...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...

... GNP quarterly data taking as reference the NBER and Romer’s business cycle datings. © 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...

... --> 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 to the whole story is Alvin Hansen, who appears not as a convert...

... Economy Germany USA Whether one country’s monetary policy dominates another country’s has received some attention in recent years, especially regarding the role of the German Bundesbank in the EMS[ 1 ]. We consider whether the US Federal Reserve dominated monetary policy during the Bretton Woods...

...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...

... Manufacturing industry USA Since the introduction of flexible exchange rates in the early 1970s, the growth of the US economy has become increasingly and critically dependent on developments in international markets. With merchandise trade reaching a record $865 billion in 1990, accounting for about 16...

... adherence to rational expectations. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Agriculture Economics Surveys USA Vegetables There are a number of issues involved in farm level decision making. For example, a farmer makes decisions concerning which crops to plant,how much of the available acreage...

...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...

... 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...

... MCB UP Limited 1995 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 and its links...

... protection between two of the aggregation schemes. © MCB UP Limited 1994 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...

... 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...

... Europe Foreign exchange Game theory Macroeconomics Private sector Time USA The strategic relationship between the government and the private sector has been extensively analysed in the macroeconomics literature. The Phillips curve monetary policy game played between the monetary authority...

... elasticities of substitution. Technological progress – both embodied and disembodied (see, for example, Uri (1984)) – is assumed not to occur over the period of investigation. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Imports Protectionism Subsidies Soft drinks industry Tariffs USA The outline...

..., 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...