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Robert Ekelund This is a major contribution to the study of religion, giving us a fresh, analytical approach to early Christianity and how it became the powerful medieval church." The interface between culture and economics, including the study of specific markets and institutions relating to art and museums, caught th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9178003 |
Robert Ekelund The book studies a number of critical issues including (a) how the market for American art developed historically from colonial times to the present; (b) how the age of an American artist is related to her productivity; (c) how returns to art investment in the pre-1950 and contemporary periods compare to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9178003 |
Robert Ekelund He was a founding member of the advisory board for the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn, Alabama and was the museum's acting co-director from 2006 to 2007 and chairman of the Advisory Board from 2010 to 2012. He is also a classically trained pianist and has recorded five albums: "Solace" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9178003 |
Loan covenant A loan covenant is a condition in a commercial loan or bond issue that requires the borrower to fulfill certain conditions or which forbids the borrower from undertaking certain actions, or which possibly restricts certain activities to circumstances when other conditions are met. Typically, violation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9183672 |
Loan covenant Typical covenants for real estate related loans are the Loan to Value Ratio (LTV), the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) and Interest Service Coverage Ratio (ISCR). Covenants can potentially have negative consequences as well. As the creditor is imposing restrictions on how the debtor should conduct busi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9183672 |
Feldman–Mahalanobis model The is a Neo-Marxian model of economic development, created independently by Soviet economist Grigory Feldman in 1928 and Indian statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1953. Mahalanobis became essentially the key economist of India's Second Five Year Plan, becoming subject to much of Ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9200430 |
Feldman–Mahalanobis model The model was created as an analytical framework for India’s Second Five Year Plan in 1955 by appointment of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as India felt there was a need to introduce a formal plan model after the First Five Year Plan (1951–1956). The First Five Year Plan stressed investment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9200430 |
Feldman–Mahalanobis model If we choose to increase the value of formula_2 to be larger than formula_3, this will initially result in a slower growth in the short-run, but in the long run will exceed the former growth rate choice with a higher growth rate and an ultimately higher level of consumption. In other words, if... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9200430 |
Feldman–Mahalanobis model The biggest problem was the fall in the foreign exchange reserve due to liberalised import policy and international tension, leading to modifications in the Second Plan in 1958. It was finally abandoned and replaced by the Third Five Year Plan in 1961. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9200430 |
Communism (from Latin "", "common, universal") is a philosophical, social, political, economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism While the emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally communist state led to communism's widespread association with the Soviet economic model and Marxism–Leninism, some economists and intellectuals argued that in practice the model functioned as a form of state capitalism, or a non-planned a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism John Goodwyn Barmby is credited with the first use of the term in English, around 1840. "Communism" is usually distiguished from "socialism" since the 1840s. The modern definition and usage of "socialism" settled by the 1860s, becoming the predominant term among the group of words associationist, co-operative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism A distinction between "communist" and "socialist" as descriptors of political ideologies arose in 1918 after the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party renamed itself to the All-Russian Communist Party, where "communist" came to specifically mean socialists who supported the politics and theories of Bolshevis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism While democrats looked to the Revolutions of 1848 as a democratic revolution which in the long run ensured liberty, equality and fraternity, Marxists denounced 1848 as a betrayal of working-class ideals by a bourgeoisie indifferent to the legitimate demands of the proletariat. According to Richard Pipes, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism In his 1895 "Cromwell and Communism", Eduard Bernstein argued that several groups during the English Civil War (especially the Diggers) espoused clear communistic, agrarian ideals and that Oliver Cromwell's attitude towards these groups was at best ambivalent and often hostile. Criticism of the idea of privat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism The 1917 October Revolution in Russia set the conditions for the rise to state power of Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks, which was the first time any avowedly communist party reached that position. The revolution transferred power to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, in which the Bolsheviks had a majority. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism In the Moscow Trials, many old Bolsheviks who had played prominent roles during the Russian Revolution of 1917 or in Lenin's Soviet government afterwards, including Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov and Bukharin, were accused, pleaded guilty of conspiracy against the Soviet Union, and were executed. Its leading role i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union) resigned, declared his office extinct and handed over its powers, including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32, the Soviet flag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism The Communist Party of Brazil was a part of the parliamentary coalition led by the ruling democratic socialist Workers' Party until August 2016. The People's Republic of China has reassessed many aspects of the Maoist legacy, and along with Laos, Vietnam and to a lesser degree Cuba, has decentralized state co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism Marxism does not see communism as a "state of affairs" to be established but rather as the expression of a real movement, with parameters which are derived from real life and not based on any intelligent design. Therefore, Marxism does no blueprinting of a communist society and it only makes an analysis which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism These classes are directly antagonistic as the bourgeoisie has private ownership of the means of production and earns a profit off surplus value which is generated by the proletariat, who has no ownership of the means of production and therefore no option but to sell its labor to the bourgeoisie. According to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism It is the defeat of the bourgeois state, but not yet of the capitalist mode of production and at the same time the only element which places into the realm of possibility moving on from this mode of production. An important concept in Marxism is socialization vs. nationalization. Nationalization is state owne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism Leninism comprises socialist political and economic theories developed from orthodox Marxism as well as Lenin's interpretations of Marxist theory for practical application to the socio-political conditions of the agrarian early 20th-century Russian Empire. For five years since February 1917, Leninism was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism In August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City on Stalin's orders. Marxism–Leninism is a political ideology developed by Joseph Stalin, which according to its proponents is based in Marxism and Leninism. The term describes the specific political ideology which Stalin implemented in the Communist Part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism After de-Stalinization, Marxism–Leninism was kept in the Soviet Union, but certain anti-revisionist tendencies such as Hoxhaism and Maoism argued that it was deviated from, therefore different policies were applied in Albania and China, which became more distanced from the Soviet Union. Trotsky's politics dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism To these tendencies, Marxism–Leninism is neither Marxism nor Leninism nor the union of both, but rather an artificial term created to justify Stalin's ideological distortion, forced into the CPSU and Comintern. In the Soviet Union, this struggle against Marxism–Leninism was represented by Trotskyism, which de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism As a unified, coherent higher stage of Marxism, Marxism–Leninism–Maoism was not synthesized until the 1980s through the experience of the people's war waged by the Shining Path. This led the Shining Path to posit Maoism as the newest development of Marxism. Libertarian Marxism is a broad range of economic and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism James, Antonio Negri, Cornelius Castoriadis, Maurice Brinton, Guy Debord, Daniel Guérin, Ernesto Screpanti and Raoul Vaneigem. Council communism is a movement originating in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. Its primary organization was the Communist Workers Party of Germany. Council communism continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism Eurocommunism was a revisionist trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties. They claimed to be developing a theory and practice of social transformation more relevant for Western Europe. During the Cold War, they sought to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism Anarcho-communism, also known as libertarian communism, is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism To date in human history, the best-known examples of an anarcho-communist society, established around the ideas as they exist today and that received worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon, are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Communism As such, many advocates of Christian communism argue that it was taught by Jesus and practiced by the Apostles themselves. Christian communism can be seen as a radical form of Christian socialism. Christian communists may or may not agree with various aspects of Marxism. They do not agree with the atheist and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209651 |
Make-work job A make-work job is a job that has less immediate financial benefit to the economy than the job costs to support. Make-work jobs are similar to workfare, but are publicly offered on the job market and have otherwise normal employment requirements (workfare jobs, in contrast, may be handed out to a randomly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9211747 |
Make-work job In many European countries, social welfare systems provide cash transfers to those who are unable to secure employment. These programs often require the recipient to undertake job training, internships, or job rotations. Make-work jobs can have the benefit of giving workers the chance of meeting new peopl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9211747 |
Easterlin paradox The is a finding in happiness economics formulated in 1974 by Richard Easterlin, then professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the first economist to study happiness data. The paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income both among and within nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9218826 |
Easterlin paradox The paradox refers, not to the fluctuations, but to the absence of a synchronous relation between the trends. Objections to the paradox focus on the time series generalization, that trends in happiness and income are not related. In a 2008 article economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers state t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9218826 |
Easterlin paradox It is sometimes said that the flattening of the happiness trend occurs after some minimum level of income. No time series evidence has been advanced to support this claim, and time series for China and Japan, both of which start from low income levels, give no indication of a threshold. Clark, A., P. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9218826 |
Minimum efficient scale In industrial organization, the minimum efficient scale (MES) or efficient scale of production is the lowest point where the plant (or firm) can produce such that its long run average costs are minimized. The minimum efficient scale can be computed by equating average cost (AC) with marginal cos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9230960 |
The Californian Ideology "The Californian Ideology" is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster. Barbrook describes it as a "critique of dotcom neoliberalism". In the essay, Barbrook and Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9237787 |
The Californian Ideology Proponents believed that in a post-industrial, post-capitalist, knowledge-based economy, the exploitation of information and knowledge would drive growth and wealth creation while diminishing the older power structures of the state in favor of connected individuals in virtual communities. Criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9237787 |
The Californian Ideology "What Barbrook is saying between the lines is that the people with their hands on the reins of power in all of the wired world...are guided by an utterly skewed philosophical construct." Hudson maintains that there is not one, but a multitude of different ideologies at work. Andrew Leonard of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9237787 |
Offset loan An offset loan is a type of lending arrangement, usually for a mortgage, in which a borrower also maintains a savings account with the lender. Instead of receiving interest on the savings account, the interest payment due on the loan is calculated only on the net balance of the loan minus the savings accoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9250903 |
Offset loan That makes them more attractive to some of the people likely to use them (those with irregular income), but that is not a key defining feature of the loan. An offset loan involves a savings account and a mortgage loan. The value of the savings account is subtracted from the value of the mortgage and the dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9250903 |
Soft probe A soft probe is a confirmation method used by banks to verify funding for a seller from a buyer, conducted by the seller's bank to the buyer's bank. Such a probe is not recorded in the buyer's banking information, and usually nothing but confirmation or lack of confirmation is recorded by the seller. Authori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9292698 |
BTF (finance) BTFs (Bons du Trésor à taux fixe et à intérêts précomptés) are fixed-rate short-term discount Treasury bills issued by the French debt agency Agence France Trésor (AFT). They are fungible securities whose original maturity is less than or equal to one year. BTFs are issued on a weekly basis by auction, ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9293980 |
Equilibrium selection is a concept from game theory which seeks to address reasons for players of a game to select a certain equilibrium over another. The concept is especially relevant in evolutionary game theory, where the different methods of equilibrium selection respond to different ideas of what equilibria will b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9304399 |
Overnight cost is the cost of a construction project if no interest was incurred during construction, as if the project was completed "overnight." This concept is noticeablty used for providing a simplistic cost comparison of power plants projects or technologies, through a ratio with the maximum power the plant can de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9339360 |
EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts. Roberts, formerly an economics professor at George Mason University, is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. On the podcast, Roberts typically interviews a single guest—often professional economists—on topics in economics. The podc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351994 |
EconTalk Hayek), Classical economics (in particular the ideas of Adam Smith), the way markets evolve, spontaneous order (which is often referred to as "emergence" or "emergent order"), and the division of labor. Guests often include authors of recently published books of current interest in economics. Topics of interes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351994 |
EconTalk A running question Roberts poses to guests in this vein is how we should set out to describe this critical idea, as normal conversation rarely captures the essence of the idea. Roberts has commended the 1945 essay written by Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society", as have a number of his guests. The essay ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351994 |
EconTalk These increases in productivity are notably striking and often appear in conversations concerning trade, growth, and technology. A surprisingly large number of podcast episodes are dedicated in their entirety to Smith's lesser-known book first published in 1759, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". After Roberts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351994 |
EconTalk Invited guests sometimes include controversial authors or areas of discussion in economics and other fields where there is current disagreement. Authors on opposing sides of an issue are invited to present their perspectives and are challenged with ideas on the opposing side by Roberts who often presents argum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351994 |
EconTalk Ideas from the podcast series are discussed in the United Kingdom, China, India, France, Australia and elsewhere; by think tanks, among international aid organizations and those interested in development economics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351994 |
BA-X is a labour market index published since January 2007 by the German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit [BA]). The is a labour market index published monthly by the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA). The index tracks the demand for manpower in the primary labor market. The is based on concrete openings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9364832 |
Economic terrorism The term economic terrorism or financial terrorism is strictly defined to indicate an attempt at economic destabilization by a group. is defined in the following terms: Financial terrorism (also known as economic terrorism) has been a common tactic used, usually by secretly manipulating of a nation's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9381362 |
Economic terrorism ” The cost of these preventative measures is passed on to consumers and tax payers, ultimately directing money away from other areas of the economy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9381362 |
Tanzi effect The is an economic situation involving a period of high inflation in a country which results in a decline in the volume of tax collection and a deterioration of real tax proceeds being collected by the government of that country. This is due to the time elapsed between the moment the taxable event occurs a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9390832 |
Tanzi effect For example, the obligation to pay a tax on income takes place when income is earned. The obligation to pay a tax on sales occurs when an item subject to the sales tax is sold. The obligation to pay a tax on imports occurs when goods cross the frontier. All these taxable events establish a claim by the gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9390832 |
Tanzi effect When inflation is very high, and a country tries to finance public spending by printing more money, the act of printing more money, by increasing the rate of inflation, could reduce tax revenue by more than the real value of the income from inflationary finance (from the printing of money). A collection la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9390832 |
Stochastically stable equilibrium In game theory, a stochastically stable equilibrium is a refinement of the evolutionarily stable state in evolutionary game theory, proposed by Dean Foster and Peyton Young. An evolutionary stable state S is also stochastically stable if under vanishing noise the probability that the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9391228 |
Agri Export Zone An or AEZ is a specific geographic region in a country demarcated for setting up agriculture based processing industries, mainly for export. The term is widely used mainly in India. AEZ are to be identified by the State Government, who would evolve a comprehensive package of services provided by all St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9428364 |
Technology Centre of New Jersey The is a science park in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey, United States, established by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority as a high technology business incubator. It can accommodate individual research and laboratory facilities up to , complete with clean rooms and wet l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9459203 |
Combined Nomenclature Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987, creates the goods nomenclature called the Combined Nomenclature, or in abbreviated form 'CN', established to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the European ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9480835 |
Combined Nomenclature The combined nomenclature, together with the rates of duty and other relevant charges, and the tariff measures included in the Taric or in other Community arrangements shall constitute the common customs tariff referred to in Article 9 of the Treaty, which shall be applied on the importation of go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9480835 |
Local option sales tax In the United States, a local option sales tax (often abbreviated "LOST") is a special-purpose tax implemented and levied at the city or county level. A local option sales tax is often used as a means of raising funds for specific local or area projects, such as improving area streets and roads, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9492340 |
Local option sales tax For example, in Iowa, a standard LOST is used for city or county improvement purposes, whereas a SILO (School Infrastructure Local Option) tax is often used to build new schools, improve existing school buildings, or other educational purposes. Since a standard LOST and SILO are considered differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9492340 |
Alternative beta is the concept of managing volatile "alternative investments", often through the use of hedge funds. is often also referred to as "alternative risk premia". Researcher Lars Jaeger says that the return from an investment mainly results from exposure to systematic risk factors. These exposures can take t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9537636 |
Alternative beta An example of the first is a treasury bill: the price does not go up or down a lot, so it has a low beta. An example of the second is gold. The price of gold does go up and down a lot, but not in the same direction or at the same time as the market. A beta above 1 generally means that the asset both is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9537636 |
Alternative beta This issue was raised in the 1997 paper "Empirical Characteristics of Dynamic Trading Strategies: The Case of Hedge Funds" by William Fung and David Hsieh. Following this paper, several groups of academics (such as Thomas Schneeweis et al.) started to explain past hedge fund returns using various syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9537636 |
Alternative beta exploiting market inefficiencies. Academic studies as well as their performance in recent years strongly support the idea that the return from hedge funds mostly consists of (alternative) risk premia. This is the basis of the various approaches to replicate the return profile of hedge funds by direct e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9537636 |
Internality An internality is the long-term benefit or cost to an individual that they do not consider when making the decision to consume a good or service. It is related to behavioral economics through the concept of temporal discounting, in which immediate consequences of a decision are disproportionately weighed co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9545934 |
Internality It is important to note that elasticity might change based on location and knowledge about the harmful health effects of smoking. In traditional economic theory, a tax diminishes the welfare of the poor because the tax burden shifts to low-income communities, as fewer can afford the good (cigarettes), and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9545934 |
Internality The tax attempting to prevent the internality should be set equal to the difference between D and D' at the optimal quantity, which is the unmeasured internal cost (IC). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9545934 |
Sponge tax The sponge tax was a US state-level estate tax linked to the calculation of the federal estate tax. States with this tax collected the amount allowable as a tax credit to the federal estate tax if paid in state estate taxes. In practice, this additional estate tax was levied directly at the state level but g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9545984 |
Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security The was signed by 16 nations after a three-hour meeting of delegates at the East Asia Summit in Cebu on January 15, 2007. The countries have agreed to promote energy security and find energy alternatives to conventional fuels. The Declaration lists a series of goals aimed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9560946 |
New Ideas from Dead Economists New Ideas from Dead Economists, written by Todd G. Buchholz, is an introduction to the history and development of modern economic thought, originally published in 1989. Since its original publication, there have been two revisions, the most recent of which was published in 2007. In the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9568098 |
National Competition Policy (Australia) The term National Competition Policy refers to a set of policies introduced in Australia in the 1990s with the aim of promoting microeconomic reform. In 1992, an independent committee of inquiry, the National Competition Policy Review Committee, was established by Prime Minister ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9572650 |
National Competition Policy (Australia) The principal recommendations were: The report's recommendations were endorsed in their entirety by Federal and State governments but opposed by a range of other parties such as the Greens and the Democrats and independents. The recommended changes to the Trade Practice Act were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9572650 |
National Competition Policy (Australia) The objective of competitive neutrality policy is the elimination of resource allocation distortions arising out of the public ownership of entities engaged in significant business activities: Government businesses should not enjoy any net competitive advantage simply as a result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9572650 |
Profitability index (PI), also known as profit investment ratio (PIR) and value investment ratio (VIR), is the ratio of payoff to investment of a proposed project. It is a useful tool for ranking projects because it allows you to quantify the amount of value created per unit of investment. Under capital rationing, PI m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9579767 |
War risk insurance is a type of insurance which covers damage due to acts of war, including invasion, insurrection, rebellion and hijacking. Some policies also cover damage due to weapons of mass destruction. It is most commonly used in the shipping and aviation industries. generally has two components: war risk liabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9588798 |
Unglie A unglie ("finger") is an obsolete unit of length equal to three-fourths of an inch (1.905 cm) that was used in India and Pakistan. After metrification in both countries, the unit became obsolete. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9591673 |
Open-high-low-close chart An open-high-low-close chart (also OHLC) is a type of chart typically used to illustrate movements in the price of a financial instrument over time. Each vertical line on the chart shows the price range (the highest and lowest prices) over one unit of time, e.g., one day or one hour. Tick mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9603815 |
Open-high-low-close chart However, for technical analysis of static charts, such as after-market analysis of historical data, the OHLC bars have very clear advantages over the Japanese candlesticks: the OHLC bars do not require color or fill pattern to show the Open and Close levels, and they do not create confusion in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9603815 |
Canadian Economics Association The (CEA) is the academic association of Canadian economists. Its object is to advance economic knowledge through study and research, and to encourage informed discussion of economic questions. The Association will not take a partisan position on any question of practical politics, nor co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9614384 |
Canadian Economics Association Since 1994, the CEA has awarded the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize for the past year's best work on Canadian economic policy. The CEA is a non-profit corporation, registered under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. The annual conference has been held, or will be held, as follows: In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9614384 |
International Defence Exhibition The & Conference, or IDEX, is a biennial arms and defence technology sales exhibition. The exhibition is the largest defence exhibition and conference in the Middle East and takes place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The first edition of the exhibition took place in 1993. The exhib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9617181 |
Separation property (finance) A separation property is a crucial element of modern portfolio theory that gives a portfolio manager the ability to separate the process of satisfying investing clients' assets into two separate parts. The first part is the determination of the "optimum risky portfolio". This portfolio is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9617268 |
Inventory analysis is the process of understanding the stock/product mix combined with the knowledge of the demand for stock/product. It is the technique to determine the optimum level of inventory for a firm. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9625257 |
Refusal to deal Though in general, each business may decide with whom they wish to transact, there are some situations when a refusal to deal may be considered an unlawful anti-competitive practice, if it prevents or reduces competition in a market. The unlawful behaviour may involve two or more companies refusing to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629973 |
Dividing territories (also market division) is an agreement by two companies to stay out of each other's way and reduce competition in the agreed-upon territories. The process known as geographic market allocation is one of several anti-competitive practices outlawed under United States antitrust laws. The term is gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630061 |
Monthly Labor Review The is published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Issues often focus on a particular topic. Most articles are by BLS staff. Annually since 1969, the Lawrence R. Klein Award has been awarded to authors of articles appearing in the "Monthly Labor Review", generally one to BLS authors and one t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9637516 |
Golden gimmick The Golden Gimmick refers to a foreign tax credit deal enacted in November 1950 by the US Government under president Harry Truman between King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO), a consortium comprising Standard Oil of California (Chevron), Standard Oil of New Jersey (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9639128 |
Stock mix is the combination of products a company sells or manufactures. The stock mix is determined by the demand for certain products and the profitability of those products. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9644000 |
Campbell's law is an adage developed by Donald T. Campbell, a psychologist and social scientist who often wrote about research methodology, which states: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9668147 |
Campbell's law Campbell’s Law helps people discern that the Obama administration program of Race to the Top and Bush administration program, the No Child Left Behind Act can actually impair, not improve, educational outcome. There are closely related ideas known by different names, such as Goodhart's law and the Lucas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9668147 |
Campbell's law In his article, “Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change”, Campbell emphasized that “"the more quantitative social indicator used for social decision-making is subjected to corruption pressure and liable to distort and damage social processes it meant to monitor".” | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9668147 |
Overnight capital cost (power generation) The Overnight capital cost is a term used in the power generation industry to provide a simplisitic comparison of the costs of building power plants. It is usually computed by dividing the overnight cost of building the plant by the maximum instantaneous power the plant can del... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9686849 |
East Caribbean Common Market The (ECCM) was established by Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, and St. Lucia in 1968. It was joined by St. Vincent (1979), St. Kitts and Nevis (1980) and Antigua and Barbuda (1981). The ECCM was replaced by the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9692552 |
Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy The is a student-edited law review published at Georgetown University Law Center in the United States. The "Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy" is focused on poverty law issues. As part of its mission to help bring an end to poverty in the United States, the Journa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9699637 |
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