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Journal: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.20955/r.92.265-302
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Abstract: This essay articulates the principles and practices of New Monetarism, the authors' label for a recent body of work on money, banking, payments, and asset markets. They first discuss methodological issues distinguishing their approach from others: New Monetarism has something in common with Old Monetarism, but there are also important differences; ...
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Journal: Financial Services Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.61190/fsr.v19i2.4967
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Abstract: This study conducts Monte Carlo simulations to compare the performances of three popular asset allocation strategies in the financial press, that is, dollar-cost-averaging, value averaging, and proportional rebalancing, in the 401(k) plan framework. Value-averaging generates a higher terminal value for a retirement portfolio than the other two stra...
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Journal: Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/jcem.2010.51
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Abstract: The attention of engineers is turned to the application of precast spun concrete columns reinforced by highstrength steel bars for office and administrative buildings. The paper discusses a possibility of using the reliability index approach to designing beam-columns of building frames and analyses resistance criteria for beam-columns of annular cr...
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Journal: Australasian Journal of Information Systems
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3127/ajis.v16i2.538
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Abstract: This paper highlights systemic contextual differences and the unique IT Governance issues that might arise in public and private sector organizations. Public sector organizations constitute a significant component of economic activity in most countries. Like their private sector counterparts, many public sector agencies are struggling to cope with ...
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Journal: Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1016/S2092-5212(10)80005-7
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Abstract: We propose a mathematical model to minimize the overall response time consisting of the current ship incident and future potential incident that might occur at some other site in the sea. Considering the uncertainties in both objective function and constraints, a two stage stochastic programming model having chance constraints for the number of res...
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Journal: Business: Theory and Practice
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/btp.2010.21
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Abstract: Under the conditions of intense competition, concentration is a strategy, allowing an enterprise to stay competitive in the market. In spite of its importance, the influence of concentration on the results of commercial activities of particular enterprises and industries has not been thoroughly investigated. The correlation - regression analysis ha...
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Journal: South African Journal of Business Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v41i4.528
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Abstract: Researchers have generally established the connection between innovativeness and cultural values. However, in these studies men are typically the majority of respondents. There is also no effort in these studies to treat women as a distinct cultural entity although there is evidence suggesting that social conditioning, particularly in masculine soc...
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Journal: South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.4102/sajems.v13i2.44
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Abstract: In an international research climate of increasingly demanding ethical review, based on a biomedical model, reflection on best practices in social, behavioural and economic science research is necessary. It is widely believed that these sciences cannot be held to the same practical requirements as those for biomedical research, although the princip...
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Journal: Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.7819/rbgn.v12i37.637
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Abstract: This article's main purpose consists in showing how family and ownership cultures may influence the process of making a "well-performing" organization, based on an empirical study in family business in Brazil. The study aimed to find critical moments of company's history and the focus was to compare critical moments with the three-dimension model o...
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Journal: Financial Services Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.61190/fsr.v19i3.4975
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Abstract: The issue of the optimal withdrawal sequence of retirement funds from a set of multiple accounts with different tax treatment is studied. Marital status and state of residence are identified as the factors that can significantly affect the optimal withdrawal strategy. Given the provision of the step-up in cost basis for a full value of the joint ta...
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Journal: International Journal of Health Geographics
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-35
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Abstract: Background: This paper investigates the impact of geographic scale (census tract, zip code, and county) on the detection of disparities in breast cancer mortality among three ethnic groups in Texas (period 1995-2005). Racial disparities were quantified using both relative (RR) and absolute (RD) statistics that account for the population size and co...
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Journal: Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/jcem.2010.21
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Abstract: Lateral torsional buckling is a key factor in the design of steel girders. Stability can be enhanced by crossbracing, reducing the effective length and thus increasing the ultimate capacity. U-frames are an option often used to brace the girders, when designing through type of bridges and where overhead bracing is not practical. This paper investig...
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Journal: Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3311/pp.so.2010-1.05
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Abstract: This paper is about the phenomenon that competence assets never manifest in their whole magnitude and worth. Due to his fact, we do not have complete and fully reliable information about their real magnitude, either in quantity or value. And yet, this may not give an excuse not to look into this matter and not to manage this important and increasin...
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Journal: Intangible Capital
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3926/ic.2010.v6n2.p142-161
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Abstract: Intangible assets are difficult to measure, but nowadays the value of the shares of firms in the stock exchange market contains a high percentage of intangible capital and customers are one of the main intangible assets that should be evaluated. This paper presents and discusses some tools to measure the value of customers. But first, it is mandato...
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Journal: Business: Theory and Practice
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/btp.2010.34
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Abstract: The authors of this article established the goal to detect and evaluate the wide possibilities for strengthening the value orientation towards innovativeness in the industrial enterprises. For this purpose exploration of the valuation on the innovativeness as a value was made. The authors of this article performed necessary research, analyses, eval...
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Journal: South African Journal of Business Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v41i3.520
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Abstract: This study examines the impact of South Africa's national soccer, rugby and cricket teams' performances in international matches on returns on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Match results constitute a mood proxy variable hypothesised to affect stock returns through its influence on investor mood. The unconditional mean return on the JSE All...
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Journal: South African Journal of Business Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v41i2.516
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Abstract: In a business environment of continuous change and in light of a defined need to fast track skills improvement in South Africa and Africa, training strategies and practices are under increasing pressure to develop a more productive and skilled workforce. Demands on training and the practices it employs increasingly focus on the alignment with strat...
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Journal: Economy of Regions
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.17059/2010-2-9
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Abstract: Negative influence of the crisis processes on the State and business cooperation in terms of implementation of socially significant investment projects has been reviewed in the article. It has been demonstrated that the major crisis threats to development of partner relations of the State and business are based on the general economic situation in ...
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Journal: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.20955/r.92.129-154
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Abstract: The increasingly rapid productivity growth that began in the 1990s was the defining economic event of the decade and a major topic of debate among Federal Reserve policymakers. A key aspect of the debate was the contrast between information contained in aggregate data, which initially suggested little productivity gain, and anecdotal firm-level evi...
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Journal: International Journal of Health Geographics
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-30
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Abstract: Background: Economic development is often evoked as a driving force that has the capacity to improve the social and health conditions of remote areas. However, development projects produce uneven impacts on local communities, according to their different positions within society. This study examines the spatial distribution of three major health th...