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Productivity Implications of Employee Performance Appraisal System : A Critical Survey.

Subramaniam, Dr. VSR - EconWPA - 2004

The Productivity of any organisation is directly correlated to the Effectiveness of the Employee Performance Appraisal System, subject to the Effectiveness of the Support Systems, depending upon the type of organizational business. INFERENCE : Technology, Systems and Manpower are linked in an...

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Introducing a scale of market shocks

Zumbach, Gilles O.; Dacorogna, Michel M.; Olsen, Jorgen L. - EconWPA - 2004

Two 'event' scales for financial markets, called 'scale of market shocks' (SMS), are introduced, which measure the importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset volatilities over time horizons that range from 1...

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …

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The Discounted Economic Stock of Money with VAR Forecasting

Barnett, William; Chae, Unja; Keating, John - EconWPA - 2005

We measure the United States capital stock of money implied by the Divisia monetary aggregate service flow, in a manner consistent with the present-value model of economic capital stock. We permit non-martingale expectations and time varying discount rates. Based on Barnett’s (1991) definition...

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THE HIDDEN INEQUALITY IN SOCIALISM

Henderson, David; McNab, Robert M; Rozsas, Tamas - EconWPA - 2004

In the same time period over which the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia became freer, measured inequality of income for those countries increased. Researchers linked the increase to the egalitarian values of socialism and to the process of economic and political...

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Understanding Social Capital: Its Nature and Manifestiations in Rural Canada

Reimer, Bill - EconWPA - 2005

This presentation discusses an interpretation and analysis of social capital that is strongly integrated into a framework of social relations. We argue that social capital is organized in four fundamental types of social relations: market, bureaucratic, associative, and communal. Each type of...

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Simulating the Impact of Policy upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan

McCulloch, Neil; Baulch, Bob - EconWPA - 2000

fluctuations of income over time ('smoothing policies') after making an explicit adjustment for measurement error. Since the …

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Measuring the Degree of Efficiency of Financial Market

Los, Cornelis - EconWPA - 2004

market risk is needed. This new risk concept should allow for the measurement of the degree of market efficiency, which is …

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Measuring and Analyzing Returns on Aggregate Residential Housing

Hasanov, Fuad; Dacy, Douglas - EconWPA - 2005

This paper computes an aggregate real after-tax rate of return on residential real estate in the United States. We account for net rental income, capital gain, and subsidies due to tax provisions for homeowners in constructing a total return measure. We also compute separate returns to owners...

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