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Outsourcing and Insourcing Jobs in the U.S. Economy: An Overview of Evidence Based on Foreign Investment Data
Jackson, James K.; Foreign Affairs, Defense - 2008
losses have disproportionately negative impact on local communities. Economists generally argue that free and unimpeded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475015
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Perils of simplistic classifications of universities : a preliminary case study of economic departments
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Gangopadhyay, Renu - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2005
Europe, USA and also from the global rankings of universities and departments of economics to argue that rankings of … universities do not statistically explain the rankings of economics departments. Therefore, in order to foster competition and … departments of economics in New South Wales of Australia that homes some of World's Top 100 Universities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482131
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The incoherent emperor : a heterodox critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory
Lee, Frederic S.; Keen, Steve - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2004
It is somewhat common for heterodox economists to come to the defense of neoclassical microeconomic theory. This is due … to many reasons, but perhaps the commonest one is ignorance. It seems that most heterodox economists are not aware of the … many critiques or that as a collective they completely undermine neoclassical theory. The objective of the article is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482282
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The two tribes of 'The Econ': A study of economists and economic media commentary in Australia
Millmow, Alex; Courvisanos, Jerry - 2007
current economic issues. This has implications for the acceptance of economic policy since these economists are apt to uphold … the interests of their employer. In contrast, academic economists suffer from a lack of recognition and reach in the media … generation of academic economists, in contrast to previous generations, is becoming reticent on matters of public policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484643
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Customer Markets and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks
Hristov, Nikolay - 2008
-separability of the utility function, inflation aversion, nominal transaction frictions). The monograph is organized as follows … market share competition with the assumption that agent?s behavior is characterized by inflation aversion. Chapter IV is … devoted to the GMM estimation of crucial parameters of the inflation-aversion model of the previous chapter. A model featuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482289
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Formation and dispersion of expectations : an empirical analysis with special focus on inflation
Jonas Dovern - 2009
explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429015
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Integration of hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies
2007
An evaluation of the existing hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies is provided. The objective is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436375
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Geothermal probabilistic cost study
Orren, L.H.; Ziman, G.M.; Jones, S.C.; Lee, T.K.; Noll, R. - 2007
A tool is presented to quantify the risks of geothermal projects, the Geothermal Probabilistic Cost Model (GPCM). The GPCM model is used to evaluate a geothermal reservoir for a binary-cycle electric plant at Heber, California. Three institutional aspects of the geothermal risk which can shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436921
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Summary of the technical report on estimating the impact of key programmatic risk allocation decisions on Phase 1 bids and U.S. Department of Energy costs
Keisler, J.M.; Buehring, W.A. - 2009
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is privatizing the processing of hazardous and radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington State. As part of the privatization process, a request for proposals describing the conditions and DOE`s expectations for contractor performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436948
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The Behavior of Money and Other Economic Variables: Two Natural Experiments
Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H, - 2003
economic variable occurs that has no direct relation to the contemporaneous behavior of the variables that theory suggests it … involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440738