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A Guide for the Young Economist
Thomson, William - The MIT Press
This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles … for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or … make written and oral presentations both engaging and efficient. Declaring "I would certainly take up arms for clarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535208
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A Guide for the Young Economist
Thomson, William - The MIT Press
This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles … for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or … make written and oral presentations both engaging and efficient. Declaring "I would certainly take up arms for clarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535225
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Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822928
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A Theory of the Consumption Function, With and Without Liquidity Constraints (Expanded Version)
Carroll, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper argues that the modern stochastic consumption model, in which impatient consumers face uninsurable labor income risk, matches Milton Friedman's (1957) original description of the Permanent Income Hypothesis much better than the perfect foresight or certainty equivalent models did. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829928
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HEALTH AND HEALTH ECONOMICS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Himanshu Sekhar, Rout; Narayan C handra, Nayak - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Over the last three decades, treating health economics as an independent scientific discipline and providing specific treatment to the topics related to the economics of the health care sector have become more and more common. Currently, the field is so well established that it has appeared in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835927
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Ialamic finance education at graduate level: Current position and challenges
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Over the past few decades Islamic finance has been the fastest growing segment of the global system. The fast growing market has necessitated corresponding expansion of education and training facilities to increase appropriately the supply of skilled manpower. This called for a stock taking of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836121
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The age of Professor Narmadeshwar Jha
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Professor Narmadeshwar Jha was a noted scholar on History of Economic Thought that took its shape under the influence of Alfred Marshall. His widely referred book - The Age of Marshall: Aspects of British Economic Thought, 1890-1915 – was written under the supervision of Professor A.J. Brown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836555
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Higher Education Trends in Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837034
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CHALLENGES IN INTRODUCING DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN ERITREA:Some Observations and Implications
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
All over the world, distance mode of education is gaining a momentum and becoming more popular than conventional education. It is a system in which schools, universities and other educational agencies offer instruction wholly or partly by mail. Eritrea is a newly independent country in Africa is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837155
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Corporate Governance. Case Studies
Manuel, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper pretends to do a theoretical approach of Corporate Governance, having as support some case studies about companies like Coca-Cola, Nokia, Microsoft, and Amazon.com. The methodology adopted for this work is based in information from these companies available in their websites and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837459