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Journal: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.20955/r.92.303-10
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Abstract: The author presents a search-based model in which money coexists with equity shares on a risky aggregate endowment. Agents can use equity as a means of payment, so shocks to equity prices translate into aggregate liquidity shocks that disrupt the mechanism of exchange. The author characterizes a family of optimal monetary policies and finds that th...
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Journal: International Journal of Strategic Property Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/ijspm.2010.24
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Abstract: Post-disaster reconstruction is likely to suffer resource shortages and supply disruptions. The devastating Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008 in China served as a typical example. After the catastrophe, resource problems such as price escalation and market inflation posed a significant challenge to Chinese policy makers and reconstruction team. Ba...
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Journal: Financial Services Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.61190/fsr.v19i4.4988
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Abstract: This paper investigates the changing nature of equity investment risks across time horizon, an important issue in asset allocation decisions. We extend the literature by concentrating on different investment styles and by incorporating investors' risk tolerance into the analysis. Our results show that for more risk-averse investors, the large-cap g...
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Journal: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.20955/r.92.165-176
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Abstract: This article reviews the role of monetary and fiscal policy in the financial crisis and draws lessons for future macroeconomic policy. It shows that policy deviated from what had worked well in the previous two decades by becoming more interventionist, less rules-based, and less predictable. The policy implications are thus that policy should "get ...
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Journal: Business Research
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/BF03342715
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Abstract: Conjoint analysis (CA) is one of the most important methods for preference elicitation. In this paper we investigate the intellectual structure within the conjoint analytical research community. Analyses based on single papers provide a method-based overview of streams of conjoint research. By using novel bibliometric techniques in this field we co...
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Journal: International Journal of Health Geographics
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-44
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Abstract: Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and endoscopic screening can both detect and prevent cancer, but utilization is suboptimal and varies across geographic regions. We use multilevel regression to examine the various predictors of individuals' decisions to utilize endoscopic CRC scre...
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Journal: Business: Theory and Practice
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/btp.2010.35
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Abstract: Municipal waste management system - a complex, dynamic system, characterized by large volumes of waste generated, waste biodiversity and different system participants. The paper presents results of municipal waste management structural analysis. These are the characteristics of waste management cycle of five phases (waste generation, sorting at sou...
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Journal: International Journal of Strategic Property Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/ijspm.2010.06
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Abstract: This article on issues related to real property taxes has two parts. Part One deliberates the concept of sustainable development as well as Lithuania's real property taxation system and possible ways to improve it. Part Two analyses various methods of land assessment. The objectives of this paper are to analyze the importance of a tax on real prope...
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Journal: International Journal of Health Geographics
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-27
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Abstract: Background: A 30 minute drive time threshold has often been cited as indicative of accessible health services. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a chronic disease management program designed to enhance and maintain cardiovascular health, and geographic barriers to utilization are often cited. The purpose of this study was to empirically test the drive...
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Journal: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3926/jiem.2010.v3n1.p199-220
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Abstract: In this study, we predict the daily volatility of the S&P CNX NIFTY market index of India using the basic 'heterogeneous autoregressive' (HAR) and its variant. In doing so, we estimated several HAR and Log form of HAR models using different regressor. The different regressors were obtained by extracting the jump and continuous component and the thr...
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Journal: Economy of Regions
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.17059/2010-2-3
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Abstract: The authors of the present paper consider development of perception and estimation of the economic category "investment demand" of a region from the standpoint of its significance in reference to regional policy-making and investment process management in a region. In order to specify regional policy priorities, a model of a finance-investment act ...
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Journal: Journal of Business Economics and Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/jbem.2010.15
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Abstract: In this paper, an empirical study is conducted to explore the paths of internationalization for Chinese manufacturing firms. Correspondence analysis was employed to examine the relationship between the internationalization paths and the firms' form of ownership. It reveals that the internationalization paths of Chinese firms appear to be in a form ...
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Journal: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.20955/r.92.121-128
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Abstract: Proponents of fiscal stimulus argue that government spending is needed to replace the private spending normally lost during a recession. Estimates of the so-called fiscal multiplier based on wartime episodes are used to support the proposition that a peacetime intervention can "stimulate" the economy in a desirable manner. The author argues that a ...
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Journal: South African Journal of Business Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.4102/sajbm.v41i4.526
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Abstract: South Africa's Equity market provides a large (in terms of volume) but concentrated investment environment. Domestic pension funds are restricted from diversifying globally and are thus faced with a restricted set of investment opportunities. This article describes and quantifies the extent of the concentration on the JSE historically and at presen...
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Journal: Journal of Business Economics and Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/jbem.2010.14
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Abstract: Cooperation is a strategy of an enterprise, seeking to retain its market share. The cooperation means the establishment of long-term relations of production between economically and legally independent enterprises. The measurement of the level of cooperation achieved plays an important part in this process because it helps to determine the effect o...
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Journal: Economy of Regions
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.17059/2010-4-27
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Abstract: The paper presents two demographic models. The models are built for population of the Kirov region. The first one is a dynamic model. The second one applies the technique of ageing. By way of the correlation-regression analysis significant factors influencing a birth and death rate factor are singled out. Both models forecast the dynamics of reduct...
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Journal: Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.3846/jcem.2010.44
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Abstract: This study describes the implementation of a 2-D finite element model of an integral abutment bridge (IAB) system which explicitly incorporates the nonlinear soil response. The superstructure members have been represented by means of three-node isoparametric beam elements with three degrees of freedom per node. The soil mass is idealized by eight n...
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Journal: South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.4102/sajems.v13i2.42
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Abstract: This study estimates the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a project (i.e. the Working for Water Programme) aimed at removing alien vegetation and restoring indigenous vegetation in Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The WTP estimate reflects the benefit of preference for indigenous vegetation over alien vegetation. In a survey, a questionnaire was...
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Journal: Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.22146/gamaijb.5502
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Abstract: Competition in global industries is shifting increasingly from inter-firm rivalry to rivalry between networks of firms. Strategies of individual firms are thus contingent on the degree of interdependence that exists between them and the parent firm in the network. The present study examines the effect of network affiliation on a member firm's decis...
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Journal: International Journal of Health Geographics
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-23
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Abstract: Background: The volume of health science publications is escalating rapidly. Thus, keeping up with developments is becoming harder as is the task of finding important cross-domain connections. When geographic location is a relevant component of research reported in publications, these tasks are more difficult because standard search and indexing fa...