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When Identifying Contributors is Costly: An Experiment on Public Goods

Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Studies show that identifying contributors increases contributions to public goods. In practice, viewing identifiable information is costly, which may discourage people from accessing it. We design a public goods experiment in which participants can pay to view information about identities and...

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Sukuk: Definition, Structure and Accounting Issues

Ahmed, Khalil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Recent innovations in Islamic finance have changed the dynamics of the Islamic finance industry especially, in the area of sukuk or Islamic securities. Sukuk have become increasingly popular in the last few years, both as a means of raising government finance through sovereign issues, and as a...

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Employee engagement practices in private hospitals: a cross sectional study in mayiladuthurai

Swaminathan, J.; Gowrishankar, U - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Employee Engagement has become a hot topic in the world of human resources management.Employee Engagement is a state of emotional and intellectual involvement that employees have in an organization. The private hospitals in India have become the happening industry. The corporate culture has...

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Employee engagement of managerial staff in hospitals - An Indian pilot study

J, Swaminathan; S, Aramvalarthan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

includes Employee Empowerment, Communication, Team Work, Training and Development,Recognition, Leadership Quality, and Work … Nagapattinam District is moderate and Recognition helps to attain Employee Engagement.. The hospitals should concentrate on … dimensions like Recognition and Team work to improve Employee Engagement of the hospitals. …

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Interim Financial Reporting in the Perspective of harmonization of the Romanian Accountancy with the International Financial Reporting Standards

Bunea-Bontas, Cristina Aurora - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

full financial year. The accounting policies for recognition and measurement should be applied in the same way as they are …

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Introducing Social Capital Value Add: Manifesto for New Social Network Structural Management of Corporate Value

Michael, Cayley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

credentials and reinforcement of identity and recognition, are consistent with a network theory of social capital. Corporations …

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Predicting elections from politicians’ faces

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Jones, Randall J.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Prior research found that people’s assessments of relative competence predicted the outcome of Senate and Congressional races. We hypothesized that snap judgments of "facial competence" would provide useful forecasts of the popular vote in presidential primaries before the candidates become...

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Forecasting Elections from Voters’ Perceptions of Candidates’ Positions on Issues and Policies

Graefe, Andreas; Armstrong, J. Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Ideally, presidential elections should be decided based on how the candidates would handle issues facing the country. If so, knowledge about the voters’ perception of the candidates should help to forecast election outcomes. We make two forecasts of the winner of the popular vote in the U.S....

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Assessing probabilistic forecasts about particular situations

Green, Kesten C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

How useful are probabilistic forecasts of the outcomes of particular situations? Potentially, they contain more information than unequivocal forecasts and, as they allow a more realistic representation of the relative likelihood of different outcomes, they might be more accurate and therefore...

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Golden Rule of Forecasting: Be conservative

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Graefe, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper proposes a unifying theory of forecasting in the form of a Golden Rule of Forecasting. The Golden Rule is to be conservative. A conservative forecast is consistent with cumulative knowledge about the present and the past. To be conservative, forecasters must seek all knowledge...

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