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Economic Development in Imperfect Economies
Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science
Joe is one a small group of influential economists who brought theorizing aboutdevelopment processes to a new level. In trying to understand the reasons why low pooreconomies remain so, he was among the first to appreciate the importance of informationand contracting issues. His seminal...
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Does Information Change Behavior?
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
This paper reviews and synthesizes the theory of information economics and empiricalevidence on how information changes … the behavior of consumers, households and firms. I show thatconsumers respond to new information in food experiments but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360743
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Leading Economic Indexes for New York State and New Jersey
Orr, James; Rich, Robert; Rosen, Rae - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2001
[...]This article describes a method by which we may moreaccurately predict regional economic activity. Specifically, wedevelop an index of leading economic indicators (LEI) forNew York State and for New Jersey over the 1972-99 period.We extend our earlier work (Orr, Rich, and Rosen 1999),...
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Formation of Fiscal Policy: The Experience of the Past Twenty-Five Years
Auerbach, Alan J. - University of California <Berkeley, Calif.> / Berkeley … - 2000
[...]With fiscal affairs apparently in order—at least in the shortrun—and with some perspective on the past twenty-five years’economic performance, we are in a position to ask how well thebudget process has worked to produce a coherent andresponsive fiscal policy, particularly given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870023
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Bericht der AG3: Information strukturieren und präsentieren
Hallstein, Patricia; Henning, Dietmar; Kramer, Axel; … - 1996
. Was ist Information? Entsteht sie erst im Kopf der RezipientIn? Wenn ja, wie beeinflußt eine solche Sicht unser Nachdenken … über Information und ihren Aufenthaltsort, sowie Verarbeitung?Gibt es Gestaltungsprinzipien oder Vorgehensweisen, nach …
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Partial Information and Default Hazard Process
Jeanblanc, Monique; Valchev, Stoyan - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2004
This paper studies in some examples the role of information in a default-risk framework. In a first-passage model, we … assume that investors obtain two types of information about the firm’s unlevered asset value at a discrete sequence of dates …. The effects of information on the distributional properties of default time and on the valuation of default-risky bonds …
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The benefit of information reduction for trading strategies
Schittenkopf, Christian; Dorffner, Georg; Tiňo, Peter - 2000
Motivated by previous findings that discretization of financial time series can effectively filter the data and reduce the noise, this experimental study compares the trading performance of predictive models based on different modelling paradigms in a realistic setting. Different methods ranging...
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Gelingende Kommunikation ist Information
Bergmann, Gustav - Universität <Siegen> / Lehrstuhl für Marketing - 2002
Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit Kommunikationsmanagement und entwickelt einen systematischen Ansatz.
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Lernen im Marketing
Bergmann, Gustav - Universität <Siegen> / Lehrstuhl für Marketing - 2001
Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit den Formen des individuellen und kollektiven Lernens. Beantwortet werden soll dabei die Frage in wie weit wesentliche Informationen selektiert und zu handlungslietenden Muster systematisiert werden können.
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Organisation, Kommunikation und Architektur
Matiaske, Wenzel - 2002
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