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Educación y escuela en el año del bicentenario de Argentina historia reciente : Tucumán 1990/2010

Macián de Barbieri, Liliana - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-25

The paper provides a review of laws and other actions that have been undertaken in recent years in Argentina to improve education. Review is focused on the Province of Tucumán, where he studied education policy and some of their results. It analyzes the contents of the Federal Education Law No....

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Managing operating efficiencies of publicly owned universities : American university stochastic frontier estimates using panel data

Sav, G. Thomas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-23

education. The analysis employs panel data on American research and doctoral granting universities spanning four academic years …, 2005-06 through 2008-09. Translog cost frontiers are estimated under two alternative efficiency models whereby … universities. Moreover environmental factors affect university operating efficiencies. University operating inefficiencies are …

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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 universities, the focus is on the primary drivers of U.S. publicly cont rolled …

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Why activity based costing (ABC) is still tagging behind the traditional costing in Malaysia?

Rasiah, Devinaga - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 83-106

This study compares activity-based costing (ABC) model and traditional costing method in Malaysia. Activity based costing (ABC) which was developed into the manufacturing/service sectors in Malaysia. It calculates the cost and performance of activities, resources and cost objects. It can be...

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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

mechanism all over the world, the speed detectors, enabled in the middle of the 1990’s was then suddenly prohibited in Chile … speeding. A widely used control mechanism all over the world, the speed detectors, enabled in the middle of the 1990’s was then …

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Financial markets, bloated governments and the misallocation of capital

Savvides, Savvakis C. - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 201-219

Through this paper the author discusses the phenomenon of excessive Government borrowing and the factors that lead Governments to be so dependent on financial markets. It is argued that the combined effect of unregulated financial intermediaries, hedge funds and Credit Rating Agencies in...

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Sharing a polluted river through environmental taxes

Gómez-Rúa, María - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 2, pp. 137-153

n agents located along a river generate residues that then require cleaning to return the river to its natural state, which entails some cost. We propose several rules to distribute the total pollutant-cleaning cost among all the agents. We provide axiomatic characterizations using properties...

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The rebuilding of the Cyprus economy

Savvides, Savvakis C. - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 2 (2013) 2, pp. 107-123

Following the extra ordinary decision to bail in the unsecured depositors and restructure the two main banks and the near complete destruction of the country’s economic business model as an International Financial Centre, the author considers the changes necessary to rebuild the economy of...

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What happens after enrollment? : an analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Spenner, Ken - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point averages falls by half between the students’ freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to reduce racial differences. However, this convergence...

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Employment status and job-studies relevance of social science graduates : the experience from a Greek public university

Kalamatianou, Aglaia G.; Kougioumoutzaki, Foteini - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 51-75

Research on social science graduates’ employment prospects reaches contradictor conclusions intensifying the scepticism on the value of these disciplines in the labour market. The paper examines two important labour market outcomes of these graduates, employment status and job-studies...

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