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PPPs for Transit Oriented Development 4 Options

Hale, Chris - 2008

-assessment. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) tends to involve significant input from the public sector and the private. The most … environments. Large financial commitments are involved. Perhaps by clarifying the options for TOD project structure we can deliver … more certainty and workability and assist the progress of these projects. The paper presents four potential models for TOD …

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Civil Registration Systems and Vital Statistics: Successes and Missed Opportunities

Mahapatra, P.; Shibuya, K.; Lopez, A. D.; Coullare, F.; … - 2007

to the UN and cause-of-death data reported to WHO, we review the present situation and past trends of vital statistics in … the world and note little improvement in worldwide availability of general vital statistics or cause-of-death statistics …

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The role and impact of emotional intelligence (EQ) on the leadership styles of the systems integration management team within T-Systems

Cromhout, Jaco - 2009

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is an investigation and study into the impact of emotional intelligence (EQ) on the leadership qualities and competencies of the management team of the T-Systems South-Africa’s Systems Integration (SI) department.The Information and Communication...

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Consumer Obligation and Counterproductive Consumption : Can the things We Don't Use Affect Us More Than Those We Do?

Haase, Rachel - 2010

Advisor: David Courard-Hauri

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Happiness and Monetary Factors

De, Sanjay - 2008

Previous literature studying happiness, or subjective well-being, has mainly analyzedhappiness in relation to income. However, such an approach is incomplete, as assets and debtprovide additional information related to an individual’s economic well-being. The purpose ofthis thesis is to...

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Asymmetric wealth effect : American consumption and the stock market

Greene, Jonathan - 2002

Conventional estimates of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of changes in net worth average about 4 cents on the dollar. If this is true, the $14 trillion rise in household net worth between 1995 and 2000 created an additional $567 billion in household consumption. This increase in...

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Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap

Hayward, Mathew - 2007

No one executive is immune from that difficult-to-distinguish line that divides the self-confidence required of a successful CEO from the hubris seen at the root of so many corporate scandals today. We can count Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Martha Stewart, and Jack Welch among the business...

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The paradox of securities markets efficiency : where to next?

Sappideen, Razeen - 2009

This article examines the claim of securities markets efficiency based on the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which Fama proclaimed to be a well substantiated truth in 1978. Behavioural theory shows that individuals do not act to maximise their utility as asserted by neoclassical economists,...

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The influence of survival thresholds and aspiration levels on bank trading activities

Sundmacher, Maike; Daly, Kevin James; Valentine, T. J.; … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2005

In 1987 Lopes developed Security/Potential, Aspiration (SP/A) Theory, a framework for risky choice under uncertainty. Similar to Prospect Theory, SP/A Theory seeks to combine the forces of Economics and Psychology. This means that the assumption that individuals make choices based on expected...

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A behavioural finance perspective on trade imbalanceand stock prices

Henker, Julia, Banking & Finance, Australian School of … - 2006

In this thesis I examine, within a behavioural finance framework, the impacton stock prices of order and trade imbalance in three separate but related studies.The first study, chapter two, begins with a question that plagues behavioural financetheories?do the investors most likely to be...

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