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Commercial Property Price Indexes: Problems of Sparse Data, Spatial Spillovers, and Weighting
Silver, Mick; Graf, Brian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Transaction-price residential (house) and commercial property price indexes (RPPIs and CPPIs) have inherent problems of sparse data on heterogeneous properties, more so CPPIs. In an attempt to control for heterogeneity, (repeat-sales and hedonic) panel data regression frameworks are typically...
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Revisiting Convergence: A case study form American States
Ray, Rita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the convergence of wage and salary disbursements per job and compensation of employees per job …
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Policy Initiative Dilemmas Surrounding Media Convergence: A Cross National Perspective
Menon, Siddhartha - In: Prometheus 24 (2006) 1, pp. 59-80
The discourse surrounding convergence of mass media content and infrastructures has been fraught with extravagant … convergence issue in order to explore the disconnect between the hype and realities of convergence. Three research questions … characterize the relevant existing policy initiatives, identify obstacles to convergence and in comparativist terms ascertain which …
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
stable stylised fact, or whether it is a new phenomenon, the outcome of a process of convergence towards the current '50 …
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Africa does not need IFRS
Sy, Aida; Tinker, Tony - In: African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-8
A great deal of hype surrounds the so-called revolution in accounting standard setting. The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) enterprise aims to introduce a single global accounting and financial reporting language that would standardise reporting practices throughout the globe....
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Stability and Change in Managerial Work Values: A Longitudinal Study of China, Hong Kong, and the U.S.
Ralston, David A.; Pounder, James; Lo, Carlos W.H.; … - In: Management and Organization Review 2 (2006) 1, pp. 67-94
, and the U.S. Using hierarchical cluster analysis, we test the validity of the three competing perspectives ¥V convergence …
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Agricultural productivity and trade: Argentina and the U.S.A.
Chichilnisky, Graciela; McLeod, D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1984
We study labor productivity in agriculture within a two-region, two factor and two commodity economy. Increases in productivity can lead to higher or to lower agricultural prices, depending on the internal structure of the economy. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for either outcome;...
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The Impact of Population Ageing on Technological Progress and TFP Growth, with Application to United States: 1950-2050
Izmirlioglu, Yusuf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I examine the effect of age-distribution of the society on economic growth through technological progress. I build a multisector economy model that involves population pyramid. I characterize the steady-state of the model for low and high population growth rate. Higher population growth rate...
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MACRO-ECONOMETRIC MODELS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND: INDUSTRY, TRADE AND WAGES IN 6 COUNTRIES, 1960-2012
Guisan, M.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 13 (2013) 2, pp. 45-56
We analyse the impact of industry on non industrial production, as well as its effect on wages and employment in 6 OECD countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States for the period 1960-2012. Our approach to macro-econometric modelling have into account both...
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Global rebalancing: Effects on trade and employment
Mayer, Jörg - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 6, pp. 627-642
A sustained reduction of global current-account imbalances must include a decline in the share of household consumption in aggregate demand in the United States and the opposite development in China. Accordingly, import demand would decline in the United States and increase in China. Given...
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