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Changing behaviour of self help group members: Pathway for sustainable rural livelihoods in Eastern India
Meena, M.S.; Singh, K.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The study evaluates the behaviour construct of self help group (SHG) members. Data were solicited from randomly … and 2013. The behaviour construct developed, consisted of 30 items, for which Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of reliability … significant improvement in behaviour of SHG members was observed, which exemplifies the impact of SHG approach in instilling a …
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La modélisation macroéconomique comme processus de communication : pour une formalisation finaliste des équations de comportement
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
The assumption we submit, because macroeconomic forcasts would be unperfect, is that behavioral equations doesn't enough describe economic behaviours through the capacity of reaction opposite to environment. Further, the forcaster belongs to his search-system, so that, may be, we must now...
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Identifying behaviour in a multiproduct oligopoly: Incumbents reaction to tariffs dismantling
Jaumandreu, Jordi; Moral, Maria Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
paper is aimed at testing whether or not there really was a change in pricing behaviour, using a structural model of …
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Time preference and health behaviour: A review
Lawless, Lydia J.R.; Nayga, Rodolfo; Drichoutis, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
human health behaviour. We first discuss the theoretical background of time preferences; ascertain the differences between … assess how time preferences influence risky behaviour such as being overweight, smoking, and engaging in risky sexual … behaviour. The issue of whether to use proxies or experimental time preference elicitation methods in time preference studies is …
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Behavioural Theory of the Firm
Todeva, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Conceptual overview, critical commentary and future directions
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Immigrants and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong
Ou, Dongshu; Kondo, Ayako - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from 1991 to 2006 in Hong Kong, this paper documents how the distribution of workers’ earnings and the inequality of immigrants’ and natives’ earnings changed over time. We decompose earnings inequality to explore how the changes in immigrants’ share of the labor force have...
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Forecasting Hong Kong economy using factor augmented vector autoregression
Pang, Iris Ai Jao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This work applies the FAVAR model to forecast GDP growth rate, unemployment rate and inflation rate of the Hong Kong economy. There is no factor model forecasting literature on the Hong Kong economy. The objective is to find out whether factor forecasting of using a large dataset can improve...
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House-Price Crash and Macroeconomic Crisis: A Hong Kong Case Study
Zhang, Tongbin; Hu, Bo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
House prices crash has become an important feature of macroeconomic crisis. We argue that house prices crash driven by contractionary monetary policy is not only a reaction to crisis, but also accelerates and amplifies the fluctuations of major macroeconomic variable. In this paper, we conduct a...
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The Economic strategy for Hong Kong SAR: evidence from productivity and cost analysis
Li, Kui-Wai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
By using a growth accounting framework for the period 1980-2000, this paper estimates Hong Kong’s total factor productivity and unit labor cost of twenty industries classified into three economic sectors of tradable goods, tradable services and non-tradable services. The results show that Hong...
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A Theory of Enclaves
Vinokurov, Evgeny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The manuscript represents a comprehensive theory of enclaves and exclaves. The theory comprises both political and economic aspects. It is the first general book on the world’s enclaves and exclaves. Due to its comprehensive and pioneer character, it has a potential to become a book of...
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