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Beach And Surf Tourism And Recreation In Australia: Vulnerability And Adaptation, Michael Raybould Jun 2013

Beach And Surf Tourism And Recreation In Australia: Vulnerability And Adaptation, Michael Raybould

Michael Raybould

The Beach and surf tourism and recreation in Australia: Vulnerability and adaptation project has produced estimates of economic values for recreation and tourism related to beach and surf amenities across four case-study locations in Australia. Estimates of the non-market consumer surplus values of beach recreation indicate that beach recreation is worth around: $70 million per annum (p.a.) to residents of the Sunshine Coast (Qld), $32 million p.a. to residents of Clarence Valley (NSW), $6 million p.a. to residents of the Surf Coast (Vic) and $4 million p.a. for residents of Augusta-Margaret River (WA). In addition to the non-market values, real …


Unequal Progress: The Annual Report On The Economic Status Of The Profession 2002-03, Ronald Ehrenberg Sep 2012

Unequal Progress: The Annual Report On The Economic Status Of The Profession 2002-03, Ronald Ehrenberg

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

[Excerpt] Most colleges and universities adopted budgets for the 2002-03 academic year in the spring and early summer of 2002. At that time, a pessimist might have cited several factors – negative rates of return from institutional endowments, a rising unemployment rate, an economic recession, and large increases in college and university enrollments, for example - to predict that faculty members would not see their earnings increase substantially in real terms in the coming year. The good news is that, overall and on average, the pessimists' worst fears proved incorrect. The bad news is that the overall aver-ages don't tell …


Unemployment Insurance, Duration Of Unemployment, And Subsequent Wage Gain, Ronald Ehrenberg, Ronald Oaxaca Jul 2012

Unemployment Insurance, Duration Of Unemployment, And Subsequent Wage Gain, Ronald Ehrenberg, Ronald Oaxaca

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

[Excerpt] In order to evaluate what the "optimal" level of UI benefits is, one must therefore first estimate the magnitude of the relationships between UI benefits levels and unemployed workers' durations of unemployment and post-unemployment wages. There have been several previous studies of the impact of UI benefits on duration of spells of unemployment, however none have been completely satisfactory methodologically. To our knowledge, there have been no previous studies of the system's impact on subsequent wage rates. We attempt to fill these gaps, utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) to estimate both relationships. The plan of our …


Momentum (Part 3 Of 3), Bruce Vanstone Dec 2009

Momentum (Part 3 Of 3), Bruce Vanstone

Bruce Vanstone

Extract:

This article is part 3 of a 3‐part series. In this final article, I will summarize the key characteristics of investing using momentum based approaches. I will also discuss some approaches to managing risk in momentum models, and the benefits investors expect when investing with rules‐based funds.


Momentum (Part 2 Of 3), Bruce Vanstone Dec 2009

Momentum (Part 2 Of 3), Bruce Vanstone

Bruce Vanstone

Extract:

This article is part 2 of a 3‐part series. In this article, I will focus on using simulations to demonstrate the potential risks and rewards of the momentum approach. In the final part of the series, I will discuss the way in which investors can benefit from rule‐based approaches to investment.


Momentum (Part 1 Of 3), Bruce Vanstone Dec 2009

Momentum (Part 1 Of 3), Bruce Vanstone

Bruce Vanstone

Extract:

The purpose of this 3‐part series of articles is to provide information about the potential benefits of momentum investing. In this series, I will try and explain what momentum is, the potential returns available to momentum investors, and the way that the Porter Capital Management combine mechanical, rules‐based strategies with the momentum effect to deliver benefits to investors.