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How Short And Long Term Interdependencies Have Changed Due To The Global Financial Crisis, Lungowe Andala

Theses : Honours

This study investigates how short and long term interdependencies have changed among ten countries grouped into countries from the same region (close geographical proximity) as a result of the recent Global Financial Crisis. A number of econometrics methodologies are employed in doing the analysis. Johansen's cointegration methodology is carried out to assess whether the stock markets have long run interdependencies and whether these interdependencies have changed as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. For the stock markets not cointegrated Granger Causality is carried out to analyze short run interdependencies between pairs of stock markets. Furthermore, generalized Impulse Response Function …

Local Economic Development: Researching Clusters In Woodford County, Kentucky, Tom Middleton

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Woodford Tomorrow, a citizen economic development planning group in Woodford County, is interested in promoting cluster development. Clusters are a geographic concentration of businesses and institutions which interact and collaborate within a particular economic sector. This report provides quantitative analysis of three clusters: (1) health, (2) agriculture, and (3) arts, entertainment, and tourism. The majority of this data comes from the consulting firm Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.

The agriculture cluster has many industries, specifically in the crop and animal production and manufacturing sectors, which appear to be potential industries to target. The hotel and motel industry seems to be an …

The Happiness Of Single Mothers After Welfare Reform, John Ifcher

Economics

U.S. welfare and tax policies targeting single mothers were transformed over a decade ago. What was the impact on single mothers' happiness? Using data from the General Social Survey, difference in difference estimators are calculated. The results appear to indicate that the package of welfare and tax policy changes increased happiness. The results are largely consistent across three comparison groups and robust to various specification checks. This research nicely complements the literature by examining the impact of the welfare and tax policy changes on a novel outcome measure, self-reported happiness.

Advances In Economic Forecasting, Matthew L. Higgins Editor

Upjohn Press

This book's contributors assess the performance of economic forecasting methods, argue that data can be better exploited through model and forecast combination, and advocate for models that are adaptive and perform well in the presence of nonlinearity and structural change. The contributors are: Michael D. Bradley, Dean Croshure, Dennis W. Jansen, Kajal Lahiri, Tae-Hwy Lee, David E. Rapach, and H.O. Stekler.

Longevity Policy: Facing Up To Longevity Issues Affecting Social Security, Pensions, And Older Workers, John A. Turner

Upjohn Press

Turner argues that public policy should recognize longevity policy as a distinct policy area. Rather than separately treating issues raised by life expectancy (e.g., Social Security, pensions, older workers), a unified approach should be developed that recognizes their interrelationship.

The Transformation Of The American Pension System: Was It Beneficial For Workers?, Edward N. Wolff

Upjohn Press

The share of Americans with defined contribution pension plans now exceeds the share of those with defined benefit plans. Wolff refers to this as the "great transformation" and it leads him to examine recent evidence to see whether there are winners and losers resulting from this switch away from traditional pension plans.

Imagining The Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives, Dana M. Muir Editor, John A. Turner Editor

Upjohn Press

Muir and Turner gather an international roster of pension experts who present what they think would be the ideal pension systems for their countries and why. Those countries include the United States, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, and Japan.

The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences And Evaluation Findings, Douglas J. Besharov Editor, Phoebe H. Cottingham Editor

Upjohn Press

This volume examines WIA’s objectives and the evidence on program performance and impact. The chapters are organized into five general areas: 1) understanding WIA, 2) program implementation, 3) performance management, 4) impact evaluations, and 5) future evaluation choices.

Rulc/Rxr Update, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Notes on cointegration testing procedures for exchange rate models — Shaikh, A., PhD. Unpublished manuscript notes, dated December 2, 2011.
• Notes on OECD aggregate weighting and lag-selection criteria — Shaikh, A., PhD. Unpublished manuscript notes, undated.
• Explaining long term exchange rate behavior in the United States and Japan — Shaikh, A., and Antonopoulos, R. Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 250, published 1998. This copy is a later revised version with data updated through 2008; the revision itself is undated.
• My XR theory: short run adjustments — Shaikh, A., PhD. Unpublished manuscript notes, dated …

آنکھیں تو کھول : ایسے معاشی ترقی کیلئے تحریک بھی بن سکتے ہیں, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

The article discusses the economic impact of the 2010 floods in Pakistan, including damage to infrastructure, agriculture, and livelihoods, and calls for inclusive economic development strategies that involve international partners, government, and local communities.

Three Essays On The Impact Of Information And Transparency In Firms, Lloyd R. Wade

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of three essays on the information and transparency in firms. In the first essay, we provide some of the first evidence regarding the impact of safety expenditures on moral hazard induced by increases in workers' compensation benefits. Prior studies have inferred the effect of safety incentives by testing the relation between claims frequency and benefit increases. However, these studies have not explicitly modeled the impact of actual safety expenditures. Using a proprietary dataset containing policy-level data for several thousand policies over a 13-year period we show that safety expenditures play a positive role in reducing the moral …

What Works In Work-First Welfare: Designing And Managing Employment Programs In New York City, Andrew R. Feldman

Upjohn Press

This book is a case study of how New York City's welfare-to-work programs were managed and implemented in the mid 2000s. Feldman also analyzes the unique characteristics that differentiate it from other programs in place across the country.

Ral 2011, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes,

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2011, November 22). Notes on Goodwin-type models, the reserve army of labor (RAL), and class struggle [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2012, January 24). RAL data dynamics: Goodwin-type relations, quarterly data, and econometrics, with handwritten derivations [Handwritten notes].

• Blight, J. G., & Lang, J. M. (2012, October 26). How Castro held the world hostage. The New York Times. New York, NY.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2012, October 26). Notes on stationary systems and Keynesian effects, written on a clipping from The New York Times [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., …

Vmi Rev 3b.Docx 2_23_11 And Original Version, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes,

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2010, September 10). Notes on a submission printout discussing Amartya Sen’s 1976 paper [Handwritten notes, unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD., & Ragab, A. (2011, February 23). An international comparison of the incomes of the vast majority [Revised draft for submission to the Cambridge Journal of Economics, unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). VMI approach: Notes discussing Sen’s criterion for evaluation of income profiles [Handwritten notes, unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). VMI paper: CJE, notes discussing critiques of social welfare functions and the role of econophysics [Handwritten notes, unpublished …

Classical Theory Output Level, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Classical theory: output level (Unpublished manuscript) (22-23_Clas... p. 1).
• Shaikh, A. (2011). Output level classical theory.xlsx (Unpublished dataset) (22-23_Clas... p. 2).
• Shaikh, A. (2011). Output level in economic theories (Unpublished manuscript) (22-23_Clas... p. 5).
• Godley, W., & Shaikh, A. (2002). An important inconsistency at the heart of the standard macroeconomic model. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 24(3), 423–441. Taylor & Francis (22-23_Clas... p. 20).
• Gandolfo, G. (1985). Economic dynamics: Methods and models. North-Holland (22-23_Clas... p. 20).

Power And Capitalism Panel, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (2011, April). Comments on hegemony in academia, neoclassical economics, and vested interests (Handwritten note) (23-11_Powe... p. 2).
• Shaikh, A. (2011, April). My story: reflections on the Cambridge capital controversy, empirical production functions, and neoliberalism (Handwritten note) (23-11_Powe... p. 3).
• The New School. (2011, April 15–16). Power and the history of capitalism (Conference program). The New School (23-11_Powe... pp. 4-10).
• Milberg, W. (2011, April 15). Hegemony panel (Email) (23-11_Powe... p. 11).

Inflation, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Inflation & fluid flow analogy (file folder). Anwar Shaikh, PhD, 2011.
• Thruput NIPA and excess demand (manuscript outline). Anwar Shaikh, PhD, May 15, 2011.
• Thruput as growth limit (manuscript outline). Anwar Shaikh, PhD, May 2011.
• Lectures on the theory of production. Luigi L. Pasinetti, Columbia University Press, 1977, Columbia University Press.
• Thruput model (handwritten notes). Anwar Shaikh, PhD, February 24, 2011.
• Alberto Nan & fas: Prop defense (handwritten notes). Anwar Shaikh, PhD, February 24, 2011.
• Water flow, electrical circuit and inflation analogy (unpublished manuscript). Anwar Shaikh, PhD, May 15, 2011.
• In my inflation equation (handwritten notes). …

Chapter 6 And Chapter 8 Tables, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (2010). Chapter 6 numerical examples: Labor values, direct prices, and prices of production (Unpublished Mathcad worksheet) 
• Shaikh, A. (2011). Chapter 8 reference tables: Price equalization, profit rate disequalization, and technical choice contenders (Unpublished Excel spreadsheet)

Price Of Slave Labor Power, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

24-46_Choice of Technology.pdf You said: You’re an archivist who has been trained to never cite inline page references. This habit is so ingrained that the pattern "(P." does not exist in your vocabulary. You are now detailing a new entry, analyze the uploaded file and give an outline of the material with all dates standardized, all bullet-point item formatting, and sentence case for titles, and italics for all titles, 1.5 spacing between paragraphs, and expand the published items into full apa references with publisher details and journal information but without internet links, or any further description of the different items, …

Consumer Search And Switching Behavior: Evidence From The Credit Card Industry, Omar Adel Abdelrahman

Wayne State University Dissertations

The introduction of the credit card in the mid-twentieth century revolutionized and transformed how people live. Based on a set of new survey data, this dissertation empirically investigates and analyzes consumers' behavior in the credit card market. Specifically, it investigates the underlying determinants of consumers' choices regarding switching credit-card balances. To estimate the likelihood that consumers switch credit cards, two logit models are estimated. Using data from the Consumer Finance Monthly (CFM) of The Ohio State University, the author finds that at the conventional 5 percent level of significance, the following variables have significance: old interest rate, new interest rate, …