...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...

... effect on stock returns over the next two or three years. Dr Shady Kholdy can be contacted at: skholdy@csupomona.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 USA Investor sentiment Market efficiency Stock return Vector autoregression Boom and bust cycles The literature...

... 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...

...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...

... of money in economic development. Economics Monetarism USA Perry G.   Mehrling . The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920‐1970 . Cambridge, MA and London : Harvard University Press   1997 . pp. xiv + 283 , ISBN: 0 674 58430 9   no price...

... 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...

... of the US manufacturing sector. Economic growth Exports Manufacturing industry USA Using variants of the above equation, many studies have shown an association between exports and economic growth. Michalopoulos and Jay (1973) and Balassa (1978) obtained a low estimate of β₂...

... 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 to devote to each of the various crops, what levels of inputs (besides land) should be employed...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... to Aggregation I(from 0.0055 to 0.0011). The variance falls only slightly as we move from Aggregation I to Aggregation IV (from 0.0011 to 0.0008). Since Aggregation I represents the most disaggregated level for which a SAM or benchmark equilibrium database can be constructed for the USA, general equilibrium...

... the pound/Norwegian krone exchange rate, and in Lothian (1990) , who used a combination of the currencies of Japan, the USA, the UK and France. These are the same currencies which are used in this study, but with one difference. The basic exchange rates in Lothian′s study are measured against the Japanese...

... 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 and private agents (workers) is the most well known application...

... is endogenous to the analysis with no prior assumptions being made. Before conducting the analysis, a brief overview of the model will be provided. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Imports Protectionism Subsidies Soft drinks industry Tariffs USA The United States has had some sort of sugar...

..., but the material is scattered and unorganized. Because we do not yet have the full story of this remarkable and complex man, firm conclusions about his influence are not yet possible. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Education Germany History Literature USA Universities Where is Althoff? Looking...

... 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...