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Inflation and US music mechanicals, 1976-2010
Alhadeff, Peter; McChrystal, Caz - In: Global Business and Economics Review 13 (2011) 1, pp. 1-12
devaluation of the US mechanical rate against inflation since the Copyright Act of 1976. As Congress and the CARP Tribunal are … ultimately involved in setting terms, the implication is that songwriters and their publishers are losing power in the USA … against the record labels. For a variety of reasons, the phenomenon seems to be particular to the USA. It has also gone …
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Estimating residential water demand in the absence of volumetric water pricing
Houk, Eric E. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 12 (2010) 3, pp. 196-202
Rapid population growth has significantly increased the magnitude of water shortages in California. Although water shortages already exist, some of the state's utility systems are still not providing their residents with financial incentives for water conservation. Instead of using water meters...
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How sensitive is US-Sweden trade to the kronor-dollar rate: evidence from industry data
Bahmani-Oskooee, Mohsen; Hajilee, Masoumeh - In: Global Business and Economics Review 12 (2010) 4, pp. 359-383
-run significant impact of depreciation on Swedish trade balance, especially with the USA. We wonder whether lack of any significant …
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Dimensional analysis of real estate portfolio selection methods
Strang, Kenneth David - In: Global Business and Economics Review 16 (2014) 3, pp. 269-295
from a random sample of licensed real property project managers in the USA. A concurrent embedded mixed-method research …
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Where to? – The EU unemployment post crisis
Mihai-Yiannaki, Simona - In: Global Business and Economics Review 13 (2011) 3/4, pp. 240-256
The paper combines under a literature review, secondary and tertiary data analysis, a unique construct of three perspectives: the new classical macroeconomics theory related to unemployment, a finance approach of the relationship with exchange rates and the legal repercussions of the social...
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China and India leading a global insurgency within the software industry
Crookes, Paul C. Irwin; McManus, John - In: Global Business and Economics Review 15 (2013) 4, pp. 417-431
US companies more openly admit the growth of offshore outsourcing to countries like India and China now that presidential elections are over. The rise of India and China as potentially high technology software competitors and important participant in the world's software industry has seemingly...
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A comparison of ethical perceptions of earnings-management practices - MENA region and USA
Jooste, Leonie - In: Global Business and Economics Review 16 (2014) 1, pp. 46-59
university in the USA and shows that there is a significant difference between the perceptions of the universities. The …
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The business method patent: a barrier to global harmonisation of intellectual property rights?
Hemphill, Thomas A. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 8 (2006) 3/4, pp. 179-186
, especially in the context of computer technology, cyber networks, or as a method of e-commerce. In recent years, the USA has …-related application. This article focuses on the public policy issues related to business method patents in the USA, and subsequently …
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Interdependence of fiscal decentralisation and economic development: a vector autoregression analysis
Shamsub, Hannarong; Mehanna, Rock-Antoine - In: Global Business and Economics Review 7 (2005) 2/3, pp. 262-277
This empirical study investigates the relationship between local fiscal decentralisation and economic development among all US states from 1977 through 1997 by employing a vector autoregression (VAR) model. While past literature focused on a one way relationship between fiscal decentralisation...
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Bayesian portfolio selection under a multifactor asset return model with predictive model selection
Ando, Tomohiro - In: Global Business and Economics Review 14 (2012) 1/2, pp. 77-101
This paper addresses the problem of portfolio selection under a multifactor asset return model, using Bayesian analysis to deal with uncertainties in parameter estimation and model specification. These sources of error are ignored in the classical mean-variance method. We apply two approaches:...
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