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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
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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Essays in uninsurable income risk and household behavior.
Narita, Machiko - 2011
.S. homeownership rate by investigating the effect of each factor on the housing and mortgage decisions. The second paper assesses how … address this theme using household-level data and quantitative macroeconomic models. In the first essay, I ask if a mortgage … credit crunch caused the recent decline in the homeownership rate in the U.S. To answer this question, I develop a life …
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State and Local Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: The Effect of Legal Enforcement Mechanisms
Bostic, Raphael W; Engel, Kathleen C; McCoy, Patricia A; … - 2007
Subprime mortgage lending has grown rapidly in recent years and with it, so have concerns about predatory lending. In …
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RISK AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE: HOW INCOME SHOCKS INFLUENCE FARM SIZE
Roberts, Michael J.; Key, Nigel D. - 2002
Farm-level Census data and county-level income shock data reveal that past unexpected income shocks affect the rate of change in average farm size. Average farm size increases more quickly in counties experiencing negative income shocks as compared to counties experiencing positive income...
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MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND CLASS STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Lovo, Stefania - 2008
Land and market imperfections shape the organization of agricultural production and lead to differentproduction regimes within rural farm households in South Africa. This paper presents a theoretical modelto explain the presence of three main households groups (classes) determined on the basis...
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Praag, C.M. van; Parker, S.C. - 2004
To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
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U.S. Mortgage crisis and its influence on Lithuanian market
Chitrenko, Nadežda - 2009
The main goal of Master thesis is to analyze U.S. mortgage crisis and test its influence on the particular Lithuanian … market player, pointing the drop and stabilization of its financial indicators. To reach this goal mortgage crisis reasons …
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The problem of front-end loading and disorder in the housing market
Leslie, Derek - 2001
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Economic Issues, published by and copyright Economic Issues Education Fund.
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