Realizing that the use of coal has the potential to offset the effects of world oil prices on the Dominican Republic's economy, the Commission Nacional de Politica Energetica (CNPE) requested Bechtel Power Corporation to study the technical and economic feasibility of converting the nation's...

Research macroeconomists have witnessed remarkable methodological developments in mathematical, statistical, and computational tools during the last two decades. The three essays in this dissertation took advantage of these advances to analyze important macroeconomic issues.The first essay, “...

Consumers have expressed concern about the human health and environmentalconsequences resulting from the use of agrichemicals by growers to produce food. Thispaper reports the results of a 1995 survey of consumer attitudes and perceptions aboutpesticides and fresh fruit and vegetable quality....

In the article, there is a processed part of information obtained from 300 respondents in a large marketing research. The aim of this paper is to show a relevance of some attributes (such as store location, accessibility or opening hours) characterizing food stores in Ceske Budejovice to their...

Artículo de revista ; In recent years, information on the usage of cards as a means of payment has been increasingly used as an indicator of private consumption. The advantages of such information include its daily frequency and the short time lag from the moment of spending until it becomes...

Las familias de buena parte de los países desarrollados venían aumentando su endeudamiento desde los años ochenta, y este proceso se aceleró significativamente en los años previos a la Gran Recesión. Al mismo tiempo, durante ese periodo se produjo una disminución de su tasa de ahorro....