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Turrialba: una economía local entre la crisis y el desarrollo
Arias Ramírez, Rafael - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 27 (2009) 06
El estudio de caso en economía regional que se presenta se comenzó en el mes de octubre del 2005 como una iniciativa … regional y local en Costa Rica, sino que también señala la ausencia de visión y políticas a nivel del gobierno nacional para … promover una verdadera estrategia de desarrollo regional para el país. …
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Santa Cruz de Guanacaste: cultura local, turismo y globalización
Zúñiga, Morales; Carlos, Luis - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 27 (2009) 07
The article analyzes the relationship between local culture of the canton of Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, and the development of tourism in the canton. In a first section explores the origin and development of popular culture in the canton, linking it to traditional farming activities, then describes...
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Challenges to a liberal international economic order
Haberler, Gottfried; Willett, Thomas D.; Amacher, Ryan C. - American Enterprise Institute
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What do you do when the binomial cannot value real options? The LSM model
Azofra, S. Alonso, V.; De La Fuente, G. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-13
The Least-Squares Monte Carlo model (LSM model) has emerged as the derivative valuation technique with the greatest impact in current practice. As with other options valuation models, the LSM algorithm was initially posited in the field of financial derivatives and its extension to the realm of...
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'Economics' of prosperity: Why the dominant perspectives may be unhelpful to make sense of underdevelopment
Gupta, Avinash - 2018
The article is essentially a book-review of Professor Vijay Joshi's recent work, '"India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity". In this critical essay, I take a slightly revisionist approach when it comes to a 'typical'book review. For example, the length of this article goes well-beyond the...
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Inspirational Intuition – A new controlling approach to moderate the intuitive imagination of knowledge
Müller, Jochem - 2021
This extended abstract shows the importance of human intuition in the context of creating new knowledge. In particular, inspirational intuition plays an important role. In contrast to Daniel Kahneman's fast, intuitive and routine decision-making in terms of a System 1 (Kahneman 2011, pp. 19...
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Predicting changes in Canadian housing markets with machine learning
Brannlund, Johan; Lao, Helen; MacIsaac, Maureen; Yang, Jing - 2023
This paper examines whether machine learning (ML) algorithms can outperform a linear model in predicting monthly growth in Canada of both house prices and existing home sales. The aim is to apply two widely used ML techniques (support vector regression and multilayer perceptron) in economic...
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Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?
Fix, Blair - 2022
Among leftists, predicting the end of capitalism is a favorite parlor game. For example, as a graduate student in the 2010s, I remember discovering the 1976 edition of Marx’s Capital and being struck by the introduction. Written by the Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel, the foreword concluded that...
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The irresistible charm of the micro-foundations dogma or the overwhelming force of the discipline's hard core?
Skouras, Thanos; Kitromilides, Yiannis - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 11 (2014) 1, pp. 67-79
The appeal of the 'Micro-foundations' project, which requires that all macroeconomic propositions are reduced to or derived from microeconomic ones, is strongly supported by the considerable force of what Lakatos calls the discipline's 'hard core'. This is particularly so if this project is...
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The impact of GILTI and FDII on the investment location choice of U.S. multinationals
Mathur, Aparna; Singh, Kartikeya - 2018
This paper analyses the impact of two new international tax provisions, GILTI and FDII, passed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on U.S. multinational corporations' location of new capital. We analyze whether these rules help retain internationally mobile rents within the U.S. tax base and the...
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