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Recent fiscal policies have aimed to stimulate household spending. In 2008, most households received one-time economic stimulus payments. In 2009, most working households received the Making Work Pay tax credit in the form of reduced withholding; other households, mainly retirees, received...
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Kosovo (EUOK) in improving the programming and implementation of information and communication (IC) Programmes funded by … 2015-2020 assistance, taking into consideration the lessons learned and the performance of past IPA information and … for the enlargement process. However, a strengthening of the strategic approach to information and communication would be …
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The rapid evolution of information and communications technology (ICT) and associated digital communications over the … to enhance collaboration and information sharing; censorship circumvention technologies allow people to bypass attempts … to monitor and control information and communication flows. However, as well as unleashing tremendous new opportunities …
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In this paper we examine pricing behaviour of retail firms in the Netherlands during 1998-2003 using a large database with monthly price quotes of 49 articles, representing different product types. We have conducted this study in order to gain in sight in the degree of nominal rigidity of...
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characteristics that have a bearing on the importance of information costs, the variability of the optimal price and the sensitivity …
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Infrequent price changes at the firm level are now well documented in the literature. However, a number of issues remain partly unaddressed. This paper contributes to the literature on price stickiness by investigating the lags of price adjustments to different types of shocks. We find that...
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In this article, we use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm's matching model of unemployment. To the best of...
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The aims of this project are to explore recent experiences in the practice of information and consultation (I&C) at … Information and consultation practice across Europe five years after the EU Directive (Directive 2002/14/EC). The research … whether national practices ensure the adequate, effective and timely information and consultation of employees in the …
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