Acknowledging the importance of the private construction market and a close linkage between private construction investment, public sector output and general economic conditions, there is a strong motivation to develop reliable models to forecast private construction investment. Based on the...

Service companies continually seek improved methods to measure the performance of their organisations because they are committed to improve efficiency and effectiveness in their operating units. Managers generally regard conventional methods inadequate. They struggle with the existing...

The article discusses the factors influencing the market capitalization of a company. Using data on the thousand largest companies in Europe, taken from the 2009 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, the analysis focuses on the impacts of net sales value of each company, investment in...

There is broad consensus that logistic regression is superior to ordinary least squares (OLS) regression at predicting the probability of an event. OLS is still widely used in binary choice models because its coefficients are easier to interpret, while the resulting estimates tend to be close to...

This study compared people’s of the money ethic and horizontal and vertical individualism & collectivism across Turkish university students studying in Turkey, Turkish university students studying in Kyrgyzstan and Kyrgyz university students. This study also investigates the relationships...

This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. We develop a model in which firms influence the government by transmitting information about the value of protection, via costless messages...

The paper identifies those elements in the configuration of fiscal parameters confronting the country that give cause for concern, and examines whether the fiscal reform measures taken address these adequately. [Working Paper No. 15].

This case study explores the driving force of the productivity growth in Cambodia, one of the least developed countries. Quantitative and qualitative studies were used to analyze the source and impact of the input factors on the nation¡¯s productivity growth. For a quantitative study, a small...

In 2008 the world’s attention was focused on the global food crisis and, as consequence, on the global food security. By mid-2009, commodity prices have dropped sensitively, nevertheless most of them still remain at or above past trend levels. Fluctuations in prices are not rare in...