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Determinants Of Technological Activities In Turkishanufacturing Industries: A Microeconometric Analysis , Teoman Pamukcu, Pmc Deboer Sep 2000

Determinants Of Technological Activities In Turkishanufacturing Industries: A Microeconometric Analysis , Teoman Pamukcu, Pmc Deboer

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Data Bank: A Real-Time Data Set For Macroeconomists, Dean D. Croushore, Tom Stark Sep 2000

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Data Bank: A Real-Time Data Set For Macroeconomists, Dean D. Croushore, Tom Stark

Economics Faculty Publications

Economic policies are set and forecasts are made based on data that policymakers and forecasters have available to them. But such data are often revised — at times significantly. As a result, when policies and forecasts are viewed from the perspective of today's data, they may not seem sensible. Recognizing this problem, the Research Department at the Philadelphia Fed created a real-time data set so that economists today have the same data that were available to policymakers and forecasters in the past. In this article, Dean Croushore and Tom Stark tell how the data set was constructed, show how large …

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Economics And Strategic Management: Bridging The Divide, Rakesh Singh Sep 2000

Economics And Strategic Management: Bridging The Divide, Rakesh Singh

IIMB Management Review

There has always been a great divide between economic theory and management theory. On the one hand, most business schools put basic economics on their curriculum and insist on compulsory courses in the subject.  On the other hand, management theorists have found economics too abstract to be useful. Economists have always tried to run clown the case study approach as lacking in rigour and have criticized management's approach of generality.

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A Comparative Analysis Of Conventional Banking System And Islamic Banking System In Malaysia In Relation To Loan Repayments, Baharin Salim Abdullah Sep 2000

A Comparative Analysis Of Conventional Banking System And Islamic Banking System In Malaysia In Relation To Loan Repayments, Baharin Salim Abdullah

Student Works (2000-2009)

The birth of Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (81MB) in 1983 symbolized the Malaysian Government's initiative in establishing an Islamic banking system. After 17 years of operation in a market mainly dominated by conventional banks, 81MB has still unable to achieve its target of capturing a significant portion of th is market. In this paper, the writer tries to observe the main differences between the conventional and Islamic banking system Malaysia in relation to loan repayments. Through this observation, strengths and weaknesses of the Islamic banking system can be identified. Recommendations can be made to help enhancing BIMB's performance in achieving …

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Credit Scoring For Microfinance: Can It Work?, Mark Schreiner Sep 2000

Credit Scoring For Microfinance: Can It Work?, Mark Schreiner

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

In rich countries, lenders often rely on credit scoring--formulae to predict risk based on the performance of past loans with characteristics similar to current loans--to inform decisions. Can credit scoring do the same for microfinance lenders in poor countries? This paper argues that scoring does have a place in microfinance. Although scoring is less powerful in poor countries than in rich countries, and although scoring will not replace the personal knowledge of character of loan officers or of loan groups, scoring can improve estimates of risk. Thus, scoring complements--but does not replace--current microfinance technologies. Furthermore, the derivation of the scoring …

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Underwriter Reputation And Short-Run Ipo Returns: A Re-Evaluation For An Emerging Market , Nuray Guner, Zeynep Onder, Seza Danisoglu Rhoades Sep 2000

Underwriter Reputation And Short-Run Ipo Returns: A Re-Evaluation For An Emerging Market , Nuray Guner, Zeynep Onder, Seza Danisoglu Rhoades

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Global Games: Theory And Applications, Stephen Morris, Hyun Song Shin Sep 2000

Global Games: Theory And Applications, Stephen Morris, Hyun Song Shin

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Global games are games of incomplete information whose type space is determined by the players each observing a noisy signal of the underlying state. With strategic complementarities, global games often have a unique, dominance solvable equilibrium, allowing analysis of a number of economic models of coordination failure. For symmetric binary action global games, equilibrium strategies in the limit (as noise becomes negligible) are simple to characterize in terms of ‘diffuse’ beliefs over the actions of others. We describe a number of economic applications that fall in this category. We also explore the distinctive roles of public and private information in …

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Global Games: Theory And Applications, Stephen Morris, Hyun Song Shin Sep 2000

Global Games: Theory And Applications, Stephen Morris, Hyun Song Shin

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Global games are games of incomplete information whose type space is determined by the players each observing a noisy signal of the underlying state. With strategic complementarities, global games often have a unique, dominance solvable equilibrium, allowing analysis of a number of economic models of coordination failure. For symmetric binary action global games, equilibrium strategies in the limit (as noise becomes negligible) are simple to characterize in terms of ‘diffuse’ beliefs over the actions of others. We describe a number of economic applications that fall in this category. We also explore the distinctive roles of public and private information in …

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Investment Incentives In Procurement Auctions, Leandro Arozamena, Estelle Cantillon Sep 2000

Investment Incentives In Procurement Auctions, Leandro Arozamena, Estelle Cantillon

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We investigate firms’ incentives for cost reduction in the first price sealed bid auction, a format largely used for procurement. A central feature of the model is that we allow firms to be heterogeneous. Though private value first price auctions are not games with monotonic best responses, we find that for comparative statics purposes they behave like these games. In particular, firms will tend to underinvest in cost reduction because they anticipate fiercer head-on competition. Using the second price auction as a benchmark, we also find that the first price auction will elicit less investment from market participants. Moreover, both …

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Factors Encouraging The Growth Of Sustainable Communities: A Jamaican Case Study, Eleanor Wint Sep 2000

Factors Encouraging The Growth Of Sustainable Communities: A Jamaican Case Study, Eleanor Wint

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The concept of sustainable communities assumes a process of social and/or economic development that has as a high priority, the needs of the future generation. However, models of social and economic development employed in developing countries, must rely heavily on political, social and psychological empowerment techniques being employed at the community level, in order to warrant any type of sustainability becoming apparent. A case study taken from Kingston, Jamaica recounts and examines the experience of a Social Work Unit/private company in partnership, becoming involved in a low-income community's drive for sustainable development. The paper will reflect on the intervention, the …

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Review Of "The Economics Of The Good Society: The Variety Of Economic Arrangements" By J. S. Berliner, Frederic L. Pryor Sep 2000

Review Of "The Economics Of The Good Society: The Variety Of Economic Arrangements" By J. S. Berliner, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

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Dotcoms: Evolution Or Revolution?, Rishikesha T Krishnan, D Sampath Sep 2000

Dotcoms: Evolution Or Revolution?, Rishikesha T Krishnan, D Sampath

IIMB Management Review

The young dotcom turks, consultants, venture capitalist academic experts, HR, and media professionals who debated on the dotcom phenomenon were Ravi Anshuman. Assistant Professor; Finance & Control, IIMB; Akhil Awasthi, Vice President, Baring Private Equity Partners; Jagadish N Bapat, Director HR, LG Soft India; Simon Bell, Principal, and Rahul Chadha, A T Kearney; Somnath Chowdhury, Editor; IT Space.com; Ajith Isaac, CEO, go4careers .com; Praveen Kanipakkam, President, Sharp Software; Nitin Karve, Partner in-Charge, KPMG, Bangalore; Arun Korati, Associate Vice President and Deepa Sankaran, Manager~ IL & FS Venture Corporation.; V S Sudhakar; CEO, FABMART; Dvvijendra Tripathi, business historian and former Professor …

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Fair Shares: Accountability And Cognitive Dissonance In Allocation Decisions, James Konow Sep 2000

Fair Shares: Accountability And Cognitive Dissonance In Allocation Decisions, James Konow

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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Chasing The Elderly: Can State And Local Governments Attract Recent Retirees?, William Duncombe, Mark Robbins, Douglas A. Wolf Sep 2000

Chasing The Elderly: Can State And Local Governments Attract Recent Retirees?, William Duncombe, Mark Robbins, Douglas A. Wolf

Center for Policy Research

Recruiting recent retirees to relocate from elsewhere has become an important economic development strategy in an increasing number of states. State governments have planned or enacted a variety of tax and fee incentives to lure retirees. The objective of this paper is to determine whether states can, in fact, influence the retirement destination of elder households using fiscal tools. To estimate the determinants of retiree location decisions we have developed an extensive data set on county attributes, and a methodology for estimating an individual-level discrete-choice model for a very large number of potential locations. Using 1990 county-to-county migration data, we …

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Group Wage Curves, Timothy J. Bartik Sep 2000

Group Wage Curves, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Using panel data on U.S. MSAs, this paper estimates how a typical MSA's wages of different demographic groups, and prices, are affected by overall MSA unemployment, the distribution of unemployment among different groups, and national prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high-unemployment groups for unemployment reductions will not reduce wage or price inflation pressures. The estimates also show that the effects of MSA unemployment on prices and disadvantaged groups' wages are …

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Review Of Disposable People: New Slavery In The Global Economy. Kevin Bales. Reviewed By Jo Beall,London School Of Economics., Jo Beall Sep 2000

Review Of Disposable People: New Slavery In The Global Economy. Kevin Bales. Reviewed By Jo Beall,London School Of Economics., Jo Beall

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Kevin Bales, Disposable people: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $24.95 hardcover.

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Budgetary Institutions In Turkey , Izak Atiyas, Serif Sayin Sep 2000

Budgetary Institutions In Turkey , Izak Atiyas, Serif Sayin

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Decomposition Of Income Inequality: Evidence From Turkey , Jacques Silber, Süleyman Ozmucur Sep 2000

Decomposition Of Income Inequality: Evidence From Turkey , Jacques Silber, Süleyman Ozmucur

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Agriculture Outcomes And Monetary Policy Actions: Kissin' Cousins?, Burton W. Pflueger Aug 2000

Agriculture Outcomes And Monetary Policy Actions: Kissin' Cousins?, Burton W. Pflueger

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Agriculture Outcomes And Monetary Policy Actions: Kissin' Cousins?, Burton W. Pflueger Aug 2000

Agriculture Outcomes And Monetary Policy Actions: Kissin' Cousins?, Burton W. Pflueger

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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South Dakota's Changing Agricultural Structure, Matthew Diersen Aug 2000

South Dakota's Changing Agricultural Structure, Matthew Diersen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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South Dakota's Changing Agricultural Structure, Matthew Diersen Aug 2000

South Dakota's Changing Agricultural Structure, Matthew Diersen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Identifying And Responding To Skills Shortages, David L. Passmore Aug 2000

Identifying And Responding To Skills Shortages, David L. Passmore

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Skills shortages limit economic growth. Tight labor markets in the United States have highlighted for policy–makers the problems that skills shortages create for the economy. Yet, it is difficult to document and respond to skills shortages. No single, direct measure identifies a skills shortage. Identification requires multiple economic indicators. When skills shortages are identified, prescription of responses to alleviate shortages is equally problematic. Selection of investment in training as one response requires that other factors affecting labor supply and price must be ruled out as contributing causes of shortages.

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Graph Theory, Job-Labour System And Manpower Planning, Kwai Wing Leung Aug 2000

Graph Theory, Job-Labour System And Manpower Planning, Kwai Wing Leung

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

People working in a community can be grouped into clusters of varying education/training background. Flowing of workers between groups is evident, with movement starting from birth and ending to death. Graph theory is applied to denote the system. Analogy to an electric circuit is referred for quick over-viewing and solution. Figures for manpower planning are predicted.

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Adapting The System Of Continuing Vocational Education For The 3rd Industrial Revolution: Experiences From The Swedish Pilot Project With Ave, Mats Lindell Aug 2000

Adapting The System Of Continuing Vocational Education For The 3rd Industrial Revolution: Experiences From The Swedish Pilot Project With Ave, Mats Lindell

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper analyses problems associated with adapting the system of continuing vocational education (CVT) to the rapidly changing Swedish labour market. The key question asked in the paper is how CVT is going to adapt to a labour market characterised by a growing ITeconomy. The paper also presents empirical data from the pilot project in Sweden called Advanced Vocational Education. AVE is a new form of post-secondary education designed to meet changing technology and skill requirements. The paper concludes that AVE is a step in the right direction in decreasing the gap between demand and supply.

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Mining Labour Market Information For Use In Developing An It Manpower Predictive Model, Gar-Yun Garry Suen Aug 2000

Mining Labour Market Information For Use In Developing An It Manpower Predictive Model, Gar-Yun Garry Suen

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

To improve the information content of the data and to empower knowledge workers of today and tomorrow, the latest “hot” technologies that have emerged on the client/server arena are focused on filtering unnecessary data and presenting the valuable information in a user-friendly, intuitive, and easy to understand way. One of these technologies is data mining. This paper will highlight the significant of discovering meaningful new correlations, patterns, and trends by digging into (mining) large amounts of labour market information (LMI) stored in databases, using artificial-intelligence (AI) and statistical and mathematical techniques. For experimental purpose, a manpower predictive model will be …

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Chronic Illness And Health Insurance-Related Job Lock, Eleaonr D. Kinney, Thomas J. Kniesner, Kevin Stroupe Aug 2000

Chronic Illness And Health Insurance-Related Job Lock, Eleaonr D. Kinney, Thomas J. Kniesner, Kevin Stroupe

Economics - All Scholarship

We examine job duration patterns for evidence of health insurance-related job lock among chronically ill workers or workers with a chronically ill family member. Using Cox proportional hazard models, we allow for more general insurance effects than in the existing literature to indicate the impact of health insurance and health status on workers' job durations. We use data for workers in Indiana predating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to examine the potential impact of HIPAA on job mobility. Chronic illness reduced job mobility by about 40 percent among the workers in our sample who relied on their …

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Measuring The Career Concerns Of Security Analysts: Job Separations, Stock Coverage Assignments And Brokerage House Status, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Harrison Hong Aug 2000

Measuring The Career Concerns Of Security Analysts: Job Separations, Stock Coverage Assignments And Brokerage House Status, Jeffrey D. Kubik, Harrison Hong

Economics - All Scholarship

This paper examines the career concerns of security analysts using long histories of their earnings forecasts, job separations and stock coverage assignments. Our findings include the following. Relatively good (accurate) past forecast performance increases the probability that an analyst moves from a low status to a high status (large, prestigious) brokerage house, while relatively poor past forecast performance leads to movements down the brokerage house hierarchy. High status brokerage houses are more likely to discharge an analyst for poor past forecast performance than other houses. In addition, analysts with poor past forecast performances but who do not change employers are …

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Whatever Happened To Truth, Justice, And The American Way?, Don P. Diffine Ph.D. Aug 2000

Whatever Happened To Truth, Justice, And The American Way?, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Books

The story of the American incentive system is the story of all the people in it. Each American needs to know how he fits into the story, what his part is, and what he can do to make the picture better. This book also celebrates, and puts great emphasis on, our Creator who made life not only possible but also worthwhile. Any yet, as Americans are so cosmopolitan in personality, they certainly are not of one mind on the issue of free, private enterprise. Many Americans seem to assume that free enterprise is a natural condition, but the fact is …

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Faulty Communication, Stephen Morris Aug 2000

Faulty Communication, Stephen Morris

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The electronic mail game of Rubinstein (1989) showed that a lack of common knowledge generated by faulty communication can make coordinated action impossible. This paper shows how this conclusion is robust to having a more realistic timing structure of messages, more than two players who meet publicly but not as a plenary group, and strategic decisions about whether to communicate.

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