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Fatalistic Tendencies: An Explanation of Why People Don't Save
Wu, Stephen - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2005) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper uses data from the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) and the 2000 World Values Survey (WVS) to analyze the role of fatalism in determining household savings behavior. SCF respondents who feel that luck has played an important role in their financial affairs are more likely to...
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Wealth and Consumption. A Multicointegrated Model for the Unified Germany / Vermögen und Konsum. Ein multikointegriertes Modell für das vereinigte Deutschland
Hassler, Uwe - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 1, pp. 32-44
measured as cumulated saving. This implies that income and wealth are cointegrated, and their impact on consumption cannot be …
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Corporate Balance Sheet Adjustment: Stylized Facts, Causes and Consequences
Ruscher, Eric; Wolff, Guntram B. - In: Review of Economics 64 (2013) 2, pp. 117-138
Abstract Using national account data, we define corporate balance sheet adjustment episodes as periods during which major increases in non-financial corporations’ net lending/ borrowing are experienced. An analysis of such episodes in Germany and Japan, and a more systematic exploration of a...
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Growth, Saving, Financial Markets, and Markov Switching Regimes
Jacobson, Tor; Lindh, Thomas; Warne, Anders - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 5 (2002) 4
We report evidence that the relation between the financial-sector share, private saving, and growth in the United …
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Geldpolitischer Aktionismus, Ersparnisbildung und Kapitalallokation – Einige ökonomische Überlegungen
Prinz, Aloys; Beck, Hanno - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 67 (2018) 1, pp. 101-124
Zusammenfassung: In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie private Haushalte auf Niedrig- bzw. Nullzinsen reagieren. Dabei wird angenommen, dass die Haushalte sich an Nominalwerten orientieren. Die stark expansive Geldpolitik mit sehr geringen Zinsen verzerren die Ersparnisbildung und die...
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And … it's gone: the economics of South Park 's Margarita (housing bubble) episode
DiIorio, Peter; Block, Walter E. - In: Humanomics 28 (2012) 1, pp. 76-84
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze South Park 's take on the causes of the recession and the housing bubble. Design/methodology/approach – The essay describes the events in the South Park episode and compares them to the respective events of the recession and the housing...
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Saving and investment in Saudi Arabia: an empirical analysis
Verma, Reetu; Salman Saleh, Ali - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 28 (2011) 2, pp. 136-148
Purpose – This paper examines the long‐term relationship between saving and investment as a criterion for assessing … approach and the Gregory and Hansen cointegration methods to test for the long‐run relationship between saving and investment … between saving and investment and therefore concludes that capital is highly mobile in Saudi Arabia. This finding is plausible …
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BIM based Design Management of a Building Project Collaboratively Designed with a Foreign Design Firm in China: A Case Study
Tezel, Algan; Aziz, Zeeshan; Jiang, Chuxiong - In: International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling (IJ3DIM) 5 (2016) 2, pp. 16-38
In parallel with China's growing construction market, there has been an influx of foreign architectural and engineering … China. This paper presents an in-depth case study of a complex building design project collaboratively executed using BIM by … a foreign design firm from the USA and local Chinese firm in China. The project was analysed from different design …
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The Impact of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Hospitals' Utilization and Income Structure in Weifang Prefecture, China
Audibert, Martine; Mathonnat, Jacky; Pélissier, Aurore; … - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 23-33
The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme was gradually introduced from 2003 in China. This paper is based on a …
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Empowering Leadership and Employee Performance: A Mediating Role of Thriving at Work
Ali, Muhammad; Lei, SHEN; Jie, Zheng Shi; Rahman, … - In: International Journal of Asian Business and Information … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14
This article seeks to investigate the mediating effect of thriving at work between perceived empowering leadership behavior and employee performance. The proposed hypotheses were tested with structure equation modeling (SEM) techniques via AMOS 21. The data was collected from the employees of...
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