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Financial Market Reactions to Earnings Announcements and Earnings Forecast Revisions : Evidence from the U.S. and China
Gift, Michael J. - 2010
This paper examines the impact of earnings announcements and earnings forecast revisions on stock returns across …-looking earnings announcement information and forward-looking earnings forecast information on the price of equity shares. We analyze … less mature Chinese financial market, we find the opposite relationship as backward-looking earnings announcement …
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A Regional Perspective on the Canada-US Standard of Living Comparisons
Létourneau, Raynald; Lajoie, Martine - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 9-16
This article by Raynauld Letourneau and Martine Lajoie of Industry Canada provides a detailed regional analysis of levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the most recent data currently available. They find that all...
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Determinants of Trends in Living Standards in Canada and the United States, 1989-2000
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 3-10
falling employment-population ratio contributed to the decline in our standard of living relative to that in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518960
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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001
income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … trends in the two labour markets, including the concentration of employment growth in services and in managerial and …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650217
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650233
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Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings
Pilat, Dirk - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 32-44
States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited … employment growth. …
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Ambition and jealousy. Income Interactions in the "old" Europe versus The "New" Europe and the United States
Senik, Claudia - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2005
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...
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Economic growth, an evolutionary process that gives rise to an attractor
Villemeur, Alain - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
for these states are employment, investment and technical productivity, with the profit share in income always being equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706385
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Economic growth : a chain-reaction between increases in supply and increases in demand ?
Villemeur, Alain - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
employment growth rate and of the investment rate (or the saving rate), while the profit share in the income is exactly 1/3. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708650
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Twenty-five years of materialism: do the US and Europe diverge?
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013
Using data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study, we compare the trends of materialism over the last quarter of century among the US and six major European countries: France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden. We use the definition of materialism adopted by...
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