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Public sector gambling: local council investment exposures

Bowrey, Graham; Jones, Greg - 2009

Local councils in New South Wales (NSW) have the authority to invest ratepayers' money that is not currently required … for any other purpose by the council. At the end of 2006-07 financial year local councils in New South Wales had invested … millions of dollars. In NSW the state government commissioned a review of the financial exposures of NSW local councils to be …

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Local government investing: a form of gambling?

Bowrey, Graham D; Jones, Gregory - 2010

Currently in the state of New South Wales (NSW) local government councils have the authority to invest ratepayers …‟ money. At the end of 2006-07 financial year local councils in NSW had invested $590 million dollars in structured financial … financial investments of NSW local councils to be undertaken. The Review, Cole Report, published in 2008 found that while acting …

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Consumers' perceptions and preferences for sustainably-produced fruits and vegetables: the case of organic, local, and small farm

Whorton, Carly - 2011

pay a premium for sustainably-produced fruits and vegetables. Organic, local, and small farm are the three cases used in … important factor for consumers who did not purchase organic and local products more frequently while unavailability was the ….5 percent of the time) consume local fruits and vegetables also but not the other way around. The relevant socio …

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Evaluating eREVERSE auctions (EeRA): A research note

Irani, Z; Elliman, T; Hackney, R - 2006

) within local government procurement processes. Theadoption of an eRA invites pre-qualified suppliers to compete with each …

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FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL WITH CITY BRANDING

Popescu, Gabriela Virginia - 2017

of city branding process as a response to the local versus global debate, highlighting the city branding status in …. Key words: city brand, globalization, local, Romania JEL Classification: M30, O18 …

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FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL WITH CITY BRANDING

Popescu, Gabriela Virginia - 2017

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Topics in Longitudinal Studies with Coarsened Data

Jiang, Liqiu - 2007

In the first part of the dissertation, we derive two methods for responders analysis in longitudinal data with random missing data. Often a binary variable is generated by dichotomizing an underlying continuous variable measured at a specific point in time according to a prespecified threshold...

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Unit Root Tests in Time Series and Stochastic Volatility Models

Sen, Kapildeb - 2002

Providing appropriate forecasts of time series data into the future depends crucially on whether the time series under consideration is non-stationary (i.e. has a unit root) or stationary. In the context of a Stochastic Volatility Model (SVM), the presence of a unit root in financial data has...

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Adjustment for Measurement Error

Elliott, Laine E - 2009

A variety of complications arise when imperfect measurements, W, are observed in place of a true variable of interest, X. In the context of linear and non-linear regression models where X is a covariate, regression parameter estimators obtained when W is substituted for X may be substantially...

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Semiparametric approaches to inference in joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data

Song, Xiao - 2002

In many longitudinal studies, it is of interest to characterize the relationship between a time-to-event (e.g. survival) and time-dependent and time-independent covariates. Time-dependent covariates are generally observed intermittently and with error.For a single time-dependent covariate, a...

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