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Productivity, efficiency, and managerial performance regress and gains in United States universities : a data envelopment analysis

Sav, G. Thomas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 13-32

This paper uses data envelopment analys is to investigate the extent to which universities in the United States have undergone productivity and efficiency changes, partly due to managerial performance, during the 2005-09 academic years. Using panel data for 133 research a nd doctoral...

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Allocation models for DMUs with negative data

Tohidi, Ghasem; Khodadadi, Maryam - In: Journal of industrial engineering international 9 (2013), pp. 1-6

The formulas of cost and allocative efficiencies of decision making units (DMUs) with positive data cannot be used for DMUs with negative data. On the other hand, these formulas are needed to analyze the productivity and performance of DMUs with negative data. To this end, this study introduces...

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Compartmentalising gold prices

Sanderson, Rohnn - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 99-124

Deriving a functional form for a series of prices over time is difficult. It is common to assume some linearly estimable form for prediction purposes. While this can produce accurate short run forecasts it fails to identify longer trends and patterns that may exist in financial data....

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The inflation impact of selected European Union members on Polish inflation

Czaja, Jaroslaw; Ku´zmi´nski, Lukasz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 2, pp. 11-24

The article aims at determining the inflation influence between Poland and selected EU member states. Although for some time the general inflation level in those countries was definitely controllable, the problem seems to be returning. That is why in this article, using the model of Vector...

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La teoría de juegos conductual, el dilema del viajero alternativo y la maximización de pagos

Moro, Rodrigo; Freidin, Esteban; Tohmé, Fernando; … - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 457-473

Within the area of Behavioral game theory, we focus on a specific context, namely, on a game we called the Alternative traveler’s dilemma. In this context, we observe that participants tend to choose strictly dominated strategies. In order to explain similar tendencies in other games,...

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it …

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …, research can identify knowledge gaps that to date pose limits to successful employment creation policy. -- employment ; poverty …

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living in Nigeria

Akinmulegun, Sunday Ojo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 295-309

The subject of interrelationship that exists between foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living has been an issue of both theoretical and empirical investigations. This study, thus examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and standard of living measured by per...

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

perspective, understand individual behavior, evaluate and design public policies, study poverty and inequality, and develop a …

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Chinese economic outlook after global crisis

Li, Liang-xin - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 3, pp. 73-81

This paper will demonstrate what china was doing, is doing and will do for its economic expansion during and after global crisis. Many thoughts and theories about Chinese economic reforms are analyzed. The road map and goal of Chinese economic growth are examined and outlined in this paper. How...

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