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A Tale of Two Standards: An Exploration of US GAAP and IFRS

Lagasse, Allyson - 2010

some of the difficulties that could be faced by the United States if the transition proposed by the Securities and Exchange … such a transition upon entering the workforce. …

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Transition from GAAP to IFRS in the United States

Smith, Kenneth - 2009

This research intends to determine the costs and benefits of the transition from Generally Accepted Accounting … benefits of the transition in three areas of accounting: Academia, Corporate and Public. The transition could potentially have … for the US to adopt IFRS. To ascertain the costs and benefits of the transition, this research used an online survey to …

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Institutions matter: the case of Vietnam

Tran, Bich Thi; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - 2008

The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...

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Planning the introduction of IPv6 in NATO, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2006, nr 3

Goode, Robert

, etc.) at commands. To maintain and improve interoperability within NATO and with partners, NATO will transition from … version four of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) to version six (IPv6). The transition to IPv6 will involve the IP network, the … minimise costs and maximise effectiveness NATO is planning the transition in a timescale that is commensurate with commercial …

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Transition towards sustainability: Dutch greenhouse parks as a touchstone for Flemish clustering experiments

Verguts, V.; Dessein, J; Lauwers, Ludwig H. - 2008

Greenhouse horticulture can play a major role in Flemish rural development, regional economy and employment. However … results are presented. Different concepts such as transition and system innovation are used as theoretical lenses in the …

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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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Financial liberalization or financial development? Tests using Delphi-based index of liberalization

Groenewold, Nicolaas; Peng, Jiangang; Li, Guanzheng; … - 2008

Most empirical analysis of the finance-growth nexus has used measures of financial development such as the ratio of monetary or financial assets to GDP to measure financial development. We argue that from a policy perspective measures of financial liberalisation or reform are of greater interest...

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Financial Development, Financial Structure, and Domestic Investment: International Evidence

Ndikumana, Léonce - 2003

Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country’s financial system is bank based or stock-market based? This paper posits that financial intermediation affects domestic investment notably by alleviating financing constraints, allowing firms to increase investment in response to...

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Financial Development and Technology

Tadesse, Solomon - 2005

Research in development economics reveals that the bulk of cross-country differences in economic growth is attributable to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of countries’ growth in per capita GDP. I examine a particular channel...

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Financial Deregulation and Financial Development, and Subsequent Impact on Economic Growth in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Grath, Patricia Mc - 2006

Results support Arestis’s theory, that low real interest rates do not prevent economic growth (though he related it to the regulation debate). Here in the deregulation environment, it also stands. Results also support Shaw’s assertion that financial liberalisation increases the monetary...

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