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Much farm financial risk research has involved the application of "credit-scoring" models. We approach the issue of … measuring financial risk by using the actual interest rates charged on agricultural loans reported in the USDA's ARMS survey as … market-based measures of the financial risk associated with individual farm operations. A simultaneous equations model …
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conducted to collect consumer panel data in the U.S. and China respectively. Results from regression analysis and path analysis …
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.S.; Shanghai in China; and Bangalore in India. The three regions have emerged as significant technology hubs in the world. Whereas …
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In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … with China argue that greater integration will lead to a convergence of interests that reaches beyond economics. Despite …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...
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In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...
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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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