occupational accidents is more evident for establishments in counties dominated by one religious denomination, strengthening our argument on community solidarity and homophily stemming from religious networks. Firms whose establishments are located in high religiosity counties are less likely to violate workplace conduct and more likely to …

ترتيبات العمل المرن وأثره على الارتباط الوظيفي: دراسة تطبيقية على العاملين بشركات الانترنت في قطاع غزة, خلود عطية احمد الفليت, عبدالرحمن فوزي سالم عابدين

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

هدف هذا البحث إلى التعرف على أثر ترتيبات العمل المرن على الارتباط الوظيفي وتم تطبيق البحث على العاملين في شركات الانترنت في قطاع غزة، وطرحت الدراسة سؤال رئيس وهو: “ما أثر ترتيبات العمل المرن على الارتباط الوظيفي”، واعتمدت على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، حيث تم تصميم استبانة، وبلغ مجتمع البحث (344) موظفاً، حيث تم توزيع (182) استبانة على مجتمع البحث باستخدام العينة العشوائية، وتم استرداد (132) استبانة وتجميع إجابات العاملين بشركات الانترنت في قطاع غزة وتحليلها إحصائياً باستخدام برنامج “SPSS”، وتوصل البحث إلى مجموعة من النتائج أهمها: أن معامل الارتباط بين الكمية والارتباط الوظيفي ككل يساوي 0.564، ومعامل الارتباط بين الوقت …

دور التمويل الصحي في تحسين جودة الخدمات الصحية: دراسة تطبيقية في وزارة الصحة العراقية, شروق اسماعيل حامد احمد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تناولت هذه الدراسة اثر التمويل الصحي في تحسين جودة الخدمة الصحية ، اذ تم تقديم اطار نظري لبعض ما طرحه الكتاب والباحثين حول موضوع التمويل الصحي ومصادر التمويل المهمة المطبقة في بعض الدول ، الى جانب الاطار العملي والذي تضمن استعراض للإجراءات المحاسبية والمبالغ المتحققة من التمويل الصحي للسنوات 2018 ،2019 ،2020 لتوفر البيانات الخاصة بها اذ تضمن البحث اربعة مباحث اساسية هي أ-هدف البحث. ب -الاجراءات المتبعة في الجانب العملي ج-اهم الاستنتاجات د- اهم التوصيات.

دور ممارسات ادارة الموارد البشرية القائمة على الالتزام في تعزيز الدعم التنظيمي المدرك (بحث تحليلي في عينة من الجامعات الاهلية العراقية في منطقة الفرات الاوسط), باسم عباس كريدي الجاسمي, فلاح حسن حسن الجبوري

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

لقد كان الغرض الرئيس من هذا البحث يتمثل في توضيح دور ممارسات ادارة الموارد البشرية القائمة على الالتزام في تعزيز الدعم التنظيمي المدرك ، اذ تعد هذه الممارسات جزء من المداخل الاستراتيجية لإدارة الموارد البشرية التي يمكن للجامعات الاهلية ان تتبناها لمواجهة التحديات التي تعترض بيئة اعمالها. وقد استعمل الباحثان عينة من تلك الجامعات الاهلية لدراستها من اجل اختبار علاقة الارتباط والتأثير لممارسات ادارة الموارد البشرية القائمة على الالتزام بأبعادها المتمثلة ب(ممارسة الاختيار، والتعويضات ، والتدريب والتطوير)، ومتغير الدعم التنظيمي المدرك ) احادي البعد) . وقد استُعمِلتْ الاستبانة كأداة جمع البيانات والتي وُزّعَتْ (400) استمارة منها على التدريسيين في الجامعات …

بعض العوامل المؤثرة على التنمية السياحية -العراق انموذجا- للمدة من 2004 -2018, يسرى حازم جاسم, هبة رياض شفيق

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تسهم السياحة في تنمية اقتصاد البلد كونه مصدرا للدخل من خلال ادخال رؤوس الأموال الأجنبية، الى جانب تنمية القطاعات الأخرى مثل تنمية العمران في البلاد بتطوير شبكة الطرق، والعناية بالمرافق السياحية وتوفير ما يحتاجه السائح من متطلبات فنادق ومستوصفات صحية ومحال تجارية القريبة من منطقة السياحة، كما وتسهم السياحة في انعاش الوضع المادي للأفراد بتشغيل الايدي العاملة وتقليل البطالة بتوجههم للعمل في الخدمات السياحية، الى جانب تعميق الوعي السياحي للمواطنين وتحقيق التواصل الفكري والثقافي والروحي والمعرفي بين المجتمعات المختلفة باستقطاب السياح من جميع البلدان سواء كانت السياحة لأغراض دينية ام تراثية او للاستمتاع بالطبيعية، وبالتالي تحقق السياحة اثارا إيجابية اقتصادية …

Contemporary Cost Management Techniques: The Appropriate Alternative To The Traditional Cost Accounting Systems Applied In The Iraqi Industrial Units – An Applied Case, Faiza Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Ghabbana

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The changes in the contemporary business environment have led to the need to develop traditional cost accounting systems applied to industrial firms, which focus mainly on the cost of manufacturing and ways to allocate indirect manufacturing costs to products. The main problem of research has been that traditional cost accounting methods are no longer suitable for application in modern business conditions where there is an increase in the use of technology and dynamic changes in customers’ preferences, global competition conditions, as well as challenges to the survival of industrial firms in the market. Modern cost management techniques therefore focus on …