Search Results - subject:"Functions"

Marta_Cardin; Paola_Ferretti - EconWPA - 2004

In past years the study of the impact of risk attitude among risks has become a major topic, in particular in Decision Sciences. Subsequently the attention was devoted to the more general case of bivariate random variables. The first approach to multivariate risk aversion was proposed by de...

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Changing dimensions of accountants' role and skill requirements in organisations: findings from the corporate sector in Bahrain

Joshi, Prem Lal; Bremser, Wayne G. - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 1 (2004) 3, pp. 363-384

also changing. This study examines the changing dimensions of accountants' roles and functions, using a survey of 36 … companies in the Kingdom of Bahrain. We surveyed accountants to seek their views on importance of 16 functions. The respondents … ranked ordered "managing the accounting and finance functions", "examining and evaluating the company's financial and …

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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...

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Short-Run Maquiladora Employment Dynamics

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Schauer, David A - EconWPA - 2004

Maquiladora sector employment in Ciudad juarez, Mexico grew substantially between January 1981 and December 1998. An ARIMA transfer function model is estimated to examine the short-run empirical characetristics of this growth. Real wages, the number of factories in operation, U.S. industrial...

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Correspondence On the Selection of Error Measures for Comparisons Among Forecasting Methods

Armstrong, JS; Fildes, Robert - EconWPA - 2004

Clements and Hendry (1993) proposed the Generalized Forecast Error Second Moment (GFESM) as an improvement to the Mean Square Error in comparing forecasting performance across data series. They based their conclusion on the fact that rankings based on GFESM remain unaltered if the series are...

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Knowledge Agents Represented by Knowledge Functions

Kreft, Hans-Diedrich - EconWPA - 2004

Knowledge as the basis of science has up to now only verbally defined features which are not accepted between all sciences. On the other hand knowledge must have some interoperable, physical related features since otherwise we wouldn’t be able to exchange knowledge between humans. With the...

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STRUCTURING PRODUCT-MARKETS: AN APPROACH BASED ON CUSTOMER VALUE

Staat, Matthias; Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik - EconWPA - 2004

We offer an efficiency-based approach to derive market partitions and respective benchmarks using Data Envelopment Analysis. Product efficiency is measured as an output to input value from the customer’s perspective. Products offering a maximum customer value relative to alternatives represent...

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Interest Rate Setting by the ECB: Words and Deeds

Gerlach, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

impact on its interest rate decisions. I also estimate reaction functions with ordered probit techniques, using the Monthly …

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Can Intelligence Help Improve Market Performance?

Yeh, Chia-Hsuan - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2004

The issue regarding the influence of intelligence on market efficiency has been discussed for a long time. Gode and Sunder (1993) mentioned that the aggregate behavior of zero-intelligence traders is able to generate an efficient market. They introduced two types of markets composed of...

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The Dynamics of Plant-level Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing

White, Kirk; Abraham, Arpad - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2004

Recent work in I.O. has emphasized the importance of firm- and plant-level heterogeneity in total factor productivity. Jensen and McGuckin (1996) argue that the major empirical regularity in studies of firm or establishment level productivity is heterogeneity within sectors and across plant...

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