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Measuring (socio-)economic systems using the SNA. A SAM approach.
Santos, Susana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) can be an important tool for measuring a society’s activity, underlying which there are systems that can be worked upon in different ways. This tool will be presented as an alternative support for those who intervene in the policymaking process, which can be...
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Three centuries of macro-economic statistics
Bos, Frits - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
linked to the economic circumstances: the economic crisis of the thirties, the Second World War and the need for recovery … practice have increasingly been dominated by these guidelines. The period since the Second World War can thus best be labelled … World War. After gaining wider acceptance and maturity, a great deal of them has been included in the guidelines and some …
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Measures and Motivations: U.S. National Income and Product Estimates During the Great Depression and World War II
Kane, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Depression, and Milton Gilbert, author of Commerce’s first estimates of gross national product (GNP) during World War II, over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257743
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
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Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption
Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Based on first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971 in the Republic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837500
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The myth of the “cashless society”: How much of America’s currency is overseas?
Feige, Edgar L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The rapid growth of substitutes for cash, particularly debit and credit cards, has led economists to predict the advent of the “cashless society”. Yet cash holdings in most developed economies continue to grow and in the U.S., per capita currency holdings now amount to $3000. This paper...
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Backward recalculation of seasonal series affected by economic crisis: a Model-Based-Link method for the case of Turkish GDP
Buono, Dario; Alpay, Kocak - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
When attempting to deal with the recalculation process, it is hard to answer the question “Does the recalculated series include economic events and seasonal behaviours in the past?”. This paper discusses some alternative backward recalculation methods and presents the applications and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260681
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Bortkiewicz on Chain Indices and Irving Fisher's Reversal Tests, A Historical Note and a Disapproval of the Time Reversal Test
von der Lippe, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz has criticized chain indices and Irving Fisher's time and factor reversal tests. However, his arguments (published in German articles) though well ahead of his time and still relevant today are widely fallen in oblivion. He was not the only German statistician who...
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Using sentiment surveys to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
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A national accounts satellite for human capital and education
Bos, Frits - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The official national accounts statistics do not show the role of human capital in the national economy. A set of satellite tables supplementing the standard national accounts statistics could serve this data need. In this satellite account, expenditure on education and training are recorded as...
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