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On 23 July 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed the "Money Market Reform: Amendments to Form PF ," designed to prevent investor runs on money market mutual funds such as those experienced in institutional prime funds following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The...
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Implementation of financial incentive mechanisms in the contractual arrangements of a construction project can impact significantly on the motivation of contractors and hence project performance. Positive incentives (as a component of the project delivery strategy) aim to motivate contractors to...
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In some jobs individual workers have control over revenue, effort and productivity. These jobs include professional … debt contract, effort increases but output per hour declines. Separately, agents increase effort and productivity if …
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the high user’s effort for using a utility-based recommendation system using a choice-based conjoint analysis with … hierarchical Bayes estimation. In order to reduce the conflict between consumer effort and recommendation accuracy, we develop a … performs better than a recommendation system that employs choice-based conjoint analysis. Furthermore, the consumer’s effort is …
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Effort is a stress factor which modifies the homeostatic parameters to higher values than the standard ones. Effort can … be described quantitatively, but also quality wise, depending on the effects caused into the subject’s organism. Effort … repetitiveness of this cycle leads to growth of effort capacity which means a growth of the ability to do a more elevated muscular …
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We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identities and...
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The best way to a healthy life and a peaceful oldness is the combination between a physical effort and a natural … indicated. Sedentariness or lack of physical effort and a bad nutrition lead to obesity, diabetes and serious heart problems etc … needs. A specific effort and a proper nutrition can make the body’s healthy functioning leading to balance and spiritual …
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; however, the influence of individual effort has been neglected. This study assumes that effort could be a signaling device and … analyzes the effect of effort on market values of soccer players. Secondary data on player statistics and market values from … effort measures. The results showed that effort had an insignificant or negative impact on logged market values and changes …
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gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But ESPPs diverge from standard gift exchange or efficiency wage models … performance of the firm and the effort of workers in total. For workers who buy subsidized shares, an ESPP sets up a group …
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With this work, the authors are submitting the main theories, which led to the definition of the concept of “inflation”, pointing out the successive acceptations, which the economists – starting with classics, Adam Smith’s contemporaries – have granted, over the time, to this...
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