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Structural Change and Income Differences
Tombe, Trevor - 2011
Economic growth and development is intimately related to the decline of agriculture’s share of output and employment. This process of structural change has important implications for income and productivity differences between regions within a country or between countries themselves....
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The Perils of Globalization and the World Trading System
Jackson, John H. - 2000
The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466411
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A Tale of Two Standards: An Exploration of US GAAP and IFRS
Lagasse, Allyson - 2010
The research in this paper has two objectives. Beginning with an examination of the historical development of how financial reporting standards are set in the United States and around the world, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450221
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Private and Governmental Barriers Affecting International Market Contestability: Current and Prospective Remedies
Manzoni, Massimo G. - 1997
Several interesting developments indicate that world attention is increasingly focusing on a "novel" category of trade barriers: non-tariff and non-border barriers. Following the Uruguay Round (the eighth round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, "GATT"), scholars...
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441710
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A Comparative Analysis of Water Quality Sampling Decisions in Aquifers
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Kuchibhatla, Ramana - 1995
No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...
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The Point-of-Use Water Treatment Industry: Expert Opinion on Regulation.
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Tobin, Graham A - 1990
Concerns over declining water quality have led many home owners to install point-of-use water treatment units to improve potable supplies. This industry has grown considerably in recent years. However, some questions have been raised regarding misleading advertising and improper claims being...
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Detecting shocks: outliers and breaks in time series
Atkinson, Anthony C.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Shephard, Neil - 1997
A single outlier in a regression model can be detected by the effect of its deletion on the residual sum of squares. An equivalent procedure is the simple intervention in which an extra parameter is added for the mean of the observation in question. Similarly, for unobserved components or...
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MARKET INTEGRATION: CASE STUDIES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE
Franken, Jason R.V.; Parcell, Joseph L. - 2003
The grain/oilseed industry is undergoing considerable structural change in the form of mergers and the addition of new processing facilities to add value beyond commodity grade. The rapid structural changes in this industry call into question the relevance of previous research conducted in these...
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AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF LIVE HOG DEMAND
Parcell, Joseph L.; Mintert, James R.; Plain, Ronald L. - 2000
An inverse live hog demand model was estimated to analyze claims that the live hog own quantity demand flexibility's magnitude has increased in recent years. A second objective of this research was to estimate the impact changes in processing capacity utilization rates have on live hog prices....
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