Showing 1 - 10 of 84
This paper evaluates bank exit regimes in selected financial centres using econometric methods. The focus is on bank exit regimes applicable to commercial banks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo in 1998–2002. Bank exit regimes are studied from the perspective of bank creditors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134896
(MBA) program in 1989. Peter Robinson, formerly a speech writer for President Reagan, tells about his experiences in … applying to business schools, living with other MBA students, taking courses, interacting with faculty, and interviewing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556526
Evaluation quality is a function of methodological and data inputs. This paper argues that there has been inadequate … investment in methodology, often resulting in low quality evaluation outputs. With an increased focus on results, evaluation … people, so attention to sound methodology matters. This paper explores three areas in which evaluation can be improved. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124860
Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125736
of an evaluation lies not in its (apparent) incontrovertibility but rather in its clarity of assumptions and in its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118810
Très souvent perçue en tant qu’instrument de jugement a posteriori, l’évaluation a entre autre été conçue comme méthode … le bilan d’une situation. Dans la pratique, l’évaluation, appliquée sous une forme opérationnelle, suppose l’emploi de …’appliquent à ce même objet. L’évaluation reste donc étroitement liée à des notions purement théoriques et se heurte encore à des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118921
Inertia in academia sometimes obstructs the development of important insights. That is one reason for the specially long gap separating Coase's seminal paper [1937] that laid the foundations of current Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the efforts of scholars to develop his ideas. But as TCE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134547
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076541
El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076607
Brazil, VASP used to be second place. With financial problems, VASP could not buy new airplanes and its fleet was from the 70 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076880