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Energy modeling Long-range models – cast over one or more decades (from the present until say 2050) – attempt to encapsulate the structural evolution of the system and are used to investigate capacity expansion and energy system transition issues. Models often use mathematical optimization to solve for redundancy in th...
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Energy modeling As intermittent energy sources and energy demand management grow in importance, models have needed to adopt an hourly temporal resolution in order to better capture their real-time dynamics. Long-range models are often limited to calculations at yearly intervals, based on typical day profiles, and are h...
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Energy modeling A 2014 paper outlines the modeling challenges ahead as energy systems become more complex and human and social factors become increasingly relevant. Electricity sector models are used to model electricity systems. The scope may be national or regional, depending on circumstances. For instance, given the...
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Energy modeling So-called "bottom-up models" capture the engineering well and often rely on techniques from operations research. Individual plants are characterized by their efficiency curves (also known as input/output relations), nameplate capacities, investment costs (capex), and operating costs (opex). Some models ...
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Energy modeling General Electric's MAPS (Multi-Area Production Simulation) is a production simulation model used by various Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators in the United States to plan for the economic impact of proposed electric transmission and generation facilities in FERC-regula...
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Energy modeling The software was developed by the Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) over a period of almost two decades. TIMES (The Integrated MARKAL-EFOM System) is an evolution of MARKAL – both energy models have many similarities. TIMES succeeded MARKAL in ...
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Energy modeling To do so, the software iteratively solves a sequence of linear programs and nonlinear equations. NEMS has been used to explicitly model the demand-side, in particular to determine consumer technology choices in the residential and commercial building sectors. NEMS is used to produce the "Annual Energy O...
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Sŭngri Petrochemical Complex The Sŭngri Refinery is a Russian-design oil refinery with a capacity of 2 million tons located in Sŏnbong-gun, Rasŏn Special Economic Zone, North Korea. It is served by the Sŭngri Line of the Korean State Railway. In 2013, Mongolian firm HBOil bought a 20% share in the refinery with intenti...
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Solar power in South Korea South Korea plans to meet 20 percent of its total electricity consumption with renewables by 2030,the energy ministry said the plan called for adding 30.8 GW of solar power generating capacity and 16.5 GW of wind power capacity.
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No-reserve auction A no-reserve auction (NR), also known as an absolute auction, is an auction in which the item for sale will be sold regardless of price. From the seller's perspective, advertising an auction as having no reserve price can be desirable because it potentially attracts a greater number of bidders due to...
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Early Harvest Scheme Early harvest scheme is a precursor to a free trade agreement (FTA) between two trading partners. This is to help the two trading countries to identify certain products for tariff liberalisation pending the conclusion of FTA negotiation. It is primarily a confidence building measure. An (EHS) is an...
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Tax Attractiveness Index The (T.A.X.) indicates the attractiveness of a country's tax environment and the possibilities of tax planning for companies. The T.A.X. is constructed for 100 countries worldwide starting from 2005 on. The index covers 20 equally weighted components of real-world tax systems which are relevant...
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Tax Attractiveness Index Hence, the index represents an equally-weighted sum of 20 tax factors. The Index has the purpose to indicate the attractiveness of a country's tax environment and the opportunities of tax planning. As the components of the T.A.X. are measured on an annual basis, so is the index. To calculate th...
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Tax Attractiveness Index As tax planning schemes might not work under certain anti-avoidance rules, it is favorable for companies if such legislations do not exist. Generally the country of residence of subsidiaries is allowed to tax the subsidiaries profits. The country of the parent only taxes profits that are distri...
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Tax Attractiveness Index Countries that offer group taxation, allow that losses of group members are offset against profits of other members of the group. In this way, the tax burden of a corporate group can be reduced. As a result, a group taxation regime is an advantage for companies. Holding companies are a central ...
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Tax Attractiveness Index patents or trademarks) often provide third parties with licenses and receive royalty payments in return. In some countries ordinary business income is taxed higher than royalty income. Therefore, countries that tax royalties at low effective tax rates (i.e., patent box regime applies) are attra...
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Tax Attractiveness Index A lot of countries consider this when taxing dividends received: in many jurisdictions, dividends received from domestic and/or foreign subsidiaries are disregarded for the taxable income of the receiving company. Multinational companies have the opportunity to spread their debts across countri...
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Tax Attractiveness Index This is a reason why companies are located in countries that have signed double tax treaties with many countries worldwide. Withholding taxes on dividends grant the source country its share in tax revenue. From the perspective of a company, withholding taxes are disadvantageous. Profits are tax...
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Tax Attractiveness Index The ranking indicates that off-shore tax havens, such as Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Cayman Islands provide very favorable tax conditions as reflected by high index values. However, some European countries, such as Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Malta achieve high index val...
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List of special economic zones Several special economic zones (SEZs) have been established across Bangladesh since the 1980s. Mandated by the Bangladesh "Economic Zones Act", 2010, the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) was officially instituted by the government on 9 November 2010. BEZA aims to establish SEZs ...
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List of special economic zones It is notable that Shenzhen, Shantou, and Zhuhai are all in Guangdong province, and all are on the southern coast of China where the sea is very accessible for transportation of goods. Mariel Special Development Zone is a special economic zone under construction in Cuba, with the intentio...
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List of special economic zones In order to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of world-class infrastructure, and an unstable fiscal regime and with a view to attract larger foreign investments in India, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy was an...
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List of special economic zones The remaining part of India, not covered by the SEZ Rules, is known as the Domestic tariff area. Exports from Indian SEZ totalled INR 2.2 Trillion in 2009-10 fiscal. It grew by 43% to reach INR 3.16 Trillion in 2010-11 fiscal. Indian SEZs have created over 840,000 jobs as of 2010-11. Expo...
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List of special economic zones Goods and services coming into SEZs from the domestic tariff area or DTA are treated as exports from India and goods and services rendered from the SEZ to the DTA are treated as imports into India. The objectives of SEZs can be explained as: The incentives and facilities available to SEZ ...
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List of special economic zones Private companies were invited to occupy the warehouses, but the government at that time, The People's National Party, remained tentative of relying on foreign capital as a means of industrializing. With the shift to the Seaga government in the 1980s, export led industrialization became k...
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List of special economic zones The zones operated as separate entities that were not technically part of Jamaica, which allowed companies to bypass local import and exchange controls. Additionally, under the Jamaica Free Zone Act, any enterprise with approval from the Port Authority could import certain items without a...
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List of special economic zones Jamaican women made up 95 percent of the workforce in the zones, the majority of whom were under 25 years old. These women typically worked twelve-hour days, six days a week, with significant overtime expected. Throughout the mid-1980s, an average income in the zone was US$30 per two week...
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List of special economic zones Since low-wage female workers were not a priority, very little effort was made to support them. Some women did try to improve the conditions of the factories and were met with mixed success. A few factories started to provide maternity leave and some medical benefits; however, the majorit...
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List of special economic zones Aside from the lower transportation costs between Mexico and the United States, in 1997, Mexican workers were being paid much less than Jamaican workers. In 1996, Jamaica's exports to the United States declined 12 percent, while Mexico's exports to the United States grew by 40 percent. Si...
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List of special economic zones A Chinese owned SEZ has been created in Jinfei called the Mauritius Jinfei Economic Trade and Cooperation Zone. The zone manufacturers textiles, garments, machinery and high-tech. Additionally, it supports trade, tourism and finance. In May, 2016, President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a new...
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List of special economic zones Special economic zones (), which offer tax exemptions for different sectors (5 years for production, 8 years for high-tech, 2 years for agriculture, livestock breeding and forestry, and 1 year for banking) are undergoing preliminary construction in Sittwe Township and Kyaukpyu Township in...
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List of special economic zones In 2013 and 2014 a number of smaller special economic zones were announced covering export handling, mineral processing, high technology, gaming and tourism. North Korea also operates Kaesong Industrial Region in conjunction with South Korea which was formed in 2002. The State Academy of ...
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List of special economic zones The Panama Pacifico Special Economic Area (PPSEA) was passed into law in 2004 in the Republic of Panama. It is located on the former Howard AFB, near Panama city, on the Pacific side of the isthmus. Philippine economic zones (ecozones) are collections of industries, brought together geogr...
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List of special economic zones These incentives include income tax holidays; zero percent (0%) duty on importation of capital equipment, spare parts, and accessories; exemption from wharfage dues and export tax, impost or fees; and the simplification of customs procedures, among others. In addition, The Special Economi...
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List of special economic zones The four governmentally owned are Cavite Economic Zone, Bataan Economic Zone, Mactan Economic Zone and Baguio City Economic Zone. Some of the more well-known Economic zones are the Clark Special Economic Zone, and Subic Economic Zone, former military bases of the United States of America....
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List of special economic zones Federal economic zones in Russia are regulated by Federal Law # 116 FZ issued on July 22, 2005. The Red Sea Project, a luxury tourist destination currently under construction, will "operate as a Special Economic Zone with its own laws and regulatory framework, specially created to encoura...
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List of special economic zones Special Economic Zones existed in Ukraine until March 31, 2005. The first created was the Nouth-Crimean Experimental Economic Zone Syvash (since 1996). From 1998 to 2000 11 new zones were created. Zambia is home to two SEZs developed in partnership with China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining corp...
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Journal of Public Economics The is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering public economics, with particular emphasis on the application of modern economic theory and methods of quantitative analysis. It provides a forum for discussion of public policy of interest to an international readership. It was establ...
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Thirtieth (tax) The thirtieth or thirtieth customs (, ) was a tax on foreign trade in the Kingdom of Hungary. A charter that Andrew II of Hungary issued for the Benedictine Lébény Abbey in 1208 preserved the earliest reference to the thirtieth. According to the charter, wine and foodstuffs delivered for the monks and t...
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Global Co-opetition Co-opetition or coopetition – simultaneous competition and cooperation – is an important philosophy or strategy that goes beyond the conventional rules of competition and cooperation to achieve advantages of both. Global co-opetition, an application of co-opetition in a global context, is first syst...
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Global Co-opetition Along these two dimensions in a pairwise setting, a global player can be identified as a contender (strong competition – weak cooperation), a monoplayer (weak competition – weak cooperation), a partner (weak competition – strong cooperation), and an adapter (strong competition – strong cooperation)....
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Global Co-opetition Within the same MNE, co-opetition occurs between or among geographically dispersed subunits. An MNE is an internally differentiated yet globally coordinated network. With heightened interdependence in resource or knowledge sharing, value-chain rationalization, and common function integration, foreig...
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Global Co-opetition Cooperation involves collective efforts, through mutual forbearance, commitment, and trust building, to better allocate and exploit complementary resources such that all parties are better off than it would otherwise be. Luo and colleagues (2008) developed a typology of the competition (control) and...
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Global Co-opetition MNEs possessing varying degrees of cooperation and competition with foreign governments can be identifies as a contender (strong competition – weak cooperation), an estranger (weak competition – weak cooperation), a partner (weak competition – strong cooperation), and an integrator (strong competiti...
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Priority Sector Lending Certificates is a tool for promoting comparative advantages among banks while they meet their priority sector lending obligations in India. "Banks with a comparative advantage in lending to the priority sector should earn priority sector lending certificates [social credits] while those falling ...
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Priority Sector Lending Certificates "would be priced by the market. The basic framework for pricing [social credits] would incorporate the risk-free rate, default rate and cost of operations." As are priced based on credit risk hence it is a type of credit derivative. IndiaRatings "expects the PSLCs to be priced betwe...
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Priority Sector Lending Certificates However, with the objective of developing a strong and vibrant market for PSLCs, a bank is permitted to issue PSLCs upto [sic] 50 percent of previous year’s PSL achievement without having the underlying in its books. However, as on the reporting date, the bank must have met the prio...
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Priority Sector Lending Certificates Godbole in his article "How to lend more to the poor" (Mint, 28 March 2007). A.M. Godbole had called tradable as 'social credits'. On 7 April 2008 (in a draft report) and on 12 September 2008 (in a final report) the High-Level Committee on Financial Sector Reforms recommended the in...
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Ghosting (employer) Ghosting is the act in which a person interviews for a job and is led to believe there is a chance in getting the job, then no acknowledgement of the position being filled is ever conveyed to the interviewee.
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Golden Star (technical analysis) Golden Star is a technical signal used in technical analysis of stock prices charts that first was introduced in 2007 by J. Stromberg at the website getagraph.com. The signal derives from the well known Golden Cross that uses the 200 days moving average and the 50 days moving averages t...
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Glossary of economics This glossary of economics is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in economics, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.
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Comparison of payment systems (also known as comparison of payment processing services, comparison of payment processors, or comparison of merchant services) is a list displaying comparative information and fee rates on various payment systems (also payment processing services, payment processor, or merchant services)....
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Comparison of payment systems sellers/merchants can negotiate with payment-system or merchant-service provider to obtain a comparatively lower & better rate, when their selling volume is comparatively very high. When this page is edited by Wikipedia editors, then they will usually add at-that-moment minimum-fee or flat...
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Mastermind group A mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring group used to help members solve their problems with input and advice from the other group members. The concept was coined in 1925 by author Napoleon Hill in his book The Law of Success, and described in more detail in his 1937 book, Think and Grow Rich. I...
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Amir Khair is a Brazilian economist, financial consultant and former Secretary of Finance of the city of São Paulo. He is a common commentator on the Brazilian newspaper of O Estado de S. Paulo. He has repeatedly criticized the high level of the interest rate charged by the banks in Brazil.
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ASF Insignia is an ITES Special Economic Zone (SEZ) situated in the Gurgaon, India. The zone consists three mega IT/ITES office buildings named Kings Canyon, Grand Canyon and Black Canyon, approximately 3.5 million sq ft space.
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Bambang Brodjonegoro Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro is an Indonesian economist. He is now the Minister of Research and Technology/National Research and Innovation Agency since 25 October 2019. Previously, he was the Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia, taking office after a cabinet reshuffle ...
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Rudolf Brinkmann (28 August 1893, Greene, Einbeck – after 1973) was a German economist and Secretary of State in the time of Nazism. After he had finished school, Brinkmann studied legal science and economics. After the outbreak of the first World War he joined German army and served as an artillerist. 1916 he left the...
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Rudolf Brinkmann In May 1939, due to the duration of his illness, Brinkmann was evidently acute manic-depressive illness, what has been described as "severe nervous breakdown" he was then admitted to a mental hospital in Bonn, where he remained until the end of World War II in a closed hospital. As State Secretary in t...
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The Developing Economies (journal) The Developing Economies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering developing countries' social science by applying empirical and comparative studies. It is also the official journal of the Institute of Developing Economies. The journal was published semi-annually from 19...
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Rational inattention In economics, the theory of rational inattention deals with the effects of the cost of information acquisition on decision making. For example, when the information required for a decision is costly to acquire, the decision makers may rationally take decisions based on incomplete information, rathe...
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Composition-Based View The composition-based view (CBV) was recently developed by Luo and Child (2015). It is a new theory that explicates the growth of firms without the benefit of resource advantages, proprietary technology, or market power. The CBV complements some existing theories such as resource-based view (RBV)...
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Composition-Based View , acquiring applied technology and key components through licensing or purchasing, which are then further integrated with in-house production) and (b) different means of competition (e.g., price, value, design, technology, features, and services) to create a competitive advantage manifested in ex...
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Composition-Based View Compositional competitors deliver suitable technology at a low cost by leveraging mature technologies or R&D resources and by using open architecture or platforms that can significantly reduce production costs. These firms are astute in business intelligence involving both markets and technologie...
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Composition-Based View The above three elements reinforce one another, reflecting the faces of composition at the product level (compositional offering), market level (compositional competition), and organizational level (compositional capability). Yet, they collectively demonstrate a pragmatic and viable solution for ...
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Composition-Based View While the CBV logic applies to any firm endeavoring to catch up with better endowed competitors, it aligns well with the case of emerging economies enterprises and small- and medium-sized enterprises in developed or developing countries. There are several external conditions that provoke the adop...
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Composition-Based View Resource management is the comprehensive process of structuring the firm’s resource portfolio, bundling the resources to build capabilities, and leveraging those capabilities with the purpose of creating and maintaining value for customers and owners. However, in the resource management literatur...
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Society for Financial Studies The (SFS) is a nonprofit, academic society in the field of finance. It owns and runs three academic journals: (1) the Review of Financial Studies, (2) the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and (3) the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. It organizes the SFS Cavalcade North America and the ...
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Society for Financial Studies Its past issues are archived by JSTOR. The current editorial team is Itay Goldstein (Executive Editor), Lauren Cohen, Ralph Koijen, Holger Mueller, Manju Puri, Philip Strahan, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The Review of Asset Pricing Studies is an academic journal that covers the finance sub...
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Society for Financial Studies The 2019 Cavalcade North America was hosted by the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University with a program that contained 135 papers. The conference chairs were Antoinette Schoar (Chair), Monika Piazzesi (Vice Chair), Ulrike Malmendier (Associate Chair), and Josef Zechner (S...
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Society for Financial Studies The councilors are Renee Adams, Alon Brav, Allaudeen Hameed, Kai Li, Tarun Ramadorai, and Karin Thorburn. SFS holds an annual membership meeting each year at the SFS Cavalcade North America. At that meeting, the SFS officers, SFS journal executive editors, and the SFS Cavalcade Chair repor...
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María Elena Estavillo Flores is a Mexican economist, academic and former Commissioner of the Federal Telecommunications Institute. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from ITESM as well as M.A. and PhD in economics from the University of Paris. In 2016 and 2017 consecutively, she was featured in Forbes magazine ...
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Trump: How to Get Rich is a 2004 non-fiction book by Donald Trump and Meredith McIver. Like Trump's 16 other publications, it was to an unknown extent ghostwritten. The book was published to take advantage of media attention related to The Apprentice TV series which Trump hosted from January 2004. The book is focused o...
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Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland The (SBCI) is a state-owned bank that was established in 2015, and in the wake of the Irish banking crisis of the late 2000s, to provide finance for small and medium sized businesses. At the time it was set up, many of Ireland's main banks were unable or unwilling to provide to ...
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Demand-side economics is a macroeconomic theory which maintains that economic growth and full employment are most effectively created by high demand for products and services. According to demand-side economics, output is determined by effective demand. High consumer spending leads to business expansion, resulting in g...
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Demand-side economics Galbraith, Steve Keen and Nouriel Roubini. is held in opposition to supply-side economics which argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by stimulating business through lowering tax rates on business and decreasing regulation of corporate and financial activities.
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New pragmatism () – original paradigmatic and heterodox theory of economics created by Grzegorz W. Kolodko to address the contemporary civilizational challenges and economic system transformations. It is based on the imperative for a harmonious triply sustainable social and economic growth. New pragmatism, by creating ...
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New pragmatism What should be an important rule governing the economy of the future is moderation, or consciously adapting the size of human, material and financial flows to the requirement to maintain a long-term dynamic balance. In descriptive terms, new pragmatism explains the historic development process, emphasizi...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association The (LACEA) is an international association of economists with common research interests in Latin America. It was founded in July 1992, to encourage professional interaction and foster increased dialogue among researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on the econ...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association The Organizing Committee quickly obtained enthusiastic support for the idea of creating an association from a dozen leading scholars in the field, including Albert Hirschman, , John Williamson, and Albert Fishlow. This early support was critical to the success of the ef...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association In January, 1993, under Albert Fishlow’s presidency (1993–97) LACEA became a member of the Allied Social Science Association and soon began to host sessions at the annual meetings of the American Economics Association, the Latin American Studies Association and the Lati...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association In 1999, at the Fourth Annual Meetings in Santiago, LACEA announced the launching of a new academic Journal, "Economia". Professor Andres Velasco was appointed as Editor of the journal, which was modeled on the "Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and Economic Policy"...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Thus, the 2002 meeting took place in Madrid, hosted by CEMFI, attracting researchers and scholars from Europe and broadening the LACEA network outside the region. Similarly, the 2005 meeting was held in Paris, under Mariano Tomassi’s presidency (2004–05), and hosted by ...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association The joint LACEA-LAMES conference is currently regarded as one of the most prestigious gatherings of academic economists in the developing world, not just in Latin America. In addition to the annual meetings, LACEA holds a variety of specialized meetings, a practice init...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Many more distinguished scholars have been Associate Editors. "Economia" has become the outlet of choice for some of the best research on Latin America and is currently ranked 71st among nearly 2000 journals worldwide evaluated by RePec and undergoing an accreditation p...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association , Arnold Harberger, Rudiger Dornbusch, Guillermo Calvo, Jere Behrman, Hugo Hopenhayn, Sebastian Edwards, Carmen Reinhart and Orazio Attanasio have been recipients of this distinction. Under Ricardo Hausmann’s presidency (2010-11), the Juan Luis Londoño Prize was created...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Since the presidency of Mauricio Cárdenas (2008-09), the Secretariat of LACEA is hosted at Fedesarrollo in Bogotá. The current Executive Secretary is Ana María Díaz, assisted by Elena Zadic. Executive Secretaries have been crucial for the success of the organization. LA...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association The Association is financed mainly from voluntary contributions from international organizations, like the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank, the Latin American Development Bank (CAF), the International Monetary Fund, and (until 2015) the Global Develo...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association The following have been Editors and Associate Editors of "Economia" (with their affiliation at the time): LACER-LACEA digital repository is a network that provides access to other repositories containing books, reports, journals, working papers and databases on Latin Am...
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Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association The recipients of the Diaz-Alejandro Prize have been: LACEA's Londoño Prize is designed to honor the memory and contribution of (1958-2003) a Colombian economist committed to improving social policies, and to encourage high quality and policy-relevant research on socioe...
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Asian immigrants to Sweden are citizens and residents of Sweden who were born in or have ancestry from nations in Asia. Over the period 2000–2016, Sweden's population of Asian descent grew by 223,253, mainly due to immigration. Many immigrants to Sweden are from Asia. Thailand, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Korea, Philippi...
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Computational social choice is a field at the intersection of social choice theory, theoretical computer science, and the analysis of multi-agent systems. It consists of the analysis of problems arising from the aggregation of preferences of a group of agents from a computational perspective. In particular, computation...
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Computational social choice This has led to the development of approximation algorithms and fixed-parameter tractable algorithms to improve the theoretical calculation of such problems. By the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, all non-trivial voting rules can be manipulated in the sense that voters can sometimes achieve a...
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Sugar industry The sugar industry subsumes the production, processing and marketing of sugars (mostly saccharose and fructose). Globally, most sugar is extracted from sugar cane (~80 % predominantly in the tropics) and sugar beet (~ 20%, mostly in temperate climate like in the U.S. or Europe). Sugar is used for soft dr...
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Sugar industry The US government also uses tariffs to keep the US domestic price of sugar 64 to 92% higher than the world market price, costing American consumers $3.7 billion per year. A 2018 policy proposal to eliminate sugar tariffs, called "Zero-for-Zero", is currently (March 2018) before the US Congress. Previous ...
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Sugar industry The top 10 sugar-producing companies based on production in 2010: The global sugar industry has a low market share concentration. The top four sugar producers account for less than 20.0% of the market. The sugar industry engages in sugar marketing and lobbying, minimizing the health effects of sugar and ...
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Eileen Appelbaum (born June 30, 1940) is an American senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and an expert in private equity and labor relations. She co-wrote, with Ruth Milkman, "Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy," published by Cornel...
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EconomicCalendar.com is a financial news agency headquartered in New York City, U.S. The website is popular amongst financial communities and provides business news and market commentary, as well as original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. The website is also known for producing and moni...
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Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The is part of the Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Pascal Saint-Amans is currently serving as the director of the Centre. Among its initiative have been : They released the report
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Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce The is a business organization first founded in Barrie, Ontario, in 1887. Representing the broad interests of over 1000 members, the serves its members with member-centred priorities and with an action plan that will benefit all local businesses.
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