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On the relative cost of mediation and military intervention
Fischer, Dietrich - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 2, pp. 13-16
for a United Nations Institute for Mediation, a U.N. Security Insurance Agency, and an International Security Commission …
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How to control, intervene and mediate: the role of accounting in a modern textile company
Forsberg, Per - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 4 (2012) 1, pp. 6-20
This article about accounting history in Sweden deals with the period between 1903 and the Second World War. It focuses on how accounting was shaped in a broad social-political-economic situation but also that accounting has crucial social and organisational functions. It makes use of the first...
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The interdependence of conflict management attempts
Diehl, Paul F.; Regan, Patrick - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (2015) 1, pp. 99-107
Standard conflict management studies treat individual conflict management attempts, whether the same or different techniques, as independent of one another across time and space. This article considers the implications and lays out research agenda for several configurations that relax that...
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Escalation in international conflict management: A foreign policy perspective
Melin, Molly M. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (2015) 1, pp. 28-49
Efforts to resolve interstate disputes are often characterized by repeated engagement and evolving strategies. What explains a state’s decision to continue conflict resolution efforts but escalate their management strategy? Drawing from foreign policy literature, I argue that third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165864
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On the relative cost of mediation and military intervention
Fischer, Dietrich - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 2, pp. 13-16
for a United Nations Institute for Mediation, a U.N. Security Insurance Agency, and an International Security Commission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818303
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Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence from the Daily DM/US-Dollar Exchange Rate
Reitz, Stefan - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002
bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are … to daily US-dollar/DEM forward rates and intervention data of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve from 1979 …
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A model to evaluate and to optimize the spatial impact of the investments in urban regeneration
Cervelló Royo, Cervelló Royo , Roberto; García del … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 17, pp. 125-138
intervention locations, an impact index is put forward. The spatial distribution of these impact indexes in the interventions’ area … situations, a measure of the intervention process and its impact can be obtained. …
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Truth-telling and trust in sender–receiver games with intervention: an experimental study
Gurdal, Mehmet; Ozdogan, Ayca; Saglam, Ismail - In: Review of Economic Design 18 (2014) 2, pp. 83-103
robust to the random intervention of a truthful regulator. In addition, intervention significantly increases the excessive … intervention. We offer a theoretical explanation for the behavior of senders and receivers, using a logit agent quantal response … of this model. Moreover, we find that the lying cost is significantly higher under intervention, implying that truthful …
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Results of a Study to Increase Savoring the Moment: Differential Impact on Positive and Negative Outcomes
Hurley, Daniel; Kwon, Paul - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 4, pp. 579-588
. This study tested a group savoring the moment intervention to increase positive outcomes and decrease negative outcomes … over 2 weeks. The sample consisted of 193 undergraduate students who completed both sessions (94 intervention and 99 … control condition). The intervention group experienced significant decreases in self-reported depressive symptoms and negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010999104
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Ageing, Leisure, and Social Connectedness: How could Leisure Help Reduce Social Isolation of Older People?
Toepoel, Vera - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 355-372
This study investigates the relation between leisure activities and the social status of the elderly based on a heterogeneous sample of the Dutch population. Close relationships are also analyzed to identify which people could serve as successful stimulators of leisure participation. The social...
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