...Iuliia Naidenova Purpose The research aims to examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on a company's behaviour concerning its human capital. Additionally, the difference in effect for companies with specific human capital is analysed. Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses...

... provides a lower SDR value than that obtained with the SOC method. The first is therefore more advantageous for projects with long-term effects. Economic Policy Economic Evaluation of Projects Social Discounting The discount rate is an essential economic parameter when it is necessary...

...Gabriel Caldas Montes; Júlio Cesar Albuquerque Bastos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of macroeconomic variables and economic policies on expectations and confidence of entrepreneurs. It provides an econometric analysis of the expectation transmission channel under...

.... Abdulnasser Hatemi‐J can be contacted at: ahatemi@uaeu.ac.ae © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Canada Japan Australia Government Economic policy Trade Government spending Terms of trade volatility Hidden cointegration Asymmetry The link between...

... Financial Conditions Index Economic policy Banks South Africa We investigate the objectives of the South African Reserve Bank (the SARB) in the light of instrument rules. More precisely, we make use of the Taylor rule model and its extensions (Taylor, 1993 ; Clarida et al., 2000), where...

... Gómez (2008b) , where labor income taxation is not required either in the transitory phase or in the long‐run to replicate the optimal growth path. Economic growth Economic policy Economic equilibrium Financial modelling If leisure is specified as raw time, a symmetric equilibrium...

...@ccu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Trade balances Taiwan China Economic policy Politically, Taiwan and mainland China (hereafter, China) have been hostile towards each other for over half a century. The Taiwanese government insists that Taiwan (the Republic of China...

... of the Cold War. Developing countries Democracy Newly industrialized economies Birth control Mathematical modelling Economic policy Human development consists of interrelated economic, political, and social dimensions. Specifically, here we test and develop a simultaneous model consisting...

... management. Derick Boyd can be contacted at: d.a.c.boyd@uel.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Inflation Economic policy Fiscal policy Caribbean In this study there are 12 Caribbean countries. Six of the countries belong to the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) group...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents a paper by Lauchlin Currie written in January 1991 in which he makes suggestions for organizational changes that might serve to improve the formulation of monetary policy in Columbia. © Company 2004 Economic policy Organizational change Columbia I have...

... are tentatively drawn (pp. 64–8) from the material reviewed, and the maxims are partly summarised (pp. 69–71) in a schematic assignment, with variations, of targets to instruments. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Economic Policy Exchange Rates Developing Countries Fiscal Policy Macroeconomics Stablization...