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Estimating hedonic price indexes for personal computers in russia: Case of Yekaterinburg
Parkhomenko, Alexander; Redkina, Anastasia; Maslivets, Olga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economists have been noting for decades that Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the developed countries is overstating inflation by 0,5−2,0% per year. A significant part of the bias is due to the presence of technology products and differentiated products in the CPI basket. An increase share of...
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Taipei,China's banking problems: lessons from the Japanese experience
Montgomery, Heather - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Over the past decade, the health of the banking sector in Taipei,China has been in decline. Falling returns on assets and equity, steadily rising non-performing loans and bank runs at smaller financial institutions have highlighted problems across the banking sector as a whole. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277288
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Exportinduziertes Wachstum als Chance für die „nächsten Tiger“?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a strategy of export-led growth and an activist industrial policy, Japan, the Asian Tigers and more recently China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing countries' economic development from the formerly prevailing...
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Baumol and the post-industrial trilemma: examining the relationship between productivity, prices and wages
Lewis, Paul; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
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Employment Preferences and Length of Job Queues in Pakistan: An Update
Asma, Hyder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
It has long been recognised that public sector jobs are an attractive opportunity (because of job security, fringe benefi ts, and so on) in Pakistan’s labour market. Since the early 1990s, Pakistan has been going through an economic restructuring plan, particularly in terms of privatisation....
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Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence
Freeman, Richard B.; Gelber, Alexander M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines behavior in a tournament in which we vary the tournament prize structure and the information available about participants' skill at the task of solving mazes. The number of solved mazes is lowest when payments are independent of performance; higher when a single, large prize is...
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The General Equilibrium Wage Impact of Trade-Induced Shifts in Industrial Compositions of Employment in Brazilian Cities, 1991-2000
Mardukhi, Jian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Conventionally, it is presumed that restructuring of industrial composition of employment only modestly affects the average wage. This is because in a partial equilibrium setting such a restructuring affects the calculation of the average wage only through changes in employment shares of...
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Willingness to overpay for insurance and for consumer credit: search and risk behavior under price dispersion
Malakhov, Sergey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
function takes the form of cubic parabola, where the risk aversion behavior ends at the saddle point of the comprehensive … the ambiguity of the departure from risk-neutrality. This ambiguity can produce the ordinary risk seeking behavior as well … as mathematical catastrophes of Veblen-effect’s imprudence and over prudence of family altruism. The comeback to risk …
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Experimental Evidence on Valuation and Learning with Multiple Priors
Qiu, Jianying; Weitzel, Utz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
. This holds under ambiguity, but not in a comparison treatment under risk. …
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The Investment Process In The Presence On Risk : Choosing A Sequence
Chiny, Faycal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
. The second is where each one seeking to maximize his utility function is intuitively constrained to minimize the risk. The …
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