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OPTIMAL INFLATIONARY AND RESERVE REQUIREMENT POLICIES: A STUDY OF AN ECONOMY WITH AN INFORMAL SECTOR

Ali, Hamid - 2011

Governments in developing economies often resort to taxing bank money balances through imposition of high reserve requirements and also by relying on seigniorage to finance their deficits. In the context of those practices, this research reported in this paper attempts to answer the following...

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Statistical Methods to Evaluate Geographically-Targeted Economic Development Programs

Bondonio, Daniele - 2000

In recent years an increasing amount of efforts has been devoted to the evaluation of geographically-targeted economic development (GTED) programs. In the U.S. and in Great Britain, geographically-targeted business incentives (denominated Enterprise Zone programs) are an important policy...

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Access to Microfinance: Does it Matter for Profit Efficiency Among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Bangladesh?

Sumelius, John; Islam, K.M. Zahidul; Sipilainen, Timo - 2011

This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms in Bangladesh. An extended Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function wasused to assess profit efficiency and profit loss of rice farmers in Bangladesh in a survey data...

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Interval Estimation and Optimal Design for the Within-subject Coefficient of Variation for Continuous and Binary Variables

Shoukri, Mohamed M.; Elkum, Nasser; Walter, Stephen D. - 2006

Background: In this paper we propose the use of the within-subject coefficient of variation as an index of a measurement's reliability. For continuous variables and based on its maximum likelihood estimation we derive a variance-stabilizing transformation and discuss confidence interval...

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Liquidity, Volatility, and Equity Trading Costs Across Countries and Over Time

Domowitz, Ian; Glen, Jack; Madhavan, Ananth - 2000

Actual investment performance reflects the underlying strategy of the portfolio manager and the execution costs incurred in realizing those objectives. Execution costs, especially in illiquid markets, can dramatically reduce the notional return to an investment strategy. This paper examines the...

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Mixtures of Varying Coefficient Models for Longitudinal Data with Discrete or Continuous Nonignorable Dropout

Hogan, Joseph W.; Lin, Xihong; Herman, Benjamin - 2004

The analysis of longitudinal repeated measures data is frequently complicated by missing data due to informative dropout. We describe a mixture model for joint distribution for longitudinal repeated measures, where the dropout distribution may be continuous and the dependence between response...

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Finance for all : the impact of financial literacy training in compulsory secondary education in Spain

Hospido Quintana, Laura; Villanueva López, Ernesto; … - 2015

En el marco del Programa «Finanzas Para Todos», el Banco de España y la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores coordinaron en 2013 un curso de Educación Financiera en 3.º de la ESO. Este curso fue impartido por los profesores de más de doscientos centros, y sus contenidos versaban sobre...

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The brand-personality of three categories of drinks in Australia

Liang, Johan; Lee, Wai - 2010

This study focuses on the 42 traits of brand personality (Aaker 1997) of nine drink brands spanning across three drink segments - fizzy drink, mineral water and energy drink, and measure the congruity of the brands' personalities (five dimension) to the consumer (drinker) of those brands. Based...

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Consumer behaviour and satisfaction

Dubelaar, Chris; Wahyuningsih, - 2004

This study investigates customer satisfaction using a market segmentation approach. Yet emerging customer satisfaction …

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Explaining Variation in Farm and Farm Business Performance in Respect to Farmer Segmentation Analysis

Wilson, Paul; Harper, Nicholas; Darling, Richard - 2011

Results from a pilot application of Defra’s segmentation model applied to the Farm Business Survey for England are … five segmentation groups: Custodians (14.0%); Lifestyle Choice (7.2%); Pragmatists (53.3%); Modern Family Business (21 … average FBI. Variation in regional tendencies across the segmentation groups was observed, with variation also noted for forms …

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