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Money as Debt " On his personal website, Paul Grignon said there were two main criticisms of the documentary, provided counter arguments, but conceded that his presentation of fractional-reserve banking may have been "misleading" and "in the revised edition will be replaced with less contentious information." The film ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25515016 |
Auto-collateralisation is a credit operation that is or can be triggered, when a buyer does not have sufficient funds to settle a securities transaction, in order to improve its cash position for the next settlement cycle. The credit provided can be secured using securities already held by the buyer (“collateral stocks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25534207 |
Sectoral output for an industry or combination of industries ("sector") is the value of its output sold outside that sector. It is usually calculated as the value of the sector's gross output minus the value of shipments within the sector from one establishment to another. Value here is measured for a specified time pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25549086 |
Nuns' Island gas station The Nun's Island gas station was a modernist-style filling station attributes to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1969. It is Joe Fujikawa, who worked for Mies, that was the project architect. Closed for several years, it was later converted to a community centre. It was the first gas station on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25565997 |
ALICEWEB is an acronym for Análise de Informações de Comércio Exterior-Web, was the official website of the Brazilian government about their foreign trade statistics. It was made available from 2001 onwards, aiming at easy and clear publication of foreign trade statistics. Access to Aliceweb is free. Users can check th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25601651 |
Structured note A structured note is an over the counter derivative with hybrid security features which combine payoffs from multiple ordinary securities, typically a stock or bond plus a derivative. When it depends on a credit payoff, it is called a credit-linked note. A simple example of a structured note would be a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25653309 |
Usha Thorat Usha Thorat, (born 20 February 1950) served as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) (India's central bank) from 10 November 2005 to 8 November 2010. Prior to this she was the executive Director of the RBI. Thorat is an alumna of the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi and Delhi School o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25655665 |
Domestic inquiry A domestic inquiry, in the context of human resource management, is a search for truth, facts, or circumstances concerning charges alleged by the employer against its employee. It is an inquiry created by the management against its own employee against who allegedly committed certain acts of misconduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25673342 |
Second Green Revolution The is a change in agricultural production widely thought necessary to feed and sustain the growing population on Earth These calls have precipitated in past, as a response to rising food commodity prices, and fears of peak oil among other factors. It is named after the Green Revolution, a movem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25673677 |
Second Green Revolution The then Union Finance Minister of India, Pranab Mukherjee, made a statement to parliament that he would explore the possibility of setting up a committee of CMs of the eastern states for a second green revolution in the region and praised Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal for substantial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25673677 |
Second Green Revolution The government had earlier allocated an additional Rs 400 crore in 2011-12 under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana for extending green revolution to the eastern region comprising Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Eastern UP, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal. Rice was a priority crop under the scheme. See... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25673677 |
British Banking School The was a group of 19th century economists from the United Kingdom who wrote on monetary and banking issues. The school arose in opposition to the British Currency School; they argued that currency issue could be naturally restricted by the desire of bank depositors to redeem their notes for gold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25741057 |
British Banking School One being, that both notes and deposits perform the same economic function. Secondly, they argued that no restrictions should be placed on either notes or deposits except for the convertibility to coin form. They believe no restrictions should be made because, "money is seen as a means of exchang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25741057 |
British Banking School As Mises states, "Although the Currency School enjoyed the "de jure" success, "de facto" victory went to the Banking School." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25741057 |
Capital account (financial accounting) In financial accounting, the capital account is one of the accounts in shareholders' equity. Sole proprietorships have a single capital account in the owner's equity. Partnerships maintain a capital account for each of the partners. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25790327 |
Commercial location development (CLD) is a method used by the public sector to position its territory and create a good frame condition for the development of its economy. After having made a thorough diagnosis of the actual situation the public entities design a Marketing strategy of the location, which includes, as i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25790552 |
Commercial location development The results are then compared in order to determine in which topics and frame conditions the concerned commercial location has to improve to enhance its competitiveness versus its competitors. Ideas for the new strategy are then developed taking inspiration out of a benchmarking analysis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25790552 |
Chester Business Park is located to the south of the city of Chester, Cheshire, England and is sited to the east of Wrexham Road (A483) and to the north of the Chester southerly bypass (A55). The park opened in 1988 and occupies an area of . At the centre of the site is the former Wrexham Road Farm, a model farm design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25793828 |
Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee The was a bank tax proposed by U.S. President Barack Obama in January 2010, to apply to financial firms with $50 billion or more in consolidated assets. The fee would have been payable until the firm had paid off all money provided to it under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25807388 |
Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee If the proposal had passed, the proceeds would have gone into general government revenue and been used to pay the TARP costs of the 2008 financial crisis rather than gone into an insurance fund in anticipation of the next one. This proposal has received mixed support. It was endorsed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25807388 |
Next Jump is an e-commerce company. The company handles loyalty programs for Dell, AARP, Intel, and Hilton Hotel. Headquartered in New York City, the company has over 28,000 merchant partners, both retailers and manufacturers. The firm has offices in New York City, Boston, San Francisco and London. In April 2011, Livin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25812352 |
Market run A market run or run on the market occurs when consumers increase purchasing of a particular product because they fear a shortage. As a market run progresses, it generates its own momentum: as more people demand the item, the supply line becomes unable to keep up. This causes a local shortage, which in turn e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25874390 |
IPEX (trade show) The International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition (IPEX) is the longest running printing and graphic arts trade show in the English-speaking world. The trade show used to be every four years but changed its cycle in line with Drupa and will now take place every three years. IPEX remain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25894158 |
Expointer is an agricultural show with national importance in Brazil that occurs every year in the Parque de Exposições Assis Brasil in the city of Esteio, in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is considered the largest livestock show in Latin America. The first editio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25934750 |
List of Post-Keynesian economists Economists who describe themselves or are described as Post-Keynesian include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935636 |
BASIC countries The (also Basic countries or BASIC) are a bloc of four large newly industrialized countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – formed by an agreement on 28 November 2009. The four committed to act jointly at the Copenhagen climate summit, including a possible united walk-out if their common minim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25937602 |
BASIC countries At the April 2010 meeting in Cape Town, environment ministers from the four countries called for a legally binding global agreement on long-term cooperative action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol, to be concluded at the next UN Climate Change Conferenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25937602 |
Channel check In financial analysis, a channel check is third-party research on a company's business based on collecting information from the distribution channels of the company. It may be conducted in order to value the company, to perform due diligence in various contexts, and the like. Industries where channel chec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25968338 |
Channel check Channel checks can give insights complementary to balance sheet analysis, such as distributor and retailer attitudes towards a product and its competitors, seasonal and geographic variation, inventory levels (notably channel stuffing), and so on. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25968338 |
Chrematistics (from Greek: "χρηματιστική"), or the study of wealth or a particular theory of wealth as measured in money, has historically had varying levels of acceptability in Western culture. This article will summarize historical trends. Aristotle established a difference between economics and chrematistics that wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25982115 |
Chrematistics In Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", Marx developed a labor theory of value inspired by Aristotle's notions of exchange and highlighting the consequences of what he also calls "auri sacra fames" (damned thirst for gold), a Latin reference of Virgil to the passion of money for money itself. From the marketing sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25982115 |
Integral Urban House The was a pioneering 1970s experiment in self-reliant urban homesteading. The house was located 1516 5th St. in Berkeley, California. The founders were California State Architect Sim Van der Ryn and Bill & Helga Olkowski, authors of the "City People's Guide to Raising Food", and the project was run... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25986184 |
Competition and credit control (UK) Competition and credit control (CCC) was a monetary policy operated by the Bank of England from September 1971 until the autumn of 1973. Under this policy the bank sought to control money supply indirectly through open market operations, instead of through the direct lending ceilings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26014448 |
Mortgage elimination is a type of debt elimination in the United States. In this process, the promoter first convinces a mortgage holder (lender) that the debt that has been contracted is invalid or legally unenforceable, usually due to a combination of technicalities in the note, deed of trust, or other loan documenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26033627 |
Wicksell effect The (Wicksell (1893, 1934)) is the combination of a price effect and a real effect on the valuation of changes in the capital stock. Knut Wicksell (1954, 1934) used the Austrian analytic framework to discuss the effect. An important implication of the effect is that the valuation of the capital stock is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26038305 |
Vanna–Volga pricing The Vanna–Volga method is a mathematical tool used in finance. It is a technique for pricing first-generation exotic options in foreign exchange market (FX) derivatives. It consists of adjusting the Black–Scholes theoretical value (BSTV) by the cost of a portfolio which hedges three main risks assoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26054348 |
Vanna–Volga pricing The rationale behind the above formulation of the Vanna-Volga price is that one can extract the "smile cost" of an exotic option by measuring the "smile cost" of a portfolio designed to hedge its Vanna and Volga risks. The reason why one chooses the strategies BF and RR to do this is because they ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26054348 |
Vanna–Volga pricing The resulting correction, however, typically turns out to be too large. Market practitioners thus modify formula_14 to formula_31 The Vega contribution turns out to be several orders of magnitude smaller than the Vanna and Volga terms in all practical situations, hence one neglects it. The terms for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26054348 |
Vanna–Volga pricing Both of these quantities offer the desirable property that they vanish close to a barrier. The survival probability formula_42 refers to the probability that the spot does not touch one or more barrier levels formula_43. For example, for a single barrier option we have formula_44 is the value of a "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26054348 |
Banco Votorantim is the seventh largest bank in Brazil. It operates in the wholesale, retail, treasury, asset management and brokerage fields, and was founded in 1988. Its headquarters are located in São Paulo, Brazil. The operations of is driven by a set of institutions that operate in an integrated way: the Bank prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26054355 |
Tender board A is a committee or institution involved in the Government procurement procedure. It formulates requirements for the intended purchase of goods or services, compiles these formulations in a tender document, and hands these documents out to interested suppliers, usually for a fee. After the closing date for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26062591 |
Jiao (currency) Jiao (; ), or mao (), or hou () in Cantonese, is a unit of currency used in Greater China, including People's Republic of China (Mainland China), Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong and Macao. One jiao is equal to one-tenth of a yuan or ten fēn (分). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26073330 |
EMLE The European Master in Law & Economics, also known as EMLE, is an Erasmus Mundus post-graduate master's degree. It focuses on "interdisciplinary studies of law and economics" and "an advanced understanding of the economic effects of divergent laws". It is offered by a consortium of nine universities: Erasmus Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26126985 |
EMLE The partner universities exchanged multilateral agreements to continue their joint venture and made all the necessary arrangements in order to be included in the new SOCRATES framework between the European Commission and the European universities. The number of partner universities has increased rapidly and the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26126985 |
EMLE Students study introductory courses and core courses on the major topics in the economic analysis of law. Students also take specialized courses and write a master thesis. The includes three kinds of courses: Economic Courses, Comparative Law Courses, and Law and Economics Courses. Students will become competent t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26126985 |
EMLE The has participated in the TEEP II Project, which is a form of external quality assurance and The TEEP II Committee showed a very high appreciation of the EMLE. The Israeli economic newspaper Haaretz classified the programme as "the most elitist integrated Master program" for law and economics. The is organized a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26126985 |
EMLE Mitchell Polinsky (Stanford Law School), Richard Posner (University of Chicago, Chief Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit), Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law School), Steven Shavell (Harvard Law School), Cento Veljanovski (Research & Editorial Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Lon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26126985 |
Marginal abatement cost Abatement cost is the cost of reducing environmental negatives such as pollution. Marginal cost is an economic concept that measures the cost of an additional unit. The marginal abatement cost, in general, measures the cost of reducing one more unit of pollution. Although marginal abatement cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26127533 |
Marginal abatement cost Indeed, the options they list would take decades to implement, and it may be optimal to implement expensive but high-potential measures before introducing cheaper measures. The way that marginal abatement cost curves are usually built has been criticized for lack of transparency and the poor tre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26127533 |
Marginal abatement cost Enerdata and Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration-Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) produce marginal abatement cost curves with the Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems (POLES) model for the 6 Kyoto Protocol gases. These curves have been u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26127533 |
Financial data processor Financial data processors are the next layer in the service chain between users of financial data and financial data vendors. Most data is now delivered as bits and bytes and not in a physical format. Data is fed through web pages and as "raw" data files. Files are either processed by banks or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26132750 |
Delaware Investments was a US-based asset management firm with $174.2 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2016 with 132 portfolio managers, analysts, and traders. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Australia's Macquarie Group. In April 2017, was rebranded as Macquarie Investment Management, effective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26149078 |
IAS 7 International Accounting Standard 7: Statement of Cash Flows or is an accounting standard that establishes standards for cash flow reporting used in International Financial Reporting Standards. A statement of cash flows for the periods, is an integral "Component of financial statements" as per IAS 1 — Presentatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26186226 |
Dapeng LNG terminal The Dapeng LNG is China's first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal. Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company ltd. was established in February 2004. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26192986 |
Super Bowl indicator The Super Bowl Indicator is a superstition that says that the stock market's performance in a given year can be predicted based on the outcome of the Super Bowl of that year. It was "discovered" by Leonard Koppett in the '70s when he realized that it had never been wrong, until that point. This pse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26193833 |
Pune Stock Exchange (PSE) was established in 1982. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) allowed the exchange to exit bourse business with an order on 13 April 2015. Earlier, the SEBI had allowed various stock exchanges including OTC Exchange of India, Cochin Stock Exchange, Ludhiana Stock Exchange, Gauhati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26201386 |
PIGS (economics) PIGS is an acronym used in UK economics and finance. The PIGS acronym originally refers, often derogatorily, to the economies of the Southern European countries of Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. During the European debt crisis, the variant PIIGS, or even GIPSI, were also increasingly used to refer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26212639 |
PIGS (economics) After the crisis started in 2008, Karim Abadir used the term "GIPSI" to reflect the sequencing he believed would take place. Sometimes a second "G" ("PIGGS" or "PIIGGS"), for Great Britain, was also added. In 2012, Patrick Allen writing for CNBC suggested that France should be added to the list. Occasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26212639 |
Statistical risk is a quantification of a situation's risk using statistical methods. These methods can be used to estimate a probability distribution for the outcome of a specific variable, or at least one or more key parameters of that distribution, and from that estimated distribution a risk function can be used to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26232070 |
Statistical risk However, this is only a partial ordering: most pairs of risks cannot be unambiguously ranked in this way, and different risk functions applied to the estimated distributions of two such unordered risky variables will give different answers as to which is riskier. In the context of statistical estimatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26232070 |
Picking Cotton "Picking Cotton" is one of Erskine Caldwell's earlier short stories, included in "We Are the Living" (1933), conspicuous for its humorous treatment of the theme—highly controversial, and illegal in a lot of the United States at the time of writing—of inter-racial sex. The story begins with a detailed des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26243555 |
Picking Cotton On other occasions, Harry is paired off with a fifteen-year-old red-headed girl called Gertie, who is in the habit of repeatedly asking him riddles while picking cotton. As soon becomes clear, many of these riddles have a provocative content, such as "do you know what is the age of consent?" and "Why doe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26243555 |
Picking Cotton I am going to beat hell out of him, he ought to have better sense than to pair off with a white girl!" Gertie, unruffled, continues to provoke Harry, who does not realize that she is manipulating his racism and jealousy in order to make him "outbid" Sonny and give two hundred pounds for her favors—which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26243555 |
Term (time) A term is a period of duration, time or occurrence, in relation to an event. To differentiate an interval or duration, common phrases are used to distinguish the observance of length are near-term or short-term, medium-term or mid-term and long-term. It is also used as part of a calendar year, especially on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26258076 |
Term (time) A contractor required to deliver against a term contract is often referred to as a "term contractor". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26258076 |
The Dirty Energy Dilemma The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What’s Blocking Clean Power in the United States is a 2008 book by academic Benjamin K. Sovacool, published by Praeger. In the book, Sovacool explores problems with the current U.S. electricity system and ways to overcome them. In the first part of the book, Sovacool e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26278239 |
Short-term business statistics (STS) are economic statistics published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission. They cover all member states of the European Union and - in some areas - also third countries, and provide aggregated results for the euro area and the EU. provide information on the ec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26306979 |
Annual business survey (UK) The annual business survey, formerly the annual business inquiry, is a census of production in the United Kingdom, produced by the Office for National Statistics. It was introduced in 1988 and consolidated earlier surveys. Results were first published in 2000. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26323355 |
Form D is an SEC filing form to be used to file a notice of an exempt offering of securities under Regulation D of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Commission rules require the notice to be filed by companies and funds that have sold securities without registration under the Securities Act of 1933 in an off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26330694 |
No One Would Listen No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is a book by whistleblower Harry Markopolos about his investigation into the Madoff investment scandal and how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to react to his warnings. The book was released on March 2, 2010 by John Wiley & Sons. Mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26349749 |
Harrington paradox is a notion in the environmental and ecological economics describing the compliance of firms to the environmental regulations. The paradox was first described in Winston Harrington's paper in 1988 and was based on the research over monitoring, realization and compliance to environmental regulations i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26349919 |
Chief content officer A chief content officer (CCO) is a corporate executive responsible for the digital media creation and multi-channel publication of the organization's content (text, video, audio, animation, etc.). The CCO is usually an executive role or senior vice president position, typically reporting to the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26350643 |
Real-World Economics Review is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal of heterodox economics published by the "Post-Autistic Economics Network" since 2000. Since 2011 it is associated with the World Economics Association. It was known formerly as the "Post-Autistic Economics Review" and the "Post-Autistic Economi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26381106 |
High–low pricing (or hi–low pricing) is a type of pricing strategy adopted by companies, usually small and medium-sized retail firms, where a firm initially charges a high price for a product and later, when it has become less desirable, sells it at a discount or through clearance sales. Prospective customers may be un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26382234 |
Economists for Peace and Security (EPS) is a New York-based, United Nations accredited and registered global organization and network of thought-leading economists, political scientists, and security experts founded in 1989 that promotes non-military solutions to world challenges, and more broadly, works towards freedo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26386295 |
Economists for Peace and Security Inspired by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, it was founded in 1989 as "Economists Against the Arms Race" (ECAAR), before becoming "Economists Allied for Arms Reduction" (ECAAR) in 1993. It adopted its present name in 2005. Stockbroker Robert J. Schwartz led ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26386295 |
Portfolio optimization is the process of selecting the best portfolio (asset distribution), out of the set of all portfolios being considered, according to some objective. The objective typically maximizes factors such as expected return, and minimizes costs like financial risk. Factors being considered may range from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26394220 |
Portfolio optimization Common formulations of portfolio utility functions define it as the expected portfolio return (net of transaction and financing costs) minus a cost of risk. The latter component, the cost of risk, is defined as the portfolio risk multiplied by a risk aversion parameter (or unit price of risk). Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26394220 |
Portfolio optimization To reflect a preference for higher rather than lower returns, this objective function is increasing in wealth, and to reflect risk aversion it is concave. For realistic utility functions in the presence of many assets that can be held, this approach, while theoretically the most defensible, can b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26394220 |
Portfolio optimization In some cases, unconstrained portfolio optimization would lead to short-selling of some assets. However short-selling can be forbidden. Sometimes it is impractical to hold an asset because the associated tax cost is too high. In such cases appropriate constraints must be imposed on the optimizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26394220 |
Portfolio optimization In particular, financial crises are characterized by a significant increase in correlation of stock price movements which may seriously degrade the benefits of diversification. In a mean-variance optimization framework, accurate estimation of the variance-covariance matrix is paramount. Quantitat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26394220 |
Portfolio optimization It is purported that such a methodology is more practical and suitable for modern investors whose risk preferences involve reducing tail risk, minimizing negative skewness and fat tails in the returns distribution of the investment portfolio. Where such methodologies involve the use of higher-mom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26394220 |
Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index The (PCI) is based on real-time diesel fuel consumption data for over-the-road trucking and serves as an indicator of the state and possible future direction of the U.S. economy. By tracking the volume and location of fuel being purchased, the index closely monitors the over the ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26402275 |
Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index In contrast to other economic indicators, which have a lag time or are based only on surveys of business leaders’ attitudes, the PCI is based on real-time, actual consumption data that provides insight into the economy before the monthly Industrial Production number is issued. "Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26402275 |
Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index The PCI is distributed on or near the 10th of every month. Deeper historical data and customized reports are also available. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26402275 |
Peter Jaeckel (Peter Jäckel) is a mathematician, and finance academic and practitioner. He is Deputy Head of Quantitative Research, VTB Capital. He also teaches at Oxford University. Previously, he was Global Head of Credit, Hybrid, Inflation, and Commodity Derivative Analytics at ABN Amro, and also held positions at N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26449704 |
The Incidental Economist is a blog focused on health economics and policy. It was founded in 2009 by Austin Frakt, a health economist at Boston University, who has since been joined by Aaron Carroll, a pediatrician at Indiana University School of Medicine, as co-Editor-in-Chief. The site features posts by the two as we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26466197 |
Young professional The term young professional generally refers to young people in their 20s and 30s who are employed in a profession or white-collar occupation. The meaning may be ambiguous and has evolved from its original narrow meaning of a young person in a professional field. Although derivative of the term 'yupp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26516881 |
Young professional In the workplace, young professionals can be viewed as talented and energetic individuals who present special management challenges or as "cannon fodder" to be cast aside once they are no longer profitable to a business. The stigma that developed in the 1970s around singles functions and singles grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26516881 |
Association for Decentralised Energy The (ADE), formerly the Combined Heat and Power Association, is an advocate of an integrated approach to delivering energy locally. The ADE was founded in 1967 as the District Heating Association, becoming the Combined Heat and Power Association in 1983, and was then renamed to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26528973 |
Thirlwall's Law Thirlwall's law (named after Anthony Thirlwall) states that if long run balance of payments equilibrium on current account is a requirement, and the real exchange rate stays relatively constant, then the long run growth of a country can be approximated by the ratio of the growth of exports to the income... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26537644 |
Thirlwall's Law The assumption of balance of payments equilibrium on current account can be relaxed to allow capital flows (see Thirlwall and Nureldin Hussein, 1982), but for reasonable values of sustainable flows (e.g. 3% of GDP), capital flows make little empirical difference to the growth predictions of the basic mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26537644 |
Hardware (development cooperation) In development cooperation jargon, "hardware" and "software" refer to the different aspects of technology transfer. Whilst the hardware refers to the technology itself, software refers to the skills, knowledge and capacity that need to be built up in order to make the transfer of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26550187 |
Orgware In development cooperation jargon, "orgware", "software" and "hardware" refer to the different aspects of technology transfer. With hardware is meant the technology itself and with software the skills, knowledge and capacity that accompany the transfer of the technology. refers to the capacity building of the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26550207 |
Clean Energy Expo Asia The is a trade fair and conference which takes place annual during Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW). It was held for the first time at SIEW 2009 It featured five pavilions, showcasing clean energy developments from Australia, Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore. The Energy Market Author... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26588267 |
Indice General de la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia IGBC or was the main stock market index of Colombia Stock Exchange and consisted of the 30 most actively traded shares of the market. The companies listed on IGBC are reviewed each quarter and may vary or not the composition of the index, that depends on the performance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26591734 |
Greenspan Commission The National Commission on Social Security Reform, also known as the due to its chairmanship by Alan Greenspan, was a commission that was appointed by the United States Congress and President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to study and make recommendations regarding the short-term financing crisis that Soci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26624206 |
AgroEurasia The International Agriculture Fair () is one of the largest agricultural exhibitions in Eurasia. Since 2006, it has been held in December in the Tuyap Fair and Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey. With an exhibition area of roughly , an average of 350 company and company representatives participating and ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26627392 |
Intragovernmental holdings In public finance, intragovernmental holdings (also known as intragovernmental debt or intragovernmental obligations) are debt obligations that a government owes to its own agencies. These agencies may receive or spend money unevenly throughout the year, or receive it for payout at a future d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26639315 |
The Economic History Review is a peer-reviewed history journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Economic History Society. It was established in 1927 by Eileen Power and is currently edited by Sara Horrell, Jaime Reis and Patrick Wallis. Its first editors were E. Lipson and R. H. Tawney and other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26655019 |
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