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Trade, Growth and Development: The Role of Politics and Institutions
By Göte Hansson. 1993
Since the end of the second world war the economic gap between rich and poor countries has steadily widened. Trade,…
Growth and Development examines this disparity and assesses the reasons why some developing countries have been more successful than others. The book is divided into four parts: Part I examines recent developments in the theory of trade, growth and economic development; Parts II to IV present an empirical analysis of policy and performance in Latin America, Asia and Africa. As well as offering an analysis of traditional economic factors the book also emphasises the role of politics and institutions in the process of economic development.Project Execution of Mega-Projects for the Oil and Gas Industries
By Soosaiya Anthreas. 2021
This book covers execution of mega industrial projects especially in oil and gas industries covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and…
performance testing. It enumerates various tasks and deliverables under each discipline and sub-disciplines to define the detailed scope of work, supplies and services, as per level III of Prima Vera Schedule developed from the contract-based schedule. It gives an overall idea of how a project rolls out from commencement date to initial acceptance and executed practically with total contractor’s scope of work broken down into tasks/activities at level III platform, while highlighting that support for fool proof project execution.Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers
By Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham. 2020
Winner of the 2020 Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association Putting Their Hands on Race…
offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers. Drawing on a range of archival sources, this intersectional study explores how these women were significant to the racial labor and citizenship politics of their time. Their migrations to northeastern cities challenged racial hierarchies and formations. Southern Black migrant women resisted the gendered racism of domestic service, and Irish immigrant women strove to expand whiteness to position themselves as deserving of labor rights. On the racially fractious terrain of labor, Black women and Irish immigrant women, including Victoria Earle Matthews, the “Irish Rambler”, Leonora Barry, and Anna Julia Cooper, gathered data, wrote letters and speeches, marched, protested, engaged in private acts of resistance in the workplace, and created women’s institutions and organizations to assert domestic workers’ right to living wages and protection.Yale University Investments Office: February 2015
By Josh Lerner. 2015
David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment…
to illiquid investments-hedge funds, private equity, real estate-given the impact of the recent market turmoil. The case explores the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy and also considers how to classify some of the different assets. It highlights the issues around allocations across different subclasses, e.g., between venture capital, hedge funds, and real assets.Marketing Extravagante por Scott Dikkers La Historia de The Onion y Cómo Construir Una Marca Potente Sin Presupuesto de Marketing…
El autor más vendido del New York Times, Scott Dikkers, cuenta la historia hilarante, extravagante y profundamente personal de cómo construyó la fuente de noticias más confiable en Estados Unidos, The Onion. Por supuesto, todas las historias en The Onion son falsas, y cualquiera que las tome en serio es el verdadero blanco de la broma. Pero Marketing Extravagante cuenta la historia real y sin censura de The Onion. The Onion comenzó como un pequeño periódico de humor universitario en 1988. ¿Cómo fue que creció hasta convertirse en una marca de comedia mundial con millones de seguidores en las redes sociales y una horda de fanáticos en la actualidad? Las marcas de hoy tienden a seguir a la manada cuando se trata de marketing y marca, pero a menudo es ir en una dirección diferente a la de la manada lo que te hace sobresalir. The Onion hizo lo contrario de lo que se supone que deben hacer las marcas. The Onion no escuchaba a sus clientes. No les daba lo que querían. No se involucraba con ellos. Nunca era "auténtica". De hecho, todo lo que imprimía The Onion era fabricado, hablado a través de una fachada falsa. Esto no fue por accidente. Fue calculado y ejecutado con precisión. Qué hay adentro… • ¡Cómo cortejar y seducir a las personas para que se enamoren de tu marca! • ¡Cómo reclutar a las mejores y más brillantes mentes de su industria para que trabajen para usted! • ¡La mejor manera de gestionar personas creativas en su equipo y liberar TODO su potencial! • ¡El secreto para hacer que cada día de trabajo se sienta tan suave y agradable como el esquí alpino! • ¡Lo único en lo que DEBE enfocarse todo constructor de marcas (pista: no son las ganancias)! • ¿Cómo llegar a más personas y conseguir más fanStabilization and Structural Adjustment in Poland
By Henryk Kierzkowski, Marek Okolski, Stanislaw Wellisz. 1993
The Solidarity-led government which came into power in Poland in Autumn 1989 faced two enormous tasks. First, to stabilize an…
economy prone to hyperflation. Second, to replace a crumbling command system in favour of a market mechanism, in a country whose market institutions had been destroyed under forty years of communist rule. This book recounts the events of this period and the course taken by the new government, and analyzes the significance of this for the transition process in Poland and elsewhere.La chiave per iniziare a guadagnare in borsa
By Álvaro Cid. 2020
Sono a conoscenza del fatto che molte persone vorrebbero iniziare a guadagnare nel mercato della borsa. Purtroppo, però, non hanno…
ancora le competenze sufficienti per conseguirlo, ed è proprio per questo che ho scritto questo libro. La sua missione è quella di aprire gli occhi a molti su quella che è l’analisi tecnica, e spiegare come può farci ottenere un grande guadagno. In queste pagine ti insegnerò la teoria che è alla base di questa analisi, così come la sua storia e altri strumenti elementari per iniziare ad investire con il piede giusto. Sono molte le persone che non hanno queste nozioni e che, nonostante questo, riescono comunque a trarre benefici dal mercato. In ogni caso, è interessante averne una conoscenza previa e non esserne sorpresi una volta che c'è in gioco il denaro reale. Nel mercato, tutta l'ignoranza in materia si traduce in perdita, prima o poi.The Economics of Fintech
By Sahoko Kaji, Teruo Nakatsuma, Masahiro Fukuhara. 2021
This book is a collection of academic lectures given on fintech, a topic that has been written about extensively but…
only from a business or technological point of view. In contrast to other publications on the subject, this book shows the reader how fintech should be understood in relation to economics, financial theory, policy, and law. It provides introductory explanations on fintech-related concepts and instruments such as blockchains, crypto assets, machine learning, high-frequency trading, and AI. The collected lectures also point to surrounding issues including start-ups, monetary policy, asset management, cyber and other security, and stability of financial systems. The authors include professors, a former central bank official, current officials at Japan’s Financial Services Authority, a lawyer, the former dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute, and private sector professionals at the frontline of fintech. The book is most suitable for those both within and outside of academia who are beginning to learn about fintech and wish to successfully take part in the revolution that is certain to have wide-ranging effects on our economy and society.Autostereoskopische Monitore stellen eine neue Generation von Anzeigen dar, die eine Betrachtung von 3D-Inhalten ohne weitere Hilfsmittel ermöglichen. Diese Displays…
sind im Fahrzeugkontext als Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen generell geeignet und ermöglichen einem Fahrer im Vergleich zu konventionellen zweidimensionalen Anzeigen eine höhere visuelle Wahrnehmungsleistung. Für diese Arbeit wurden im Praxisfeld der Fahrer-Fahrzeug-Interaktion die Parameter der visuellen Wahrnehmungsleistung und der ergonomischen Beeinträchtigungsfreiheit in Relation zueinander gesetzt und bilden somit den Fokus der empirischen Arbeiten.World Fisheries Resources (Routledge Advances in Maritime Research)
By James R. Coull. 1993
World Fisheries Resources provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of how this commodity is used. The author examines the various…
aspects of fishing resources from their biological basis through to marketing and consumption. The subject is set in context by tracing the historical development, from its archaeological origins to the industrial expansion of the 19th and 20th centuries. The work comes up-to-date to discuss the modern situation and current trends in both the developed and developing worlds and highlights how exploitation of the resource has increased in recent years.Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2017: Volume 18 (National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy #18)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2018
The eighteenth annual volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy focuses on research that…
explores the interplay between new technologies and organizational structures, such as networks and corporations. In the first chapter, Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison explore how consumer search in a technology-mediated marketplace can affect the incentives for firms to engage in price obfuscation. In the second chapter, Aaron Chatterji focuses on the role of innovation in American primary and secondary education (K–12), emphasizing recent evidence on the efficacy of classroom technologies. The third chapter, by economic sociologist Olav Sorenson, considers how information, influence, and resources flow through innovation networks. The last two chapters focus on how corporate organizational structures influence innovation and dynamism. In the fourth chapter, Andreas Nilsson and David Robinson develop a synthetic framework for understanding the emergence and choices of social entrepreneurs and socially responsible firms. In the fifth chapter, Steven Kaplan argues that there is little empirical evidence to support the common claim that investor pressure for short-term financial results leads U.S. companies to systematically underinvest in long-term capital expenditures and R&D.Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27 (National Bureau of Economic Research Tax Policy and the Economy)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2013
Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the “fiscal cliff.” Given the importance of fiscal issues,…
it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue. In keeping with the NBER’s tradition of carrying out rigorous but policy-relevant research, Volume 27 of Tax Policy and the Economy offers insights on a number of key tax policy questions. This year's volume features six papers by leading scholars who examine the tax treatment of tuition at private K-12 schools, the potential streamlining of the federal rules for post-secondary financial aid and the use of tax return information in this process, the effect of tax and benefit programs on incentives to work, the macroeconomic effects of fiscal adjustments, and the set of factors that contributed to the weakening US fiscal outlook in the last decade.Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 26 (National Bureau of Economic Research Tax Policy and the Economy #26)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2012
There is no question that the US is facing significant fiscal challenges. Tax Policy and the Economy research papers make…
valuable contributions to our understanding of the economic effects of alternative approaches. The papers collected in Volume 26 include a study of an important determinant of the labor supply effects of Social Security; an examination of the budgetary and economic impact of changing how employer health insurance is treated in the tax code; an analysis of how US investment in Europe might be impacted by proposed corporate tax reform in the European Union; a look at the term “tax expenditures,” often used to describe governmental policies that show as reduction in taxes rather than as an increase in spending. The final paper in the volume shows how uncertainty about the restoration of US fiscal balance imposes additional efficiency costs on the economy in consumption, saving, labor supply and portfolio decisions, and how it reduces individual welfare.Tax Policy and the Economy: Volume 32 (National Bureau of Economic Research Tax Policy and the Economy #32)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2018
The six research studies in Volume 32 of Tax Policy and the Economy analyze the U.S. tax and transfer system,…
in particular its effects on revenues, expenditures, and economic behavior. First, James Andreoni examines donor advised funds, which are financial vehicles offered by investment houses to provide savings accounts for tax-free charitable giving, and weighs their effects on donations against their tax cost. Second, Caroline Hoxby analyzes the use of tax credits by students enrolled in online post-secondary education. Third, Alex Rees-Jones and Dmitry Taubinsky explore taxpayers’ psychological biases that lead to incorrect perceptions and understanding of tax incentives. Fourth, Jeffrey Clemens and Benedic Ippolito investigate the implications of block grant reforms of Medicaid for receipt of federal support by different states. Fifth, Andrew Samwick examines means-testing of Medicare and federal health benefits under the Affordable Care Act. Sixth, Bruce Meyer and Wallace Mok study the incidence and effects of disability among U.S. women from 1968 to 2015, examining the impacts of disability on income, consumption, and public transfers.Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy: Volume 1 (NBER-Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy #1)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2020
This volume presents six new papers on environmental/energy economics and policy. Robert Stavins evaluates carbon taxes versus a cap-and-trade mechanism…
for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, arguing that specific design features of either instrument can be more consequential than the choice of instrument itself. Lucas Davis and James Sallee show that the exemption of electric vehicles from the gasoline tax is likely to be efficient as long as gasoline prices remain below social marginal costs, even though it results in lower tax revenue. Caroline Flammer analyzes the rapidly growing market for green bonds and highlights the importance of third-party certification to the financial and environmental performance of publically traded companies. Antonio Bento, Mark Jacobsen, Christopher Knittel, and Arthur van Benthem develop a general framework for evaluating the costs and benefits of fuel economy standards and use it to account for the differences between several recent studies of changes in these standards. Nicholas Muller estimates a measure of output in the U.S. economy over the last 60 years that accounts for air pollution damages, and shows that pollution effects are sizable, affect growth rates, and have diminished appreciably over time. Finally, Marc Hafstead and Roberton Williams illustrate methods of accounting for employment effects when evaluating the costs and benefits of environmental regulations.Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 33 (National Bureau of Economic Research Tax Policy and the Economy #33)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2019
This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio…
Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently rarely measured or adjusted for risk, while accounting for risk properties. They apply their methodology to study Social Security. Michelle Hanson, Jeffrey Hoopes, and Joel Slemrod examine the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on corporation behavior and on firms’ statements about their behavior. They focus on for four outcomes: bonuses, investment, share repurchases, and dividends. Scott Baker, Lorenz Kueng, Leslie McGranahan, and Brian Melzer explore whether “unconventional” fiscal policy in the form of pre-announced consumption tax changes can shift durables purchases intertemporally, how it such shifts are affected by consumer credit. Alan Auerbach discusses “tax equivalences,” disparate sets of policies that have the same economic effects, and also illustrates when these equivalences break down. Jeffrey Liebman and Daniel Ramsey use data from NBER’s TAXSIM model to investigate the equity implications of a switch from joint to independent taxation that could occur in conjunction with adoption of return-free tax filing.Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 34 (National Bureau of Economic Research Tax Policy and the Economy #34)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2020
This volume presents five new studies on current topics in taxation and government spending. Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker, and Jonathan…
Skinner explore implementation aspects of a Medicare-for-All program, which provides a uniform health insurance benefit to everyone, and contrast it with a program providing a basic benefit that can be supplemented voluntarily. John Beshears, James Choi, Mark Iwry, David John, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian examine the design and feasibility of firm-sponsored “rainy day funds,” short-term savings accounts for employees that can be used when faced with temporary periods of high expenditure. Robert Barro and Brian Wheaton investigate the impact of taxation on choice of corporate form, on the formation and legal structure of new businesses, and indirectly on productivity in the economy. Jonathan Meer and Benjamin Priday examine the impact of the 2017 federal income tax reform, which reduced marginal tax rates and the incentive for charitable giving, on such giving. Finally, Casey Mulligan analyzes the impact of the Affordable Care Act on whether firms employ fewer than 50 employees, the employment threshold below which they are exempt from the requirement to provide health insurance to their employees.Yale University Investments Office: August 2006
By Josh Lerner. 2007
The Yale Investments Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments--hedge…
funds, private equity, real estate, and so forth. Considers the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy. Highlights the choice between different subclasses, e.g., between venture capital and leveraged buyout funds.NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2018: Volume 33 (National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomics Annual #33)
By The University of Chicago Press. 2019
This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic,…
a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations equilibrium. The second explores the aggregate risk of the U.S. financial sector, and in particular whether it is safer now than before the 2008 financial crisis. The third analyzes “factorless income,” output that is not measured as capital or labor income. Next, a study argues that the financial crisis increased the perceived risk of a very bad economic and financial outcome, and explores the propagation of large, rare shocks. The next paper documents the substantial recent changes in the manufacturing sector and the decline in employment among prime-aged Americans since 2000. The last paper analyzes the dynamic macroeconomic effects of border adjustment taxes.Sustainable Cities (Regions and Cities #No.7)
By Graham Haughton, Colin Hunter. 1956
Sustainable Cities simultaneously tackles two issues of immediate public concern which also find themselves high on the policy agenda: sustainable…
environmental development and urban development. The themes of the book - the bringing together of the insights of environmental science, the social sciences and management; the combination of problem analysis with practical application; and a critique of urban environmental problems concentrating on air and water pollution - are illustrated throughout with in-depth material and case studies taken from around the world and are approached from a variety of perspectives: economic, ecological and managerial. Each chapter has a concluding section pointing to key concepts, key reading and a range of discussion points.