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Use of Bloomberg Professional in support of finance and economics teaching
Sharma, Abhijit - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-13
This paper evaluates the use of specialist software within university trading rooms in order to enable students to experience a simulated environment which allows them to gain an appreciation of "real life" decision-making within the finance and banking industry and become familiar with...
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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A Productive Clash of Cultures: Injecting Economics into Leadership Research
Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016
Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … fields could profit from enriching their approach with insights from the other field. We review and synthesize the economics … detailed understanding of transactional methods that economists have developed. We link the contributions in economics to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584874
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584922
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Improvements and Future Challenges in the Field of Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs
Spinath, Frank M. - 2008
growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics. A quantitative genetic research design provides the necessary tools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600786
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Exemplarische Integration raumrelevanter Indikatoren auf Basis von "Fernerkundungsdaten" in das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP)
Goebel, Jan; Wagner, Gert G.; Wurm, Michael - 2010
This paper demonstrates spatial evaluation methods on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using geo-coordinates and spatially relevant indicators from remote sensing data. By geocoding the addresses of private households (while not identifying them by name and while...
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The effects of pollution on open access fisheries: A case study of the Black Sea
Knowler, Duncan; Barbier, Edward B.; Strand, Ivar E. - 1997
There is now increasing recognition that the world's marine ecosystems, especially coastal areas and semi-enclosed seas, are suffering from degradation and modification due to human influences. One of the most serious problems is nutrient enrichment, which in the long term harms productivity and...
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First principles, fallibilism, and economics
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017
The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an … attempts to define economics and its method from John Stuart Mill's economics as the science of wealth through Lionel Robbins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613817
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How Capitalists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2013
Do capitalists really want a recovery? Can they afford it? On the face of it, the question sounds silly: of course capitalists want a recovery; how else can they prosper? According to the textbooks, both mainstream and heterodox, capital accumulation and economic growth are two sides of the same...
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Putting Power Back Into Growth Theory
Fix, Blair - 2014
Neoclassical growth theory assumes that economic growth is an atomistic process in which changes in distribution play no role. Unfortunately, when this assumption is tested against real-world evidence, it is systematically violated. This paper argues that a reality-based growth theory must...
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