This paper measures the impact of price changes on poverty using the Philippines as an example. The impact of price changes is captured by the price elasticity of poverty for three widely used poverty measures, namely, headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and severity of poverty. An empirically...

An effort is made to discuss some of the related issues in this paper by identifying the socio-economic correlates of poverty in rural areas of Pakistan. This characterization of poverty is expected to yield insights regarding the link between incidence of poverty and capacity of the poor to...

The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were...

This study finds evidence of a large premium in Youngtown Arizona house prices that persisted over time and could be attributed to the town's age-restricted status. Age restrictions may act as a signal that the community provides facilities and services that meet the needs of the senior...

Rutherford, Springer and Yavas (2001) develop and empirically test a model that analyzes the effect the type of listing contract, either exclusive agency (EA) or exclusive right to sell (ERTS), has on the performance of the agent/broker. This paper extends the work of Rutherford et al. and looks...

The Gordon Growth Model is used to derive widely differing fundamental values of the same gross rental yield for six hypothetical housing purchasers listed in declining order of magnitude: a fully funded consumer with a marginal tax rate of 40%, a fully funded buy to let investor with a marginal...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing the degree of internationalization of undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral business programmes with the aid of complex indicators designed to capture the vast array of characteristics displayed by these programmes and...

Customer Equity Management (CEM) is not only a method to analyze future customers’ behavior but also a segmentation tool for identifying customers that deliver a great value to a company and those that should be eliminated from a company’s customer portfolio. One problem companies in...

The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1992-2013). The results indicate that (1) part of the raw East-West gap is due to differences in household income and...