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Paying It Forward: Who Does This?, Elizabeth C. Alexander, Charles Braun
Paying It Forward: Who Does This?, Elizabeth C. Alexander, Charles Braun
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Paying it forward experiences sometimes make the news when an exceptionally long line of drive through customers decide to utilize upstream reciprocity, aka Pay It Forward (PIF), as in an example from December of 2012 at the Tim Horton’s in Winnipeg when 226 customers each individually paid for the order of the customer behind them in line (Tsvetkova and Macy 2014). But in most cases, the experience involves far fewer customers and is much less newsworthy. Nevertheless, paying it forward is a phenomenon that warrants investigating to understand the moti vations and attributes that contribute to the activity, possibly to …
Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Manufacturing In Distressed West Virginia Counties, Margie J. Phillips
Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Manufacturing In Distressed West Virginia Counties, Margie J. Phillips
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This project will identify and define the economic challenges faced by distressed counties in West Virginia regarding sustainable and entrepreneurship manufacturing. In addition, one historic model will be examined as to their successes and past challenges.Large scale manufacturing, once a mainstay in the state’s economy has been and is on a steady decline in West Virginia. Even when manufacturing was a viable component of the state’s economy, it was concentrated, for the most part in populated areas. Rural areas, lacking the necessary infrastructure for robust manufacturing, was stuck in a perpetual distressed condition with only the production of coal as …
Real-Time Nowcasting Of Short-Run Of The Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate With Economic Fundamentals: Does The Measure Of Money Supply Matter?, Boniface Yemba, Michael Otunuga
Real-Time Nowcasting Of Short-Run Of The Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate With Economic Fundamentals: Does The Measure Of Money Supply Matter?, Boniface Yemba, Michael Otunuga
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This paper proposes a fundamental-monetary-based econometric model with mixed frequency data to now caste the Euro-Dollar short run exchange rate. We use the exact amount of information that are available to researchers or police makers at the time of prediction of exchange rate. The spot exchange rate information are available at week basis while other macroeconomic data like money supply, in action, industrial production, and interest rate are available at monthly basis. Since the monetary model consists of stable money demand functions (Bianco, 2012), not all the measure of money supply guaranties a stable money demand. Barnett (1978, 1980) has …
An Analysis Of The Sale Of Contracts By The Athletics After The 1914 Season, Jeffrey Archambault, Marie E. Archambault
An Analysis Of The Sale Of Contracts By The Athletics After The 1914 Season, Jeffrey Archambault, Marie E. Archambault
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The Philadelphia Athletics lost the 1914 World Series to the Boston Braves, being swept in four games. The Athletics had been favored to win the Series over the Braves, who had been in last place as late as the Fourth of July. After the season, Connie Mack, the owner/manager, sold many of the best players for the Athletics. The sale of athletes is often attributed to financial pressures caused by the Federal League, which hired several star players at relatively high salaries and began play in 1914. Perhaps the sales were part of an effort to rebuild the team after …
Conditional Cash Transfer And Girl Child Survival In India, Nabaneeta Biswas
Conditional Cash Transfer And Girl Child Survival In India, Nabaneeta Biswas
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This paper examines the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on girls’ early childhood survival in India. With a view to improve sex ratios and alleviate the status of girls, the Government of India launched the Dhan Lakshmi financial incentive scheme in 2008 in select districts of seven states. The program offers financial benefits to parents for raising daughters. Using district-level data from a large household survey, we analyze the program’s effect on sex ratios in the state of Punjab, which reports one of the most skewed sex ratios in the country. Results indicate a positive impact of …
Gis Application In Economic Analyses: Using Aid Effectiveness In Sub-Saharan Africa As An Example, Yi Duan
Gis Application In Economic Analyses: Using Aid Effectiveness In Sub-Saharan Africa As An Example, Yi Duan
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques provide invaluable tools in analyzing spatial patterns in economics. Different selections of spatial data layers enable spatial analyses for specific projects or tasks. Using a project on foreign aid effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa as an example, this presentation shows that detailed aid effectiveness patterns at local level can be revealed using the cutting-edge GIS techniques and spatial analytic skills, which were largely neglected by the previous literature of aid effectiveness at country level. Overcoming the “aggregation bias”, this project finds that aid targeted at local level tends to promote local economic growth, while aid targeted …
Using Omnichannel Sales Data Analytics To Decide Between Store And Distribution Center Fulfillment Options, Jingran Zhang, Sanchoy Das
Using Omnichannel Sales Data Analytics To Decide Between Store And Distribution Center Fulfillment Options, Jingran Zhang, Sanchoy Das
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A brick-and-mortar retailer can fulfill online customer orders in two ways (i) Buy Online Fulfill from Store (BOFS) - Picked from store inventory, and (ii) Fulfill from Distribution Center (FDC) - Picked from DC or warehouse inventory. The fulfillment decision is made in real time for each order, with the primary goal of maximizing the revenue value of the store inventory. Analysis of sales data in both online and store channels is used to forecast the value of the dispersed inventory, and then develop a prescriptive model for making a fulfillment decision.
Changes In Business Core & Accounting Course Requirements: Aacsb Influences, Marie Archambault, Jeffrey Archambault, Jean Price
Changes In Business Core & Accounting Course Requirements: Aacsb Influences, Marie Archambault, Jeffrey Archambault, Jean Price
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This study explores the business core requirements and accounting program requirements of universities accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) and those without such accreditation during both 1996/97 and 2012/13 academic years. The sample of 50 universities consists of 25 with AACSB accreditation and 25 without AACSB accreditation during the 1996/97 academic year. Differences are examined in the courses and credit hours required in various courses between the two types of universities as well as changes in these programs between the two time periods. The changes that have occurred between 1996/97 and 2012/13 are compared …
Does An Information Technology Investment Contribute To Company Performance: A Further Examination Of The Productivity Paradox, Marc Sollosy, Rick Weible
Does An Information Technology Investment Contribute To Company Performance: A Further Examination Of The Productivity Paradox, Marc Sollosy, Rick Weible
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This article continues the discussion examining IT’s contribution on firm performance. Byrnjolfsson (1993) identified what is known as the “productivity paradox” and posited a number of reasons for it. Carr (2003) added fuel by suggesting IT is ubiquitous and provides no significant firm advantage. This study does identify that industry type and size matters. Utilizing the position of CIO, or similar, as a proxy for IT emphasis, the study finds that non-IT intensive organizations, with annual sales less than $101 million do achieve performance advantages over firms without an IT emphasis. The implication being that the debate is far from …
Implications Of Upcoding On Medicare Fraud, Alberto Coustasse, Katrina Cremeans, Carli Followay, Jessica Oldaker
Implications Of Upcoding On Medicare Fraud, Alberto Coustasse, Katrina Cremeans, Carli Followay, Jessica Oldaker
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The complexity of and quantity of funds involved in Medicare reimbursements have led to a significant increase in the number of Medicare fraud. A particular kind of Medicare fraud, upcoding, has contributed to excessive and avoidable health care spending. Upcoding has been an illegal tactic that some providers have used to increase their Medicare reimbursement for specific medical conditions. This is accomplished by coding a provided service as a more expensive service than what was performed. With the proliferation of upcoding, there has been an unprecedented $12.5 billion in fraudulent Medicare charges. While solving the problem of upcoding will not …