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Stationary distribution may refer to: In some fields of application, the term stable distribution is used for the equivalent of a stationary (marginal) distribution, although in probability and statistics the term has a rather different meaning: see stable distribution. Crudely stated, all of the above are specific cas...
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Reprivatization refers to the process of restoring to its former owners properties seized by a government, or to the process of compensating previously uncompensated former owners. This is often a component of larger privatization schemes. The term is most often used in the connection with privatization in former Sovie...
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Reprivatization A significant barrier to reprivatization is created by larger political questions, which vary by country. In Eastern Europe, there is frequently a desire to avoid the inflammation of ethnic tensions and the ostensible reversal of Potsdam conference policies; see Federation of Expellees. Outstanding repr...
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Reprivatization Many enterprises that were in a difficult economic situation (including British Airways, British Petroleum), legally transferred to state ownership and received considerable financial support from it. And all this is only to be transferred to private hands through privatization ten years later. The revi...
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Reprivatization At the same time, traditionally unprofitable industries, such as, for example, the coal industry, radio and television, railway and shipbuilding companies, remain in the hands of the state. Analysts state that the goals of privatization - to increase budget revenues as much as possible and to increase c...
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Reprivatization Unlike the industrial sector, Poland's agricultural sector remained largely in private hands during the decades of communist rule. Most of the former state farms are now leased to farmer tenants. Lack of credit is hampering efforts to sell former state farmland. Currently, Poland's 2 million private far...
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Reprivatization Reprivatization, which was carried out through the courts, proved to be a long and exhausting process. "The process of reprivatization as a way to review the results of privatization was formed under the influence of the general revolutionary moods of the population and the character of the first govern...
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Alan Durning (born November 7, 1964 as Alan Bresler Durning, then Alan Thein Durning from 1991 to 2008) is the founder and executive director of the Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch), a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Durning grew up in Seattle, spent his high school y...
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Commodity Credit Corporation The (CCC) is a wholly owned United States government corporation that was created in 1933 to "stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices" (federally chartered by the CCC Charter Act of 1948 (P.L. 80-806)). The CCC is authorized to buy, sell, lend, make payments, and engage in ot...
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Commodity Credit Corporation On July 1, 1939, the CCC was transferred to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Secretary of Agriculture was granted the authority to exercise all rights of ownership of the Corporation's by Executive Order 8219 of 1939. It was reincorporated on July 1, 1948, as a federa...
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Commodity Credit Corporation It also extends direct credit and guarantees commodity sales to foreign countries throughout the world. The CCC has its own disbursing authority and utilizes the Federal Reserve Bank system and United States Treasury to make payments. This disbursing authority allows the CCC to make payment...
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Commodity Credit Corporation That is, In July 2018, Trump's administration announced that it would use the CCC, to pay farmers up to $12 billion. This aid was increased to $28 billion in May 2019. The CCC attempts to offset losses in the American agricultural sector resulting from retaliatory tariffs from the European ...
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Commodity Credit Corporation The CCC mission and strategic goals are achieved through the successful implementation of the following key programs areas: Income Support and Disaster Assistance – Income support and disaster assistance programs provide financial assistance to protect farmers and ranchers from fluctuations...
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Commodity Credit Corporation These programs help achieve domestic farm program price support objectives, produce a uniform regulatory system for storing agricultural products, and ensure the timely provision of food products for domestic and international food assistance programs and market development programs. Foreig...
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Commodity Credit Corporation sales but where financing may not be available without CCC credit facilities. A Board of Directors manages the CCC and is subject to the general supervision and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture who is an ex officio director and chairperson of the Board. The Board consists of seven ...
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Commodity Credit Corporation Though FSA provides the staff for the CCC, several CCC funded programs fall under purview of the FAS or the NRCS. The FAS has primary responsibility for USDA international activities - market development, trade agreements and negotiations, and the collection and analysis of statistics and m...
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Evolutionarily stable state "A population is said to be in an evolutionarily stable state if its genetic composition is restored by selection after a disturbance, provided the disturbance is not too large. Such a population can be genetically monomorphic or polymorphic." —Maynard Smith (1982). This contrasts with the d...
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Post-capitalism is a state in which the economic systems of the world can no longer be described as forms of capitalism. Various individuals and political ideologies have speculated on what would define such a world. According to some classical Marxist and some social evolutionary theories, post-capitalist societies ma...
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Post-capitalism In 2015, according to Paul Mason the rise of income inequality, repeating cycles of boom and bust and capitalism’s contributions to climate change has led economists, political thinkers and philosophers to begin to seriously consider how a post-capitalistic society would look and function. is expected t...
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Post-capitalism In his book "Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy", Robin Hahnel describes a post-capitalist economy called the participatory economy. The book ends with the proposal of the Green New Deal, a package of policies that address climate change and financial crises. The particip...
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Post-capitalism All council members, the workers and consumers, participate directly in planning unlike in Soviet-type economies and other democratic planning proposals in which planning is done by representatives. Planning is an iterative procedure, always being changed and improved upon, that is accomplished at the l...
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Post-capitalism For those that call the participatory economy utopian, Albert and Hahnel counter: Socialism often implies common ownership of companies and a planned economy, though as an inherently pluralistic ideology, it is argued whether either are essential features. In his book "", Paul Mason argues that centrali...
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Post-capitalism A modern example of this technological unemployment is the replacement of retail cashiers by self-service checkouts. The invention and development of ‘mechanical-mind’ processes or “brain labour” is thought to threaten jobs at an unprecedented scale, with Oxford Professors Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael...
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Post-capitalism This lack of scarcity is a problem for our models, which try to counter by developing monopolies in the form of giant tech companies to keep information scarce and commercial. But many significant commodities in the digital economy are now free and open-source, such as Linux, Firefox, and Wikipedia.
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Rollover (film) Rollover is a 1981 American political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda and Kris Kristofferson. The film was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor for Kristofferson. Lee Winters (Fonda) is the widow of the Chairman and primary stockholder of Winterchem Enterprises, ...
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Rollover (film) One of the largest customers of Borough National is Winterchem, but because of federal lending limits, the bank "can't loan them a dime" but conceivably could be involved in brokering a deal between Winterchem and some other lender capable of loaning the approximately $500 million needed to buy the plan...
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Rollover (film) A fake limo driver who is actually working for the Arab investors tries to kidnap her with the intent of killing her—as it turns out they did to her husband—to prevent her from disclosing what she knows, and when the attempt on her life fails, the Arabs panic and pull all of their money out of every ban...
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Labour supply In mainstream economic theories, the labour supply is the total hours (adjusted for intensity of effort) that workers wish to work at a given real wage rate. It is frequently represented graphically by a labour supply curve, which shows hypothetical wage rates plotted vertically and the amount of labour t...
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Labour supply From a Marxist perspective, a labour supply is a core requirement in a capitalist society. To avoid labour shortage and ensure a labour supply, a large portion of the population must not possess sources of self-provisioning, which would let them be independent—and they must instead, to survive, be compell...
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Participation mortgage A participation mortgage or participating mortgage is a mortgage loan, or sometimes a group of them, in which two or more persons have fractional equitable interests. In this arrangement the lender, or mortgagee, is entitled to share in the rental or resale proceeds from a property owned by the b...
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Zip cube A Zip firelighter (or "zip cube") is a packaged small block of solid fuel containing kerosene, sold as a firelighter in Ireland, Canada and the United States, also in the UK, France & Belgium where they are the leading brand. Zip also manufacture a "Clean Wrap", "Fast & Clean" or "Wrapped" product- the kerosen...
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Luigi Cossa (May 27, 1831 – May 10, 1896), Italian economist, was born in Milan. Educated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of political economy at Pavia in 1858. Apart from this Cossa was the author of several other works which established him a high reputation.
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Economic Cooperation Administration The (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the Marshall Plan. It reported to both the State Department and the Department of Commerce. The agency's first head was Paul G. Hoffman, a former leader of car manufacturer Studebaker; he was succeeded by William Cha...
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Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique, commonly known as GERT, is a network analysis technique used in project management that allows probabilistic treatment both network logic and estimation of activity duration. The technique was first described in 1966 by Dr. Alan B. Pri...
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Economism is a term in Marxist discourse. It was used by Vladimir Lenin in his attacks on a trend in the early Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party around the newspaper Rabochaya Mysl and the writer Tony Cliff: The charge of economism is frequently brought against revisionists by anti-revisionists when economics, ins...
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Economism Conventional ethics would play no role in decisions under pure economism, except insofar as supply would be withheld, demand curtailed, by moral choices of individuals. Thus, critics of economism insist on political and other cultural dimensions in society. Old Right social critic Albert Jay Nock used the ter...
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Economics Letters is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal of economics that publishes concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research. Published by Elsevier. The journal was established in 1978 and the current ...
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Balanced job complex A balanced job complex is a way of organizing a workplace or group that is both directly democratic and also creates relative equal empowerment among all people involved. Specifically a balanced job complex is a collection of tasks within a given workplace that is balanced for its equity and empowe...
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Balanced job complex Most notable in this regard have been Mondragon Bookstore and Coffee House, G7 Welcoming Committee Records, and Arbeiter Ring Publishing.
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Country risk refers to the risk of investing or lending in a country, arising from possible changes in the business environment that may adversely affect operating profits or the value of assets in the country. For example, financial factors such as currency controls, devaluation or regulatory changes, or stability fac...
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Sustainable resource extraction Describing the use of materials available in nature in a way that does not affect its balance. Usually however, sustainability is based on some kind of cost-benefit analysis, where one has to accept some damage (or human caused unbalance) to the ecosystem. Sustainability is the main conc...
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Agent-owned company An agent-owned company is a private company, controlled by its agents, for which it provides common marketing and business coordination. It is common in the moving company sector, where moves are performed by local agents, under a national brand.
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Disposable People Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy is a book on modern slavery by Kevin Bales, the head of Free the Slaves. The book is published by University of California Press. It is currently printed in a revised edition, with its publication date being November 1, 2004, and it has the . The bo...
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Deadlock (game theory) In game theory, Deadlock is a game where the action that is mutually most beneficial is also dominant. This provides a contrast to the Prisoner's Dilemma where the mutually most beneficial action is dominated. This makes Deadlock of rather less interest, since there is no conflict between self-in...
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Induced consumption is the portion of consumption that varies with disposable income. When a change in disposable income “induces” a change in consumption on goods and services, then that changed consumption is called “induced consumption”. In contrast, expenditures for autonomous consumption do not vary with income. F...
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Twin deficits hypothesis In macroeconomics, the twin deficits hypothesis or the twin deficits phenomenon, is the observation that theoretically, there is a strong causal link between a nation's government budget balance and its current account balance. Standard macroeconomic theory points to how a budget deficit can be...
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Twin deficits hypothesis In this case, if the deficit increases, and saving remains the same, then this last equation implies that either investment (I) must fall (see crowding out), or net exports (NX) must fall, causing a trade deficit. Hence, a budget deficit can also lead to a trade deficit, causing a twin deficit....
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Twin deficits hypothesis Data thus confirm that as a government budget deficit widens, the current account falls, but the relationship is complicated by what happens to investment and private saving. formula_7 Current Account = (Private Saving – Investment) + (Taxes levied – Government Expenditure) In the above equatio...
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Twin deficits hypothesis This is where we derive the appellation the Twin Deficits: if the US budget deficit goes up then either household savings must go up, the trade deficit must go up, or private investment will decrease.
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Fixed interest rate loan A fixed interest rate loan is a loan where the interest rate doesn't fluctuate during the fixed rate period of the loan. This allows the borrower to accurately predict their future payments. Variable rate loans, by contrast, are anchored to the prevailing discount rate. A fixed interest rate is...
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Fixed interest rate loan For domestic mortgages, the lender often provides guarantees such that the break cost of a loan (in excess of the reported capital outstanding) is limited, often to a number of months repayments. These guarantees, usually only applicable where the fixed term is relatively short, are effectively...
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Société par actions simplifiée (SAS; English: simplified joint-stock company) is a French type of business entity. It is the first hybrid law enacted under French law and based on common law principles rather than civil. It is similar to a limited liability company under United States law, as the Delaware LLC was the m...
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Société par actions simplifiée It is also useful for companies held by families or small, close-knit groups of families. For example, the Louis Dreyfus Group, a trading conglomerate, is held in this manner by members of the Louis-Dreyfus family.
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Marginal propensity to import The marginal propensity to import (MPM) is the fractional change in import expenditure that occurs with a change in disposable income (income after taxes and transfers). For example, if a household earns one extra dollar of disposable income, and the marginal propensity to import is 0.2, t...
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Miguel Mancera Aguayo (born December 18, 1932) is a Mexican economist. He served as general director of the Bank of Mexico from 1982 until 1998. Mancera Aguayo was born in Mexico City, and is the son of Rafael Mancera Ortiz and María Luisa Aguayo Cendejas. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Instituto...
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Correlation trading In finance, correlation trading is a strategy in which the investor gets exposure to the average correlation of an index. The key to correlation trading is being able to predict when future realized correlation amongst the stocks of a particular index will be greater or less than the "implied" corre...
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Poisson regression In statistics, is a generalized linear model form of regression analysis used to model count data and contingency tables. assumes the response variable "Y" has a Poisson distribution, and assumes the logarithm of its expected value can be modeled by a linear combination of unknown parameters. A model...
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Poisson regression Thus, when given a model θ and an input vector x, the predicted mean of the associated Poisson distribution is given by If "Y" are independent observations with corresponding values x of the predictor variables, then θ can be estimated by maximum likelihood. The maximum-likelihood estimates lack a cl...
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Poisson regression Therefore, given that we are only interested in finding the best value for "θ" we may drop the "y"<nowiki>!</nowiki> and simply write To find a maximum, we need to solve an equation formula_15 which has no closed-form solution. However, the negative log-likelihood, formula_16, is a convex function, a...
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Poisson regression In this is handled as an offset, where the exposure variable enters on the right-hand side of the equation, but with a parameter estimate (for log(exposure)) constrained to 1. which implies Offset in the case of a GLM in R can be achieved using the codice_1 function: glm(y ~ offset(log(exposure)) + x...
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Poisson regression With large "μ" and substantial extra-Poisson variation, the negative binomial weights are capped at 1/"κ". Ver Hoef and Boveng discussed an example where they selected between the two by plotting mean squared residuals vs. the mean. Another common problem with is excess zeros: if there are two proces...
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Donchian channel The is an indicator used in market trading developed by Richard Donchian. It is formed by taking the highest high and the lowest low of the last "n" periods. The area between the high and the low is the channel for the period chosen. It is commonly available on most trading platforms. On a charting pro...
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Horizontalism is an approach to money creation theory pioneered by Basil Moore which states that private bank reserves are not managed by central banks. Instead reserves will be provided on demand at the bank rate set by the central bank. This inverts the mainstream textbook money multiplier relationship between deposi...
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Massachusetts Miracle The was a period of economic growth in Massachusetts during most of the 1980s. Before then, the state had been hit hard by deindustrialization and resulting unemployment. During the Miracle, the unemployment rate fell from more than 12% in 1975 to less than 3%, which was accompanied by tax reducti...
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Korea Fund The is a United States-based mutual fund management investment company created in the 1980s to let U.S. retail investors buy a stake in the South Korean economy. is a closed-end fund which is different from more common open-end funds as closed-end funds trade on stock exchanges just like any other stocks. In...
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Tradability is the property of a good or service that can be sold in another location distant from where it was produced. A good that is not tradable is called non-tradable. Different goods have differing levels of tradability: the higher the cost of transportation and the shorter the shelf life, the less tradable a go...
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Liptako-Gourma Authority The Liptako–Gourma Authority (LGA) is a regional organization seeking to develop the contiguous areas of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Created in December 1970, the Authority has as its goal the promotion of the areas mineral, energy, hydraulic, and agricultural resources within a regional fra...
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Kitchen sink regression Pejoratively, a kitchen sink regression is a statistical regression which uses a long list of possible independent variables to attempt to explain variance in a dependent variable. In economics, psychology, and other social sciences, regression analysis is typically used deductively to test hypo...
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Economic entity In accounting, an economic entity is one of the assumptions made in generally accepted accounting principles. Almost any type of organization or unit in society can be an economic entity. Examples of economic entities are hospitals, companies, municipalities, and federal agencies. The "assumption" state...
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House stock A house stock is a stock that the management of a brokerage firm or boiler room has instructed all its brokers to promote. The brokerage firm or its owners might be receiving an undisclosed profit from the sale of the house stock.
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Last shot In the law of contracts, under the last shot rule, a party implicitly assented to and thereby accepted a counter-offer by conduct indicating lack of objection to it. In addition to being based on a questionable notion of implied assent, the last shot rule tended in practice to favor sellers over buyers, becau...
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Sell-side analyst A sell-side analyst works for a brokerage firm and evaluates companies for future earnings growth and other investment criteria. They sometimes place recommendations on stocks or other securities, typically phrased as "buy", "sell", or "hold." They offer their recommendations to clients. A proper titl...
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Buy-side analyst Buy-side analysts ("buy-siders") work for buy side money management firms such as mutual funds, pension funds, trusts, and hedge funds. They are tasked with identifying investment opportunities that will improve the net worth of the portfolio for which they work. A buy-side analyst typically works in a...
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Limits to arbitrage is a theory In financial economics that, due to restrictions that are placed on funds that would ordinarily be used by rational traders to arbitrage away pricing inefficiencies, prices may remain in a non-equilibrium state for protracted periods of time. The efficient-market hypothesis assumes that ...
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Limits to arbitrage In perhaps the best known example, the American firm Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) fell victim to limits-to-arbitrage, in 1998. The company had staked its investments on the convergence of the prices of certain bonds. These bond prices were guaranteed to converge in the long run. However, in t...
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Dogs of the Dow The is an investment strategy popularized by Michael B. O'Higgins in 1991 and the official website, which proposes that an investor annually select for investment the ten Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stocks whose dividend is the highest fraction of their price. Under other analysis these stocks w...
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Dogs of the Dow The logic behind this is that a high-dividend yield suggests both that the stock is oversold and that management believes in its company's prospects and is willing to back that up by paying out a relatively high dividend. Investors are thereby hoping to benefit from both above-average stock-price gains ...
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Dogs of the Dow This suggests that an investor would be best served by viewing this as a longer-term strategy by giving this portfolio of stocks time to recover in case of a rare-but-extreme economic event (e.g., dot-com boom, financial crisis). On January 8, 2014, John S. Tobey wrote an article in "Forbes" magazine wh...
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Farmers Weekly is a magazine aimed at the British farming industry. It provides news; business features; a weekly digest of facts and figures about British, European and world agriculture; and livestock, arable and machinery sections with reports on technical developments, farm sales and analysis of prices. The first i...
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Farmers Weekly "Farmers Weekly" is part of Proagrica, which includes other products such as "Farmplan", "Sirrus" and other precision agriculture software. Proagrica is owned by Reed Business Information and is based in Sutton in Surrey. In December 2019, RBI announced plans to sell the magazine title, website and relat...
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Internal debt or domestic debt is the part of the total government debt in a country that is owed to lenders within the country. Internal government debt's complement is external government debt. Commercial banks, other financial institutions etc. constitute the sources of funds for the internal debts. Internal public ...
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Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) The Secretariat of Energy (Spanish: "Secretaría de Energia") is the government department in charge of production and regulation of energy in Mexico, this secretary is a member of the Executive Cabinet. The current Secretariat of Energy is Rocío Nahle García. On December 7, 1946, the "Sec...
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Chemists Without Borders is a non-governmental organization involved in international development work designed to solve humanitarian problems through chemistry and related activities. As a public benefit, non-profit organization, the primary goals of include, but are not limited to: was founded in 2004 by Bego Gerber ...
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Gibson's paradox Gibson's Paradox is the observation that the rate of interest and the general level of prices are positively correlated. It is named for British economist Alfred Herbert Gibson who noted the correlation in a 1923 article for "Banker's Magazine". The correlation had been noted earlier by Thomas Tooke. T...
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Gibson's paradox Economists generally thought that interest rates were correlated to the rate of inflation, whereas Keynes' findings contradicted this view. During the period of gold standard, he concluded that interest rates were correlated to the general price level, and not the rate of change in the prices. In fact,...
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Social Contract Press The (SCP) is an American publisher of white nationalist literature. It was founded by John Tanton and is headed by Wayne Lutton. It publishes the quarterly "Social Contract" journal, as well as reprints and new works. has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group, an...
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Trickle-up effect The trickle-up effect or fountain effect is an economic theory used to describe the overall ability of middle class people to drive and support the economy. The theory was founded by John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). It is sometimes referred as Keynesian economics in which economic growth is enhanced w...
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Trickle-up effect The act included increased federal spending for health care, infrastructure, education, various tax breaks and incentives, and direct assistance to individuals. Democrats overwhelmingly supported this measure, while only a few Senate Republicans supported the law. The CBO (Congressional Budget Office)...
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Debt compliance In finance, the term debt compliance describes various legal measures taken to ensure that debtors, whether individuals, businesses, or governments, honor their debts and make an honest effort to repay the money that they owe. Generally regarded as a subdivision of tax law, debt compliance is most often...
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Pills, porn and poker Pills, porn and poker, the so-called 3 Ps, are the most common forms of business which use E-mail spam and other forms of spamvertising. In many cases, these sites are of dubious legality and are often fronts for fraud. The "pills" sold are usually treatments of impotence, such as real or purporte...
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Ecodynamics is a part of applied economics. It covers knowledge on monetary value, the usage of money and the money flow. It deals with labour, and capital.
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Samuel Benchimol Samuel Isaac Benchimol (July 13, 1923 – July 5, 2002) was a Brazilian economist, scientist and professor of Moroccan-Jewish descent. He was also one of the leading experts on the Amazon region. He was assigned to the Amazonian Academy of Literature, Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Amazo...
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J curve A is any of a variety of J-shaped diagrams where a curve initially falls, then steeply rises above the starting point. In economics, the 'J curve' is the time path of a country’s trade balance following a devaluation or depreciation of its currency, under a certain set of assumptions. A devalued currency means ...
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J curve This is because in the short run, prices of imports rise due to the depreciation and also in the short run there is a lag in changing consumption of imports, therefore there is an immediate jump followed by a lag until the long run prevails and consumers stop importing as many expensive goods and along with the...
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J curve The asymmetric J-curve implies that there could be an asymmetric relationship between the exchange rate changes and trade balance. The asymmetric effects of real exchange rate on trade balance were initially reported by the American economist Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Ho...
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J curve As a result, the carrying value of any investment that is underperforming will be written down but the carrying value of investments that are performing well tend to be recognized only when there is some kind of event that forces the private equity firm to mark up the investment. The steeper the positive part o...
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J curve It suggests that those states that are 'closed'/undemocratic/unfree (such as the Communist dictatorships of North Korea and Cuba) are very stable; however, as one progresses right, along the x-axis, it is evident that stability (for relatively short period of time in the lengthy life of nations) decreases, crea...
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J curve In medicine, the 'J curve' refers to a graph in which the x-axis measures either of two treatable symptoms (blood pressure or blood cholesterol level) while the y-axis measures the chance that a patient will develop cardiovascular disease (CVD). It is well known that high blood pressure or high cholesterol leve...
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J curve This is referred to as the Davies' J curve, because economic development followed by a depression would be modeled as an upside down and slightly skewed J.
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Pass-through certificate A pass-through certificates is an instrument that evidences the ownership of two or more equipment trust certificates. In other words, equipment trust certificates may be bundled into a pass-through structure as a means of diversifying the asset pool and/or increasing the size of the offering. ...
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