...Michael Polemis Purpose We use disaggregated survey data set to investigate the impact of personality traits on the level of education in the USA. We attempt to shed light on the contribution of each of the Big Five personality traits on the education decision made by the individuals. Design...

... for intermediate governments. They behave strategically to attract additional redistribution funds from outside, though still using corrective policies to provide investment incentives toward their own regions. The results also suggest that differently from the USA the federal system of the EU may lead...

... USA Investor sentiment Market efficiency Stock return Vector autoregression Boom and bust cycles The literature on investment sentiment divides investors into two groups: noise traders whose demands for risky assets are affected by extrapolation of past price trend, technical analysis...

...Brian G.M. Main; Andrew Park Defendant offers into court is common procedural device aimed at increasing the probability that pre‐trial negotiations will lead to out of court settlement. Both in the UK following the Woolf Report and the Cullen Report and in the USA, the idea of extending...

...Noel D. Uri Incentive regulation has become an important regulatory tool in the telecommunications industry in the USA. The issue explored here is whether incentive regulation has resulted in an increase in productive efficiency. After providing an overview of the nature of incentive regulation...

..., where we show the properties of the trend derivative as a business cycle indicator. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Business cycles Economics USA Forecasting The reconstruction of the historical data of the US main economic indicators before the Second World War has allowed economic...

... 674 58430 9   no price © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Economics Monetarism USA The Keynesian revolution is probably surrounded by more myths than any other episode of the history of economic thought. This outstanding study of US monetary economics challenges several of these. Central...

... stock and the money stocks of a large number of developing countries. These findings raise a serious questions about the interpretation and/or appropriateness of the Granger causality test for investigating policy dominance hypotheses. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Economics Economy Germany USA...

...Noel D. Uri; Bengt Hyberg Addresses whether the grain quality factors used by the Federal Grain Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture in determining the quality grades of wheat exported by the USA including test weight, dockage, moisture content, percentage of foreign material...

... are the residual factor or technological progress. Therefore, this model measures the contribution of exports to total‐factor productivity. Economic growth Exports Manufacturing industry USA Since the introduction of flexible exchange rates in the early 1970s, the growth of the US economy has...

..., to collect data on agricultural chemical (pesticide)use and pest control practices for vegetables, fruits, and tree nuts produced in the USA. Vegetable producers were surveyed in the first year(1990) of the programme, and fruit and tree nut producers were surveyed in the second year (1991). Summary reports...

...Peter R. Senn Describes how the opinions about Wilhelm Roscher and his work developed during the century following his death in the USA. Possible reasons for the changes are explored. Special attention is given to the more favourable reception of Roscher in the USA as opposed to the UK. A central...

... theory of advertising as information. Advertising Buying behaviour Consumer goods Market segmentation USA The economics of information is a prominent and important feature of the revolution in modern micro‐economic theory. In seminal studies,economists examined the role of information...

... of the game by the central banks involved. Credible commitment can be achieved through cooperative (symmetric) or coercive (asymmetric) regimes. Did the USA(Germany) dominate other developed (European) countries during the Bretton Woods (European Monetary) system? Examines the linkages, if any,between the USA...

... protection between two of the aggregation schemes. Economy Models Protectionism Social accounting Tariffs USA Welfare A recurrent concern of researchers who measure the cost of protection is that welfare estimates based on models with highly aggregated sectors of the economy in question...

... UP Limited 1994 Empirical studies Exchange rates France Japan Prices United Kingdom USA The purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis has been tested extensively, particularly since the development of cointegration analysis in the mid‐1980s. Although the evidence found...

.... In other words, the Nash and co‐operative solutions for the game among the atomistic private investors coincide. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Co‐operation Europe Foreign exchange Game theory Macroeconomics Private sector Time USA This article presents a two‐period game between the private...

..., the fluctuations are not so enormous as to suggest that the model is unrealistically sensitive to these parameters. Imports Protectionism Subsidies Soft drinks industry Tariffs USA © MCB UP Limited 1994 The United States has had some sort of sugar programme in place, with only brief...

..., Illinois, USA Nicholas Murray Butler, then the distinguished president of Columbia University, relates the following story about his visit to Germany in the summer of 1905[1]. After telling the Kaiser his ideas for the establishment of exchange professorships between Columbia and German Universities...

... Ownership USA Company Ownership vs Franchising: Issues and Evidence R.S. Thompson University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Company Ownership 31 Introduction Franchising is an organizational form which combines decentralized ownership and control at the production (or final sales...