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Relative indicators of default risk among UK residential mortgages
Mitropoulos, Atanasios; Zaidi, Rida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We have assembled a unique loan-level performance dataset for mortgages originated in the UK to study the differences in default likelihood between loans of varying borrower and loan characteristics. We can broadly confirm the relevance of most commonly known riskfactors and find that most...
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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A study on job satisfaction and morale of commercial banks in Bangladesh
Islam, Jamal; Mohajan, Haradhan; Datta, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In today’s changing world the business environment is changing rapidly. The emergence of e-commerce and development of information and technology plays a significant role in the nature of work as well as their attitude towards the organization. We have been experiencing a tremendous growth in...
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Income redistribution: how to divide the pie?
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008. Neustadt and Zweifel (2009} provide an estimate of the total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of...
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Unemployment, Economic Status and Ethnic Politics
Mehar, Ayub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Regional-based quota in public sector employment was always considered as one of the important cause of the ethnic politics in Pakistan and particularly in Karachi. The majority of educated youth and middle classers in Pakistan belong to the urban areas and big cities where public sector...
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Status, fertility, growth and the great transition
Tournemaine, Frederic; Tsoukis, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We develop an overlapping generation model to examine how the relationship between status concerns, fertility and education affect growth performances. Results are threefold. First, we show that stronger status motives heighten the desire of parents to have fewer but better educated children,...
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Wealth and Status: Analyzing the Perceived Attractiveness of 2010 FIFA World Cup Players
Chi, Feng; Yang, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Dating back to Veblen (1899), theoretical and empirical studies about conspicuous consumption have largely stipulated associations between social status and income. This paper focuses on the supply of status and tests the underlying assumption by using a data on the attractiveness ratings for...
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Culture Values Entrepreneurship and Growth
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We integrate a social norm which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater weight of cultural values on stock of accumulated capital as opposed to consumption will experience fast growth....
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