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Minimum Wage As A Tool For Combatting Renter Burdens, Jack Hanson

Student Research – Stevenson Center

There is a severe shortage of affordable housing in the United States. In 2011, the number of low-cost rental units (units renting for $800 or less per month) stood around 23.5 million, but by 2017, this number dropped to 19.5 million, roughly a 17% decrease (Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2020). The result is that in 2020, only 37 affordable units exist for every 100 of the nation’s 10.8 million extremely low-income renters (those earning 30% or less of the area median income) (National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2021). One contributing factor is that higher-income households are beginning to rent …

The Symbolic Work Of Prices, Akash Miharia, Jan Osborn, Bart J. Wilson

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

We posit that prices are signs, not just signals, that work in the same symbolic way as words. Both are complex, generative systems of shared meaning that rely on a web of intricate symbolic references. Just like the meaning of a word is a product of our social and linguistic action, the meaning of a price is a product of our relationship to the physical world phenomena of people in markets. The fundamental conception of both is to communicate and construct worlds with ourselves and others, enabling us to act in the world. Prices, like words, do symbolic work.

Peranan Divisi Human Capital Dalam Menerapkanprogram Medical Plan Pada Exxonmobil Indonesia, Mohammad Ridha, Fedora Lola

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

The background of this research is about how crucial is the role of Human Capital division of employee health in increasing work productivity to reach the company goals. This aim to explain the role of Human Capital division in implementing the Medical Plan Program in ExxonMobil Indonesia, explaining the administrative process of the Medical Plan Program, and explaining the visualization of Reimbursement Procedure information, research results, analysis of the process of implementing the Medical Plan Program, and obstacles. The research method uses data collection methods by taking data in ExxonMobil Indonesia and doing literature studies that support the theory of …

Evaluasi Pengkreditan Pajak Masukanbagi Pengusaha Kena Pajak Belum Berproduksipasca Omnibus Law Studi Kasus Pt Z, Elsie Sylviana Kasim, Qanitha Mayra Salsabila

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

Crediting input tax prior to the Omnibus Law is only for the acquisition and/or import of capital goods. After the Omnibus Law, input tax credits are not only limited to the acquisition and/or import of capital goods. This study discusses input tax crediting for Taxable Entrepreneurs who have not produced after the Omnibus Law at PT Z. The data collection techniques used in this research are library research and field research. The results of the research and analysis can be concluded as follows: the input tax of Rp.391,869,212 is the acquisition of Taxable Goods or Taxable Services which are not …

Pengaruh Budaya Organisasi Dan Komitmen Organisasi Terhadapkepuasan Kerja Dan Turnover Intention Pada Perawat Rumahsakit Ibu Dan Anak Eria Bunda Pekanbaru, Umi Kalsum, Harlen Harlen

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

This research was conducted based on the phenomenon that occurred about organizational culture and organizational commitment to job satisfaction and turnover intention at RSIA Eria Bunda Pekanbaru. The population in this study were all nurses at RSIA Eria Bunda Pekanbaru, amounting to 83 people, because the population was limited, the population was used as a sample. The data analysis technique used is Sem Smart-PLS 3.0. The results of this study that organizational culture and commitment have a significant effect on job satisfaction, organizational commitment has an effect on turnover intention, organizational culture and job satisfaction have no effect on turnover …

Analisis Program Pengembangan Usaha Mikro, Kecil, Danmenengah (Umkm) Oleh Pt Lima Pondasi Bersama, Risca Fleureta Hudiyono, Dinda Safitri

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

The development of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) requires a joint role from the surrounding environment, both from regulators and other companies. PT Lima Pondasi Bersama was established to help MSMEs around East Jakarta to be more resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the programs organized by PT Lima Pondasi Bersama in developing MSMEs. Through interviews and cyber searches on the programs of this company, the researchers compared them with government program policies to analyze the accuracy of the programs being implemented. The results of the study show that the PT Lima Pondasi Bersama …

Pengembalian Berkas Rekam Medis Pasien Rawat Inap: Capaianstandar Mutu Dan Faktor Penyebab Keterlambatan, Mutiara Elda Septiani, Elsa Roselina

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

Returning medical records is the beginning of processing patient medical records. The return of the patient's medical record is one of the quality standards of the medical record unit, which must be done a maximum of 1x24 hours after the patient going home. This study aims to determine the achievement of quality standards of medical record files for inpatients at Z Hospital, time of return, time of delay and factors causing delays in medical records. The research was conducted at the Medical Record Unit of Z Hospital with a mixed methods approach. Data collection was carried out from March to …

Cadangan Imbalan Pasca-Kerja Undang-Undang Nomor 13/2003tentang Ketenagakerjaan Dengan Metodeprojected Unit Credit, Kuncoro Haryo Pribadi, Engel Lubis

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

Reserve for post-employment benefits is the amount of money set aside by the Employer to be paid when an employee stops working. The purpose of the research, methods and result is not written in policy impact or practice impact. The purpose of this research is to get input from practitioners to revise if there is a shortage, so it can match the feedback and there is no rejection from the worker. The purpose of interview and documentation method, qualitative descriptive, primary and secondary data sources, result are to find out the number of company liability towards fulfillment of responsibility for …

Analisis Pengaruh Total Assets Turnover, Working Capitalturnover, Debt To Equity Ratio, Dan Current Ratio Terhadapkinerja Keuangan Perusahaan, Hanifah Aidha Zakaria Putri, Kiagus Andi, Ahmad Zubaidi Indra

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

This study aims to determine how the influence of Total Assets Turnover, Working Capital Turnover, Debt to Equity Ratio, and Current Ratio on the Company's Financial Performance. The company's financial performance can be described one of them through the company's financial ratios which can be seen and known through the company's financial statements. There are 3 financial ratios with 4 measurement methods used in this study: Activity Ratio (Total Assets Turnover and Working Capital Turnover), Leverage Ratio (Debt to Equity Ratio), and Liquidity Ratio (Current Ratio). This study uses a quantitative method using the Slovin technique and stratified random sampling …

Strategi Komunikasi Pemasaran Kedai Kopi Dalammeningkatkan Kesadaran Merek Melalui Instagram(Studi Kasus Salah Satu Kedai Kopi Di Depok Jawa Barat), Ngurah Rangga Wiwesa, Danurifqi Pramulia, Rahmi Setiawati

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

The technology that is currently developing brings several creative industries in Indonesia, including the coffee shop and cafe business. In increasing brand awareness in order to compete, it is necessary to use marketing communication strategies, including through the use of direct and digital marketing trends, especially the use of social media channels. Among the many choices of social media channels, Instagram is the choice for one of the cafes in the city of Depok, West Java, to use marketing communication strategies to increase brand awareness, which is currently at the brand recognition stage. This study aims to determine the coffee …

Organizing Economies: Narrative Sensemaking And Communciative Resilience During Economic Disruption, Timothy Betts

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation unites organizational communication, and economic theory to understand how individuals make sense of economic crises, imbed power and logic in those understandings, and construct new economic realities in the aftermath of crisis. Contra economic orthodoxy, this project conceives of economy and economics as a social construct. As a social construct, individuals organize economy and economics through discourse, make sense of through narrative, and rebuild through communication. This dissertation combines different theoretical perspectives—actor-network theory, antenarrative organization theory, and the communication theory of resilience—to recenter social scientific accounts of economic reality around communication, story, and power.

Specifically, I focus on …

A Universally Translatable Explication Of Adam Smith's Famous Proposition On "The Extent Of The Market", Bart J. Wilson, Gian Marco Farese

ESI Publications

Following Adam Smith’s line of argument, we examine the semantics of four economic principles in Chapter III of the Wealth of Nations that compose his famous proposition “that the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market.” We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework in linguistics to produce a series of explications that are clear and plain, cross-translatable into any language, intelligible to twenty-first-century readers, and faithfully close to the original text. Our paper explicates Smith’s logical argument in Chapter III and demonstrates how his ideas can be shared among speakers with different linguacultural backgrounds in line …

Preventing (Panic) Bank Runs, Hubert János Kiss, Ismael Rodriguez-Lara, Alfonso Rosa-Garcia

ESI Publications

We study experimentally an instrument to prevent bank runs in healthy banks. In particular, we extend the basic bank-run game, where depositors choose between withdrawing or keeping their money deposited, with a third option, the possibility to relocate funds to a priority account that is less profitable, but which guarantees a payoff even in a bank run. Theoretically, the use of this instrument dominates withdrawals for depositors without liquidity needs, and given this fact, depositors should optimally keep their deposits in the bank, so no bank run shall happen. In our experiment, we find evidence that the mechanism reduces not …

Working Paper No. 54, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen And Ecological Economics, Miriam Silverman

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that in his book The Entropy Law and the Economic Process [1971] (2013), author Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen provides a foundation for Ecological Economics. The Entropy Law implies that the economic process is limited because it is reliant on finite natural resources, e.g., fossil fuels and minerals, as the economic process involves relying upon low-entropy natural resources in the production of consumer goods, and then results in the discarding of high-entropy waste, e.g., heat in the form of CO₂ and other greenhouse gasses, into the environment, eventually resulting in noticeable degradation. Notably, these ideas from Georgescu-Roegen’s …

Working Paper No. 55, An Inquiry Into The Assumptions And Tenets Of Neoclassical Economics That Lead Towards Income Inequality, Katharine Nester

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that key assumptions foundational to Neoclassical Economics contribute towards income inequality. A consideration of the Neoclassical interpretation and assumptions of the laissez-faire approach to market economies opens the inquiry. I examine the economic outcomes that result when the assumptions underpinning the Neoclassical application of laissez-faire are false, as they often are in the real world. The inquiry then turns to the theories and natural “laws” as advanced by Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) and John Bates (J. B.) Clark (1847-1938), which were built upon the Neoclassical adaptation of laissez-faire and became canon in the Neoclassical school. Finally, …

Working Paper No. 59, Cultural Imperialism And Hegemony, Maria Zavala

Working Papers in Economics

While the traditional colonial imperialism of France and Great Britain ended after World War Two, it can be argued that a new form of imperialism replaced it. What is known as “cultural imperialism” includes the art of inserting a covert idea into person's mind by use of popular culture. Herein, Antonio Gramsci’s ideas of cultural imperialism are contemplated. This paper explores the topic by focusing upon some of the effects that popular American music has had on Latin music and the changes in culturally acceptable trends that have followed. Then, American beauty standards and the Eurocentric beauty standards of Latin …

Working Paper No. 64, Ecological Economics Versus Environmental Economics, Audrey Demeaux

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that the field within the Discipline of Economic Science known as Ecological Economics is based upon assumptions and methodological foundations that differ from the field of Environmental Economics. It shall be argued that Environmental Economics did not emerge as the result of a new shift in economic thinking, but rather formed around a reorientation of standard neoclassical assumptions. This was undertaken in an effort to address environmental issues emerging several decades back. In contrast, it shall be argued that the field of Ecological Economics has brought to the Economics Discipline an appreciation for novel assumptions …

Working Paper No. 66, Sir John Bowring, Trade Policies And Economic Development In Siam, Jackrit Kamudhamas

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that during the mid-19th century Sir John Bowring emerged as a proponent who formulated distinct trade policies that served to promote the economic development of Siam (Thailand). This thesis is supported with three parts. The first part investigates the trade policies of the Burney Treaty as the first step towards the initiation of a new form of foreign trade policies between Siam and the British Empire and other western countries. The second part explores further Sir Bowing’s thoughts and his mission in achieving the adjusting agreements of the Bowring Treaty. And lastly, the third part …

Working Paper No. 65, On Debt, Enclosure And Witchcraft, Anonymous

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that the process of commons-enclosure taking place in 14th-16th century Europe also required an “enclosure” of the female body, which was carried out by introducing radically novel conceptions of debt. The dual processes of bodily dispossession and debt imposition acted as a single force which is paradoxically the origin and effect of capitalist accumulation. This process began in Europe during the period of “transition” between feudalism and capitalism but has remained an essential component of capitalist accumulation through to globalization in contemporary times. To support this thesis, this inquiry considers the evolution of debt; the …

Review Of Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism, Jared Rubin

ESI Publications

A review of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin M. Friedman

Essays On Social Choice And Implementation Theory, Paulo Daniel Salles Ramos

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

We present here three essays. The first two are about Social Choice Theory and explore under what domain restrictions is possible to obtain a Social Choice Function that is Well Behaved as well as Monotonic, and what other characteristics can be inferred about such functions on that domain. The last essay is about Implementation Theory and explore how to obtain a more compelling form of implementation than pure Nash Equilibrium for finite environments using finite mechanisms.

Effect Of Monetary Policy Rate On Market Interest Rates In Nigeria: A Threshold And Nardl Approach, Oluwafemi E. Awopegba, Joseph O. Afolabi, Lydia T. Adeoye, Godwin O. Akpokodje

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This study examines the effect of monetary policy rate (MPR) on market interest rates in Nigeria. For parsimony, we develop two indexes called the short-term interest rate (SINT) and Lending interest rate (LINT) to represent deposit and lending rates respectively. The nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) and threshold regression models are adopted. The study uses monthly data from 2002:M1 to 2019:M12. The results of the threshold regression model indicate that the degree of the effect of MPR on SINT and LINT above the estimated threshold of 11 and 13 percent respectively is greater and significant than if MPR were to …

Social Dimension Of Inclusive Growth In Ecowas: Implication For Poverty Reduction, Toriola K. Anu, Goerge O. Emmanuel, Ajayi O. Felix

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This study investigates the implication of the social dimension of inclusive growth on poverty reduction in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries. It specifically examines how social indices of inclusive growth comprising of income inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the six (6) lower-middle income countries in ECOWAS which was analysed via panel Difference Generalised Method of Moment (D-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health outcomes do not show significant effect on poverty. Although, the estimates of …

Effect Of Fdi Inflows On Employment Generation In Selected Ecowas Countries: Heterogeneous Panel Analysis, Timothy A. Aderemi, Olawunmi Omitogun, Bukonla G. Osisanwo

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of FDI on employment in ECOWAS sub region between 1990 and 2019. The study utilizes a panel autoregressive distributed lag model to analyse the short run and long run relationship between FDI and employment across ECOWAS sub region. In the short run, the impact of FDI on employment is negative and statistically not significant. Meanwhile, in the long run FDI has a positive and statistically significant impact on employment rate. This implies that FDI has the capacity to generate employment in countries in ECOWAS sub region. Therefore, this study recommends …

Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On The Nigeria Stock Market: A Sectoral Stock Prices Analysis, Peter A. Adekunle, Yakubu A. Bello, Udochukwu G. Nwachukwu

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sectoral stock prices in Nigeria stock market using daily data covering from February 28, 2020 to June 26, 2020. Applying the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test, the study finds that COVID-19 pandemic had adverse impact on the stock market indices in the short run. Furthermore, the study documents negative response of sectoral stock prices to the pandemic while the stock prices of the banking sub-sector are the worst hit. Compared to the consumer goods, and industrial subsector indices, the speed of adjustment to long run equilibrium is faster for …

Weak Identification Of Long Memory With Implications For Inference, Jia Li, Peter C. B. Phillips, Shuping Shi, Jun Yu

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper explores weak identification issues arising in commonly used models of economic and financial time series. Two highly popular configurations are shown to be asymptotically observationally equivalent: one with long memory and weak autoregressive dynamics, the other with antipersistent shocks and a near-unit autoregressive root. We develop a data-driven semiparametric and identification-robust approach to inference that reveals such ambiguities and documents the prevalence of weak identification in many realized volatility and trading volume series. The identification-robust empirical evidence generally favors long memory dynamics in volatility and volume, a conclusion that is corroborated using social-media news flow data.

Political Legitimacy In Historical Political Economy, Avner Greif, Jared Rubin

ESI Working Papers

Political legitimacy has long been recognized in the social sciences as an integral component of governance. It encourages obedience without the threat of force, thus lowering governing costs and improving the efficacy of policies. This chapter begins by overviewing the extensive literature on political legitimacy, classifying studies by whether they are based on the beliefs (regarding the legitimacy of the authority) or effectiveness (good governance is legitimate governance). Among the studies focusing on beliefs, most take legitimacy as an exogenous element of political authority. We develop a conceptual framework to study how beliefs regarding political legitimacy form endogenously and impact …

300 Anniversary Of Smith’ Birth, Vernon L. Smith

ESI Working Papers

Thousand-word brief on key quotes from Adam Smith’s two books (TMS, WN) modelling Society and Economy.

Inaccessible Interpolated Imagery: How Coffee Farmers In The State Of Chiapas Might Access Political Economic Opportunity Through Representation, Paolo Fiann Bicchieri

Master's Theses

Here is a useful parable to boil down the idea of this project and set the tone: when one goes to the bar to tell a story about a fight at the bar, they would never venture to place themselves as the hero of the brawl, taking out three drunkards in a single punch, unless they were really in the bar, at that time, fighting a good fight. One would never do this as the bartender, locals, and regulars would all know if this were the case or not. Yet transnational corporations, governments, and even consumers do this all the …

Essays In Advertising, Regulation And Consumer Naivety, Aastha Gupta

Economics Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on the theoretical analysis of regulation of firm’s communication regarding the quality of its product and the impact of such regulation on market outcome.

The first essay, “Advertising Through Influencers and Disclosure Regulation”, focuses on the recent FTC regulations which require mandatory disclosure of all paid advertising content through social media influencers. This chapter investigates the impact of this disclosure policy on market outcomes when the influencer has the expertise to evaluate product quality and influence the beliefs of both potential buyers as well as the firm. In markets where the influencers …