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Measuring TFP: the role of profits, adjustment costs, and capacity utilization
Comin, Diego; Quintana González, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; …
productivity (TFP) growth. Our method accounts for profits and adjustment costs, and uses firm surveys to proxy for changes in … crisis. In the United States, our method indicates higher TFP growth overall and a more gradual productivity slowdown. …
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CPIM Research Project : the effects of APICS certification on hiring and promotional decisions
Schwarz, Roger - 2007
Poster with text describing research conducted by Roger Schwarz advised by Terry Wells and Abe Nahm.
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Production of Shale Oil
1982
Intensive pre-project feasibility and engineering studies begun in 1979 have produced an outline plan for development of a major project for production of shale oil from private lands in the Piceance Basin in western Colorado. This outline plan provides a blueprint for the development of a...
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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
equilibrium theory of unemployment. The proposed quantitative model with ex-ante worker skill heterogeneity and two technology … shocks is consistent with a strong response of labor market variables to cyclical fluctuations in productivity and a …
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Why Casinos are not Recession Proof: An Business Cycle Econometric Case Study of the Las Vegas Region
Legg, Mark P; Tang, Hugo - 2011
The gaming industry has long been considered recession proof. However, as the gaming industry has expanded it has increased its exposure to the lodging and convention industries. This is evidenced by the fact that the gaming industry is struggling alongside these industries. This study uses the...
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Essays on Technology, Fiscal Policy, and the Business Cycle.
Watanabe, Shingo - 2009
shocks. It is popular to identify technology shocks as shocks permanently affecting labor productivity in SVAR. However it …
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Two Essays in Business Cycle Theory
Ahmad, Nazneen - 2005
negligible. The second essay follows up on this argument by incorporating prospect theory into the formulation of individual … preferences. Prospect theory proposes that agents care about changes in their wealth level rather than the level of their final … prospect theory, therefore, the agents take fluctuations in the asset returns seriously. Results from empirical tests find that …
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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert - 2005
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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La evolución cíclica de la economía española en el contexto europeo
Álvarez González, Luis Julián; Gadea Rivas, María … - 2021
El objetivo principal de este trabajo es, por un lado, proporcionar un conjunto de hechos estilizados sobre las regularidades de los patrones cíclicos en España en relación con los de los principales países europeos y, por otro, analizar la sincronización de la evolución de las principales...
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Cyclical patterns of the Spanish economy in Europe
Álvarez González, Luis Julián; Gadea Rivas, María … - 2021
El objetivo principal de este trabajo es, por un lado, proporcionar un conjunto de hechos estilizados sobre las regularidades de los patrones cíclicos en España en relación con los de los principales países europeos y, por otro, analizar la sincronización de la evolución de las principales...
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