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Morality and capitalism – friends or foes?

Machan, Tibor R. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 5, pp. 387-398

A bona fide morality favours a consistent free market capitalist system of law. If there are dangers and temptations arising from such a society, let the various institutions that can develop among free people respond to them. Individuals and their various voluntary organisations – not...

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Sheep and their herders: testing the myth of rational voters – a Latvian case study

Brou, Daniel; Collins, Kirk A.; McKenzie, Brent - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 1, pp. 103-117

Through the use of a simple behavioural political economy model, we cast doubt on the assumption that voters behave in predictable ways dependent on their expected support for government policies. We show that under certain conditions an unfavourable (i.e. welfare reducing) policy may result,...

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Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies: profit implications of price discounting

Longo, Christopher J. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 447-460

Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been debated in published literature; however, these debates have not accounted for the differences in elasticity of demand between the public, private and cash paying markets. A mathematical model is presented that explores several plausible...

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Current account model with rational expectations and Bayesian learning

McGee, Christopher Dylan - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 3, pp. 333-346

The article presents a long-term macro-model of the US trade balance that allows for agents with rational expectations to learn about the key parameters affecting the currency forecast. This allows for a dynamic that is a plausible middle-ground between the standard alternatives of either...

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The ethics of future business leaders: a cross-cultural comparison

Elkin, Graham; King, Stuart - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 3, pp. 263-276

. Our research examined attitudes towards business ethics among business students in the USA and New Zealand. We surveyed …. These findings were compared to a survey conducted in the USA by Albaum and Peterson (2006) 'Ethical attitudes of future … generally reflected the literature that the USA and New Zealand business students, having similar cultural backgrounds, display …

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US manufacturing and vertical/horizontal intra-industry trade: examining the smooth adjustment hypothesis

White, Roger; Chen, Cheng - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 1-20

hypothesis (SAH). To our knowledge, this is the first examination of the SAH for the USA. The results of our empirical analysis …

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The extensive margin of intrafirm trade

Gao, Xiang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 213-232

The firm-level approach to intra-industry trade reveals that the variation in the number of exporters or exported varieties (extensive margin) accounts for a greater share of the changes in aggregate trade than the variation in the average exports per firm variety (intensive margin). This paper...

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An analysis of Indiaâ€™s bilateral intra-industry trade in agricultural products

Varma, Poornima - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 83-95

showed that the agricultural trade between India and its two major trading partners, the USA and European Union, was mainly …

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Captive offshoring by US multinationals: measuring the domestic employment impacts of vertical FDI

Mullen, J.K.; Williams, Martin - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 21-34

The complex nature of â€˜international outsourcingâ€™ makes it difficult to quantify its employment and broader impacts on national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of â€˜offshoringâ€™ by US firms is scant, rendering analyses of its economic impacts as...

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Business ethics: a cross-cultural comparison of Mexico and the USA

Peppas, Spero C.; Ruiz, Carlos E.; Peppas, Stephanie R.; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 55-71

This empirical study examines the attitudes of undergraduate and graduate business students in Mexico and the USA to …

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