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MICROECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE FOR JUNIOR UNDERGRADUATES OF BUSINESS, ECONOMICS AND MARKETING

Osorio, Carlos - EconWPA - 2004

This article reports how a two-term obligatory Microeconomics at the Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal, has been taught for junior undergraduates of the three degrees: Business, Economics and Marketing, offered by the Department of Business and Economics. It reveals the trade-off between...

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The economics of Information Technologies Standards &

Thivant, Eric; Bouzidi, Laid - EconWPA - 2005

This research investigates the problem of Information Technologies Standards or Recommendations from an economical point of view. In our competitive economy, most enterprises adopted standardization’s processes, following recommendations of specialized Organisations such as ISO (International...

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Banking sector development and financial stability in the run up to EU accession

Brouwer, Henk; Haas, Ralph de; Kiviet, Bas - EconWPA - 2002

The EU accession countries have made remarkable progress in developing their financial sectors. Nevertheless, potential risks to banking sector stability remain. We take stock of these risks, with a focus on the challenges posed by the EU accession process. Important potential risks we identify...

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HOW BANKING SYSTEM IN POST-SOVIET ECONOMIES ASSIST TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT. THE CASE STUDY OF ARMENIA

Mnatsakanyan, Hakob; Kanas, Angelos; Rafayelov, Zohrak - EconWPA - 2004

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The Travails of Current Macroeconomic and Exchange Rate Management in China: The Complications of Switching to a New Growth Engine

Woo, Wing Thye - EconWPA - 2003

Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter tremendous external pressure to revalue the Renminbi (RMB) substantially. Our conclusion is that the major macroeconomic challenges have their roots in China’s...

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Risk and De-collectivization in the Czech Republic

Bezemer, Dirk J. - EconWPA - 2001

of family farms and socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment …

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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - EconWPA - 2004

Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...

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Risk, productive government expenditure, and the world economy

Erauskin-Iurrita, Inaki - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the expenditure policy of the public sector and risk in a two-country stochastic AK growth model … public spending on productivity and risk diversification. …

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A Rational Irrational Man

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper …

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Conditional Risk Mappings

Ruszczynski, Andrzej; Shapiro, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

We introduce an axiomatic definition of a conditional convex risk mapping. By employing the techniques of conjugate … duality we derive properties of conditional risk mappings. In particular, we prove a representation theorem for conditional … risk mappings in terms of conditional expectations. We also develop dynamic programming relations for multistage …

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