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This work focuses on the development of house price indices for Nigeria, and the estimates of the Nigerian Residential Property Price Indices on housing characteristics are presented. Four main methods of index construction were considered, these are hedonic regression, repeat-sales,...
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The capacity of input-output tables to reflect the structural peculiarities of an economy and to forecast, on this basis, its evolution, depends essentially on the characteristics of the matrix A matrix of I-O (or technical) coefficients. However, the temporal behaviour of these coefficients is...
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Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competitiveness of industries and countries. As labor compensation is wage multiplied by hours worked or number of people employed, it is easy to show that ULC is wage divided by labor productivity....
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Can corporate governance ratings reduce problems of asymmetric information between companies and investors? To answer this question, we set out to examine the information basis for providing such ratings by reviewing corporate governance attributes that are required or recommended in laws,...
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Female-led ventures that are market-expanding, export-oriented, and innovative contribute substantially to local and national economic development, as well as to the female entrepreneur’s economic welfare. Female-led ventures also serve as models that can encourage other high-potential female...
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Erneuerbare Energien tragen wesentlich zum Klimaschutz, zur Schonung erschöpfbarer Ressourcen und zur Energieversorgungssicherheit bei. Ziel der Europäischen Union ist es, den Anteil erneuerbarer Energien bis 2020 auf mindestens 20 Prozent des Energieverbrauchs zu erhöhen. Deutschlands Anteil...
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Die Energiewirtschaft befindet sich in einem gravierenden Umbau. Erneuerbare Energien expandieren stark. Längerfristig könnten sie zur Hauptquelle der Energieversorgung werden und damit wesentlich zum Klimaschutz, zur Schonung erschöpfbarer Ressourcen und zur Versorgungssicherheit beitragen....
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Am Wohnungsmarkt für Studenten haben sich in den letzten Jahren deutliche Anspannungen gezeigt. Um die Mietpreisentwicklung für studentisches Wohnen zu messen, wurde ein hedonischer Mietpreisindex von der Deutschen Real Estate Funds und dem Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln entwickelt....
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This paper computes and compares alternative quality-adjusted price indexes for new cars in Spain in the period 1990 - 2000. The proposed hedonic approach simultaneously controls for time-invariant unobserved product effects and age effects, that can be interpreted as a proxy for time-variant...
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Beim letzten Nationalen IT-Gipfel der Bundesregierung am 18./19.11.2015 haben die Kanzlerin und der Wirtschaftsminister einhellig hervorgehoben, dass Deutschland hinsichtlich des Digitalisierungsgrades von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im internationalen Vergleich allenfalls mittelmäßig...
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