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Cazabobos o salvavidas? : la economía política de los fotorradares en Chile

Paredes, Ricardo D.; Rizzi, Luis I.; Valenzuela, Javier - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 2, pp. 97-115

Most road accidents in Chile (causing about 1,600 deaths per year) are linked to speeding. A widely used control mechanism all over the world, the speed detectors, enabled in the middle of the 1990’s was then suddenly prohibited in Chile through the enactment of a law justified on the idea...

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Dynamic approach of capital structure of European shipping companies

Arvanitis, Stavros H.; Tzigkounaki, Irakleia S.; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 33-63

economic theory, capital structure determines the stock market value of firms and therefore their viability, while one of the … theory in our case, while a positive relationship arises between tangible assets and tax bene fits (arising from sources …. -- capital structure ; trade-off theory ; pecking order theory ; dynamic panel data ; shipping companies …

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Freight transport time savings and organizational performance : a systemic approach

Sambracos, Evangelos; Ramfou, Irene - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 19-40

perspective of firms, integrating the disciplines of systems thinking, performance measurement, transport and logistics decision … making. Evidence from a Systems Dynamics’ simulation experiment on a retailer suggests that the effect of FTTS on performance … depends highly on the structure of the firm’s transport related processes and decision making process. Through the development …

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Spice route : logistic journey of spices in retail supply chain perspective

Rajkumar, Paulrajan - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 9-20

The aim of this paper is to report the findings of the study of the routes and the distance traveled by spices from the farming location to the consumer in traditional and organised retailing. This research study is primarily exploratory in nature, and the research instruments include interviews...

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Social comparison in deterrence policy

Ch'ng, Kean Siang - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 25-41

factory. Field experiment was conducted to test the behavioral reaction of employees to fines in two different conditions. In … enforcement policy. -- punishment ; inequity aversion ; social norm ; individual lateness , experiment …

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Spurious rejections by Dickey-Fuller tests in the presence of an endogenously determined break under the null

Badillo Amador, Rosa; Belaire Franch, Jorge; Reverte … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 3-16

Leybourne et al. (1998) have proved the possibility of a `converse Perron phenomenon' when conventional Dickey-Fuller tests are applied to deter-mine the order of integration of a time series. That is, if the true generating process is I(1) but with a break, frequent spurious rejections of the...

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El coste de los cuidados de larga duración en la población española : análisis comparativo entre los años 1999 y 2008

Alcañiz Zanón, Manuela; Alemany Leira, Ramón; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 111-131

This paper analyzes the cost of long-term care (LTC) associated to individuals in dependence situation. The economic cost of care per unit of service is linked to the expected time of needed care and the intensity of required services. We have estimated the expected lifetime cost of LTC in...

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Residual Grey Markov model for the developments of GDP, population and energy consumption in Iran

Mostafaei, Hamidreza; Kordnoori, Shaghayegh - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 93-105

Grey system theory can powerfully deal with incomplete and uncertain information. In this paper, we introduced an …, Population and Energy consumption in the future. - Grey theory ; Markov chain ; prediction ; energy consumption …

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Hedge ratios for short and leveraged ETFs

Schubert, Leo - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) exist for stock, bond and commodity markets. In most cases the underlying feature of an ETF is an index. Fund management today uses the active and the passive way to construct a portfolio. ETFs can be used for passive portfolio management, for which ETFs with...

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Posibles actuaciones económicas en la crisis actual a partir de las diferencias de opinión entre expertos

Lozano Gutiérrez, Maria Carmen; Fuentes Martín, Federico - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-20

searching solutions according to the maximum consensus among experts and therefore being of some help for taking any decision …

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