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White Papers
Takeoff And Growth Across Technology Generations
May 2008
An apparent contradiction exists on growth across technology generations: while common wisdom among industry experts in technology markets is that new product growth accelerates across technology...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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White Papers
Growing With Global Mindset: Raytheon Implements Thunderbird Tool
Jun 2009
Raytheon has matured into a defense industry giant in the years since 1922, when two former college roommates and a scientist launched the enterprise in Cambridge, Mass. The company generated more...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
Can Derivatives Actually Reduce Financial Risk?
Sep 2009
Since the financial markets went haywire in 2008, corporate managers have been trying to understand better the effect of financial leverage on their enterprises and the overall economy. High...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
Time Varying Prospective Utility And Optimal Asset Allocation For Australasian Stocks And Bonds
May 2010
This paper presents evidence that the concept of the frequency of portfolio evaluation required to produce indifference between Stocks and Bonds is highly dependent upon the actual test sample...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Private Equity Opportunity - ?Hard Assets? In Latin America
Jan 2010
In the year and a half since the start of the global financial crisis, many investors and professional capital managers came to the harsh realization that they had been operating without a valid...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
International Allocation Determinants Of Institutional Investments In Venture Capital And Private Equity
Jan 2008
The authors of this paper examine the determinants of institutional investors when deciding on international capital allocation in Venture Capital and Private Equity Limited Partnerships; this is...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Utilization Of Defined Benefit Plans In PE Firms
Jan 2010
Recent changes in retirement plan laws have created a significant opportunity for venture capital and private equity firm general partners to substantially increase their pre-tax retirement...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Private Equity Has Toolkit To Ease Troubled Market
Oct 2008
The global economic crisis has many people playing the blame game, and private equity gets its share of the heat amid the ongoing credit crunch. But the public perception often doesn't match the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
How The E.U. Energy Mix Must Change
Jan 2010
The World Energy Outlook, the flagship publication of the International Energy Agency, says Europe's plans for fighting pollution are insufficient. It is urging Europe to cut its emissions by 23...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
An Approach To Facilitate Problem Solving: Individualizing The Problem Proposition
Oct 2008
This paper addresses one of the many facets of the problem-solving activity: the challenge inherent in the problem proposition. The authors have identified the problem proposition as a core...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
An Interface-Driven Analysis Of User Behavior Of An Electronic Health Records System
Mar 2008
This paper studies the user behavior of an electronic health records (EHR) system by discovering sequential usage patterns in clinicians' day-to-day interaction with the system's software user...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
User Acceptance And Adoption Of A Clinical Reminder System: A Developmental Trajectory Approach
Mar 2008
In this paper, the author assesses user acceptance and adoption of a clinical reminder system for chronic disease and preventive care management in an ambulatory care environment. The author uses...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
Bankruptcy, CEO Retention And The Evolution Of Contractual Practices
Mar 2009
This paper provides empirical evidence on the changing nature of agency problems between managers and creditors in firms filing for chapter 11 between the 1980s and 1990s. The author fined that...
Provided by University of Pittsburgh
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White Papers
Valuing Toxic Assets: Will New Accounting Standards Help?
Apr 2009
Valuing asset securitizations always has been a difficult issue for the accounting profession. Now, with the recent collapse of the credit and financial markets, a new layer of complexity further...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Price Leadership And Firm Size Asymmetry: An Experimental Analysis
Oct 2007
One use laboratory experiments to examine the effect of firm size asymmetry on price leadership in a capacity constrained duopoly. The unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the duopoly game...
Provided by Kent State University
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White Papers
China's quiet confidence
Jun 2010
China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has said that 2010 will be a very difficult year for the country's economy, yet in Q1 its performance was remarkable. China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 11.9...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Unveiling Latin America's Economic Success
Jan 2010
A lot of attention has been focused on the remarkable economic success of China, India and other Asian countries. So much so that the rise of Latin American companies as major players on the...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Why Did They Stay?: Perspectives On Katrina Survivors' "Choice" To Stand Their Ground Or Evacuate
Apr 2010
Hurricane Katrina precipitated two different sets of experiences - those lived by the people who scrambled to evacuate and those endured by the survivors who stayed behind. Those who stayed behind...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
And The Poor Get Poorer: The Economics Of Higher Global Temperatures
Mar 2009
Climate change presents poor nations with an unfortunate paradox: Though they missed out on the riches of the fossil fuel era, they appear doomed to suffer the worst of its consequences. Many...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Confidence Risk And Asset Prices
Jan 2010
In the data, asset prices exhibit large negative moves at frequencies of about 18 months. These large moves are puzzling as they do not coincide, nor are they followed by any significant moves in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Discussion Of? Long-Run Risks And Risk Compensation In Equity Markets?
Sep 2007
Bansal and his co-authors have produced a series of important and provocative papers that demonstrate how low-frequency risk can provide a justification for observed risk premia. Bansal summarizes...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Try Three-Pronged Approach To Service Recovery
Sep 2008
Companies pay a price for bad service. They lose customers, endorsements and revenue. Sometimes, they even lose good employees who leave when workplace tensions rise. But the proper approach to...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Henkel Grows From German Roots
Aug 2009
Conversation comes easily April 30 as Henkel executives from three continents gather at a Phoenix restaurant for dinner. After a weeklong leadership development program at Thunderbird, the 23 men...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Bilingualism, Language Shift, And Industrialization In Mid-20th Century India
Oct 2007
Economists have linked linguistic heterogeneity to poor economic outcomes, including low economic growth. Linguists have noted that linguistic heterogeneity has been steadily declining for...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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White Papers
Africa On The Move: Ignore Continent At Your Own Risk
Aug 2009
For decades African countries have been off the radar screen of many non-African corporations with global operations. Companies in the energy, mining, and other extractive sectors needing access...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
A Model Of Asset Pricing Under Country Risk
Feb 2009
The author develops a formal model that could provide quantitative guidance to practitioners who use sovereign yield spreads in emerging market asset valuation. The model provides closed-form...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
FDI And Growth In Emerging Markets: Does The Sectoral Distribution Matter - The Case Of Egypt
Oct 2008
This study contributes to the on-going discussion on FDI relation with growth in emerging markets. It is based on evidence from Egypt, testing FDI's effect on growth over the period 1974-2005. The...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
The Attractiveness Of Central Eastern European Countries For Venture Capital And Private Equity Investors
Feb 2008
This paper addresses the attractiveness of Central Eastern European countries for Venture Capital and Private Equity investors by the construction of a composite index. For the index's composition...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Asset Growth And Stock Returns: Evidence From The Pacific-Basin Markets
Apr 2008
This study examines the effect of corporate asset growth on stock returns using data on nine equity markets in the Pacific-Basin region (PACAP). There is a pervasive negative relation between...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Bank Fragility, "Money Under the Mattress," And Long-Run Growth U.S. Evidence From The "Perfect" Panic Of 1893
May 2008
An issue that has received an increasing amount of attention has been the effect of financial sector conditions (and of banking in particular) on long-run economic growth. In this paper, the...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
An Econometric Analysis Of Fractional Models To Credit Risk Pricing
Feb 2008
The authors propose a fractional version of two well-known credit risk pricing structural models: the Merton and Black and Cox models. The authors assume that the value of the firm obeys to a...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
On The Monitoring Role Of The Board Of Directors: The Case Of The Adoption Of Cadbury Recommendations In The UK
Sep 2008
The author test empirically the hypothesis that the monitoring roles of the board of directors depend on the severity of the agency problems and the amount of information needed to monitor. He...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Traders' Expectations In Asset Markets: Experimental Evidence
Oct 2007
The paper elicits traders' predictions of future price trajectories in repeated experimental markets for a 15-period-lived asset. It's found that individuals' beliefs about prices are adaptive,...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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White Papers
The Challenges Of Matching Private Sector Donations To The Humanitarian Needs And The Role Of Brokers
Jun 2010
Based on prior research, the authors identify the advantages and disadvantages of different types of corporate donations to humanitarian response efforts. In this paper, the authors focus on the...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Managing Satisfaction In Relationships Over Time
May 2010
Consider a firm that has the flexibility to actively manage and customize the service offered to its customers in a repeat business context. What is the long-term value of such flexibility, and...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Professor McGrath On Discovery-Driven Growth
Apr 2010
Rita G. McGrath, associate professor of management, recently spoke with BusinessWeek about the theories and concepts explored in her newest book, Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
An Empirical Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Covariance-Based And Variance-Based SEM
Aug 2009
Variance-based SEM, also known under the term partial least squares (PLS) analysis, is an approach that has gained increasing interest among marketing researchers in recent years. During the last...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Climate Change And Insurance: Integrative Principles And Regulatory Risks
Aug 2009
In medicine, an iatrogenic risk is a risk that arises from the medical treatment itself, such as side effects of surgery or drugs. The same phenomenon arises in the process of regulatory and...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Lost Roots : How Project Management Settled On The Phased Approach (And Compromised Its Ability To Lead Change In Modern Enterprises)
Nov 2009
The discipline of project management adheres to the dominant model of the project life cycle, or the phased stage-gate approach, of executing projects. This implies a clear definition of mission...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
The Liability Of Strangers: Performance Consequences Of Non-Local Partnering
Sep 2008
This paper examines the performance consequences of non-local partnering formation of new ties between organizations that have neither direct nor indirect connections. Although non-local ties...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
FDI And Economic Growth: The Role Of Gradual Financial Deregulation
May 2009
The authors argue that financial liberalization and FDI as a measure of openness complement each other. The intuition is that domestic financial reform will lower the cost for international...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Trend Inflation, Nominal Rigidities, And Endogenous Growth Preliminary And Incomplete
Feb 2009
The authors study the implications of trend inflation for an economy's long-run growth rate. To do so, they extend a New Keynesian model to allow for endogenous growth. The defining characteristic...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Finance, Growth, And Inequality: Channels And Outcomes
Nov 2010
Identifying the specific channels through which financial development impacts inequality via growth is important both for research and policy prescriptions. Only if the specific channels are...
Provided by Indian School of Business
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Case Studies
Syngenta Staying Focused On Growth
Aug 2007
In the face of tough market conditions characterized by agricultural reforms, new entrants and tougher regulations, Syngenta's European Leadership Team embarked on a targeted growth strategy,...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Seven Glimpses Of Tomorrow
Dec 2010
Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business is the first university to require business majors to take a course in foresight. Foresight in Business and Society, taken junior year, begins with an...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Case Studies
Commissioning Process Change At Tower Hamlets PCT
Jul 2008
The Department of Health has launched a World Class Commissioning (WCC) program to transform the way in which healthcare services are commissioned by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). Capgemini worked...
Provided by Capgemini
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Case Studies
Test Coverage Analysis Helps Insurer Improve And Standardize Testing
Sep 2007
A leading property and casualty insurer had different teams testing different applications across multiple geographies. The decentralized nature of the testing teams and their processes led to...
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Getting Green Done Means Moving Past 'Sustainability 101'
Apr 2009
When it comes to reducing their environmental impact, companies are making a range of efforts to cut emissions, reduce waste and boost efficiency across their operations. But for Auden Schendler,...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Case Studies
ICE Leverages Supply Chain Best Practices To Improve Operational Efficiencies
Jun 2011
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), a division of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is the primary enforcement arm within ICE for...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Economic Growth In South Africa Since The Late Nineteenth Century
Jul 2009
The analysis has identified the sources of economic growth in South Africa against the backdrop of international economic developments. Between 1870 and 1914, the international regime was one of...
Provided by University of Cape Town
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Webcasts
Wal-Mart's Journey Toward Sustainability And Greater Value
May 2009
Almost four years ago, Wal-Mart announced three major goals that have since driven the company's operations internally and externally. In this webcast, the speaker gives us an insider's update on...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Case Studies
Technology Transformation Energizes Integrys
May 2011
Integrys Energy Group (NYSE: TEG) is a holding company focused on regulated and non-regulated energy delivery in the United States. The company wanted to gain efficiencies through standardizing...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Dynamic Taxation, Private Information And Money
Feb 2008
The objective of this paper is to study optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a dynamic Mirrlees model where the frictions giving rise to money as a medium of exchange are explicitly modeled. The...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Webcasts
Growing Money On Trees
Feb 2010
In this podcast, the speaker speaks about his hope of making it more profitable to preserve forests rather than chop them down. Avoided Deforestation Partners is a coalition of environmental...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Case Studies
MegaPath: Quoting Tools That Bring In Business
Jan 2011
Global Capacity offers us automated access to competitive network quotes, allowing us to support our customers and increase the conversion of quotes to orders. MegaPath is the largest privately...
Provided by Global Capacity
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White Papers
Real Exchange Rate Overshooting In Real Business Cycle Model - An Empirical Evidence From India
Jan 2008
The objective of this paper is to establish the ability of a Real Business Cycle (RBC) model to account for the behaviour of the real exchange rate, using Indian data (1966- 1997). The authors...
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
Non-Performing Loans And Productivity In Chinese Banks: 1997-2006
Nov 2007
This paper examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are...
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
An Endogenous Taylor Condition In An Endogenous Growth Monetary Policy Model
Nov 2007
The paper derives a Taylor condition as part of the agent's equilibrium behavior in an endogenous growth monetary economy. It shows the assumptions necessary to make it almost identical to the...
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
Trend Inflation And Economic Growth In The Presence Of Nominal Price Contracts Preliminary And Incomplete
Jun 2008
The authors study the implications of trend inflation for an economy's long-run growth rate. To do so, they extend a class of general-equilibrium monetary model known as the New Neoclassical...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Tax Evasion And Financial Repression: A Reconsideration Using Endogenous Growth Models
May 2008
Using two dynamic monetary general equilibrium models characterized by endogenous growth, financial repression and endogenously determined tax evasion, the authors analyze whether financial...
Provided by University of Pretoria
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White Papers
Inflation, Financial Development And Human Capital -Based Endogenous Growth: An Explanation Of Ten Empirical Findings
Jun 2007
The paper presents a general equilibrium that can explain ten related sets of empirical results, providing a unified approach to understand usually disparate effects typically treated separately....
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
Reforms, Incentives, Welfare And Productivity Growth In Chinese Wheat Production
Jan 2011
Following the rural reform in 1978 a series of agricultural reforms were introduced in China with an aim to create incentives for the farmers to produce more. The nineties' price reform that was...
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
Real Business Cycles With A Human Capital Investment Sector And Endogenous Growth: Persistence, Volatility And Labor Puzzles
Mar 2011
A positive joint two-sector productivity shock causes Rybczynski (1955) and Stolper and Samuelson (1941) effects that release leisure time and initially raises the relative price of human capital...
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
Can A Pure Real Business Cycle Model Explain The Real Exchange Rate: The Case Of Ukraine
Jun 2011
Real Exchange Rate (RER) is an important instrument for restoring sustainable economic growth in the small open economy with large export share. RER of Ukrainian currency can be explained within...
Provided by Cardiff University
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White Papers
Poverty Reduction Through Long-Term Growth: The Thai Experience
Aug 2008
Thailand's impressive long-term rate of economic growth has resulted mainly from accumulation of physical capital. Significant total factor productivity growth can be identified at an aggregate...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Manufacturing Growth, Trade And Labour Market Outcomes In East Asia: Why Did The NIEs Forge So Far Ahead?
Nov 2008
This paper seeks to explain different real wage outcomes in two groups of East Asian economies: two New Industrialising Economies (NIEs: Korea and Taiwan), and three Southeast Asian economies...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Aggregate And Sectoral Productivity Growth In Thailand And Indonesia
Sep 2009
Total factor productivity growth is studied in this paper for two countries, Thailand and Indonesia, from 1980 to 2006. The analysis is conducted at both the aggregate and sectoral levels. A...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Inflation Variability And The Relationship Between Inflation And Growth
Apr 2011
The authors examine the effect of inflation variability and economic growth using annual historical data on both developing and developed countries. The data cover 182 developing countries and 31...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Unaffordable Housing And Local Employment Growth
Jun 2010
High housing prices have caused concerns among policy makers as well as the public in many U.S. regions. There is a general belief that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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White Papers
Demand Volatility And The Lag Between The Growth Of Temporary And Permanent Employment
Nov 2007
The growth rate of temporary help service employment is often considered to be a leading business cycle indicator because the firing and hiring of temporary help workers typically lead that of...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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White Papers
Sustainable Growth In South Africa
Nov 2010
This paper considers a range of evidence surrounding prospects of sustainable growth in South Africa. While the economic performance of South Africa during the course of the last three decades of...
Provided by Penn State University
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White Papers
Where You Live Matters: Urbanisation And Labour Markets Outcomes
May 2010
Given apartheid's legacy of irrational spatial planning it should be unsurprising that location matters for labour market outcomes. This paper attempts to quantify this effect by introducing a new...
Provided by Economic Research Southern Africa
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White Papers
Policy Change And Economic Growth: A Case Study Of South Africa
Oct 2008
South Africa's growth experience provides an example of how contrasting growth trends - long-term decline followed by improved growth - pivot around political change, in this case a transition to...
Provided by Economic Research Southern Africa
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White Papers
Infrastructure Development And Economic Growth In South Africa: A Review Of The Accumulated Evidence
May 2008
This paper provides a broad overview of the relationship between infrastructure and growth, focusing on the South African case. The paper develops an intuitive theoretical framework in which to...
Provided by Economic Research Southern Africa
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Webcasts
The State Of California's Green Economy: Part 2
Feb 2009
This webcast offers highlights from a wide-ranging interview in which presenter details the policy tools he uses to foster a greener and more prosperous California economy. In this webcast,...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
The State Of California's Green Economy: Part 4
Feb 2009
This webcast offers highlights from a wide-ranging interview in which the presenter details the policy tools he uses to foster a greener and more prosperous California economy. In this webcast,...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
Increasing Services Quality Through Environmental Performance Management
May 2010
The qualitative dimension of the service companies' activities also refers to their impact over the environment. This aspect is meant to contribute to a sustainable economic growth, based on high...
Provided by 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia
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White Papers
Quality And It's Role In Growth Of Bosnian And Herzegovinian Economy
Apr 2009
Nowadays in an extremely competitive environment one of the most important issues is efficient management of total business processes which as a result should lead to achieving better financial...
Provided by Univerzitet u Sarajevu
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White Papers
Growth And Responsibility
Jun 2007
Two years on from Gleneagles and the independent launch of BAA, the results of business commitment to African development are mixed. BAA has retained the confidence of UK government and assembled...
Provided by Chatham House
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White Papers
Towards A Post-Crisis Global Economy: Long-Term Growth Scenarios And The Impact On Exit Strategies
Sep 2009
One year on from the onset of the global crisis, as policymakers turn from firefighting to considering the next steps for recovery, a key question is whether there has been a severe but temporary...
Provided by Chatham House
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White Papers
Private Equity Opportunity - ?Hard Assets? In Latin America
Jan 2010
In the year and a half since the start of the global financial crisis, many investors and professional capital managers came to the harsh realization that they had been operating without a valid...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
International Allocation Determinants Of Institutional Investments In Venture Capital And Private Equity
Jan 2008
The authors of this paper examine the determinants of institutional investors when deciding on international capital allocation in Venture Capital and Private Equity Limited Partnerships; this is...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Utilization Of Defined Benefit Plans In PE Firms
Jan 2010
Recent changes in retirement plan laws have created a significant opportunity for venture capital and private equity firm general partners to substantially increase their pre-tax retirement...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Private Equity Has Toolkit To Ease Troubled Market
Oct 2008
The global economic crisis has many people playing the blame game, and private equity gets its share of the heat amid the ongoing credit crunch. But the public perception often doesn't match the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
How The E.U. Energy Mix Must Change
Jan 2010
The World Energy Outlook, the flagship publication of the International Energy Agency, says Europe's plans for fighting pollution are insufficient. It is urging Europe to cut its emissions by 23...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
An Approach To Facilitate Problem Solving: Individualizing The Problem Proposition
Oct 2008
This paper addresses one of the many facets of the problem-solving activity: the challenge inherent in the problem proposition. The authors have identified the problem proposition as a core...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
An Interface-Driven Analysis Of User Behavior Of An Electronic Health Records System
Mar 2008
This paper studies the user behavior of an electronic health records (EHR) system by discovering sequential usage patterns in clinicians' day-to-day interaction with the system's software user...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
User Acceptance And Adoption Of A Clinical Reminder System: A Developmental Trajectory Approach
Mar 2008
In this paper, the author assesses user acceptance and adoption of a clinical reminder system for chronic disease and preventive care management in an ambulatory care environment. The author uses...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
-
White Papers
Bankruptcy, CEO Retention And The Evolution Of Contractual Practices
Mar 2009
This paper provides empirical evidence on the changing nature of agency problems between managers and creditors in firms filing for chapter 11 between the 1980s and 1990s. The author fined that...
Provided by University of Pittsburgh
-
White Papers
Valuing Toxic Assets: Will New Accounting Standards Help?
Apr 2009
Valuing asset securitizations always has been a difficult issue for the accounting profession. Now, with the recent collapse of the credit and financial markets, a new layer of complexity further...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
Price Leadership And Firm Size Asymmetry: An Experimental Analysis
Oct 2007
One use laboratory experiments to examine the effect of firm size asymmetry on price leadership in a capacity constrained duopoly. The unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the duopoly game...
Provided by Kent State University
-
White Papers
China's quiet confidence
Jun 2010
China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has said that 2010 will be a very difficult year for the country's economy, yet in Q1 its performance was remarkable. China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 11.9...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Unveiling Latin America's Economic Success
Jan 2010
A lot of attention has been focused on the remarkable economic success of China, India and other Asian countries. So much so that the rise of Latin American companies as major players on the...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Why Did They Stay?: Perspectives On Katrina Survivors' "Choice" To Stand Their Ground Or Evacuate
Apr 2010
Hurricane Katrina precipitated two different sets of experiences - those lived by the people who scrambled to evacuate and those endured by the survivors who stayed behind. Those who stayed behind...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
And The Poor Get Poorer: The Economics Of Higher Global Temperatures
Mar 2009
Climate change presents poor nations with an unfortunate paradox: Though they missed out on the riches of the fossil fuel era, they appear doomed to suffer the worst of its consequences. Many...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Confidence Risk And Asset Prices
Jan 2010
In the data, asset prices exhibit large negative moves at frequencies of about 18 months. These large moves are puzzling as they do not coincide, nor are they followed by any significant moves in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Discussion Of? Long-Run Risks And Risk Compensation In Equity Markets?
Sep 2007
Bansal and his co-authors have produced a series of important and provocative papers that demonstrate how low-frequency risk can provide a justification for observed risk premia. Bansal summarizes...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Try Three-Pronged Approach To Service Recovery
Sep 2008
Companies pay a price for bad service. They lose customers, endorsements and revenue. Sometimes, they even lose good employees who leave when workplace tensions rise. But the proper approach to...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Henkel Grows From German Roots
Aug 2009
Conversation comes easily April 30 as Henkel executives from three continents gather at a Phoenix restaurant for dinner. After a weeklong leadership development program at Thunderbird, the 23 men...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Bilingualism, Language Shift, And Industrialization In Mid-20th Century India
Oct 2007
Economists have linked linguistic heterogeneity to poor economic outcomes, including low economic growth. Linguists have noted that linguistic heterogeneity has been steadily declining for...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
-
White Papers
Africa On The Move: Ignore Continent At Your Own Risk
Aug 2009
For decades African countries have been off the radar screen of many non-African corporations with global operations. Companies in the energy, mining, and other extractive sectors needing access...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
A Model Of Asset Pricing Under Country Risk
Feb 2009
The author develops a formal model that could provide quantitative guidance to practitioners who use sovereign yield spreads in emerging market asset valuation. The model provides closed-form...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
FDI And Growth In Emerging Markets: Does The Sectoral Distribution Matter - The Case Of Egypt
Oct 2008
This study contributes to the on-going discussion on FDI relation with growth in emerging markets. It is based on evidence from Egypt, testing FDI's effect on growth over the period 1974-2005. The...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
The Attractiveness Of Central Eastern European Countries For Venture Capital And Private Equity Investors
Feb 2008
This paper addresses the attractiveness of Central Eastern European countries for Venture Capital and Private Equity investors by the construction of a composite index. For the index's composition...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Asset Growth And Stock Returns: Evidence From The Pacific-Basin Markets
Apr 2008
This study examines the effect of corporate asset growth on stock returns using data on nine equity markets in the Pacific-Basin region (PACAP). There is a pervasive negative relation between...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Bank Fragility, "Money Under the Mattress," And Long-Run Growth U.S. Evidence From The "Perfect" Panic Of 1893
May 2008
An issue that has received an increasing amount of attention has been the effect of financial sector conditions (and of banking in particular) on long-run economic growth. In this paper, the...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
An Econometric Analysis Of Fractional Models To Credit Risk Pricing
Feb 2008
The authors propose a fractional version of two well-known credit risk pricing structural models: the Merton and Black and Cox models. The authors assume that the value of the firm obeys to a...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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On The Monitoring Role Of The Board Of Directors: The Case Of The Adoption Of Cadbury Recommendations In The UK
Sep 2008
The author test empirically the hypothesis that the monitoring roles of the board of directors depend on the severity of the agency problems and the amount of information needed to monitor. He...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Traders' Expectations In Asset Markets: Experimental Evidence
Oct 2007
The paper elicits traders' predictions of future price trajectories in repeated experimental markets for a 15-period-lived asset. It's found that individuals' beliefs about prices are adaptive,...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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The Challenges Of Matching Private Sector Donations To The Humanitarian Needs And The Role Of Brokers
Jun 2010
Based on prior research, the authors identify the advantages and disadvantages of different types of corporate donations to humanitarian response efforts. In this paper, the authors focus on the...
Provided by INSEAD
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Managing Satisfaction In Relationships Over Time
May 2010
Consider a firm that has the flexibility to actively manage and customize the service offered to its customers in a repeat business context. What is the long-term value of such flexibility, and...
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Professor McGrath On Discovery-Driven Growth
Apr 2010
Rita G. McGrath, associate professor of management, recently spoke with BusinessWeek about the theories and concepts explored in her newest book, Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to...
Provided by Columbia University
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An Empirical Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Covariance-Based And Variance-Based SEM
Aug 2009
Variance-based SEM, also known under the term partial least squares (PLS) analysis, is an approach that has gained increasing interest among marketing researchers in recent years. During the last...
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Climate Change And Insurance: Integrative Principles And Regulatory Risks
Aug 2009
In medicine, an iatrogenic risk is a risk that arises from the medical treatment itself, such as side effects of surgery or drugs. The same phenomenon arises in the process of regulatory and...
Provided by INSEAD
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Lost Roots : How Project Management Settled On The Phased Approach (And Compromised Its Ability To Lead Change In Modern Enterprises)
Nov 2009
The discipline of project management adheres to the dominant model of the project life cycle, or the phased stage-gate approach, of executing projects. This implies a clear definition of mission...
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The Liability Of Strangers: Performance Consequences Of Non-Local Partnering
Sep 2008
This paper examines the performance consequences of non-local partnering formation of new ties between organizations that have neither direct nor indirect connections. Although non-local ties...
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Democracy And Policy Stability
Sep 2007
To explain stable growth performance in democracies the authors characterize political systems in terms of the distribution of political power across groups, and show that in a world where the...
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Asset Pricing Tests With Long Run Risks In Consumption Growth
Feb 2008
The Bansal and Yaron (2004) model of Long Run Risks (LLR) in aggregate consumption and dividend growth and its extension that captures potential co-integration of the consumption and dividend...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Housing Risk And Return: Evidence From A Housing Asset-pricing Model
Nov 2009
This paper investigates the risk-return relationship in determination of housing asset pricing. In so doing, the paper evaluates behavioral hypotheses advanced by Case and Shiller (1988, 2002,...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Counterparty Credit Risk And The Credit Default Swap Market
Jul 2009
Counterparty credit risk has become one of the highest-profile risks facing participants in the financial markets. Despite this, relatively little is known about how counterparty credit risk is...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
