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GDP density GDP Density is a measure of economic activity by area. It is expressed as GDP per square kilometer and can be calculated by multiplying GDP per capita of an area by the population density of that area. Amongst other uses it demonstrates the effects of geography on economy. It is different from Economic geog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10636264 |
Survey of Consumer Finances The (SCF) is a triennial statistical survey of the balance sheet, pension, income and other demographic characteristics of families in the United States; the survey also gathers information on the use of financial institutions. It is sponsored by the United States Federal Reserve Board in co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10659704 |
Survey of Consumer Finances First, a standard multistage area-probability sample (a geographically based random sample) is selected to provide good coverage of characteristics, such as homeownership, that are broadly distributed in the population. Second, a supplemental sample is selected to disproportionately include ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10659704 |
Survey of Consumer Finances Thus, if a family declines to participate, it means that families like theirs may not be represented clearly in national discussions. The survey interviews are conducted largely between the months of May and December in each survey year by NORC. The latest available results are those of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10659704 |
Energy independence is independence or autarky regarding energy resources, energy supply and/or energy generation by the energy industry. Energy dependence in general refers to either mankind's general dependence on primary or secondary energy for energy consumption (fuel, transport, automation, etc.). In a narrower se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10669204 |
Energy independence Usually, a country will rely on local and global energy renewable and non-renewable resources, a mixed-model solution that presumes various energy sources and modes of energy transfer between countries like electric power transmission, oil transport (oil and gas pipelines and tankers), etc. The Euro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10669204 |
Teind In Scotland a teind was a tithe derived from the produce of the land for the maintenance of the clergy. It is also an old lowland term for a tribute due to be paid by the fairies to the devil every seven years. Found in the story of Tam Lin as well as in the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer. is a Scots word for tithe,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10688611 |
The New New Thing The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story is a book by Michael M. Lewis published in 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company. The book is written with a comedic touch similar to that of the Lewis's earlier book "Liar's Poker". The book focuses on the founder of several Silicon Valley companies, James H. Clark,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10709971 |
List of Jewish economists This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10725104 |
Fragmentation (economics) In economics, fragmentation means organization of production into different stages, which are divided among different suppliers often are located in different countries. Products traded between firms in different countries are often components rather than final products. Final products may be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10761814 |
South American Energy Council The is a body set up to co-ordinate the regional energy policy of the Union of South American Nations. Its establishment was agreed at the first South American Energy Summit, which took place on April 16–17 2007 on Isla Margarita in the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta. <br> | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10778792 |
Marianne Ferber Marianne A. Ferber (January 30, 1923 – May 11, 2013) was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She was most noted for her work as co-editor with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10787091 |
Marianne Ferber From 1993-1995, she was the Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at Radcliffe College. She served as a professor of economics at the University of Illinois for 38 years. In the 1970s, she was a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Later, she became a founding me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10787091 |
Marianne Ferber The overall conclusion from the compilation is that economics needs to remove itself from perpetuating masculine biases about how work must be done and to what extent certain work is valuable. In 1997, the third edition of "The Economics of Women, Men, and Work," co-authored with Francine D. Blau and An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10787091 |
Brazil cost ( ) refers to the increased operational costs associated with doing business in Brazil, making Brazilian goods and services more expensive compared to other countries. There are several factors that contribute to the extra cost, including: <nowiki>*</nowiki>: In 2007 transport costs consumed 13% of GDP, 5% ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10787281 |
Nancy Folbre (19 July 1952) is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family (or family economics), non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She served as president of the International Association for Feminist Economic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre To this end, Folbre questions why women would even take care jobs and argues that the social construction of femininity links femininity and care. Folbre argues that only by working collectively to ensure a greater supply and quality of care, independent of the market, can we ensure that the responsibility... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre She is a contributor to the "New York Times" Economix blog, an opportunity she has said she relishes because, "most academics spend a lot of time writing stuff that very few people will ever read." Folbre received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971, an M.A. in Latin America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre As of 2004 she was a member of the National Academy of Science Panel, which studied the design of non-market accounts. She has been a board member of the Foundation for Child Development since 2000, a member of the National Advisory Commission of Child Care and Early Education as well as the National Organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre Second, Folbre explores how a shift in the investment of time and resources toward children might result in losses for other groups. Understanding and addressing these conflicts between groups might lead to more efficient and satisfying means to providing care of children and the elderly. Finally, she exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre While the forces of the free market and competitive individualism dominates public life, the forces of compassion must temper the forces of self-interest. Under the premise that people are rational optimizers, Folbre argues that if it is costly to be caring, people can be expected to engage in it less over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre Where women have traditionally provided care within the home, this responsibility is slowly transitioning to third parties and corporate institutions. Profit motives will tend to drive the wages of care workers down. She notes that turnover rates among childcare staff are often in excess of 30 percent per ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre In this book, Folbre discusses the costs of raising children, the value of child care to the economy, and how these costs are borne by society. She challenges the implicit view of mainstream economists who effectively view the raising of children as a process of consumption in which parents can derive happ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre Yet, the same social norms that consider aggression, greed and lust an advantage to men in public life also view such things as perverse in women. Folbre argues that this double standard often puts aspiring women in a difficult position, which forces women to choose between their personal identity and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre Among these are the Gender Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) used by the United Nations Human Development Report Office and the Gender Inequality Index developed by Social Watch. In this article, Folbre explores the strengths and weaknesses of these indices and proposes new i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre In a traditional patriarchal society, the social norms place serious restrictions on women's ability to make a living outside of marriage. This lowers the opportunity costs of having children and heightens the utility of children – who are often sent to work at a very young age. This typically leads to hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre Folbre discusses and briefly critiques solutions posed by others and concludes with a call for compensation for parents and job training for young adults. In this article, Folbre discusses how the matter of sexuality was implicit in classical British political economy. Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith, and R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre She expands the discussion by noting the importance of distributional conflict within the family – how the capitalist labor market forced a change in the traditionally patriarchal family relationships. As many functions of the family, such as childcare and education, are shifted to the public sector, the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
Nancy Folbre She recognizes the benefits of the mother bird's increased autonomy (and perhaps the inevitability of the trend), but concludes her article with a call for collective responsibility for caring for others. By taking turns "sitting on the nest," society would embrace a moral vision that values the reproducti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10788704 |
When Corporations Rule the World is an anti-globalization book by David Korten. Korten examines the evolution of corporations in the United States and argues that "corporate libertarians" have 'twisted' the ideas of Adam Smith's view of the role of private companies. Korten critiques current methods of economic develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10800071 |
Reverse brain drain is a form of brain drain where human capital moves in reverse from a more developed country to a less developed country that is developing rapidly. These migrants may accumulate savings, also known as remittances, and develop skills overseas that can be used in their home country. Brain drain can oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain In the past, many of the immigrants from developing countries chose to work and live permanently in developed countries; however, the recent economic growth that has been occurring back in their home countries—and the difficulty of attaining long-term work visas—has caused many of the immigrants to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain This form of reverse brain drain differs from the way it is commonly viewed. It is explained by Salman Khurshid, the former Minister of State for Corporate and Minority Affairs in India. He states that "Many second-generation Indians are coming back to the country". Therefore, reverse brain drain is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain There are several countries that are prime examples of these three methods—and several other methods—which are: China has generally been seen as a developing country, and they have been impacted by brain drain through the migration of their talented minds to the developed world. What has assisted Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain Besides the government policies and economic reasons for returning to China, certain family factors influenced the decision to return, some of the reasons where parental views about returning, concerns for children, and the attitude of one's spouse about returning. India is one of the first countrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain In addition, other reasons for the returning migration of the Indian high skill workers was due to their desires to return to their roots, a more family oriented lifestyle, and also security concerns in the post 9/11 period where Indians were discriminated against because they were often mistaken fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain The Center aims to recognize and foster contribution to Nepal's social and economic progress by connecting the Nepali role models to the young men and women willing to be productive citizens back home. Foreign Minister Gyawali wrote a letter addressing Nepali diaspora experts asking them to join the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain Today, there are over 47,000 British nationals in Pakistan, many of whom are of Pakistani origin, who have returned to contribute to the economic development of the country. South Korea's reverse brain drain was different from the social phenomenon because it was based on an organized government eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain In addition, Taiwan's official policy consists of two sections: One reason behind the increased percentage of college students going abroad and the decline of returnees was due to Taiwan's political status and the severed diplomatic ties with the ROC government in 1979; however, the percentages of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain In Africa, instead of the commonly termed ‘brain drain', the term ‘reverse transfer of technology' (RTT) is used to describe the migration of scientists from developing countries to overseas. In order to prevent the loss of the experts, Africa has observed the "friends and relatives effect", which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Reverse brain drain This is a problem since foreign-born professional and academics from developing countries, such as China or India, are increasingly motivated to return to their home countries due to rapid economic growth, increasing living standards, and increasing opportunities in their home country. The reverse m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10847277 |
Mandeville's paradox is named after Bernard Mandeville, who posits that actions which may be qualified as vicious with regard to individuals have benefits for society as a whole. This is alluded to in the subtitle of his most famous work, "The Fable of The Bees": ‘Private Vices, Public Benefits’. He states that "Fraud,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10848678 |
Development finance institution A development finance institution (DFI) also known as a development bank or development finance company (DFC) is a financial institution that provides risk capital for economic development projects on non commercial basis. They are often established and owned by governments or charitable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869869 |
Securing America's Energy Independence Act of 2007 On January 18, 2007, Congressmen Michael McNulty (D-NY) and Dave Camp (R-MI) introduced legislation to reinvest funds in America's most abundant renewable resource – solar power. Title: "Securing America's Energy Independence Act of 2007.", H.R. 550 January 18, 2007: R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10882863 |
Money pump In economic theory, the money pump argument is a thought experiment intended to show that rational behavior requires transitive preferences: If one prefers A to B and B to C, then one should not prefer C to A. Standard economic theory assumes that preferences are transitive. However, many people have argued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10906585 |
Money pump This would theoretically allow a "money pump" to operate as follows: There are many counter-arguments which can be made to this. One of the simplest was made by Cubitt. His paper shows that the argument rests on some very strong assumptions and is tautological: to say that X acts as a money pump is no differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10906585 |
Money pump Thus the argument is used to justify the existence of subjective probabilities as a requirement for rational behavior. Again there are many possible counter-arguments. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10906585 |
Variable interest entity (VIE) is a term used by the United States Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in FIN 46 to refer to an entity (the investee) in which the investor holds a controlling interest that is not based on the majority of voting rights. "VIEs operate using contractual arrangements rather than di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10965939 |
Variable interest entity A VIE is an entity meeting one of the following three criteria as elaborated in FASB ASC 810-10 [formerly FIN 46 (Revised)]: A share of stock, or a stock certificate, certifies ownership of a portion of a company. In other words, it provides proof of a legal interest in company assets. In contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10965939 |
Variable interest entity BABA shareholders own a stake, through American Depositary Shares, in Alibaba Group Holding Limited, a Cayman Islands-registered entity, which is under contract to receive the profit from Alibaba’s lucrative Chinese assets. BABA shareholders do not have a proprietary interest in the chinese-reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10965939 |
Variable interest entity These contractual arrangements collectively enable us to exercise effective control over, and realize substantially all of the economic risks and benefits arising from, the variable interest entities. See “Our History and Corporate Structure — Contractual Arrangements among Our Wholly-foreign O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10965939 |
Maurice Obstfeld Maurice Moses "Maury" Obstfeld (born 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and previously Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is well known for his work in international economics. He is among the most influential economists in the world accordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10966153 |
Maurice Obstfeld On July 20, 2015, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced her intention to appoint Obstfeld as Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department. Obstfeld succeeds Olivier Blanchard whose retirement was announced previously. He began his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10966153 |
Uncia (unit) The (plural: ) was a Roman unit of length, weight, and volume. It survived as the Byzantine liquid ounce (, "oungía") and the origin of the English inch, ounce, and fluid ounce. The Roman inch was equal to of a Roman foot (""), which was standardized under Agrippa to about 0.97 inches or 24.6 millimeters. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10971394 |
Haradh gas plant The Haradh Gas Plant is one of the major gas plants in Saudi Arabia. It is located near Haradh village, 300 km southwest of Dhahran. The plant has a capacity of producing 1.6 BSCFD of natural gas and 170,000 BBL/day of condensate (oil). The plant processes only non-associated gas. The plant is consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10977572 |
Trade (financial instrument) In finance, a trade is an exchange of a security (stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, derivatives or any valuable financial instrument) for "cash", typically a short-dated promise to pay in the currency of the country where the 'exchange' is located. The price at which a financial instr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11030575 |
Pluralism in economics The pluralism in economics movement is a campaign to change the teaching and research in economics towards more openness in its approaches, topics and standpoints it considers. The goal of the movement is to "...reinvigorate the discipline ... [and bring] economics back into the service of societ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11037938 |
Pluralism in economics In 2000, students at the École Normale Supérieure protested and announced the creation of the post-autistic economics movement. Similarly, students at the University of Cambridge and University of Missouri-Kansas City organised petitions in 2001 and in 2011 the Cambridge Society for Economic Plur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11037938 |
Pluralism in economics The students called for pluralism of theories and methods to provide economics students with an understanding of the broader social and moral implications of economic decisions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11037938 |
Niche insurance is insurance that is provided for small, low-demand areas. Insurance is vital to protect the potential financial losses of individuals and businesses. Although the policies that are usually required are easily available, such as automobile, home, life, travel, and business insurance, other forms of cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11043968 |
Nayakrishi The New Agriculture Movement () is an agricultural movement in Bangladesh that opposes the use of Western pesticides and genetically altered seeds. The Movement began in response to environmental hazards that were believed to have been started by the use of insecticides and nematicides in the growing of crop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11047210 |
Strategic move A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. Strategic moves can either be "unconditional moves" or "response rules". The key characteristics of a strategic move are that it involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11050673 |
100 Best Workplaces in Europe is a ranking of the 100 workplaces in Europe performed each year by the Financial Times, in partnership with Great Place to Work. The list is based on employee surveys and a review of the company's culture. Two thirds of the total score is from employee responses to a 57 question survey on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11054915 |
Concert party (business) A 'concert party' is a group of people acting in concert in a takeover bid. In the UK, there are rules for such bids, regulated by regulators such as the Takeover Panel. There is a 30% threshold at which a Mandatory Offer must be made. This is considered to be reached when a concert party joint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11055935 |
Holding value is an indicator of a theoretical value of an asset that someone has in his/her portfolio. It is a value which sums the impacts of all the dividends that would be given to the holder in the future, to help them estimate a price to buy or sell assets. The following formula gives the holding value (HV) for a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11087133 |
Geoeconomics Broadly, geoeconomics (sometimes geo-economics) is the study of the spatial, temporal, and political aspects of economies and resources. The formation of geoeconomics as a branch of geopolitics is often attributed to Edward Luttwak, an American economist and consultant, and Pascal Lorot, a French economist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11095974 |
Geoeconomics For example:"Spain might decree that all trade to and from its American colonies could only travel in Spanish bottoms through Spanish ports, but British and Dutch armed merchantmen could still convey profitable cargoes to disloyal colonists in defiance of Spanish sloops; and, with war declared, privateers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11095974 |
Geoeconomics "The “infantry” in this analogy corresponds to commercial production, which can also be supported by the state through various forms of subsidies. Yet another geo-economic weapon is predatory finance. If operation subsidies are insufficient to allow domestic exporters to overcome strong competitors, states... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11095974 |
Geoeconomics Firzli has argued that “adhering to the laws of geo-economic gravity” including financial self-sufficiency and the existence of advanced, diversified transportation infrastructure are now essential to ensure the effective sovereignty of a state: "the government of Qatar is now paying an incommensurate pric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11095974 |
A-paper In the mortgage industry of the United States, is a term to describe a mortgage loan for which the asset and borrower meet the following criteria: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11097157 |
Spatial inequality is the unequal amounts of qualities or resources and services depending on the area or location, such as medical or welfare. Some communities have a greater range of resources and services and then those that would be able to change that do not live near or associate with those communities making it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11098737 |
Three-sector model The three-sector model in economics divides economies into three sectors of activity: extraction of raw materials (primary), manufacturing (secondary), and services (tertiary). According to the model, the main focus of an economy's activity shifts from the primary, through the secondary and finally t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11108915 |
Three-sector model Workforce quotas: More machinery is deployed in the primary sector, which reduces the number of workers needed. As a result, the demand for machinery production in the secondary sector increases. The transitional way or phase begins with an event which can be identified with the industrialisation: fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11108915 |
Three-sector model Sometimes referred to as ‘gold collar’ professions, they represent another subdivision of the tertiary sector representing special and highly paid skills of senior business executives, government officials, research scientists, financial and legal consultants, etc. The highest level of decision maker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11108915 |
Cascading discontinuity set A cascading discontinuity set is a term related to Wild Cards and applied in foresight and risk management areas. It attempts to define a series of smaller, seemingly disconnected events that merge over time leading to a Wild Card-like result. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11131397 |
Financial result The financial result is the difference between earnings before interest and taxes and earnings before taxes. It is determined by the earning or the loss which results from financial affairs. For most industrial companies the financial result is negative, as the interest charged on borrowing generally e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11135761 |
Public Works Loan Board The (PWLB) () is a statutory body of the UK Government that provides loans to public bodies from the National Loans Fund. The members of the PWLB are known as the Public Works Loan Commissioners. The PWLB was established on an "ad hoc" basis in 1793, and was originally known as the Exchequer Loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11168058 |
IPR-Helpdesk The is a project funded by the European Commission (EC) and a source and guide to patent information. The project was launched in 1998 (at the same time as Espacenet) to be a central reference point for intellectual property inquiries and advice throughout the European Union. The is a project implemented b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11181384 |
IPR-Helpdesk (a Luxembourg-based company), the Intellectual Property Institute of Luxembourg (a Luxembourg-based IP institute) and Eurice GmbH (a company based in Saarbrücken, Germany) is in charge of the project as a result of a European Commission's tender. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11181384 |
China Center for Economic Research The (CCER) is an economics think tank in Peking University, China. It was opened in August 1994, and is directed by Justin Yifu Lin. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11184733 |
GASUN The National Unification Gas Pipeline ("Gas Unificação" – GASUN) will be a natural gas pipeline in Brazil. will connect the Gasbol pipeline with the northern Amazon and the Northeast states (Pará, Tocantins, Maranhão and Piauí) allowing transportation of Bolivian gas into these regions. The project is expected to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11190015 |
Loan life coverage ratio Loan Life Coverage Ratio LLCR is a ratio commonly used in project finance. The ratio is defined as: Net Present Value of Cashflow Available for Debt Service ("CFADS") / Outstanding Debt in the period. Financial modelling of LLCR is now a standard metric calculated in a project finance model and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11219905 |
Suits index The of a public policy is a measure of tax progressiveness, named for economist Daniel B. Suits. Similar to the Gini coefficient, the is calculated by comparing the area under the Lorenz curve to the area under a proportional line. For a progressive tax (for example, where higher income tax units pay a grea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11243697 |
Suits index Therefore, sales taxes are generally regressive, and have a negative Suits index. Excise taxes are typically charged on items like gasoline, alcohol or tobacco products. Since the tax rate is typically high, and there is a practical limit to the amount of product that can be consumed, this tax is generally ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11243697 |
Alvin Rabushka (born May 15, 1940) is an American political scientist. He is a David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He is best known for his work on taxation and transition economies. Together with Robert Hall, he wrote a detailed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11252743 |
The Fourth Pillar The Four Pillars is a research programme set up in 1987 by the Geneva Association, also known as the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics. The aim of the "Four Pillars" research programme is to study the key importance in the new service economy of Social Security, Insurance,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11256241 |
The Fourth Pillar The reorganization of end-of-career and the new age-management strategy - in which gradual retirement is destined to play a key role - involved in establishing this pillar, also correspond to many of the changes (e.g. in quality of work and the life cycle) that are specific to our contemporary service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11256241 |
The Fourth Pillar Private pension funds will play a growing role in securing future retirement income. It however must be understood that even substantial development of second and third pillar pensions will probably not be sufficient to compensate both longer life-expectancy and a rising proportion of people over 65 y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11256241 |
The Fourth Pillar With the research programme and its fourth-pillar proposals, the Geneva Association has been able to do pioneer work in this field and has (probably) made a significant contribution to this all-important debate. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11256241 |
Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), is one of the largest panel survey in the world, supporting social and economic research. Its sample size is 40,000 households from the United Kingdom or approximately 100,000 individuals. Data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11259783 |
Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study Understanding Society will enhance our insight into the pathways that influence peoples longer term occupational trajectories; their health and well-being, their financial circumstances and personal relationships. From its second wave (starting in 2010) "Unders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11259783 |
Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study The Study includes biomarkers and genetic data - data collected by nurses to measure people's health allows researchers to understand the relationship between social and economic circumstances and health. It can be linked to administrative data - Study data can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11259783 |
Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study The Study helps researchers, charities and policymakers to take the lives of real people into account when making decisions. Understanding Society is part of a world-wide collection of household panel surveys, including: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11259783 |
Mock interview A mock interview is an emulation of a job interview used for training purposes. The conversational exercise usually resembles a real interview as closely as possible, for the purpose of providing experience for a candidate. It can help a job applicant to understand what is expected in a real job intervie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11267445 |
Teotonio Vilela Filho Teotônio Brandão Vilela Filho (Viçosa, Alagoas, January 29, 1951) is a Brazilian economist, politician and Governor of Alagoas from 2007 to 2015. He graduated at the Universidade de Brasília and then specialized in Business Administration at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He is a son of Alagoas coup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11272980 |
Siviløkonom (literally "civil economist") is an academic degree issued within the field of business administration and a professional title in Norway (with corresponding titles in Denmark and Sweden, see below under "See also"), obtained after 5 years of studies. The title is protected and can only be used by persons h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11281296 |
Siviløkonom After the quality reform all institutions of higher education were allowed to issue the title to all master graduates, and the requirements for the degree increased from four to five years of study. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11281296 |
CAN SLIM refers to the acronym developed by the American stock research and education company "Investor's Business Daily" ("IBD"). "IBD" claims CANSLIM represents the seven characteristics that top-performing stocks often share before making their biggest price gains. It was developed in the 1950s by Investor's Busines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11289896 |
CAN SLIM It is stated in the book, that buying stocks of solid companies should generally lessen chances of having to cut losses, since a strong company (good current quarterly earnings-per-share growth, annual growth rate, and other strong fundamentals) will usually shoot up—in bull markets—rather than descend. Some i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11289896 |
Efficient contract theory suggests that in a [strong-form efficient] market, if a contract exists, then it must be efficient due to survivorship bias. For example, the Initial Public Offering market in the United States has an underwriting spread of approximately 7% in the majority of cases despite some offerings being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11312587 |
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