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Aid for War? An Empirical Assessment of Donor Interventions in Civil Wars

Lechtenfeld, Tobias - 2008

economic interventions on conflict duration. Moreover, specific conditions are identified under which foreign interventions … work best. The results suggest that diplomatic and military interventions can shorten civil wars, while economic … interventions do not affect the duration of civil wars but may play a conditioning role. The findings are obtained by fitting a …

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Supervisory Boards of German Corporations: Composition, Interventions, Performance

Vetter, Karin - 2011

Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...

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Interventions and expected exchange rates in emerging market economies

García-Verdú, Santiago; Ramos-Francia, Manuel - 2014

Peru due to interventions implemented by these countries. For this purpose, we first estimate the risk-neutral densities of … model, we assess possible effects on the distributions of the expected exchange rates due to these interventions. We find … economically significant. On the other hand, we find evidence that interventions which objective is to restore and/or assure the …

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Distributional policy effects with many treatment outcomes

Cañón Salazar, Carlos Iván - 2016

Different segments of a population affected by the same policy intervention may have different responses. We study the role of equilibrium effects on explaining these differences. Our case study is the government's extension of guarantees during the Great Recession to certain debt issuers. We...

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Strong and weak lifespan extension: What is most feasible and likely?

Lucke, J. C.; Hall, W. D. - 2006

Recent advances in biomedical science indicate that it may eventually be possible to intervene in the biological process of human ageing. This paper overviews the current state of the science of lifespan extension and promising future directions. It is uncertain whether 'strong' lifespan...

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Improving the Wellbeing of People Dependent on the Low-income Beef Industry in South Africa

Nkhanedzeni Nengovhela - 2010

developing and developed beef sectors elsewhere. The study aims to understand this situation and develop interventions that …

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Preferences for 'life-saving' programmes: Small for all or gambling for the prize?

Gyrd-Hansen, D; Kristiansen, IS - 2008

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The direction of green accounting policy: critical reflections

Gallhofer, Sonja; Haslam, Jim - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 10 (1997) 2, pp. 148-174

Believes that green accounting should be rendered open and accountable and be properly subject to a democratic process to avoid shrouding it in a mystifying expertise. Offers a timely and substantive contribution to the debate about how green accounting might be regulated. Believes the...

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Career indecision: an integrative review and research agenda

Bian, Xinyi - In: European Journal of Training and Development 47 (2021) 1/2, pp. 166-182

Purpose The current review sought to bring light to the issue of an underexplored career phenomenon – career indecision. Career indecision is a significant developmental stage in one’s career life and has been a prominent topic in vocational psychology research in the past decades. However,...

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Third Party Intervention in New Zealand: Part I

Harris, John - In: Employee Relations 11 (1989) 4, pp. 3-8

This is the first of two articles which describes the operation of third party intervention in New Zealand. It explores the changes that have occurred to union registration; the Labour Court and Compliance Orders brought about by the introduction of the Labour Relations Act of 1987. The article...

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