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The Global Financial Crisis and the Chinese Economy: A Review of the Transmission Channels and Impacts
Wu, Cheejir - In: Applied Economics and Finance 1 (2014) 1, pp. 88-95
impacts on its finance, the main channels through which China felt the impacts were trade and trade related ones. One channel …
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Forest Biomass for Energy Production: Perceptions of State Forestry Professionals from China and India
Halder, Pradipta - In: Challenges 5 (2014) 2, pp. 338-350
successful implementation in China and India. …
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How China’s Options Will Determine Global Warming
Singer, Clifford; Milligan, Timothy; Rethinaraj, T.S. Gopi - In: Challenges 5 (2013) 1, pp. 1-25
of historical trends without policy-driven limitations has China responsible for about half of global CO2 emissions by … the middle of the twenty-first century. Results are presented for three possible actions taken by China to limit global …. Taking into account China’s expected influence and approach to limiting the impact of anthropogenic climate change allows for …
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Modelo binomial para la valoración de empresas y los efectos de la deuda: escudo fiscal y liquidación de la firma
Milanesi, Gastón - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 19 (2014) 36, pp. 2-10
En este documento se propone un modelo binomial para valorar empresas, proyectando y condicionando escenarios de continuidad o liquidación de la firma. El modelo se basa en la Teoría de Opciones Reales para estimar el valor de la firma, que resulta de un balance explícito de las ventajas y...
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Características estadísticas del índice general de la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (IGBC) en sus primeros 10 años
Alonso, César; Torres, Giselle - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 19 (2014) 36, pp. 45-54
Si bien es amplia la literatura que se ha dedicado a estudiar los hechos estilizados en las series de los rendimientos, para el caso colombiano solamente existe un trabajo que documenta estos hechos. Alonso y Arcos (2006) documentaron la presencia de cuatro hechos estilizados en la serie de los...
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FUNCTIONING OF SUSTAINABLE EDUCATIONAL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT IN THE ENTERPRISE
Ileana (BADULESCU ) ANASTASE - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 4, pp. 21-34
The paper addresses issues related to education management operation that determines the principles and requires an interdisciplinary approach, studying events that occur in the decision to organize a determined pedagogical activity and the management of educational programs. Managerial...
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What Does It Take to Establish that a World Is Uninhabited Prior to Exploitation? A Question of Ethics as well as Science
Persson, Erik - In: Challenges 5 (2014) 2, pp. 224-238
If we find life on another world, it will be an extremely important discovery and we will have to take great care not to do anything that might endanger that life. If the life we find is sentient we will have moral obligations to that life. Whether it is sentient or not, we have a duty to...
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The Radiation Environment of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Linsky, Jeffrey L. - In: Challenges 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-373
Exoplanets are born and evolve in the radiation and particle environment created by their host star. The host star’s optical and infrared radiation heats the exoplanet’s lower atmosphere and surface, while the ultraviolet, extreme ultraviolet and X-radiation control the photochemistry and...
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The Wickedness and Complexity of Decision Making in Geoengineering
Zhang, Yanzhu; Posch, Alfred - In: Challenges 5 (2014) 2, pp. 390-408
Geoengineering, the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change, has been more widely considered as an accompanying strategy to conventional climate change mitigation measures to combat global warming. However, this approach is far...
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Optimal Risk-Sharing in Mortgage Contracts: The Effects of Potential Prepayment and Default
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - CESifo - 2014
Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers. However, to decide if the outcome of such a choice is efficient or approximately so, it is necessary to explore the question of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But...
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