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A diagnosis of inherent problems in implementing internal marketing in Macau and Singapore casino companies

Kale, Sudhir H.; De, Sangita; Spence, Mark T. - 2011

industry seem to have focused their attention to enhancing capacity and opening new casino properties. Meanwhile, the Singapore … Macau and Singapore will get more acute. Current impressive revenues notwithstanding, increased capacity will also put … internal marketing practices for casinos in Macau and Singapore: culture, climate, recruitment, compensation and training. …

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Forging relationships with services: The antecedents that have an impact on behavioural outcomes in the life insurance industry

Durvasula, Srinivas; Lysonski, Steven; Mehta, Subhash; … - 2004

collected in Singapore in response to concerns about broadening understanding of these variables cross-culturally. Results of …

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The Persistence of Pricing Differentials in Dual-listed Companies in Hong Kong and China

Spitzer, Justin - 2011

Over the past two decades a number of Chinese companies have issued shares on both the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and on one of the Chinese stock exchanges. The Hong Kong-listed H-shares of Chinese dual-listed companies have traded at a persistent discount rate relative to the China-listed...

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Epistemology of capital structure decisions by building contractors in Hong Kong

Chiang, Yat-Hung; Cheng, Eddie WL; Lam, Patrick TI - 2010

Purpose – This paper aims to identify a set of potential determinants of capital structure. By knowing the key determinants, it is possible to understand how building contractors make decisions on capital structure.Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit...

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Evaluating Tax Reform in Vietnam Using General Equilibrium Methods

Chan, Nguyen; Ghosh, Madanmohan; Whalley, John - 1999

In this paper we use a general equilibrium model of Vietnam, calibrated to 1995 data, to analyze tax reform options for Vietnam. We focus on aggregate welfare impacts as well as welfare of household groups ranked by income. The main focus is on indirect tax reform (VAT), but we also examine...

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Doing Too Much: The Standard Deduction and the Conflict Between Progressivity and Simplification

Brooks, John R. - 2011

In U.S. federal income tax, the standard deduction, along with the personal exemptions, provides taxpayers with a minimum amount of untaxed income, effectively creating a "zero bracket amount." For historical and political reasons, however, the standard deduction also operates as a simplified...

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The Interaction of Metropolitan Cost-of-Living & the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All?

Thompson, Jeffrey P; Fitzpatrick, Katie - 2009

This paper explores the interaction between the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the cost-of-living faced by single mothers. After the 1993 EITC expansion, we identify up to a 10 percentage point increase in labor force participation for single mothers in the lowest cost areas but no...

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A General Model of the Behavioral Response to Taxation

Slemrod, Joel B. - 2001

This paper generalizes the standard model of how taxes affect the labor-leisure choice by allowing individuals to change both their labor supply and avoidance effort in response to tax changes. Doing so reveals that the income and substitution effect of taxes depend on both preferences and the...

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My Beautiful Tax Reform

Slemrod, Joel B. - 2005

Many experts equate the best tax system with the simplest, and the best tax reform with the one that most simplifies the system. However, the simplest, most elegant policy need not be the best because tax policy involves a tradeoff among objectives, including equity and efficiency objectives,...

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Remarks on The President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform

Levy, Mickey D.

The President?s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform took on a very difficult task?to disentangle the complexities, sources of unfairness and economic distortions in current tax policy, and provide proposals for reform?and its final report is admirable in its intent and accomplishment (President?s...

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