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The analysis of training needs in public institutions operating in health care sector in the Podkarpacie Province

Skica, Tomasz; Rodzinka, Jacek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 1, pp. 85-101

The article is an attempt at diagnosing training needs of the employees of units operating in health care sector in the … Podkarpacie Province. In times of permanent changes affecting each sphere of economy, providers of health care services cannot … by employees of Health Care Centers (HCC) operating in the Podkarpacie Province, but also the way they are perceived by …

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Erwerbsminderungsrentner : sinkende Leistungen und wachsende Einkommensunterschiede im Alter

Krause, Peter; Erhlich, Ulrike; Möhring, Katja - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 24, pp. 3-9

According to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German statutory pension insurance scheme), since the mid-1990s, the …

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Determinants of maternal healthcare utilization in Zimbabwe

Muchabaiwa, Lazarus; Mazambani, D.; Chigusiwa, L.; Bindu, S. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162

assist health policy making, there was an investigation of how demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors determine … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal … health services by at least 2 times at 1 percent level of significance whilst access to information increases the odds by 1 …

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The generalized hybrid averaging operator and its application in decision making

Merigó Lindahl, José M.; Casanovas Ramón, Montserrat - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 69-84

We present the generalized hybrid averaging (GHA) operator. It is a new aggregation operator that generalizes the hybrid averaging (HA) operator by using the generalized mean. Thus, we are able to generalize a wide range of mean operators such as the HA, the hybrid geometric averaging (HGA), the...

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Una herramienta de análisis teórico en la teoría de la empresa bajo incertidumbre

Rodríguez-Puerta, Inmaculada; Sebastiá Costa, Francisco; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 11 (2011), pp. 33-40

In this paper we present a reformulation of a lemma due to Lippman and McCall - initially formulated a unique random variable - to be applied to the case of several random variables, and we illustrate its use in the theory of the firm under uncertainty. We have performed this on a recent model...

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Geburten in Ost- und Westdeutschland : erleichtert eine hohe Risikobereitschaft die Entscheidung für ein Kind?

Schmitt, Christian - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 11, pp. 18-23

Die von wirtschaftlichen Umbrüchen geprägten Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung waren für viele Ostdeutsche mit zunehmender Unsicherheit verbunden, während die Veränderungen in Westdeutschland weitaus weniger gravierend waren. In der Folge kam es in den 90er Jahren zu einem massiven Rückgang...

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Measuring the degree to which probability weighting affects risk-taking behavior in financial decisions

Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-39

risk-taking behavior deviates from expected utility theory in the presence of probability weighting. A group of …

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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Value relevance of financial statements information : evidence from listed firms in Kenya

Nyabundi, Melissa A. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 115-134

This study examined the relationship between share prices and dividends, earnings and book values for companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) in Kenya for the six years period between 2005 and 2010. Using panel data analysis the study found evidence that there is a positive and...

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Implementation of the stress test methods in the retail portfolio

Siarka, Pawel - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 15-29

Article refers to the issue of credit risk management in commercial banks. Particular attention is paid to the problem of stress testing. In addition, methods are presented that allow prediction of the losses of the portfolio in the context of extreme events relating to the crises of financial...

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