2024-03-28T23:22:03Z
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:138
2019-09-26T11:39:58Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/138/
Team Performance in UEFA Champions League 2005-06
Papahristodoulou, Christos
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
Z0 - General
This study uses a multi-output multi-input Data Efficiency Analysis (DEA) to estimate the performance of all thirty-two participated football teams in the UEFA Champions League (CL) tournament 2005-06. The estimates are based on official match statistics from all 125 matches.
2006-09-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/138/1/MPRA_paper_138.pdf
Papahristodoulou, Christos (2006): Team Performance in UEFA Champions League 2005-06.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:167
2019-09-28T11:53:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/167/
Tourism policy innovations of an Indian state (Haryana)and their implications
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
Y9 - Other
Haryana was established in 1966 by getting carved out from the heart of the Indo-Gigantic
plains. Roughly the size of Belgium, Haryana has a track record of innovative tourism policies.Way back in '70s it was the first state to pioneer highway tourism. It went on to experiment with cultural and pilgrimage tourism in 80s and adventure and golf tourism in 90s and then farmhouse tourism at the turn of the century. While an emphasis on expanding markets for tourism is a praiseworthy move, devising strategies for promoting and protecting local culture, values, heritage, lifestyles and local natural resources and environments is also critical for sustenance of tourism. The paper looks at the socio-cultural dimensions of various tourism strategies adopted by
the state of Haryana, in order to underline the importance of ensuring effective planning and management for guaranteeing protection and preservation of cultural heritage, values, local environments and social well-being. It is thus a call for a mature response on part of the government for ensuring sustainable development of tourism. There is a need to develop a strategic framework involving coherent partnership between all the stakeholders, ensuring generation of foreign exchange without creating socio cultural and environmental problems and without having to exhaust assets which cannot be replaced.
2005-01-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/167/1/MPRA_paper_167.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2005): Tourism policy innovations of an Indian state (Haryana)and their implications. Published in: TOURISM: An International Interdisciplinary Journal , Vol. 53, No. 1 (2005): pp. 67-76.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:178
2019-09-27T13:38:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/178/
The Federal Approach to FiscalDecentralisation: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Chanchal Kumar Sharma,in his paper demonstrates that in order for fiscal decentralisation to be effective, it must be approached federally. A federal approach is not a decentralised approach but a dynamically balanced approach; one that constantly
keeps on adjusting the contrasting forces of centralisation and
decentralisation to create a system that can ensure good governance in
accordance with the rapidly changing global and local scenario.
According to the author, the good governance of the present time has to
be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of
fiscal federalism are crucial for achieving such a dynamic equilibrium.
Fiscal decentralisation cannot be detached from the broader principles
of fiscal federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of
whether it is being carried out in a federal or non-federal country. He
argues that too much decentralisation or an overly strong central federal
government precludes the survival of a constitutional federal state.
2003-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/178/1/MPRA_paper_178.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2003): The Federal Approach to FiscalDecentralisation: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers. Published in: Loyola Journal of Social Sciences , Vol. Vol. (, No. No.(2) (December 2005): pp. 169-188.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:196
2019-09-27T13:19:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/196/
Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Most countries especially the developing ones around the world are facing external as well as internal pressures to decentralize and are actually becoming part of the trend which if not universal is nonetheless the dominant trend. General causes include systemic forces like democratization and economic development; specifc causes however are different for different countries. In some countries the policies of opening up of economy and policies devised to deal with the challenges posed by new ‘globalized’ world are interacting with domestic political and economic institutions in such a way so as to create incentives for decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared
‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world.
2004-05-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/196/1/MPRA_paper_196.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2004): Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation. Published in: SYNTHESIS , Vol. Vol (3, No. NO (1) (December 2005): pp. 1-17.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:204
2019-09-27T15:15:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/204/
Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical literature over the questions like ‘which country is more decentralized?’ This is because decentralization is defined and measured differently in different studies. In fact, a true assessment of the degree of decentralization in a country can be made only if a comprehensive approach is adopted and rather than trying to simplify the syndrome of characteristics into the single dimension of autonomy, interrelationships of various dimensions of decentralization are taken into account. Thus it is to be realized that there is no simple one dimensional, quantifiable index of degree of decentralization in a given country. As there is wide diversity in the studies on degree of decentralization so is the case with the literature on outcomes of it. Outcome varies not only because decentralization can appear in various forms and combinations across countries but also because different instruments may have very different effects in different ccircumstances. Thus arriving at the precise definition of decentralization and associating it with particular outcomes is neither possible nor desirable for the simple reason that generalization of any kind can create pitfalls that can obscure rather than clarify the facts. What is more important is the need for a strictly contextual yet comprehensive approach while going beyond the blunt measures like
expenditure decentralization and taking politics and institutional arrangements of the specific case under investigation also into account.
2004-07-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/204/1/MPRA_paper_204.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2004): Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes. Published in: Indian Journal of Political Science , Vol. Vol. (, No. No. (1) (March 2006): pp. 49-64.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:206
2019-09-28T21:18:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/206/
Implementing VAT in India :Implications for Federal Polity
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H29 - Other
H0 - General
Over the last few years, many attempts have been made to implement VAT in
India. Initially, all states were to move to VAT system by 2000, but
administrative problems and concern over the revenue implications of the
change delayed the scheduled implementation. It has been postponed for five
times in past five years. In fact, introduction of a full fledged VAT in India
seem to present numerous administrative and constitutional difficulties,
including the vexed question of union-state relations. In addition to this,
implementing VAT in India in context of economic reforms has paradoxical
dimensions. On one hand economic reforms have led to more decentralization
of expenditure responsibilities which in turn demands more decentralization
of revenue raising powers if fiscal accountability is to be maintained. But on
the other hand the process of implementation of VAT can lead not only to
revenue loss for the states but can also steal away the states’ autonomy
indicating more centralization. Thus the need is to develop such a ‘federal
friendly model’ of VAT (along with a suitable compensation package) that
can be implemented in India without compromising federal principles.
2004-06-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/206/1/MPRA_paper_206.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2004): Implementing VAT in India :Implications for Federal Polity. Published in: The Indian Journal of Political Science , Vol. Vol (L, No. No (4) (December 2005): pp. 915-934.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:393
2019-10-01T21:49:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/393/
When Military Restrain the Rule: Philosophy and Indications
Ayub, Mehar
Ahsanuddin, Muhammad
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Z0 - General
It was concluded in the literature that military is merely a symptom of underlying political difficulties, a neutral force, which mechanically moves into the political area when a vacuum is created. Armed forces took control over the political management only in those economies where magnitude of military power was greater in relation with the size of economy: a higher defense expenditure to GDP ratio lead the control of political management by armed forces.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/393/1/MPRA_paper_393.pdf
Ayub, Mehar and Ahsanuddin, Muhammad (2001): When Military Restrain the Rule: Philosophy and Indications. Published in: Journal of Management and Social Sciences , Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 2006): pp. 49-54.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:542
2019-09-27T04:59:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/542/
The Political Economy of Global Outsourcing
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Y8 - Related Disciplines
G0 - General
Z0 - General
What is outsourcing and why India is being considered as BPO destination of the world? Why jobs are coming to India and why there is a downturn in the US economy and loss of jobs in that country. Even though these are two different things that happened simultaneously, they sadly managed to be mixed up. Academicians are groping to understand the phenomenon and are still in the process of disentangling themselves from the wave of confusion that exists. Politicization of the issue has made the concept of outsourcing a highly debatable, perplexing and controversial. The debate has conceptual, moral, economic, political and policy dimensions. The debate centers on the theoretical issue of globalization verses protectionism. In addition, it has a moral and human dimension that compels one to ponder over the hopeless uncertainty and misery that has dawned upon of those displaced due to outsourcing in the developed countries. Apart from these, there are certain practical policy issues that have become part of the debate such as theft of crucial information by the offshore workers, threat to the safety of Intellectual Property and the concern over the quality of services being delivered by the BPO companies in India and other developing countries. Finally the political dimension of this contentious issue that has forced the federal government of USA to make a law against outsourcing of the government contracts cannot be ignored. A fall out of Globalization, outsourcing is being discussed around the world from a renewed perspective, sometimes with delight and at other times with fury, depending upon which side of outsourcing the person is supporting. Taking exception from the subjective and partial treatment as the supporters and opponents of the phenomenon around the globe are offering, like six blind men trying to expound the outlines of an elephant the paper deals with the theme in its totality, while avoiding the prejudiced approach of a religious enthusiast. To the supporters the problem of job loss is not very serious thus they oppose protectionist attitude of the U.S government. But the fact is that the problem of job loss is quite critical yet pursuing protectionism as stipulated by the opponents is not a solution. Supporters have relied upon the traditional ‘job replacement argument’ to dissipate the fears regarding job loss. But it has been argued that the problem of job loss is serious and no replacements are going to take place in near future to substitute the quantum of jobs being lost. Thus unemployment, intended or unintended, will be the consequence. But protectionism, far from solving the problem, will create the new ones. Paper suggests certain alternatives on the basis of the model of job-protection exemplified by the British government.
2004-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/542/1/MPRA_paper_542.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2004): The Political Economy of Global Outsourcing. Published in: South Asian Journal of Socio-political studies (SAJOSPS) , Vol. Vol:5, No. No: 2 (June 2005): pp. 76-82.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:635
2019-10-28T18:16:21Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1484
2019-09-29T05:06:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1484/
Evolutionary Economics and Moral Relativism - Some Thoughts
Binder, Martin
Z00 - General
B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary
B41 - Economic Methodology
Doubts about the decidability of moral questions have often been used as an excuse for
economists to eschew any normative propositions. Evolutionary economics, still lacking a
well-developed normative branch, gives rise to a form of descriptive moral relativism. This
paper wants to explore the consequences of adopting a form of meta-ethical and normative
moral relativism as well. It develops a normative position called ‘naturalistic relativism’, which is a naturalistically reconstructed neo-pragmatist form of relativism. The paper also gives an argument why this position seems to be the adequate normative correlate for evolutionary economics.
2006-08-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1484/1/MPRA_paper_1484.pdf
Binder, Martin (2006): Evolutionary Economics and Moral Relativism - Some Thoughts.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2630
2019-09-27T13:56:06Z
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International perspectives on Gender, science and Development
Rao K, Surekha
Jaireth, Sushma
K K, Seethamma
Z0 - General
O29 - Other
O19 - International Linkages to Development ; Role of International Organizations
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
International perspective on Issues in Gender, Science and Economic Development
Abstract
The gender issues in science and economic development have two major dimensions: economic opportunities for women and abilities of women. The focus of this study is on economic opportunities for women from a global perspective. While there are significant increases in the female labor force participation rates in almost all countries, the proportion of female professional and technical workers remains much smaller. Using data from fifty countries with high human development index, we find that high index of achievement in education and high per capita incomes are important factors that contribute to the growth of professional and technical women workers. Gender empowerment index alone does not guarantee increased participation of women in science and technology.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2630/1/MPRA_paper_2630.pdf
Rao K, Surekha and Jaireth, Sushma and K K, Seethamma (2006): International perspectives on Gender, science and Development.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2763
2019-09-29T15:52:33Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2763/
المشروعات الصغيرة فى الدول العربية
Alasrag, Hussien
Z0 - General
The research aims to study the developmental role of small projects in the Arab countries in the light of the growing interest in it, through the identification of the concept and importance of small projects for the Arab States, the most important challenges facing development, and resort tries to propose a number of research hubs for the development and activation of this important sector in the Arab countries.
2007-04-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2763/1/MPRA_paper_2763.pdf
Alasrag, Hussien (2007): المشروعات الصغيرة فى الدول العربية.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3752
2019-09-27T02:49:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3752/
Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers
Mishra, SK
D29 - Other
Z0 - General
L88 - Government Policy
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L80 - General
Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized states on the other. It would also channelize to the mainstream the forces of development in the rural and remote areas presently strewn with the immense possibilities of manufacturing and service activities. Mahatma Gandhi had envisioned this long back, but Indian planners exhibited their preference to development of large-scale industries first. However, after having taken a step further to globalization and liberalization, India has recognized the relevance of small enterprises. Enactment of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 is an instance of the action taken in the wake of this recognition.
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India comprises eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, all well known for their handicrafts. The Schedule Tribes form the majority of population there. Most of these states are hilly and have remained agriculturally as well as industrially backward. Promotion of small enterprises is most suitable for their timely development.
In this paper we present a statistically detailed profile of small enterprises in the NER. We explore the possibilities of development of the small enterprises sector and discuss the constraints on the same.
2007-06-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3752/1/MPRA_paper_3752.pdf
Mishra, SK (2007): Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3769
2019-09-27T16:50:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3769/
Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers
Mishra, SK
D29 - Other
Z0 - General
L88 - Government Policy
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L80 - General
Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized states on the other. It would also channelize to the mainstream the forces of development in the rural and remote areas presently strewn with the immense possibilities of manufacturing and service activities. Mahatma Gandhi had envisioned this long back, but Indian planners exhibited their preference to development of large-scale industries first. However, after having taken a step further to globalization and liberalization, India has recognized the relevance of small enterprises. Enactment of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 is an instance of the action taken in the wake of this recognition.
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India comprises eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, all well known for their handicrafts. The Schedule Tribes form the majority of population there. Most of these states are hilly and have remained agriculturally as well as industrially backward. Promotion of small enterprises is most suitable for their timely development.
In this paper we present a statistically detailed profile of small enterprises in the NER. We explore the possibilities of development of the small enterprises sector and discuss the constraints on the same.
2007-06-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3769/1/MPRA_paper_3769.pdf
Mishra, SK (2007): Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3958
2019-09-26T08:47:12Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3958/
Innovations spread more like wildfires than like infections
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
M3 - Marketing and Advertising
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Z00 - General
D89 - Other
Conventional theory says that innovations first diffuse slowly, then at faster paces, and finally at asymptotically declining rates. Economists and others explain such behavior with a variety of logistic models. Early models like the contagion model derive their predictive power from reliance on the history of the variables they are trying to predict. New social learning models improve the dynamics of diffusion across heterogeneous populations, while other studies propose various modifications. However, these extensions of the logistic and related models are still too orderly in structure and outcome. In reality one can expect both order from disorder and disorder from order. The argument of this paper is that innovations spread more like wild fire than like systematic epidemics. This analogy is no mere conjecture; some environments are more susceptible to catching fire than others. Just as the rate of the spread of fire is a function of fuel and other factors, so too is the spread of innovations, only that in the latter case the fuel is human population. Human population in general is a necessary fodder for the spread of innovations. The sufficient condition is the quality of the population which can favor or disfavor the spread of innovations, which explains why there are some random chances of finding islands untouched by fire surrounded by a sea of fire devastation.
2007-07-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3958/1/MPRA_paper_3958.pdf
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2007): Innovations spread more like wildfires than like infections.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4030
2019-09-26T20:32:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4030/
Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Economic Games
Stanton, Angela A.
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Z00 - General
In economic experiments decisions often differ from game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there a benefit to generosity toward strangers? Research on the neural substrates of decisions suggests that some choices are hormone-dependent. By artificially stimulating subjects with neuroactive hormones, we can identify which hormones and brain regions participate in decisionmaking, to what degree and in what direction. Can a hormone make a person generous while another stingy? In this paper, two laboratory experiments are described using the hormones oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP). Concentrations of these hormones in the brain continuously change in response to external stimuli. OT enhances trust (Michael Kosfeld et al. 2005b), reduce fear from strangers (C. Sue Carter 1998), and has anti-anxiety effects (Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, Maria Peterson 2005). AVP enhances attachment and bonding with kin in monogamous male mammals (Jennifer N. Ferguson et al. 2002) and increases reactive aggression (C. Sue Carter 2007). Dysfunctions of OT and/or AVP reception have been associated with autism (Miranda M. Lim et al. 2005). In Chapter One I review past experiments with the ultimatum (UG) and dictator (DG) games and visit some of the major results in the literature. In Chapter Two I present the results of my laboratory experiment where I examine why people are generous in one-shot economic games with strangers. I hypothesize that oxytocin would enhance generosity in the UG. Players in the OT group were much more generous than those in the placebo—OT offers in the UG were 80% higher than offers on placebo. Enhanced generosity was not due to altruism as there was no effect on DG offers. This implies that other-regarding preferences are at play in the amount of money sent but only in a reciprocal context. The third chapter presents an experiment on punishment. I hypothesized that AVP would increase rejections and stinginess in the UG and TG. Results show that AVP affects rejections and stinginess in small groups but not in large ones. Chapter Four contains the summary of future research
suggestions.
2007-05-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Stanton, Angela A. (2007): Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Economic Games. Published in: Journal of Dissertation , Vol. Volume, No. Issue 1 (9 July 2007): pp. 1-63.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4201
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Knowledge Theory and Investment: Enhanced Investment Decision Based on the properties of Point X
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
Z0 - General
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Knowledge is the most important commodity and resource human beings can have. Having these qualities allows knowledge to be at the forefront of economics, as it should be. Knowledge economics demonstrates the power of knowledge theory into investment decision making policy by individuals and institutions. The paper discusses the different research types that take place and the different risks associated with each type of risk been associated with time. Strategy using game theory is used in a dynamic situation because firms are not static. Knowledge is the tool the investor needs to make more clarified decisions
2007-07-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4201/1/MPRA_paper_4201.pdf
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu (2007): Knowledge Theory and Investment: Enhanced Investment Decision Based on the properties of Point X.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5778
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A New Approximation for the Null Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistics for k Upper Outliers in a Normal Sample
Mahmoudvand, Rahim
Hassani, Hossein
C02 - Mathematical Methods
Z00 - General
In this paper, we introduce a new approximation for the null
distribution of the likelihood ratio test for the general case. We
compare the the critical values obtained by the new approximation to
the values which are obtained by the exact distribution for the
cases k=1, 2 to test the accuracy of the new approximation. Also,
we compare the results to another approximation method (which is
known by Barnett and Lewis (1994)) for the cases k=3,4.
2005-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5778/1/MPRA_paper_5778.pdf
Mahmoudvand, Rahim and Hassani, Hossein (2005): A New Approximation for the Null Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistics for k Upper Outliers in a Normal Sample. Published in: Journal of Statistical Research of Iran No. 2 (1 September 2006): pp. 155-161.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5795
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A note on Rubinstein's ``Why are certain properties of binary relations relatively more common in natural language?"
Beard, Rodney
C79 - Other
Z00 - General
This note examines the complexity of complete transitive binary relations or
tournaments using Kolmogorov complexity. The complexity of tournaments
calculated using Kolmogorov complexity is then compared to minimally complex
tournaments defined in terms of the minimal number of examples needed to
describe the tournament. The latter concept is the concept of complexity
employed by Rubinstein [6] in his economic theory of language. A proof
of Rubinsein's conjecture on the complexity bound of natural language
tournaments is provided.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5795/2/MPRA_paper_5795.pdf
Beard, Rodney (2001): A note on Rubinstein's ``Why are certain properties of binary relations relatively more common in natural language?".
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5856
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Representative Time Use Data and Calibration of the American Time Use Studies 1965-1999
Merz, Joachim
Stolze, Henning
Z0 - General
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J29 - Other
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Valid and reliable individual time use data in connection with an appriate set of socio -economic background
variables are essential elements of an empirical foundation and evaluation of existing time use theories and for the
search of new empirical-based hypotheses about individual behavior. Within the Yale project of Assessing
American Heritage Time Use Studies (1965, 1975, 19895, 1992-94 and 1998/99), supported by the Glaser
Foundation, and working with these time use studies, it is necessary to be sure about comparable representative data.
As it will become evident, there is a serious bias in all of these files concerning demographic characteristics,
characteristics which are important for substantive time use research analyses.
Our study and new calibration solution will circumvent these biases by delivering a comprehensive demographic
adjustment for all incorporated U.S. time use surveys, which is theoretically funded (here by information theory and
the minimum information loss principle with its ADJUST program package), is consistent by a simultaneous
weighting including hierarchical data, considers substantial requirements for time use research analyses and is
similar and thus comparable in the demographic adjustment characteristics for all U.S. time use files to support
substantial analyses and allows to disentangle demographic vs. time use behavioral changes and developments.
2006-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5856/1/MPRA_paper_5856.pdf
Merz, Joachim and Stolze, Henning (2006): Representative Time Use Data and Calibration of the American Time Use Studies 1965-1999.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5948
2019-10-28T19:02:50Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6055
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A new feature-concept applied in cost estimation model for a weld assemblage : Additional Information
Masmoudi, Faouzi
Hachicha, Wafik
Bouaziz, Zoubeir
Z00 - General
This paper presents a cost estimation model of weld assemblages. It is based on the product decomposition into parts and then into assemblages. The study is about a proposition of an original definition of welding and preparing features attributed to each assemblages.
This proposed approach is based on knowledge modelling at the level of process and product perception. The decomposition of the product into features and the identification of cost features remain manual. The proposed model consists in combining two cost estimating model applied to the products and to the processes on one hand, we have used an analytic model for the formalizing of the welding time, of the electrode consumption and of gas consumption according to the different parameters of the preparing and the welding features. The decomposition into features allows to formalize the time estimating expertise related to the welding. On the other hand, we have used the parameter method for the cost structuring caused by the different feature cost preparing and by the feature cost welding.
2007-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6055/2/MPRA_paper_6055.pdf
Masmoudi, Faouzi and Hachicha, Wafik and Bouaziz, Zoubeir (2007): A new feature-concept applied in cost estimation model for a weld assemblage : Additional Information. Published in: Advances in Production Engineering and Management Journal , Vol. 2, No. 4 (December 2007): pp. 149-162.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6683
2019-09-26T14:58:25Z
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DSS MODEL BASED ON RULES AND OLAP FOR MANAGEMENT BY BUDGETS
Brandas, Claudiu
M00 - General
M41 - Accounting
Z00 - General
Y80 - Related Disciplines
Implementing Decision Support System (DSS) for the management by budgets has become one of the top priorities for the vast majority of today’s organizations. This system represents a powerful tool for planning and controlling in the managerial activity. The new technologies for Business Intelligence as OLAP, Data Warehouse, Data Mining, emerged nowadays in very competitive DSS needed for the managerial process. Such systems are capable of processing and analyzing in real time large volumes of data from various sources and with different displaying criteria. This paper depicts a DSS model (B-Admin) developed in DSS-UNIDEF framework, based on rules and OLAP for the management by budgets, implemented at „County Forestry Department”.
2007-12-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6683/1/MPRA_paper_6683.pdf
Brandas, Claudiu (2007): DSS MODEL BASED ON RULES AND OLAP FOR MANAGEMENT BY BUDGETS. Published in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7969
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DEVELOPPEMENT D’UN MODÈLE D’ESTIMATION DES COÛTS D’ASSEMBLAGES SOUDÉS
Hachicha, Wafik
Z00 - General
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
Estimating the manufacturing cost is a critical task with high importance to industrial firms. The cost estimating can drive bidding strategies, management of resources, production policies and other issues crucial to the economic success of the company. Essentially, cost estimation should be quick and accurate.
There are three main approaches towards cost estimation: estimation based on past experience (variant cost estimation), estimation based on explicit cost computations (analytical method) and parametric cost estimation. However, the most accurate cost estimates are made using the analytical approach. Among the many methods for cost estimating are those based on knowledge bases, features, operations, physical relationships and similarity laws.
The aim of this study is to estimate different cost for the specific field of arc welding. It deals with assembly modeling welding. To do this, we have proposed a new application of feature: welding feature and preparation feature. This concept is based on the decomposition of the product in features.
The proposed model presents a combination of two variants approach cost estimation based on characteristics of product and on manufacturing activity of process:
• First, we developed an analytical method in order to estimate the welding time by determining the weight of the weld and this for each feature. Besides, we estimate others consumptions: gas, electrode and electrical power.
• Second, we used parametric cost estimation for cost formulation due to deferent “feature cost” which compose the process of welding: Edge preparation (chamfering, bevel machining, grinding etc.), welding. This concept inquires the appropriate choice of the indicator.
We have developed a database with Microsoft Access in order to estimate cost welding which use our model. This application, named SOUDABASE, helps in estimating welding time and cost. It will allow a relative novice to understand the effects of welding variables on production costs. Finally, we tested SOUDABASE application with industrial examples and we released a comparative study with DEVISOUD application proposed by CETIM, Senlis France in order to validate our model.
2004-07-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7969/1/MPRA_paper_7969.pdf
Hachicha, Wafik (2004): DEVELOPPEMENT D’UN MODÈLE D’ESTIMATION DES COÛTS D’ASSEMBLAGES SOUDÉS.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8055
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Ranking Italian Universities and Other Research Institutions Taking Into Account Public Economics Publications
Molero, Juan Carlos
Pujol, Francesc
I29 - Other
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
Z00 - General
H00 - General
The different ways to rank universities regarding their research production include a great number of factors. The quality of journals where faculty members are publishing is one of the most relevant aspects in order to determine the quality of the affiliation institution.
Among other more traditional ways determining the quality of journals, this paper takes into account a new one based on the publishing behavior of top ranked authors, supposing a matching model approach among journals and authors. Using this methodology, the article establishes a ranking of the Italian universities and other research institutions regarding Public Economic Journals.
2004-07-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8055/1/MPRA_paper_8055.pdf
Molero, Juan Carlos and Pujol, Francesc (2004): Ranking Italian Universities and Other Research Institutions Taking Into Account Public Economics Publications. Published in: Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice , Vol. Nº 1/2, No. XII (2004): pp. 15-31.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8684
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Kosovo 1998-2008: Human Rights from War to Independence
Radeljic, Branislav
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
Z19 - Other
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Serbs and Albanians have inhabited Kosovo for centuries. For Serbs, Kosovo is the core of the medieval Serbian kingdom. For Albanians, Kosovo is the cradle of their struggle for independence. With both parties feeling entitled to the territory of the province, the threat of conflict was never far away. At several points, human rights abuses were perpetrated by one group on the other. Deeper ethnic antagonisms led to the outbreak of conflict in Kosovo in 1998, culminating in January 1999. Having already dealt with conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia, the international community claimed to be well-prepared to approach the Kosovo issue and stop the atrocities. While bearing in mind the past and the present, this paper addresses the failures of both the international community and the local parties in regard to human rights protection.
2008-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8684/1/MPRA_paper_8684.pdf
Radeljic, Branislav (2008): Kosovo 1998-2008: Human Rights from War to Independence.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8993
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The inhibited (exhibited) spread of innovations
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
M3 - Marketing and Advertising
Z00 - General
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
This note makes general statements about standard models of the diffusion of innovations. Its premise is a familiar idea that innovations are socially-learned changes that spread like wildfires across diverse populations. However, the rate at which innovations spread is subject to the forces of exhibition and inhibition. Exhibitors promote the spread of innovations; inhibitors subjugate them. Hence, where the forces of subjugation are stronger than the forces of promotion, it is the slow spread, rather than the lack, of innovations which undermines the competitiveness of nations, and consequently frustrates economic performance. This suggests a need for a simple and more realistic model. Since the analytical components (basic equations and statistical inference) of the needed model are readily available, this note attempts a synthesis. Unfortunately in its current version the note is incomplete, and therefore makes only a tentative concluding remark. Even so, there is enough insight to warrant comment.
2008-01-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8993/1/MPRA_paper_8993.pdf
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2008): The inhibited (exhibited) spread of innovations.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9146
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A new Model for Stock Price Movements
Venier, Guido
G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading
D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
G13 - Contingent Pricing ; Futures Pricing
C32 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes ; State Space Models
D53 - Financial Markets
G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates
Z0 - General
D79 - Other
A new alternative diffusion model for asset price movements is presented. In contrast to the popular approach of Brownian motion it proposes deterministic diffusion for the modelling of stock price movements. These diffusion processes are a new area of physical research and can be created by the chaotic behaviour of rather simple piecewise linear maps, but can also occur in chaotic deterministic systems like the famous Lorenz system. The reason for the investigation on deterministic diffusion processes as suitable model for the behaviour of stock prices is, that their time series can obey certain stylized facts of real world stock market time series. For example they can show fat tails of empirical log returns in union with varying volatility i.e. heteroscedacity as well as slowly decaying autocorrelations of squared log returns. These phenomena could not be explained by a simple Brownian motion and have been the most criticism to the lognormal random walk. The scope is to show that deterministic diffusion models can explain the occurrence of those empirical observed stylized facts and to discuss the implications for economic theory with respect to market efficiency and option pricing.
2007-08-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9146/1/MPRA_paper_9146.pdf
Venier, Guido (2007): A new Model for Stock Price Movements.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9231
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Developing an Islamic world view: An essential component of an Islamic education
Zaman, Asad
Z12 - Religion
Z0 - General
A traditional Islamic education develops an Islamic outlook to life but does not prepare the student assimilate developments over the past three or four centuries, in particular Western knowledge. A modern Western education inevitably entails absorption of a secular worldview built into the framework of Western sciences. For Muslims, the need of the hour is to develop an Islamic approach to understanding recent history and developments in Western physical and social sciences. Many have attempted the “Islamization of Knowledge,” but have failed to address a central need for this project, namely the development of an Islamic worldview. This paper outlines the necessary requirements.
2006-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9231/1/MPRA_paper_9231.pdf
Zaman, Asad (2006): Developing an Islamic world view: An essential component of an Islamic education. Published in: Lahore Journal of Policy Studies , Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2007): pp. 95-105.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10137
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IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya
Tamazian, Artur
Z0 - General
P20 - General
P27 - Performance and Prospects
This purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of institutional quality on human rights abuses in transition economies. We make use of an alternative empirical approach for evaluation of institutional system’s development in transition economies developed by Chousa et al. (2005). To assess this relationship, along with institutional quality index, which is an operational indicator of institutional system dynamics to observe institutional reforms-economic growth interdependence, we also construct cost of decline in institutional quality and transition from communist to reforms years variables. We also evaluate the effect of institutional quality on human rights abuses conditioned by the level of transition from communist to reforms years. The empirical work reveals that an improvement in institutional quality increases government respect for human rights. While, any decline in institutional quality leads to human rights abuses. The results also show that government respect for human rights are strongly associated with transition towards reforms years.
2008-08-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10137/1/MPRA_paper_10137.pdf
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya and Tamazian, Artur (2008): IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11368
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Flags, Constitutions, and the well-being of nations
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O43 - Institutions and Growth
Z00 - General
C31 - Cross-Sectional Models ; Spatial Models ; Treatment Effect Models ; Quantile Regressions ; Social Interaction Models
This exploratory paper estimates the effects on well-being of two very important institutional symbols of 59 countries in 2007: national flags and constitutions. The results indicate that well-being responds positively to investment in material things as well as the existence of flags. However, nationalwell-being is highly inelastic with respect to measures of constitutions and national flag colors. In fact, nations with fewer flag colors, infrequent constitutional changes, and small constitutions tend to have
higher well-being than others. I resist comment on what this all means, but it would seem GDP per capita, despite its obvious limitations, is still the most important influence on national well-being.
2008-11-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11368/1/MPRA_paper_11368.pdf
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2008): Flags, Constitutions, and the well-being of nations.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11593
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A new Model for Stock Price Movements
Venier, Guido
G14 - Information and Market Efficiency ; Event Studies ; Insider Trading
D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
G13 - Contingent Pricing ; Futures Pricing
C32 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes ; State Space Models
D53 - Financial Markets
G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates
Z0 - General
D79 - Other
This paper presents a new alternative diffusion model for asset price movements. In contrast to the popular approach of Brownian Motion it proposes Deterministic Diffusion for the modelling of stock price movements. These diffusion processes are a new area of physical research and can be created by the chaotic behaviour of rather simple piecewise linear maps, but can also occur in chaotic deterministic systems like the famous Lorenz system. The motivation for the investigation on Deterministic Diffusion processes as suitable model for the behaviour of stock prices is, that their time series can obey mostly observed stylized facts of real world stock market time series. They can show fat tails of empirical log returns in union with timevarying volatility i.e. heteroscedasticity as well as slowly decaying autocorrelations of squared log returns i.e. long range dependence. These phenomena cannot be explained by a geometric Brownian Motion and have been the largest criticism to the lognormal random walk. In this paper it will be shown that Deterministic Diffusion models can obey those empirical observed stylized facts and the implications of these alternative diffusion processes on economic theory with respect to market efficiency and option pricing are discussed.
2007-08-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11593/1/MPRA_paper_11593.pdf
Venier, Guido (2007): A new Model for Stock Price Movements. Published in: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences , Vol. 3, No. 3 (November 2008): pp. 327-347.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11651
2019-10-01T08:06:06Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11651/
Representative time use data and new harmonised calibration of the American Heritage Time Use Data (AHTUD) 1965-1999
Merz, Joachim
Stolze, Henning
Z0 - General
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J29 - Other
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Representative and reliable individual time use data, in connection with a proper set of socio-economic back-ground variables, are essential elements for the empirical foundation and evaluation of existing and new theories in general and in particular for time use analyses. Within the international project Assessing Time Use Survey Datasets several potentially useful individual US time use heritage datasets have been identified for use in de-veloping an historical series of non-market accounts. In order to evaluate the series of American Heritage Time Use Data (AHTUD) (1965, 1975, 1985, 1992-94, 1998-99) this paper analyses the representativeness of this data when using given weights and provides a new harmonised calibration of the AHTUD for sound time use analyses. Our calibration procedure with its ADJUST program package is theoretically founded on information theory, consistent with a simultaneous weighting including hierarchical data, ensures desired positive weights, and is well-suited and available for any time use data calibration of interest. We present the calibration approach and provide new harmonised weights for all AHTUD surveys based on a substantially driven calibration frame-work. To illustrate the various application possibilities of a calibration, we finally disentangle demographic vs. time use behavioural changes and developments by re-calibrating all five AHTUD surveys using 1965 popula-tion totals as a benchmark.
2008-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11651/1/MPRA_paper_11651.pdf
Merz, Joachim and Stolze, Henning (2008): Representative time use data and new harmonised calibration of the American Heritage Time Use Data (AHTUD) 1965-1999. Published in: Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research , Vol. 5, : pp. 90-126.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11722
2019-09-27T12:46:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11722/
Independent Kosovo: A Threat for the Balkan Region?
Radeljic, Branislav
Z00 - General
Z19 - Other
Both political and security future of the Balkans highly depend on the conditions in a newly created state of Kosovo. Bearing in mind the ethnic Albanian leadership declared unilateral independence in February 2008 and without providing the Serbian minority with durable solution, this paper aims at exploring three possible scenarios following the Kosovo independence. It combines both sides' positions offering wider understanding why each of them feels entitled to the Kosovo's territory and what are the risks if that territory remains only in one side's hands. The three puzzling questions presented in this paper, supported by the concepts from different thinkers (Cox, Buzan, Wæver) are arguably among the least discussed ones in contemporary discourse about Kosovo's future.
2008-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11722/1/MPRA_paper_11722.pdf
Radeljic, Branislav (2008): Independent Kosovo: A Threat for the Balkan Region?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14478
2019-10-02T16:07:54Z
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7375626A656374733D5A:5A30:5A3030
7375626A656374733D43:4333:433330
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14478/
Determinants of crime rates: Crime Deterrence and Growth in post-liberalized India
Dutta, Mousumi
Husain, Zakir
Z00 - General
C30 - General
Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and
empirical works investigating the determinants of crime. However, there is a dearth of
literature in the context of developing countries. This paper is an attempt to address this
deficiency. The paper investigates the relative impact of deterrence variables (load on
police force, arrest rates, charge sheet rates, conviction rates and quick disposal of cases)
and socio-economic variables (economic growth, poverty,, urbanization and education)
on crime rates in India. State-level data is collected on the above variables for the period
1999 to 2005.Zellner’s SURE model is used to estimate the model. Subsequently, this is
extended by introducing endogeneity. The results show that both deterrence and socioeconomic
factors are important in explaining crime rates. However, some of their effects
are different from that observed in studies for developed countries.
2009-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14478/1/MPRA_paper_14478.pdf
Dutta, Mousumi and Husain, Zakir (2009): Determinants of crime rates: Crime Deterrence and Growth in post-liberalized India.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14731
2019-09-26T22:08:46Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4838:483837
7375626A656374733D5A:5A30
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7375626A656374733D46:4633:463336
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14731/
FULL Capital Account Convertibility:India's Readiness in the context of Financial Integration
Bhattacharya, Sulagna
H87 - International Fiscal Issues ; International Public Goods
Z0 - General
E65 - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
F36 - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
During the recent turmoil in world financial market and its cascading disruptive effects, the role of financial integration assumes importance. A common outshoot of such financial crises generated locally or regionally is that they spread faster to other connected markets and economies to the extent such markets and countries are integrated with the originator country. The emerging/developing/non-developed countries bear their share of the brunt mostly due to their dependence on the advanced economies by way of trade or financial partnerships. There exists the famous adage: “If the US sneezes, rest of the world catches pneumonia.” As of late, the severity of this phenomenon might have been reduced – owing largely to emergence of alternate economic powers that are characterized by high rate of sustained growth – and also to what economists call the “De-Coupling Effect” – that some of these economies have been able to insulate themselves from shockwaves in other countries in such a way that susceptibility to such external disruptions has lessened, the domestic balance remaining largely unaltered.
However, in the age of increasing global integration, growing countries can not afford to stay highly insulated, closed or de-coupled from other economies. To accelerate such integration, countries resort to various approaches, financial integration being a prime one among them. And financial integration presupposes capital account liberalization. At one end of the spectrum is fully restricted capital account; at the other, a fully convertible capital account. Many of the developed countries practice the later. The least developed countries have a too low extent of capital account liberalization. The emerging countries largely fall midway – they have partially open and liberalized capital account.
Among the emerging economies, India occupies a dominant space. According to IMF and other reports, India would come in the top three of the economically most powerful economies by 2050. It has a much higher growth rate (more than 8% per annum) compared to many developed countries.
This paper examines the status of readiness of India in adopting a fully convertible capital account, keeping in mind its present and future financial integration status and objectives.
2009-04-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14731/1/MPRA_paper_14731.pdf
Bhattacharya, Sulagna (2009): FULL Capital Account Convertibility:India's Readiness in the context of Financial Integration.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14882
2019-10-04T06:33:42Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3131
7375626A656374733D44:4433:443331
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3433
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3537
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14882/
National symbols, globalization, and the well-being of nations
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
O43 - Institutions and Growth
Z00 - General
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
I estimate the effects of national symbols and globalization on the well-being of 88 countries. I find that conventional determinants of production affect national well-being, measured as human development index (HDI). The effects on HDI of national symbols like national flag colors are unstable, while those of globalization are strong, with social globalization having the strongest effect. The results suggest that national symbols are important to national well-being, but nations gain more from global interactions with other nations than from national pride. Even as there is a need for further research to improve upon the results associated with the effects of national symbols, the policy implications of the findings clearly recommend increased investment in material conditions of nations and globalization.
2009-03-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14882/1/MPRA_paper_14882.pdf
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2009): National symbols, globalization, and the well-being of nations.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14948
2019-09-28T08:11:38Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14948/
National identity, globalization, and the well-being of nations
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
O43 - Institutions and Growth
Z00 - General
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
Using a simple production function approach I show that conventional factors and forces of production, national identity, and globalization are important to national well-being, but in varying ways. Whereas investment in capital and globalization, especially social globalization, affect national well-being strongly, national well-being is inelastic to all three measures of national identity. A reasonable conclusion is that nations gain more from interactions with other nations than from national isolation.
2009-04-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14948/1/MPRA_paper_14948.pdf
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2009): National identity, globalization, and the well-being of nations.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15027
2019-10-01T11:17:01Z
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7375626A656374733D52:5231:523130
7375626A656374733D4D:4D33:4D3331
7375626A656374733D5A:5A30
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15027/
Territorial marketing in the Czech Republic: a trial – and – error process
Sucháček, Jan
R10 - General
M31 - Marketing
Z0 - General
There are numerous obscurities connected with territorial marketing. Substantial misunderstandings can occur already for the sake of the fact that this concept was labeled by different notions so far. Naturally, the same – with even higher intensity – holds true for the transition economies. This paper focuses upon the practice of territorial marketing in the Czech Republic. As it is shown, there is rather spontaneous than planned development of this concept in the Czech space. At the same time, there exists sufficient room for future application of selected components of territorial marketing in this country.
2008-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15027/1/MPRA_paper_15027.pdf
Sucháček, Jan (2008): Territorial marketing in the Czech Republic: a trial – and – error process.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15910
2019-09-27T00:18:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15910/
The Economy, the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election
Hibbs, Douglas A.
H0 - General
Z00 - General
P16 - Political Economy
In this paper I apply the Bread and Peace model of voting in US presidential elections to analyze the sources of George W. Bush’s narrow re-election victory in 2004. The aggregate election outcome is readily explained by the model’s objectively measured political-economic fundamentals – no appeal need be made to arbitrary count, trend, dummy and switching variables. The results imply that the 2004 election turned mainly on weighted-average growth of per capita real disposable personal income over the term. The war in Iraq, which has escalated dramatically in political relevance since the 2004 contest, had a relatively small impact on the election result, most likely depressing Bush’s two-party vote share by less than a half percentage point.
2007-04-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15910/1/MPRA_paper_15910.pdf
Hibbs, Douglas A. (2007): The Economy, the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16619
2019-09-27T00:09:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16619/
Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
C13 - Estimation: General
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Z0 - General
C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access
B11 - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications.
This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being indicators and gives a short overview of the relation between the concepts ‘subjective well-being’, ‘affect’, ‘life satisfaction’, and ‘happiness’. It describes their measurements and operationalizations in surveys, illustrates their philosophical roots, discusses their validity and reliability, and attempts to shed light on the scope of their policy applicability. Focus of this paper is on practical issues when applying measures of subjective well-being for policy evaluations. Target audiences of this paper are the interested public and laypersons, non-expert economists, and statisticians.
2009-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16619/1/MPRA_paper_16619.pdf
Fischer, Justina AV (2009): Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18049
2019-10-01T20:40:25Z
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7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3133
7375626A656374733D59:5938:593830
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18049/
The Death of Theology: The Complexity of the New Islamic Theology (Al-Kalam Al-Jadid) in Philosophy of Moral (Kematian Teologi: Kompleksitas Teologi Islam Baru dalam Dimensi Etika)
Hardiansyah, Suteja
Z12 - Religion
Z00 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Y80 - Related Disciplines
In the contemporary era, issues that emerged in ethics is not just simply a matter of quality of one's behavior toward other people directly, but also new issues like bioethics, nuclear, technology in general, environmental crisis, etc. This paper is to discuss new issues that emerge in contemporary debates in ethics and see how the new Islamic Theology (Kalam al-Jadid) highlighted it. The conclusion of this paper is the New Islamic Theology can not embrace the new problems that emerged in ethics and also failed to adapt the complexity system in ethics. This happens due to evolutionary ethics does not happen in ethics dimension of the theology.
2009-05-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18049/1/MPRA_paper_18049.pdf
Hardiansyah, Suteja (2009): The Death of Theology: The Complexity of the New Islamic Theology (Al-Kalam Al-Jadid) in Philosophy of Moral (Kematian Teologi: Kompleksitas Teologi Islam Baru dalam Dimensi Etika).
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18051
2019-10-04T17:13:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18051/
Meninjau Ulang Diskursus Teologi Islam dalam Dunia Modern
Hardiansyah, Suteja
Z12 - Religion
Z0 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Y80 - Related Disciplines
The question whether Islamic theology relevant in the modern world when faced with challenges of the various problems and/or modern crises, i.e. the ecological crisis, economy, progressivity of science, discourse of faith and reason, was forget one thing: the discourse naturalization. This paper will be deconstructed Islamic theological discourse in the modern world. The conclusion of this paper is when the problem discourse naturalization untouched, Islamic theology efforts will be useless and ignore the actual problem (attached paper is in Indonesian).
2009-05-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18051/1/MPRA_paper_18051.pdf
Hardiansyah, Suteja (2009): Meninjau Ulang Diskursus Teologi Islam dalam Dunia Modern.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18053
2019-09-29T04:30:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18053/
Mapping Islamic Evolutionary in the Context of Social Justice and Poverty: A Complexity Approach
Hardiansyah, Suteja
Z12 - Religion
I39 - Other
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
Z0 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Why Islamic tradition in Morocco and Indonesia is different? Why Islamic patterns in urban communities such as Jakarta different with Islamic patterns of rural communities? Variation in Islam is an interesting challenge to be answered. Islam, even in aspects substance, namely spirituality, is still a historical thing. The substance of Islam manifested and expressed in public life. When embodied in aspects of life, the manifestation and expression became a tradition. The model Islam as such is the accumulation of tradition, which in this paper called Islamic religiousity (keberislaman). With modeled Islam like this, this paper discusses the dynamics of Islam in the context of social justice and poverty. Will be shown how the Muslim experience of cultural evolution, from simple becomes complex. The conclusion of this paper is that variation is a result of Islam of cultural evolution.
2009-05-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18053/1/MPRA_paper_18053.pdf
Hardiansyah, Suteja (2009): Mapping Islamic Evolutionary in the Context of Social Justice and Poverty: A Complexity Approach.
id
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18323
2019-09-27T16:26:06Z
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7375626A656374733D5A:5A30
7375626A656374733D59:5939
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18323/
A bibliometric review of the research papers of the Central Bank of Turkey
Yucel, M. Eray
A39 - Other
Z0 - General
Y9 - Other
This paper presents a bibliometric assessment of the research papers produced in the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey from 1988 to 2009. Concentration over subjects and the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes are provided in addition to the time distribution of bibliography cited in the research papers. Overall, it is observed that the examined series did provide an adequate pool of knowledge for both academics and the general public.
2009-11-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18323/1/MPRA_paper_18323.pdf
Yucel, M. Eray (2009): A bibliometric review of the research papers of the Central Bank of Turkey.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18454
2019-09-26T22:09:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18454/
The New Cosmology: Its Implications to Religiousity
Suteja, Hardiansyah
Z0 - General
In the latest development of cosmological theory, which one of them is the Big Bang, most religious circles, and some scientists, see this as an affirmative sign of creation tradition based on the Scriptures. At the same time, on the other hand, not a few argued that the development of astronomy, cosmology and the discipline and its derivatives are not necessarily justify the creation of the universe by God. The following paper will highlight the pro- and contra- surrounding and emerge at the latest developments and the implications of cosmology for religiosity as well as show the misrelation between them.
2009-05-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18454/1/MPRA_paper_18454.pdf
Suteja, Hardiansyah (2009): The New Cosmology: Its Implications to Religiousity.
id
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20204
2019-09-26T09:25:08Z
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7375626A656374733D46:4630:463032
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20204/
Shari’ah Board, The Task of Fatwa, and Ijtihad in Islamic Economics, and Finance
Alsayyed, Nidal
Z12 - Religion
A23 - Graduate
Z00 - General
F02 - International Economic Order and Integration
The rulings of Mua‟malat in today‟s Islamic Economics, and Finance can be adapted through the process of Ijtihad. While the basic principles or doctrines of the Mua‟malat are given in Shari‟ah, the interpretation of these principles to suit circumstances in different times and places constitutes the Fiqh Mua‟malat. New rulings can be reached by understanding the effective cause (Illah) and rationale (hikmah) of the original ruling and the importance of Maslaha (benefit) under the changed circumstances (Usul Fiqh); which is normally evaluated by the Shari‟ah Board members of the concerned entity. Fatwa issuing via Ijtihad is used to derive laws from the basic principles of Shari‟ah to address the needs of people in different places and times. The important aspect of these new rules is that they may at times change depending on the context of application. Islamic Finance contemporary practices of Ijtihad through various bodies like Islamic Fiqh Academy, have resolved the practice of taqlid (limitation). The doctrine of maqasid al-Shari‟ah establishes Maslahah as an essential element of the ends of law, so that it becomes an important goal in framing new rules (Shari‟ah parameters and guidelines) through Ijtihad. Thus, both the principles set by Shari‟ah and use of Ijtihad to frame new rules has Maslahah or benefit of people as the underlying basis and goal.
On the other hand; the standardization of Shari‟ah may become against the fundamental premise of Ijtihad which has existed for centuries and especially in today‟s finance. If rules become standards, and imposed by legal authorities, then Ijtihad cannot be applied towards a critical and dynamic industry like Islamic Finance today. This will eventually damage the very reason that we are able to apply Shari‟ah in all times and places, that is, Ijtihad is the main reason why Shari‟ah is dynamic and is able to be applied in different circumstances. In addition; to standardize Shari‟ah rulings may mean the precedence of one Islamic school of thought over the other, which cannot be universally
acceptable. There is no doubt that the synchronization of these two views has to be done through mutual understanding and collaboration between Shari‟ah scholars and various Shari‟ah key board members, market leaders, and regulators. To be very clear and accurate, the question of whether Shari‟ah standards can be harmonized is a matter to be dealt with by Shari‟ah scholars and not market professionals or regulators. The simple reason for this is because Shari‟ah scholars are specialized in their field and whether a Fatwa can be standardized or not is a matter of religious reasoning and should be taken from Shari‟ah own instructions and judgments.
2009-06-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20204/1/MPRA_paper_20204.pdf
Alsayyed, Nidal (2009): Shari’ah Board, The Task of Fatwa, and Ijtihad in Islamic Economics, and Finance.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21644
2019-09-28T17:11:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21644/
Networks information in the civil wars
Fernando Estrada, Fernando
D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
Z0 - General
D89 - Other
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
D85 - Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the civil wars (Colombia). Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose. In fact, the paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting information previously learned between the inhabitants of the town. For these reasons, it is shown that information is a key phenomenon to understand civil wars. Moreover, as demonstrated in this work is the evolution of the slaughter in the civil wars as a result of rumor and information.
2014
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Fernando Estrada, Fernando (2014): Networks information in the civil wars.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26382
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Post-global financial crisis: The measure of the “Beijing consensus” as a variety of capitalisms
Killion, M. Ulric
F00 - General
P00 - General
F10 - General
Z00 - General
In order to explore the prospective effects of what hails as the Beijing consensus, a conceptualization arguably near-synonymous with Beijing’s export-oriented strategy, the Article first discusses the state of the Chinese economy in the post-global financial crisis era. After reviewing some key indicators of the country’s economy, the Article presents a comparison between a Washington and Beijing consensus, contrasting ideological meanings between these two consensuses, and then explores the measure of the Beijing consensus as a variety of capitalisms. By doing so the Article reveals the broader role of Beijing’s export-oriented strategy and its eventual relation to international capital’s industrial transformation and the prospective effects of a Beijing consensus. The Article concludes by presenting a prospectus of the Beijing consensus as a variety of capitalisms in the post-global financial crisis era. By presenting the Beijing consensus or even export-oriented strategy as an evolving model in this new era, China’s trade and finance models prospectively present a distinctive modeling of capitalism and its tools of trade and finance models.
2010-10-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26382/1/MPRA_paper_26382.pdf
Killion, M. Ulric (2010): Post-global financial crisis: The measure of the “Beijing consensus” as a variety of capitalisms.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29177
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Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs
Ale Ebrahim, Nader
Ahmed, Shamsuddin
Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim
Taha, Zahari
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
M11 - Production Management
O43 - Institutions and Growth
Z0 - General
L23 - Organization of Production
L15 - Information and Product Quality ; Standardization and Compatibility
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
M21 - Business Economics
This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective factors to assist SMEs to remain competitive in the future. The paper stresses to find an answer for a question “Is there any relationship between company size, Internet connection facility and virtuality?”. The survey data shows SMEs are now technologically capable of performing the virtual collaborative team, but the infrastructure usage is less. SMEs now have the necessary technology to begin the implementation process of collaboration tools to reduce research and development (R&D) time, costs and increase productivity. So, the manager of R&D should take the potentials of virtual teams into account.
2010-11-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29177/1/MPRA_paper_29177.pdf
Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs. Published in: Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Technologies (MIMT 2011), Singapore. , Vol. 2, (27 February 2011): V2-114.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:31587
2019-10-06T22:22:15Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31587/
More properties about odd perfect numbers
Berdellima, Arian
C00 - General
Z0 - General
As shown by Euler an odd perfect number n must be of the form n=p^α m^2 where p≡α≡1 (mod 4) and p is called the special prime. In this work we show that p≥13 and if q∈{3,5} and q|n then either gcd(q,σ(m^2 ))=1 or gcd(q,σ(p^α ))=1.
2011-06-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31587/1/MPRA_paper_31587.pdf
Berdellima, Arian (2011): More properties about odd perfect numbers.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:32893
2019-09-26T15:11:15Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32893/
A Review and Bibliography of Early Warning Models
Yucel, Eray
C00 - General
Z00 - General
This note is intended to share some observations regarding a non-exhaustive collection of the early warning literature from 1971 to 2011. Evolution of the interest in early warning models, methodological spectrum of studies and coverage of economic variables are briefly discussed in addition to providing a bibliography.
2011-08-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32893/1/MPRA_paper_32893.pdf
Yucel, Eray (2011): A Review and Bibliography of Early Warning Models.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34746
2019-10-03T18:36:27Z
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Determinants of Chilean youth voter registration: Evidence for the Bio Bio region
Acuña, Andres
O10 - General
R00 - General
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
Z00 - General
Youth voter registration is a worldwide phenomenon that exhibits a marked decline over the last two decades. On this basis, this article presents evidence regarding those factors that determine the voter registration of Chilean youth, in particular, the inhabitants of Bio Bio region. The methodology uses a linear model, proposed by Silberman and Durden (1975), which considers a relationship between voter registration and several social/economic variables. The model is estimated using a dynamic panel for the Bio Bio region, which includes its 54 communes and 10 planning territories for the years 2003 and 2009. The results indicate that, at commune level, the main determinants of youth voter registration are citizen participation and poverty rates, while ethnic aspects are also affecting female voter registration, and only citizen participation rate has some influence over male voter registration. Finally, at territory level, the results show that citizen participation rate is a cross determinant of youth voter registration in the Bio Bio region.
2011-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34746/1/MPRA_paper_34746.pdf
Acuña, Andres (2011): Determinants of Chilean youth voter registration: Evidence for the Bio Bio region.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34943
2019-09-26T11:04:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34943/
Dibattito sulla globalizzazione. Un commento
Schilirò, Daniele
F15 - Economic Integration
I30 - General
F20 - General
F11 - Neoclassical Models of Trade
Z00 - General
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Globalization means the affirmation of a single market at the global level. More generally, the word globalization is usually used to indicate a unified world that tends to homogenize products and consumption patterns. In addition to the undoubtedly positive effects that the processes of
globalization have on the overall well-being and the possibilities of consumption in all countries, a
lively debate has developed among economists, but also among philosophers, sociologists and other scholars about the negative effects of globalization, particularly in terms of poverty and inequality.
This paper mainly aims to analyze, consider and comment on the proposals contained in the book edited by Giancarlo Mazzocchi and Andrea Villani entitled Debate on globalization (2002).
2003-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34943/1/MPRA_paper_34943.pdf
Schilirò, Daniele (2003): Dibattito sulla globalizzazione. Un commento.
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The Behavioralist Empire and its Enemies: a Comparative Study of Successes and Dissatisfactions in American Political Science
Ponce, Aldo F.
B0 - General
C00 - General
Z00 - General
B50 - General
B59 - Other
B00 - General
This paper sheds light on the reasons that explain the dissatisfactions because of the behavioralist dominance within American political science academia. I show how and why the flaws and failures of the behavioralist analysis have created more room for the emergence of alternative approaches or new ideological movements in the study of politics. These competing paradigms or approaches are mainly post-behavioralism, postmodernism, and the Perestroika movement. Moreover, under a comparative framework, I explain why behavioralism is still the dominant paradigm within American political science academia despite all the efforts of the alternative paradigms to displace it.
2004-12-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35376/1/MPRA_paper_35376.pdf
Ponce, Aldo F. (2004): The Behavioralist Empire and its Enemies: a Comparative Study of Successes and Dissatisfactions in American Political Science.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:35662
2019-10-02T11:42:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35662/
An empirical study of relationship between FIFA world ranking and domestic football competition level: the case of Turkey
Halicioglu, Ferda
Z00 - General
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
This research is aimed at establishing a bivariate long-run association between FIFA country ranking and domestic football competition level in the case of Turkey. To test this hypothesis empirically, coefficient of variation values are computed seasonally for Turkish Super League over 1994-2010. This variable along the FIFA ranking of Turkey in the same period are used in the framework of ARDL approach to cointegration. The empirical results suggest that a 1% increase in the domestic football competition level leads to 1.14% rise in the FIFA ranking of Turkey. The post-sample variance decompositions also confirm the long-run relationship.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35662/1/MPRA_paper_35662.pdf
Halicioglu, Ferda (2012): An empirical study of relationship between FIFA world ranking and domestic football competition level: the case of Turkey.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:35731
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Magison-ison: A parallel reality construction of war among Joloano Muslim Survivors in Sulu, Philippines
Usman-Laput, Lea
I30 - General
L30 - General
A39 - Other
A32 - Collective Volumes
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
Z19 - Other
A31 - Collected Writings of Individuals
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
L31 - Nonprofit Institutions ; NGOs ; Social Entrepreneurship
N40 - General, International, or Comparative
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Z00 - General
J17 - Value of Life ; Forgone Income
Y80 - Related Disciplines
J18 - Public Policy
H19 - Other
N45 - Asia including Middle East
N35 - Asia including Middle East
Z10 - General
H10 - General
A30 - General
I39 - Other
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Y90 - Other
The Mindanao conflict in Southern Philippines is a long-standing controversy that has eluded comprehensive solutions. Despite efforts of the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the representatives from the peoples of Mindanao in undertaking peace initiatives, “the war:” continues.
The establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as embodied in an organic law provided in the 1986 Philippine Constitution has not seemed to bring about the much-anticipated progress. Even with the so-called “autonomy” already in place to substantiate the clamor of the Muslims for self-rule in the Tripoli Agreement, conflict has escalated signifying unrest among the people.
Instead of dealing with the problem from the standpoint of an “outsider” who may know about the Mindanao conflict from what they hear, the study attempted to get a glimpse of “the war” from the “insiders” who have survived and lived to tell their own stories. From the perspectives of two distinct peoples of Sulu- the Christian and Muslim Joloanos, the study was able to penetrate the heart of conflict in Mindanao.
The study was able to visualize “the 1974 war” and the on-going conflicts from two cultural lenses and in the process was able to demonstrate a “parallel reality construction” among the war survivors who provided interesting insights of “the war” from their “fantasy themes”.
The research has not only surfaced conflicting notions in their revelations of “the war” as experienced (subjective realities) but has generated elements of “convergence” as their experiences were correlated with the institutionalized beliefs of war (objective realities) or the war as told. Despite distinct subjective realities, they have shown proclivity towards parallel perceptions.
The Joloano war survivors’ subjective realities as applied in the study include their psycho-social trauma of the war and their portrayal of the role of “the other” culture as co-survivors of war. Among the elderly, descriptions of their fears and negative emotions have strongly echoed “old prejudices”. Among the middle-aged, “prudence” and tact in their narratives revealed a tendency to rationalize and to show sympathy towards “the other” culture. From the young war survivors a propensity towards confronting their dilemma suggested optimism and resilience in their perceptions.
Transitions in the subjective realities of the war survivors are apparent across culture and age. Opposing views are very strong among the elderly except for one Christian and a Muslim who are associated with “the other” culture by reason of marriage with them. The older Christian Joloanos for instance believe that the war was “unnecessary” while the older Muslims were convinced it was “inevitable”. The study has strongly shown that “shifts” in perceptions could be anchored on the participants’ religious beliefs and changing circumstances that come with age, political set-up, economic climate and inter-marriage among others.
Their reactions towards the prevailing issues of war (media war issues, other concepts and beliefs of war) which constitute the institutionalized-objective realities as defined in the study are “convergent” despite distinct experiences and personal circumstances. They have for example generally shown disagreement towards the commonly held concept that the mass media function to crystallize relevant issues, like the war in Mindanao. The majority of the co-authors furthermore negated the belief of the general public that “Christians and Muslims can never co-exist peacefully, and that the 1974 war was a form of “jihad” or a religious war among Muslims.
In the study therefore, communication has been proven once again to play a vital role in clarifying issues of the Mindanao conflict. It performed an emancipatory role in ways that provided rhetorical and psychological relief by allowing an occasion for war survivors to deconstruct their realities through their narratives. And to reconstruct their meaning of war by actively taking part in correcting prevailing notions of war to bring about the much needed change in a war-torn community like Sulu.
2005-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35731/1/MPRA_paper_35731.pdf
Usman-Laput, Lea (2005): Magison-ison: A parallel reality construction of war among Joloano Muslim Survivors in Sulu, Philippines.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:36694
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Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students
Tendero, Julieta
I29 - Other
A32 - Collective Volumes
A39 - Other
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z19 - Other
A31 - Collected Writings of Individuals
A29 - Other
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
Y80 - Related Disciplines
Y9 - Other
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
I20 - General
I21 - Analysis of Education
Y30 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
Y8 - Related Disciplines
A30 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
A3 - Collective Works
Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
A19 - Other
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
Y90 - Other
I28 - Government Policy
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the hemispheric dominance (HD) and the English proficiency (EP) scores in the four macro skills of the Western Mindanao State University college students. It hypothesized that students’ HD would have a significant correlation a) with their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading and writing, b) with their global EP score, c) with both the macro and global scores when respondents would be grouped according to age, gender and area of specialization.
In this study, there were 240 respondents selected through purposive, stratified, and random sampling techniques from the 5,096 students of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Education. Using the standardized HD Test, the standardized Listening and Reading Comprehension Tests, the researcher-made Speaking and Writing Skill Tests and Cloze Test and employing mainly the Pearson r for the statistical analysis, the study concluded: 1) that most of the students of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Education of Western Mindanao State University were left-brained (74.6%); 2) that the students were “good” in speaking, “fair” in listening and writing skills but “ poor” in reading and in global English; 3) that there was no significant relationship between the students’ hemisphericity and their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading, writing and global proficiency tests; and 4) that a significant relationship was shown between HD and EP scores when respondents were grouped according to age and area of specialization only.
2000-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36694/1/MPRA_paper_36694.pdf
Tendero, Julieta (2000): Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:37624
2019-09-26T09:12:38Z
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The regional implications of Kosovo’s policy of independence
Radeljic, Branislav
Z00 - General
Z19 - Other
No abstract available.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37624/1/MPRA_paper_37624.pdf
Radeljic, Branislav (2008): The regional implications of Kosovo’s policy of independence. Published in: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies , Vol. 23, No. 1 (2009): pp. 1-16.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:37771
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On the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises: toward a harmonic interpretation of the Kondratiev wave
Albers, Scott
Albers, Andrew L.
N10 - General, International, or Comparative
O40 - General
A10 - General
E60 - General
B15 - Historical ; Institutional ; Evolutionary
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
E27 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
C02 - Mathematical Methods
Z0 - General
B16 - Quantitative and Mathematical
K19 - Other
B59 - Other
E37 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
B41 - Economic Methodology
In Part One of this paper we use the harmonic analogy of a musical octave to analyze mathematic ratios of U.S. real GNP. These ratios are generated by bringing together figures for U.S. real GNP over intervals of time – “spreads of years” – as numerator and denominator in a single fraction.
Using a range of 7-year to 18-year “spreads,” we find that this approach provides strong evidence that American economic history is composed of four 14-year quarter-cycles within a 56 year circuit in the real GNP of the United States, 1869-2007. These periods correlate closely with analysis by Nickolai Kondratiev and provide a framework for predicting an annual steady state rate of growth for the United States falling between 3.4969% and 3.4995% per year.
In Part Two of this paper we provide three postscripts including:
(1) correlations / speculations on the political and social consequences of this model,
(2) simplification / expansion of the geometries implied and
(3) analysis / prediction based upon this approach,
as concluded by a brief afterword.
These post-script refinements narrow the steady state rate of growth predicted to between 3.4969% and 3.4973% per year correlating closely with the 3.4971% rate for annualized quarterly data calculated for Okun’s Law, 1947-2007. The size and interconnectedness of world economies, and the virtually exact correlations provided herein, suggest that the dates predicted for future crises will see changes which are unexpectedly global, dramatic and fierce.
2012-03-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37771/1/MPRA_paper_37771.pdf
Albers, Scott and Albers, Andrew L. (2012): On the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises: toward a harmonic interpretation of the Kondratiev wave.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:38159
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Redesigning OPF For Better Governance
Mohammad, Irfan
Z0 - General
The terms of reference of the study are appended below:-
a. Assessment of the relevance of Charter of OPF to the needs of OPs and to enhance the welfare of OPs.
b. Examination of decision making structure with a view to determine the extent and pattern of participation of stake-holders, as well as to assess the strengths of BOG to resist pressure from the political or bureaucratic interventions of high-ups.
c. Review of the existing administrative structure and organization of the OPF along the following lines:-
(i) Extent of autonomy enjoyed by OPF.
(ii) Administrative procedures governing the relationships between HQ and Regional Offices of OPF.
(iii) Assessment of the organizational framework and composition of staff at the H.Q to identify : (I) alignment with the functions envisaged by Charter and in light of the decisions made by BOG; (II) duplications and deficiencies in the existing procedure to deliver the approved services and (III) budgetary implications for OPF as well as various programmes undertaken.
d. Modification and redefinition of the Charter of OPF to reflect major focus on the improvements of OPs’ welfare at work site, and as a return migrant. Need assessment based on discussions with experts and review of experiences of other countries.
e. Given that less than half of the OPs are members of OPF, measures would be identified to broaden its coverage and enhance its relevance.
f. Improvement in the financial management, evaluation, planning and investment policy of OPF as well as advisory service to help return migrants in the resettlement.
g. Suggestions of the staffing structure at H.Q and Regional Offices for efficient delivery of the services.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/38159/1/MPRA_paper_38159.pdf
Mohammad, Irfan (2001): Redesigning OPF For Better Governance.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:38356
2019-10-08T16:47:58Z
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European Integration and the Peripheral Disparities in Greece. The way ahead
Kavvadia, Helen
Z00 - General
As the main initiatives in economic and regional policy in Greece focuses on creating favourable conditions for general economic growth and innovation rather than regional redistribution and cohesion, the future of the peripheral areas is largely a local concern and to an increasingly degree depending upon European co-operation and initiatives.
Recent studies point to the fact that there has been a convergence in terms of economic development between the countries in the EU during the last two decades. However, simultaneously with the reduced economic disparities at a national level, there has been increasing disparities between regions within countries. Not surprisingly, it is the European capital and metropolitan regions that display the strongest economic growth, while the peripheral and largely rural regions are lagging behind.
As a consequence, there has been an increasing spatial polarization in the EU-27 countries. At a policy level, the EU has had its primarily focus on the objectives of economic growth and competitiveness (the Lisbon Strategy) and sustainable development (the Gothenburg Strategy). However, in 2004 the European Commission’s Third Cohesion Report, identified territorial cohesion as a additional strategic policy objective. The instruments for achieving the objective of territorial cohesion is the co-ordination of Regional Policy with various sectoral policies and initiatives. The principle of territorial cohesion has been pushed strongly by the Conference for Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR), founded in 1973. One area where CPMR has been particularly active during the last years is on the initiative taken by the European Commission concerning a future EU Maritime Policy, which has been out for public consultation as a Green Paper between June 2006 and June 2007.
Undoubtedly, Greece is attempting to achieve the EU policy objectives of economic growth and competitiveness (the Lisbon Strategy) and comply with the principles of sustainable development (the Gothenburg Strategy). In doing this, Greek regional policy, as in most of Europe, has undergone a significant shift from being based on direct economic subsidies to the creation of favorable conditions for development and growth. In terms of organization it is also evident that new structures are put in place, which on the one hand strengthens activities at the regional level, and on the other hand secure channels for carrying out governmental national policies.
However, while the emphasis on growth and competitiveness is clearly the guiding principle in the Greek economic and regional policy, the issue of territorial cohesion is not addressed explicitly.
2009-10-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/38356/1/MPRA_paper_38356.pdf
Kavvadia, Helen (2009): European Integration and the Peripheral Disparities in Greece. The way ahead. Published in: Review of decentralisation, local government and regional development , Vol. 56, No. October 2009 (1 October 2009)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:38357
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The European Investment Bank as a force of Paneuropean integration:the case of South-Eastern Europe
Kavvadia, Helen
Z0 - General
South-Eastern Europe has experienced falling or stagnant economic activity in the past decade. War and civil unrest, and the geographic characteristics of the region have been clearly one of the main reasons. A further key element of the economic stagnation, however, is the low level of saving and investment in the region. These are respectively only one-half and two-thirds of the figure seen in the more successful transition economies in Central Europe. Without hinting that the low level of savings and investment is necessarily the determining factor behind the poor economic performance in the region, being a financing institution, the EIB will concentrate on the latter. Following a sharp initial decline in output at the outset of this decade, many countries in South-Eastern Europe have failed to show the kind of rebound observed in the more successful transition economies. When compared with the more successful transition economies, and indeed with other fast-growing middle income countries, South-Eastern Europe has a very low investment ratio, mainly due to low domestic saving.
The best means of raising private saving and investment levels in this environment is to raise corporate profitability. Corporate saving -- the internal financing of corporate investment from retained earnings – overcomes the problem of low household saving rates, dysfunctional financial intermediation and lack of credit risk information.
This is the crux of the matter: inducing higher growth requires raising investment, both in physical capital (infrastructure) and human capital formation (health, education, etc).
Although, such deficits (which incidentally are a normal feature of economies which are trying to catch up or ‘converge’ with higher living standards elsewhere) are not sustainable if largely financed by debt-creating capital flows, the European Investment Bank, as the EU bank, able to provide better lending conditions than what local economic agents, including Governments, would be able to obtain on the market, has played a key role in the region’s reconstruction and development.
2001-06-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/38357/1/MPRA_paper_38357.pdf
Kavvadia, Helen (2001): The European Investment Bank as a force of Paneuropean integration:the case of South-Eastern Europe. Published in: Conference Proccedings, International Conference: Restructuring, Stability and Development in Southeastern Europe. The South and East European Development Center (SEED), University of Thessaly,Volos, (1 June 2001)
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Understanding the Cyprus problem: a small chess piece on a huge board
Yalincak, Hakan
K33 - International Law
Z00 - General
A19 - Other
The island of Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, has witnessed an intermittently-bloody conflict since the latter part of the twentieth century. This island has over the past fifty years turned into a battle ground between the Greek and Turkish ethnic groups. Consequently, hundreds have died and thousands have become refugees and despite various efforts by third-parties, no solution has been achieved to date. This paper examines both the external and internal history of Cyprus and argues that Cyprus has a history of being utilized as a pawn on a larger European chess board and that the present stalemate of Turkey-EU relations has more to do with internal EU politics than with the Cyprus per se.
2009-09-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40163/1/MPRA_paper_40163.pdf
Yalincak, Hakan (2009): Understanding the Cyprus problem: a small chess piece on a huge board.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:40854
2019-09-30T17:15:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40854/
Managing People in Organizations: Perspectives of Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Dissanayake, D.M.N.S.W.
Z00 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
L26 - Entrepreneurship
The business environment is highly intense and every corporate is seeking for strategies for survival and positioning the value proposition in a proper manner. Besides, the human factor is considered as vital in this regard. Properly selected, recruited, trained, motivated and performing individuals are a key asset for any organization regardless of the business sector. Thus the function of human resourcing is considered as imperative. Further, in the perspective of strategic, the HR department intends to develop HR plans and strategies which are aligning to the organizational strategic direction and the overall business strategy. Various tools and procedures need to be identified in order to execute the strategy. This review detailed about the importance of human resource management in recent business challenges and how the value depends on upon the effective execution of human resource framework. Pertaining empirical investigations have also used to illustrate the importance of managing people at work.
2012-08-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40854/1/MPRA_paper_40854.pdf
Dissanayake, D.M.N.S.W. (2012): Managing People in Organizations: Perspectives of Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Research and Science Today No.2
MUREŞAN, Adriana Rodica
CRISTESCU, Cătălin
RUSU, Anca-Elena
MĂRCĂU, Flavius-Cristian
CIOREI, Mihaela Andreea
CIUBOTARU, Iulian Marcel
DAMIAN, Irina
ŞERBAN, Ileana Daniela
POPA (LUPU), Diana-Gabriela
GHEORGHE, Anamaria Elena
GHERVASE, Denis – Gabriela
IOSIF, Daniel
MARIN, Ştefan - Claudiu
MARIN, Camelia
RUXANDA, Mihaela
K0 - General
I0 - General
Y1 - Data: Tables and Charts
H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
L7 - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction
Q4 - Energy
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
Z0 - General
P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries
N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport.
This journal provides students the opportunity to create and / or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties from the country or / and abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to address issues of theory and practice in the areas mentioned above.
The Journal is a training means of the factors involved in the conceptualization, development, implementation and evaluation , aiming the formation of creative personalities who could be able to adapt through the changing conditions of life.
Journal wants to be a forum for debates disciplinaries and interdisciplinaries theoretical topics, to become a research support, to leverage this work at regional, national and international levels.
We believe that this gathering will enjoy the support from both parts of the researchers and of the practitioners, and will provide appropriate training sources held professional through the current problems.
2011-12-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41930/1/MPRA_paper_41930.pdf
MUREŞAN, Adriana Rodica and CRISTESCU, Cătălin and RUSU, Anca-Elena and MĂRCĂU, Flavius-Cristian and CIOREI, Mihaela Andreea and CIUBOTARU, Iulian Marcel and DAMIAN, Irina and ŞERBAN, Ileana Daniela and POPA (LUPU), Diana-Gabriela and GHEORGHE, Anamaria Elena and GHERVASE, Denis – Gabriela and IOSIF, Daniel and MARIN, Ştefan - Claudiu and MARIN, Camelia and RUXANDA, Mihaela (2011): Research and Science Today No.2. Published in: Research and Science Today
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Research and Science Today No.3
Gheorghe, Anamaria Elena
Manole, Andrada Ligia
Andronache, Alin
Cristescu, Cătălin
Luca, Cătălin Viorel
Constantin, Pompiliu Nicolae
Rogojanu, Dumitru Cătălin
Luca, Constantin
Duţă, Andeea Emilia
Mărcău, Flavius Cristian
Ciorei, Mihaela Andreea
Marin, Ştefan Claudiu
Mihalache, Gabriela
Liţoiu (MurăriIţa), Cristina
Cigăreanu, Elena
Purcaru, Mihai
Bușe, Dan
Papuc, Valentin
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
F0 - General
N9 - Regional and Urban History
A1 - General Economics
N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
P1 - Capitalist Systems
Z0 - General
L8 - Industry Studies: Services
F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business
N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
L0 - General
K0 - General
K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
R4 - Transportation Economics
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport.
This journal provides students the opportunity to create and / or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties from the country or / and abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to address issues of theory and practice in the areas mentioned above.
The Journal is a training means of the factors involved in the conceptualization, development, implementation and evaluation , aiming the formation of creative personalities who could be able to adapt through the changing conditions of life.
Journal wants to be a forum for debates disciplinaries and interdisciplinaries theoretical topics, to become a research support, to leverage this work at regional, national and international levels.
We believe that this gathering will enjoy the support from both parts of the researchers and of the practitioners, and will provide appropriate training sources held professional through the current problems.
2012-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41931/1/MPRA_paper_41931.pdf
Gheorghe, Anamaria Elena and Manole, Andrada Ligia and Andronache, Alin and Cristescu, Cătălin and Luca, Cătălin Viorel and Constantin, Pompiliu Nicolae and Rogojanu, Dumitru Cătălin and Luca, Constantin and Duţă, Andeea Emilia and Mărcău, Flavius Cristian and Ciorei, Mihaela Andreea and Marin, Ştefan Claudiu and Mihalache, Gabriela and Liţoiu (MurăriIţa), Cristina and Cigăreanu, Elena and Purcaru, Mihai and Bușe, Dan and Papuc, Valentin (2012): Research and Science Today No.3. Published in: Research and Science Today
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Research and Science Today Supplement No.1(3)/2012
Bădilă, Andreea Iuliana
Sucilă căs. Pahoni, Cipriana
Mihuţ, Cosmin
Filip, Dan Andrei
Ciubotaru, Iulian Marcel
Luca, Cătălin-Viorel
Mănescu, Alexandra Florina
Pipoș, Cristina
Popa (Lupu), Diana Gabriela
Dinu (Dragomir), Maria Magdalena
Petric, Paulian Timotei
Bran, Răzvan
Constantin, Veronica
Postăvaru, Gianina Ioana
Ciolan, Ioana Monica
Papuc, Valentin
Moșoi, Ștefan Cristian
Gheorghe, Anamaria Elena
Clucerescu (Tănase), Emilia Elena
Marin, Ştefan Claudiu
Ciorei, Mihaela Andreea
Mărcău, Flavius Cristian
Mihaela, Ruxanda
Marin, Camelia
Enescu, Camelia
Ealangi, Ionuț
Purcaru, Mihai
Pop, Alexandra Raluca
Bojincă, Moise
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
F0 - General
H0 - General
A1 - General Economics
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor
R0 - General
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
Z0 - General
C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables
L0 - General
C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling
K0 - General
I0 - General
Y1 - Data: Tables and Charts
C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
Q4 - Energy
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
Y8 - Related Disciplines
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified)
C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models ; Multiple Variables
L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
Q0 - General
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport.
This journal provides students the opportunity to create and / or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties from the country or / and abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to address issues of theory and practice in the areas mentioned above.
The Journal is a training means of the factors involved in the conceptualization, development, implementation and evaluation , aiming the formation of creative personalities who could be able to adapt through the changing conditions of life.
Journal wants to be a forum for debates disciplinaries and interdisciplinaries theoretical topics, to become a research support, to leverage this work at regional, national and international levels.
We believe that this gathering will enjoy the support from both parts of the researchers and of the practitioners, and will provide appropriate training sources held professional through the current problems.
2012-06-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41932/1/MPRA_paper_41932.pdf
Bădilă, Andreea Iuliana and Sucilă căs. Pahoni, Cipriana and Mihuţ, Cosmin and Filip, Dan Andrei and Ciubotaru, Iulian Marcel and Luca, Cătălin-Viorel and Mănescu, Alexandra Florina and Pipoș, Cristina and Popa (Lupu), Diana Gabriela and Dinu (Dragomir), Maria Magdalena and Petric, Paulian Timotei and Bran, Răzvan and Constantin, Veronica and Postăvaru, Gianina Ioana and Ciolan, Ioana Monica and Papuc, Valentin and Moșoi, Ștefan Cristian and Gheorghe, Anamaria Elena and Clucerescu (Tănase), Emilia Elena and Marin, Ştefan Claudiu and Ciorei, Mihaela Andreea and Mărcău, Flavius Cristian and Mihaela, Ruxanda and Marin, Camelia and Enescu, Camelia and Ealangi, Ionuț and Purcaru, Mihai and Pop, Alexandra Raluca and Bojincă, Moise (2012): Research and Science Today Supplement No.1(3)/2012. Published in: Research and Science Today
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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia
P36 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
F54 - Colonialism ; Imperialism ; Postcolonialism
H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
D84 - Expectations ; Speculations
J63 - Turnover ; Vacancies ; Layoffs
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Z0 - General
J17 - Value of Life ; Forgone Income
Y80 - Related Disciplines
N94 - Europe: 1913-
P10 - General
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
Z10 - General
J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse
N34 - Europe: 1913-
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
Y90 - Other
D10 - General
M30 - General
R20 - General
Z11 - Economics of the Arts and Literature
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth) influence the attitudes of the public. The epistemological approach is based on three assumptions: 1. Attitude change caused by exposure to television is a process conditioned by the opinion leaders and the reactivity of the audience. 2. The flow of communication specific to structured group is the psychological mechanism which structuring values. 3. The effects of media (especially television) are enhanced or diminished by the positioning of the leaders of the group in respect of the values presented in episodes watched. Concerning the first hypothesis, after the research, we can not say that there is a link type „cause and effect” between students' exposure to messages television series „Beverly Hills 90210” and results. Regarding the second hypothesis we can see a partial validation. Also the third hypothesis was confirmed to a large extent, but noted that students condsider that a relatively large influence is supported by some agents of influence outside the university. The research found that although the research participants do not recognize the existence of some influence of television (and television series) on them, we can highlihht a persuasive moderate pressure from media of fiction.
2003-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/42842/1/MPRA_paper_42842.pdf
Branea, Silvia (2003): Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”. Published in: Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication , Vol. Year 2, No. Spring (2003): pp. 121-128.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:43226
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Research and Science Today No. 4
Mărcău, Flavius-Cristian
Ciorei, Mihaela
Z19 - Other
Z12 - Religion
Z0 - General
N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries
Y9 - Other
I0 - General
R4 - Transportation Economics
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
L7 - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction
Q4 - Energy
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
Q0 - General
L9 - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities
Z11 - Economics of the Arts and Literature
N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
I1 - Health
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport.
This journal provides students the opportunity to create and / or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties from the country or / and abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to address issues of theory and practice in the areas mentioned above.
The Journal is a training means of the factors involved in the conceptualization, development, implementation and evaluation , aiming the formation of creative personalities who could be able to adapt through the changing conditions of life.
Journal wants to be a forum for debates disciplinaries and interdisciplinaries theoretical topics, to become a research support, to leverage this work at regional, national and international levels.
We believe that this gathering will enjoy the support from both parts of the researchers and of the practitioners, and will provide appropriate training sources held professional through the current problems.
2012-11-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43226/1/MPRA_paper_43226.pdf
Mărcău, Flavius-Cristian and Ciorei, Mihaela (2012): Research and Science Today No. 4. Published in: Research and Science Today No. 2(4)/2012
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:43740
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Генезис цивитальной организации: идеология нового мира
Kaluzhsky, M.L.
Z19 - Other
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
P49 - Other
P41 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Z00 - General
O20 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
H19 - Other
D50 - General
O10 - General
L20 - General
G30 - General
P50 - General
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
P00 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A19 - Other
The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of opposition of a society and the social systems. The author offers new methodology of the analysis of social processes in the conditions of crisis of traditional social philosophy.
2006-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43740/1/MPRA_paper_43740.pdf
Kaluzhsky, M.L. (2006): Генезис цивитальной организации: идеология нового мира. Published in: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co, KG , Vol. full, No. - (2012): pp. 1-416.
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Friends and health of the workers in Italy
Fiorillo, Damiano
I12 - Health Behavior
Z0 - General
C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions
Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities of Italian employees. We address the self-selection of individuals in labour market using an Heckman selection model. Our main preliminary findings show that meetings with friends is positively correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities of daily living.
2013-02-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/44270/1/MPRA_paper_44270.pdf
Fiorillo, Damiano (2013): Friends and health of the workers in Italy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:44843
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Does “Okun’s Law” state a Pi:1 ratio? Toward a harmonic interpretation of why Okun’s Law works
Albers, Scott
Albers, Andrew L.
A10 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
B0 - General
B00 - General
B4 - Economic Methodology
B40 - General
B50 - General
B59 - Other
C0 - General
C00 - General
C01 - Econometrics
C02 - Mathematical Methods
C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
C19 - Other
C5 - Econometric Modeling
C50 - General
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
D0 - General
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
E0 - General
E00 - General
E1 - General Aggregative Models
E10 - General
E13 - Neoclassical
E19 - Other
E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
P1 - Capitalist Systems
P10 - General
P16 - Political Economy
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
In Albers & Albers (Spring, 2013) we demonstrated that the historic development of U.S. real GNP, 1869-present, may be structured in recurring 14-year periods. A steady-state rate of growth of 3.4969% is thereby calculated, generating an increase in real GNP proportional to the famous “Golden Mean” (1:phi or 1:1.6180) every fourteen years on average.
Building on this foundation we show herein that “Okun’s Law,” a 3:1 proportion between percent growth in real GNP and percent decrease in the rate of unemployment, is actually a pi:1 proportion, created through a form of mathematic / harmonic inverse. The resulting model of economics in the United States is thereby aligned with geometric, harmonic and trigonometric analysis, rather than purely statistical methods.
2013-03-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/44843/1/MPRA_paper_44843.pdf
Albers, Scott and Albers, Andrew L. (2013): Does “Okun’s Law” state a Pi:1 ratio? Toward a harmonic interpretation of why Okun’s Law works.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:44927
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Testing the Existence of Hedonic Adaptation and Inertia to Income with implications for Islamic economics: a case of Pakistan
HASAN, HAMID
Khan, Hayat
C0 - General
D60 - General
Z0 - General
The fact that happiness does not increase as income increases (Easterlin Paradox) has puzzled a number of scholars for a number of decades. The latest research on this topic concludes that happiness increases with an increment in income in the short term but it adapts to this income increment in the long term. What is the Islamic economics explanation for hedonic adaptation to income? It is argued that Islamic economics should predict a non-existence of hedonic adaptation to income for a society completely following Islamic code of life since it, fully or partially, delinks happiness from income. Testing the existence of hedonic adaptation to income is, therefore, an indirect way to assess whether a society pursing a materialistic goals or following a life enjoin in Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him).
The first objective of this research is to test whether happiness adapts to income increase in the short run using two-period panel survey in Pakistan.
The second objective is to formulate happiness function by incorporating dimensions of zakat and remembrance of Allah (zikr) to highlight possibility of sustain happiness without adaptation to income in the light of Islamic teachings.
The paper applies Random Effect Ordered Probit model to investigate the hedonic adaptation effect using various formulations used in the happiness literature.
The results show that there is no adaptation to income in Pakistan given the time period. The result is consistent with the studies that show no adaptation during a short period. However, the models used here are not controlled for zakat and zikr due to data unavailability. Hence, Islamic economics implications are derived only theoretically.
The significance of the present research lies in the fact that it is the first study in Pakistan that tests the hedonic adaptation to income and hence contributes to the evidence on happiness dynamics. Moreover, it is also the first study that formulates a happiness function from Islamic perspective and highlights happiness dimension of zakat. These are important contributions in Islamic economics literature.
2013-03-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/44927/1/MPRA_paper_44927.pdf
HASAN, HAMID and Khan, Hayat (2013): Testing the Existence of Hedonic Adaptation and Inertia to Income with implications for Islamic economics: a case of Pakistan.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:45818
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Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Natural Resource Management
Meena, M.S..
Singh, K.M.
Q0 - General
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q16 - R&D ; Agricultural Technology ; Biofuels ; Agricultural Extension Services
Q59 - Other
Z0 - General
The natural resources of most developing countries are under increasing stress, and many nations are increasingly concerned about achieving environmental sustainability through efficient use of land and water resources. As population is escalating very fast and consumer demand for high value agricultural products (fruits and vegetables, animal or fish products, etc.) is also changing rapidly. Hence, there is need to take stronger step by national government to monitor their natural resources and take immediate steps to maintain these resources when being overused. Data generation by visiting the place physically is tedious and time consuming.
Modern ICT techniques provide the solution helpful in collecting data without visiting the place from distance. With development of modern technologies, ICTs are of immense use in Sustainable Natural Resource Management. These technologies are time and money saving, accurate compared to conventional assessment. Products of these technologies help the scientists and policy makers for taking appropriate decision in agriculture production. It is thus important to recognize that the dissemination of these land and water-use management practices are largely knowledge-based; therefore, developing countries will be required to make substantial investment in public extension to train small and medium-scale farmers how to use Sustainable Natural Resource Management (SNRM) practices.
2012-10-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45818/1/MPRA_paper_45818.pdf
Meena, M.S.. and Singh, K.M. (2012): Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Natural Resource Management.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:45887
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Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013
ADAM, Elena
TRIȘCAȘ, Floarea Elena
NICOARĂ, Raluca-Maria
IVAN, Ruben Ioan
DUȚĂ, Paul
PANAIT, Ion
MANOLACHE, Viorella
ANDRONACHE, Alin
TRANDAFIR, Andreea
TAROPA-IACOB, Anda
DUȚĂ, Andreea Emilia
IORDAN, Costel
ALEXA, Oana Alexandra
CIOREI, Mihaela Andreea
MARCAU, Flavius-Cristian
SIMA, Isabella Cristiana
MATEIU, Mihaela
NISIPEANU, Elena
CĂLIN, Alexandra
HARANGUS, Katalin
EDU, Filip Vladimir
MARIN, Aurelia Camelia
AŞER, Nica
BOGDAN, Laura
MOGA, Monika
VULPAȘU, Dana
COSTESCU, Elena-Alis
CIUNTUC, Cristina-Elena
NECHIFOR, Caleb Otniel Traian
CRISTESCU, Cosmina
PIPOŞ, Cristina
A1 - General Economics
A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
C0 - General
I1 - Health
K1 - Basic Areas of Law
P0 - General
Q0 - General
Q5 - Environmental Economics
R0 - General
R1 - General Regional Economics
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
Z0 - General
Z10 - General
Z11 - Economics of the Arts and Literature
Z12 - Religion
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Z18 - Public Policy
Z19 - Other
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas: Social Sciences, Economic Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities, Education Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Sport.
This journal provides students the opportunity to create and/or to improve their abilities to write scientific papers. So each appearance (two appearances per year at which we can add supplements) contains a number of papers written by students, masters and doctoral from the faculties from the country or/and abroad. The journal promotes original studies contributing to the progress of knowledge and it is motivated by the need to address issues of theory and practice in the areas mentioned above.
2013-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45887/1/MPRA_paper_45887.pdf
ADAM, Elena and TRIȘCAȘ, Floarea Elena and NICOARĂ, Raluca-Maria and IVAN, Ruben Ioan and DUȚĂ, Paul and PANAIT, Ion and MANOLACHE, Viorella and ANDRONACHE, Alin and TRANDAFIR, Andreea and TAROPA-IACOB, Anda and DUȚĂ, Andreea Emilia and IORDAN, Costel and ALEXA, Oana Alexandra and CIOREI, Mihaela Andreea and MARCAU, Flavius-Cristian and SIMA, Isabella Cristiana and MATEIU, Mihaela and NISIPEANU, Elena and CĂLIN, Alexandra and HARANGUS, Katalin and EDU, Filip Vladimir and MARIN, Aurelia Camelia and AŞER, Nica and BOGDAN, Laura and MOGA, Monika and VULPAȘU, Dana and COSTESCU, Elena-Alis and CIUNTUC, Cristina-Elena and NECHIFOR, Caleb Otniel Traian and CRISTESCU, Cosmina and PIPOŞ, Cristina (2013): Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013. Published in: Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013 (1 March 2013)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46047
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Electromagnetic Solutions for the Agricultural Problems
Aliakbarian, H
Enayati, A
Soltani, MA
Ameri Mahabadi, Hossein
Moghavvemi, Mahmoud
Z0 - General
In the recent years, interactive relations between various branches of science and technology have improved interdisciplinary fields of science. In fact, most of the research activities take place somewhere among these branches. Therefore, a specialist from one branch usually can propose novel methods, whenever enters a new field, based on his previous knowledge.
2010
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Aliakbarian, H and Enayati, A and Soltani, MA and Ameri Mahabadi, Hossein and Moghavvemi, Mahmoud (2010): Electromagnetic Solutions for the Agricultural Problems. Published in: Advanced Microwave Circuits and Systems : pp. 471-490.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46048
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Multi-Hole Waveguide Directional Couplers
Moghavvemi, Mahmoud
Ameri Mahabadi, Hossein
Alijani, Farhang
Z0 - General
The directional couplers are inherently assumed as four-port devices, which consisted of two transmission lines that are electromagnetically coupled to each other. The first port is named as input, and the second one as output or transmitted, the third one as sampling or coupled and the fourth one as isolated or terminated.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46048/1/MPRA_paper_46048.pdf
Moghavvemi, Mahmoud and Ameri Mahabadi, Hossein and Alijani, Farhang (2012): Multi-Hole Waveguide Directional Couplers. Published in: Solutions and Applications of Scattering, Propagation, Radiation and Emission of Electromagnetic Waves : pp. 189-212.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46633
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Okun’s Law as a Pi-to-1 ratio: A harmonic / trigonometric theory as to why Okun’s Law works
Albers, Scott
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
B00 - General
B4 - Economic Methodology
B41 - Economic Methodology
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
B59 - Other
C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
C19 - Other
C5 - Econometric Modeling
E1 - General Aggregative Models
E10 - General
E19 - Other
E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
P1 - Capitalist Systems
P16 - Political Economy
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
“Okun’s Law” states a 3:1 proportion between percent growth in U. S. real GNP and percent decrease in the rate of unemployment. This paper argues that this ratio is actually a Pi:1 proportion, heretofore unrecognized because it is displayed through a form of mathematic / harmonic inverse.
In Part One the Cartesian coordinate system is merged with the legal doctrines of actus reus (x-axis, actions) and mens rea (y-axis, thoughts). A unit circle of personal choice – including economic choice (trading vs. keeping) – may thereby be devised. This unit circle is then aggregated into a torus, half the circumference of which represents U.S. real GNP (Pi), the antipodal half-circumference its monetary value (Pi) and the radius the rate of employment necessary to its production (R = 1). Mainstream econometric analysis appears to support this theory of inverses with proximities of within 1.3%, 1.0%, 0.35%, 0.00105% and less than half a degree.
In Part Two this model of Okun’s Law is connected closely to an analysis of the well-known Kondratiev Wave, a 56-year “Long Wave” of evolving social and economic relationships. This approach to macroeconomics is thereby aligned with a geometric, harmonic and trigonometric analysis of empirical data, rather than purely statistical methods.
2013-04-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46633/1/MPRA_paper_46633.pdf
Albers, Scott (2013): Okun’s Law as a Pi-to-1 ratio: A harmonic / trigonometric theory as to why Okun’s Law works.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46898
2019-09-28T14:31:24Z
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A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo
Salehi, Hadi
Md Yunus, Melor
Farhadi, Hadi
Fooladi, Masood
Farhadi, Maryam
Ale Ebrahim, Nader
I0 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
O1 - Economic Development
O10 - General
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z18 - Public Policy
Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
2013-02-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46898/1/MPRA_paper_46898.pdf
Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Md Yunus, Melor and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2013): A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. Published in: Asian Social Science , Vol. 9, No. 5 (27 April 2013): pp. 18-26.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46899
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46899/
Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?
Fooladi, Masood
Salehi, Hadi
Md Yunus, Melor
Farhadi, Maryam
Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo
Farhadi, Hadi
Ale Ebrahim, Nader
I0 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
I21 - Analysis of Education
I25 - Education and Economic Development
I29 - Other
O1 - Economic Development
O10 - General
P0 - General
P00 - General
Z00 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Critically, extensive use of IF may result in destroying editorial and researchers’ behaviour, which could compromise the quality of scientific articles. Therefore, it is the time of the timeliness and importance of a new invention of journal ranking techniques beyond the journal impact factor.
2013-02-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46899/1/MPRA_paper_46899.pdf
Fooladi, Masood and Salehi, Hadi and Md Yunus, Melor and Farhadi, Maryam and Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Farhadi, Hadi and Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2013): Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor? Published in: Asian Social Science , Vol. 9, No. 5 (27 April 2013): pp. 176-182.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47414
2019-10-07T04:33:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47414/
Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the H-Index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers?
Farhadi, Hadi
Salehi, Hadi
Md Yunus, Melor
Arezoo, Aghaei Chadegani
Farhadi, Maryam
Fooladi, Masood
Ale Ebrahim, Nader
A1 - General Economics
H0 - General
M0 - General
M3 - Marketing and Advertising
O1 - Economic Development
O10 - General
Z0 - General
h-index retrieved by citation indexes (Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science) is used to measure the scientific performance and the research impact studies based on the number of publications and citations of a scientist. It also is easily available and may be used for performance measures of scientists, and for recruitment decisions. The aim of this study is to investigate the difference between the outputs and results from these three citation databases namely Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science based upon the h-index of a group of highly cited researchers (Nobel Prize winner scientist). The purposive sampling method was adopted to collect the required data. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the h-index between three citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science; the Google scholar h-index was more than the h-index in two other databases. It was also concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between h-indices based on Google scholar and Scopus. The citation indexes of Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science may be useful for evaluating h-index of scientists but they have some limitations as well.
2012-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47414/1/MPRA_paper_47414.pdf
Farhadi, Hadi and Salehi, Hadi and Md Yunus, Melor and Arezoo, Aghaei Chadegani and Farhadi, Maryam and Fooladi, Masood and Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2012): Does it Matter Which Citation Tool is Used to Compare the H-Index of a Group of Highly Cited Researchers? Published in: Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences , Vol. 7, No. 4 (27 March 2013): pp. 198-202.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47519
2019-09-26T08:12:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47519/
Research, Research Gap and the Research Problem
Dissanayake, D.M.N.S.W.
Z0 - General
Mainly, due to new scientific inquiries and technological advancements Knowledge becomes obsolete. So it creates a dilemma where the applicability of so called theories and models which we learnt in class can still be applied to solve problems? Thus, the scholars bring the notion of RESEARCH as a definite solution which enriches the existing understanding of a phenomenon. This can be either a theory testing or a theory extension (theory building) approach. In fact, gap identification and formulating a research problem are vital for a research project. The note details two approaches to identify research gap and thereby to formulate a research problem.
2013-06-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47519/1/MPRA_paper_47519.pdf
Dissanayake, D.M.N.S.W. (2013): Research, Research Gap and the Research Problem.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47627
2019-09-26T18:55:02Z
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Introduction to the Research Tools Mind Map
Ale Ebrahim, Nader
A1 - General Economics
A10 - General
F0 - General
M0 - General
M00 - General
Z0 - General
Z00 - General
With the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT), researchers are able to use computer software tools to find, organise, manipulate, analyse, and share relevant information. However, there are hundreds of such tools to select from, for various research-related uses. I have collected over 700 tools that can help researchers do their work efficiently. It is assembled as an interactive Web-based mind map, titled Research Tools, which is updated periodically. Created using the MindMeister software platform, Research Tools provides a convenient interface with zoom in/out, screen drag, and other user-friendly features.
Being a mind map, Research Tools consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact, and six auxiliary nodes. In the mind map, each parent node has several child nodes associated with it, which can be accessed by clicking on the plus (+) sign. Several free tools can be found in the child nodes. Some paid tools are also included.
The four main nodes are described below, listing some tools as examples. In the mind map, a green tick sign indicates my preference for some tools. Users can access the tools by clicking on the arrow sign that appears next to the tool title.
2013-06-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47627/1/MPRA_paper_47627.pdf
Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2013): Introduction to the Research Tools Mind Map. Published in: Research World , Vol. 10, No. 4 (14 June 2013): pp. 1-3.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47657
2019-10-10T04:33:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47657/
年底发表的文章会遭受“影响力陷阱”?
Ma, Chao
C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
Z0 - General
Researchers are accustomed to choose the beginning of the year as the starting point to filter the recent literatures when they retrieve. This paper considers that the custom described above will lead to the Influential Trap which says that papers published at the year-end are less influential than that published at the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, papers from Economic Research Journal Issue 1 in 2000 to the Issue 12 in 2010 are using for an empirical study. It shows that papers published at the beginning of the year get more download and citations than which published at year-end significantly, even if the chief editor did not arrange to publish the core authors’ papers at the beginning of the year.
2013-05-27
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47657/1/MPRA_paper_47657.pdf
Ma, Chao (2013): 年底发表的文章会遭受“影响力陷阱”?.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48575
2019-09-29T11:48:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48575/
Minimising Misery: A New Strategy for Public Policies Instead of Maximising Happiness?
Lelkes, Orsolya
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
Z0 - General
This paper raises the issue whether public policy should focus on minimizing unhappiness rather than maximizing happiness. Using a cross-sectional multi-country dataset with 57 thousand observations from 29 European countries, we show that unhappiness varies a great deal more across social groups than (high levels of) happiness does. Our findings are robust to several alternative specifications, using both self-reported life satisfaction and self-reported happiness, and different cut-off points for defining unhappiness (dissatisfaction) and high levels of happiness (satisfaction). While misery appears to strongly relate to broad social issues (such as unemployment, poverty, social isolation), bliss might be more of a private matter, with individual strategies and attitudes, hidden from the eye of a policy-maker. The social cost of unhappiness may be also reflected in the immense cost of mental health problems. Preventing avoidable unhappiness, however, needs to be complemented with other strategies for promoting happiness, perhaps on a more decentralized level, given the different causes of bliss and that of misery.
2013-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48575/1/MPRA_paper_48575.pdf
Lelkes, Orsolya (2013): Minimising Misery: A New Strategy for Public Policies Instead of Maximising Happiness? Forthcoming in: Social Indicators Research (2013)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49702
2019-09-30T17:10:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49702/
Big data, privacy, and trusted web: What needs to be done
Helbing, Dirk
Balietti, Stefano
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
O34 - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
Z00 - General
Z18 - Public Policy
This perspective paper discusses challenges and risks of the information age, and the implications for the information and communication technologies that need to be built and operated. It addresses ethical and policy issues related with Big Data and how procedures for privacy-preserving data analyses can be established. It further proposes a concept for a future, self-organising and trusted Web and discusses recommended legal regulations as well as the infrastructure and institutions needed.
2011-05-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49702/1/MPRA_paper_49702.pdf
Helbing, Dirk and Balietti, Stefano (2011): Big data, privacy, and trusted web: What needs to be done. Published in: Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics No. 195 (30 May 2011): pp. 3-68.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:50258
2024-03-28T14:09:33Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50258/
年底发表的文章会遭受“影响力陷阱”?
Ma, Chao
C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
Z0 - General
Researchers are accustomed to choose the beginning of the year as the starting point to filter the recent literatures when they retrieve. This paper considers that the custom described above will lead to the Influential Trap which says that papers published at the year-end are less influential than that published at the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, papers from Economic Research Journal Issue 1 in 2000 to the Issue 12 in 2010 are using for an empirical study. It shows that papers published at the beginning of the year get more download and citations than which published at year-end significantly, even if the chief editor did not arrange to publish the core authors’ papers at the beginning of the year.
2013-05-27
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50258/1/MPRA_paper_47657.pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50258/8/MPRA_paper_50258.pdf
Ma, Chao (2013): 年底发表的文章会遭受“影响力陷阱”?. Forthcoming in: World Economic Papers
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:50465
2019-09-28T00:16:37Z
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The Role of Islamic Banking System as the Milestone towards Indonesia Micro Economy Development
Rahajeng, DIAN
C83 - Survey Methods ; Sampling Methods
C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
D14 - Household Saving; Personal Finance
D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
G02 - Behavioral Finance: Underlying Principles
G2 - Financial Institutions and Services
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
Z00 - General
As the largest Muslim community in the world, Indonesia is optimist on implementing Islamic economy as one of the system. The previous global financial turmoil has made the attention turn on the Islamic financial model, and in particular the Islamic banking system. This model offers a microfinance system that allows poor people to meet their financial needs. Most banking systems are less concern about the difficulties affecting poor people since they usually have no collateral, making them a riskier investment. Knowing the 98.9% micro industries of Indonesia, it is an urgent need on facilitating their financial intermediaries. The Islamic microfinance system manages this demand by providing small-scale financial services to the lower and poor markets by giving them banking facility. Hence Islamic microfinance helps to sustain financial inclusion as attempt for that mostly poor society who has lack access to financial institution. The motivation for this research is to meet the knowledge gap of acceptance on the Islamic banking system implementation in the Indonesian micro economy development. The research questions is how micro industries perception and acceptance towards the existence of Islamic rural banks. The methodologies used are survey as primary data collection of 60 both Islamic and common rural banks for thorough analysis also secondary data collection from its financial reports. The research finding is the positive perception and acceptance of Islamic rural banks as micro industries’ financial intermediaries. This research concludes that Islamic rural bank has become the part of micro banking services and contributes on building ideal Indonesia development.
2013-09-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50465/1/MPRA_paper_50465.pdf
Rahajeng, DIAN (2013): The Role of Islamic Banking System as the Milestone towards Indonesia Micro Economy Development.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:50919
2019-09-26T13:50:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50919/
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
Ale Ebrahim, Nader
Salehi, Hadi
Embi, Mohamed Amin
Habibi Tanha, Farid
Gholizadeh, Hossein
Motahar, Seyed Mohammad
Ordi, Ali
A1 - General Economics
A10 - General
A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
A20 - General
M3 - Marketing and Advertising
Z0 - General
Due to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely.
2013-09-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50919/1/MPRA_paper_50919.pdf
Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi Tanha, Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed Mohammad and Ordi, Ali (2013): Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. Published in: International Education Studies , Vol. 6, No. 11 (23 October 2013): pp. 93-99.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51182
2019-09-26T22:59:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51182/
An Analysis of the Demand for Higher Education in Pakistan with Special Reference to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khattak, Naeem Ur Rehman Khattak
Khan, Jangraiz
Khan, Iqbal
Tariq, Muhammad
I25 - Education and Economic Development
Z0 - General
The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors which affect demand for higher education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan). Primary data was collected for this purpose from 100 students enrolled in different universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The results showed that age of student, marital status, access to higher education institutions, parent’s education, family income and awareness of the benefits of higher education are the major determinants of demand for higher education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Interestingly, 93% of respondents suggested that socio-economic problems prevailed in the society can be solved with increase in higher education while 80% of the surveyed students considered that poverty eradication is possible with higher education. It is therefore, suggested on the basis of the results of the study to increase public expenditure on higher education and launch a massive campaign for awareness of higher education. The linkage of higher education with the market demand will increase employment which will motivate students to higher education.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51182/1/MPRA_paper_51182.pdf
Khattak, Naeem Ur Rehman Khattak and Khan, Jangraiz and Khan, Iqbal and Tariq, Muhammad (2012): An Analysis of the Demand for Higher Education in Pakistan with Special Reference to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Published in: City University Research Journal , Vol. 3, (July 2012)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51426
2019-10-08T16:29:03Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51426/
Systemic potential of organization
Sumcov, Victor
Filippova, Irina
M10 - General
M19 - Other
Z00 - General
The essence of the potential of the system with active elements disclosed in the analysis of its subsystems in terms of realization their useful functions.
Systemic potential that is expressed externally by useful function of the aggregation of resource potential (potential of elements) is considered at the two levels: at the level of distributed decision-making system and at the level of managerial personnel as a system of active elements.
The article elaborated the concept of active and passive element potential.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51426/1/MPRA_paper_51426.pdf
Sumcov, Victor and Filippova, Irina (2012): Systemic potential of organization. Forthcoming in: (2013)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51663
2019-10-08T16:48:44Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51663/
9/56 Year Cycle: Californian Earthquakes
McMinn, David
Z0 - General
The 9/56 year cycle was first established in the timing of US and Western European financial panics since 1760. This cycle has also been assessed in the timing of major earthquakes in California - Nevada - Baja California. These important events tended to cluster within this grid, far more than could be expected by chance. Hawaiian quakes were also assessed and showed similarities with seismic episodes in south western North America. Furthermore, record seismic quakes appeared selectively within the 9/56 year cycle and included such important historical events as the 1700 Great Cascadia quake, the 1906 San Francisco quake and the 1980 Mt St Helens eruption, as well as the record quakes for Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Hawaii. Seasonality was another important factor as seismic events tended to occur around the same months of the year within various 9/56 configurations.
The 9/56 year seismic cycle was hypothesised to arise from tidal triggering by the Moon and Sun. What seemed most important were the ecliptical positions of the Sun, lunar ascending node and apogee. This implied that the angles between these factors and the spring equinox point may offer clues as to how this cycle actually functions. The siting of the Moon on the ecliptical circle should also have relevance, although no supportive evidence could be offered in the paper.
2011-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51663/8/MPRA_paper_51663.pdf
McMinn, David (2011): 9/56 Year Cycle: Californian Earthquakes. Published in: New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter No. 58 (March 2011): pp. 33-44.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51683
2019-09-27T07:59:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51683/
Financial Cycles: A Key To Deciphering Seismic Cycles?
McMinn, David
Z0 - General
A 9/56 year cycle was first established for US and Western European financial panics occurring since 1760 and was attributed to lunisolar tidal effects. This cycle was then extrapolated to the timing of major earthquakes in various countries and regions around the world, a proposition that could be supported by numerous correlates. These favourable outcomes suggested that other findings in Moon-Sun finance may also show up in earthquake cycles. Thus, the author’s work on market activity was summarized and presented in this paper, as it may prove helpful in the design of future investigations in seismology. Importantly, Fibonacci – Lucas numbers and the ratio Phi in financial and lunisolar cycles implied that these factors could also be relevant in earthquake trends. However, no evidence could be offered to support such a speculation.
2012-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51683/1/MPRA_paper_51683.pdf
McMinn, David (2012): Financial Cycles: A Key To Deciphering Seismic Cycles? Published in: New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter No. 63 (July 2012): pp. 15-36.
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2019-09-27T02:57:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51693/
9/56 Year Cycle: Panics, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Volcanoes
McMinn, David
Z0 - General
This paper explores cyclic commonalities evident in the timing of four phenomena – financial panics, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and Atlantic hurricanes. Surprisingly, a 9/56 year cycle could be established for all four categories. This cycle in turn could be strongly linked to Moon Sun tidal harmonics, which were hypothesized to activate critical events within 9/56 year patterns. Several lunisolar cycles aligned very closely at 9.0 and 56.0 solar years, thus providing theoretical support for a strong lunisolar influence. How this cycle actually functioned remained a mystery, as it falls outside prevailing paradigms in finance and the sciences. Further research breakthroughs have the potential to greatly increase the forecasting accuracy in the fields of finance, seismology, meteorology and volcanology. The 9/56 year cycle may show up in the timing of other critical phenomena, although this remains to be seen.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51693/1/MPRA_paper_51693.pdf
McMinn, David (2013): 9/56 Year Cycle: Panics, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Volcanoes.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:52540
2019-09-27T01:06:15Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52540/
9/56 Year Cycle: Financial Panics
McMinn, David
Z0 - General
The 9/56 year cycle consists of a grid repeating the intervals 56 years vertically (called sequences) and 9 years horizontally (called subcycles). Since 1760, US and Western European financial panics have clustered with significance in this grid pattern. Seasonality was also observed within the 56 year sequences and within the 18/56 year grids. Artifact subcycles were also apparent within this cycle as shown by the 20 year subcycles. The 9/56 year pattern can be intimately linked to Moon – Sun cycles and thus it is hypothesized that lunisolar tidal harmonics activated financial panics within the 9/56 year grid.
1986-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52540/1/MPRA_paper_52540.pdf
McMinn, David (1986): 9/56 Year Cycle: Financial Panics. Published in: The Australian Technical Analyst Association Newsletter. (September 1993): pp. 28-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:52541
2019-09-28T02:53:45Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52541/
9/56 Year Cycle: Financial Panics
McMinn, David
Z0 - General
The 9/56 year cycle consists of a grid repeating the intervals 56 years vertically (called sequences) and 9 years horizontally (called subcycles). Since 1760, US and Western European financial panics have clustered with significance in this grid pattern. Seasonality was also observed within the 56 year sequences and within the 18/56 year grids. Artifact subcycles were also apparent within this cycle as shown by the 20 year subcycles. The 9/56 year pattern can be intimately linked to Moon – Sun cycles and thus it is hypothesized that lunisolar tidal harmonics activated financial panics within the 9/56 year grid.
1986-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52541/1/MPRA_paper_52540.pdf
McMinn, David (1986): 9/56 Year Cycle: Financial Panics. Published in: The Australian Technical Analyst Association Newsletter. (September 1993): pp. 28-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:53161
2019-09-27T23:41:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53161/
Queue Dissipation Shockwave Speed for Signalized Intersections
Omid, M. Rouhani
C80 - General
C83 - Survey Methods ; Sampling Methods
Z0 - General
Queue formation and dissipation have been extensively studied in relation to traffic signalization, work zone operation, incident occurrence, and ramp metering. This study is an attempt to estimate the effect of vehicle mix, commute time, traffic direction, and road upgrade on queue dissipation speed (time). The data were collected at several intersections in Davis, California, U.S. and analyzed using regression models. The models were determined regressing several functional forms and considering the statistical significance and ease of interpretation of the included variables. The main findings are: 1) dissipation speed does not vary purely by location; 2) a heavy vehicle is faster to discharge than its passenger car size-equivalent is; 3) the queue in a left-turn lane discharges faster than that in a through lane; 4) an upgrade slope increases the queue dissipation time due to more rolling resistance to vehicle start-up and larger vehicle gaps for safety ; 5) morning queues generally discharge more slowly; 6) contrary to common delay estimation models, regression analysis shows that queue dissipation time is linearly related to the number of vehicles rather than quadratically or in other ways; and 7) the simple linear function performs well both in terms of explanatory power (R2) and consistency of signs.
2013-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53161/1/MPRA_paper_53161.pdf
Omid, M. Rouhani (2013): Queue Dissipation Shockwave Speed for Signalized Intersections.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:53167
2019-09-26T16:40:05Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53167/
Pakistan Economy DSGE Model with Informality-The Empirics of Calibration
Ahmed, Waqas
D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
E1 - General Aggregative Models
Z00 - General
This paper serves as an empirics guide to the "Pakistan Economy DSGE Model with Informality" paper by Ahmed, et al. (2012) covering the empirical aspects regarding calibration of both the model and shocks related parameters. We have tried to focus as much as possible on micro level empirical data where ever possible in order to calibrate the parameters. We have made use of international literature for pinning down of certain parameters where the empirical and national literature exhausted.
2012-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53167/1/MPRA_paper_53167.pdf
Ahmed, Waqas (2012): Pakistan Economy DSGE Model with Informality-The Empirics of Calibration.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:53357
2019-10-02T22:22:18Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53357/
Roots of disaffectation in Punjab - Comments on the book "Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy " by Pritam Singh
Singh, Ajit
B0 - General
Z0 - General
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
The proposed book represents a serious, thoughtful and original contribution to the study of the political economy of Punjab, and more generally to the analysis of regional economic development in federally organised states in the developing world. It focuses on the Punjab, a geo-politically important state on India’s north-western frontier with Pakistan. Punjab is also the country’s bread-basket providing a very large proportion of the food grains needed to feed the teeming urban population. The state comprises 2 per cent of India’s population and a lower proportion of its land area, yet it provides 60-70 per cent of wheat and rice consumed by India’s urban population.
2010-10-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53357/1/MPRA_paper_53357.pdf
Singh, Ajit (2010): Roots of disaffectation in Punjab - Comments on the book "Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy " by Pritam Singh. Published in: Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. XLVI, No. 5 (29 January 2011)
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