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Quality Uncertainty and Perception : Information Asymmetry and Management of Quality Uncertainty and Quality Perception
Wankhade, Lalit - 2010
The book addresses the complex issue of quality uncertainty due to information asymmetry in the backdrop of information economics, total quality management and marketing science. Reliability Engineering, Seven Management Tools and System Dynamics are used to develop theories on quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013522714
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Real Estate Risk in Equity Returns : Empirical Evidence from U.S. Stock Markets
Michel, Gaston (contributor) - 2009
Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is … priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross … pricing story: higher asset returns must be associated with lower prices and higher risk exposure. In particular, he …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521240
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Family Economics and Public Policy, 1800s–Present : How Laws, Incentives, and Social Programs Drive Family Decision-Making and the US Economy
Way, Megan McDonald - 2018
Looking Forward -- 8. Family Economics, Public Policy, and Inequality: Diverging Family Fortunes and the Risk to the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396868
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Macroeconomic Policy and a Living Wage : The Employment Act as Redistributive Economics, 1944–1969
Stabile, Donald R. - 2018
Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946. It argues that in … macroeconomic policy in the USA consisted of a dual approach of using a living wage to increase consumption with higher wages, and …
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American Exceptionalism : Economics, Finance, Political Economy, and Economic Laws
Ramrattan, Lall; Szenberg, Michael - 2019
The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397058
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James M. Buchanan : A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy
Wagner, Richard E. (ed.) - 2018
economic, political, and social theory.” - Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA "The overwhelming … University, USA This book explores the academic contribution of James Buchanan, who received the Nobel Prize for economics in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397066
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Global Economic Uncertainties and Exchange Rate Shocks : Transmission Channels to the South African Economy
Ndou, Eliphas; Gumata, Nombulelo; Ncube, Mthuli - 2017
economic growth play?.- Chapter 18. Asymmetrical real exchange rate risk and exports.- Chapter 19. Do South African exporters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398308
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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America : Evidence and Perspectives
Kirsch, Irwin (ed.); Braun, Henry (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685727
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Friedrich List - Vordenker der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft : im Spannungsfeld zwischen Vision und geheimdienstlicher Observierung
Wendler, Eugen - 2018
heutige Wirtschaftswissenschaft von Friedrich List (1789-1846) lernen? Teil II: Die Auswanderung von Friedrich List in die USA … Friedrich List -- Die Auswanderung von Friedrich List in die USA und seine Observierung durch deutsche und französische Behörden …
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In Defense of Deflation
Bagus, Philipp - 2015
This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread believe that deflation would be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402005