... largely to the organizational context: the company’s strategic choices, the norms within the sector, andthe national level regulations and standards in force For example, decisions regarding the introduction ... (Atkinson & Meager, 1986) The core consists of those employees on traditional permanent contracts, while all those on non-standard contracts make up the periphery Extra attention needs to be paid on ... Traditional Brick -and- Mortar Companies 25 consider change and, where necessary, to implement innovation quickly This balance between strong routines onthe one hand, andthe freedom to experiment and...
... Condition and Income, National Information Center Database deposit share has come at the expense of regional and super-regional banking organizations, those in the $10–100 billion range Another ... to obtain all their financial services from one company could benefit them in two ways—through synergies onthe production side or synergies onthe consumption side The consumption synergies from ... Banking,” Journal of Economics and Business, November Long, Simon 2000 “Online Finance: The Virtual Threat,” The Economist, May 20 Marks, James 1999 TheImpact of the Internet on Users and Suppliers...
... coefficients in the regression have the interpretation of the basis point change in the interest rate in response to a one standard deviation unit increase in the magnitude of the monetary surprise ... expectations of the possible size and composition of a new round of asset purchases by the Federal Reserve and their response to the November announcement clearly depended on these expectations Understanding ... announcements in order to fully understand the direction and magnitude of the financial price responses To highlight the relation between the magnitudes of the surprise and response of interest rates, Figure...
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... in the DMP, andthe concessions creditors have agreed to The final contract must include a cancellation provision giving the consumer three days to cancel without obligation In addition, either ... few common themes emerge For example, most states allow nonattorneys to make legal forms available to consumers and to complete those forms at the direction of the consumer Onthe other hand, most ... (CCCS) of the regions they served The CCCS agencies were affiliated with the National Foundation for Consumer Credit (NFCC),10 a national trade organization that controls the name “Consumer Credit...
... (rit ) is the conditionally expected return (conditioned on information up to t-1) onthe ith currency position in excess of the return onthe equivalent U.S asset βt-1 is the conditional beta, ... (εt) The conditional betas are replaced by the conditional covariance between the currency deposit excess returns andthe realization of each factor, divided by the conditional variance of the ... note andthe three-month Treasury bill, the riskfree rate (RFREE) measured as the return onthe one-month Treasury bill, andthe U.S market portfolio All instruments are lagged one month All standard...
... periods, the commercialisation of water andthe neglect of water and range land conservation led to the decimation of the herds andthe pastoralists who represent 50 percent of the population The ... downsizing the civil service; removal of tariff barriers, subsidies; deregulation; and restructuring of the Central Bank One of the conditions for the normalisation of economic relations andthe lifting ... clearing andthe control of game These preventive measures were destroyed when colonial wars, famine and disease took a toll onthe human and livestock population With fewer people to till the land and...
... the same business license Concerning the certified auditors, the law mandates only one professional organization as the responsible authority to organize, regulate and supervise the work of the ... for the accounting and auditing practitioners In addition to that, the current legislation creates frictions between the business andthe tax authorities and between the field practitioners and ... whistleblowers, theimpact of the ICT andthe unstable reporting environment, that seem to present the major hindrances for the today’s professionals in Albania The introduction of the new NAS in 2006 and their...
... over the period of the analysis, as well as for economic and monetary regime changes, such as the creation of the monetary union andthe introduction of the euro A list of the variables used in the ... by the growth rate of the population andthe ratio of the non-working age population to the working age population, split between old and young dependency ratio; (iii) the level of taxation (proxied ... by the level of public debt, in endogenous growth models and find a negative relation as well Several theoretical contributions have focused onthe adverse impact of external debt onthe economy...
... interested in theimpact of iv regulatory action andthe effectiveness of the SEC, and academics interested in measuring theimpact of accounting-related government regulation andthe performance ... uses other means to settle the investigation (e.g., a deferred prosecution agreement),12 then the market receives no formal indication of the conclusion If the SEC successfully investigates the ... relation to the issuance of the AAER is again critical to assessing the information delivered to the market If the restatement arrives before the AAER, it could preempt the information content of the...
... of the 26 items on psychosocial working conditions, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis using a direct oblimin method with a non-orthogonal rotation, based onthe theoretical assumption ... [26,27] The lack of knowledge regarding the psychosocial working environment and its relationship to mental health among female professional cleaning personnel provided the rationale for the present ... logistic regression models http://www.occup-med.com/content/1/1/24 Table displays the correlation matrix for the dimensions of psychosocial work conditions andthe three work organization variables...
... selects another random location within the simulation region and moves into it The whole process is continuously repeated until the end of the simulation time Figure shows an example for the movement ... position by selecting a random direction and a random speed The node randomly and uniformly selects its new direction θ(t) from (0, 2π] and speed v(t) from (0, Vmax ] During the time interval t, the ... observations made andthe conclusions drawn from the simulation studies may be misleading This study has the following two main objectives (1) To study theimpact of other well-known random mobility...
... reduction Since the 1970s andthe identification of poverty with the rural population of the developing world, theory and research ontheimpact of transport investments on poverty have focused on their ... road construction, railway construction, rural electrificaThe PRC study examined the use of transport and tion, and roads and electrification combined with access energy services by poor and nonpoor ... and Buri Ram provinces in the Northeast Region and Nakhon Si Thammarat Province in the Southern Region The two urban sites were in Nakhon Ratchasima City and Bangkok Three different definitions...
... that, in addition to their impacts on income dimensions of poverty, transport and energy have significant impacts on nonincome dimensions such as health, education, personal security, and community ... road construction, railway construction, rural electrificaThe PRC study examined the use of transport and tion, and roads and electrification combined with access energy services by poor and nonpoor ... and Buri Ram provinces in the Northeast Region and Nakhon Si Thammarat Province in the Southern Region The two urban sites were in Nakhon Ratchasima City and Bangkok Three different definitions...
... Steering Committee concluded that additional analysis was needed to further explore the results of the country studies and to further develop the policy and operational implications of the research ... gap analysis andthe formulation of proposals for the field research, described in Chapter The study team identified research ontheimpact of transportation and energy infrastructure on poverty ... dependent onthe policy context Thus, the study needed to take into account variations in policy context as well as actual infrastructure investment These variations include both macroeconomic and...
... is often due to disconnection, often geographical, from the wider economy and society (Datt and Ravallion 2002, Jalan and Ravallion 2002) The provision of infrastructure and services is critical ... review on how increased access to infrastructure services impacts on poverty reduction in four sectorsenergy, water and sanitation, transportation, and information and communication (Brenneman and ... to the nonpoor, the poor, andthe very poor, in order to calculate a poverty impact ratio The participatory approach also helps identify nonmonetary benefits and costs perceived by the poor, and...
... sanitation systems and scale urban works having optimal impactonthe employincreasing the operational and end-user efficiency of enment and incomes of the poor, and through the promotion ergy and ... likely impacts in three interacting areas in the rural economy: the production and service sectors, the institutional and social service sectors, and the household sector In the production and ... implementation The reports gave limited information on how the poverty reduction objective of these projects would be addressed in the definition, collection, and analysis of the data Proposed monitoring...
... interventions on include urban vs rural setting, land availability and qualpoverty reduction is strongly conditioned by the context ity, available technologies for production (farm and nonin which these ... identify the potential environmental impacts of projects, direct and indirect, and evaluate whether the poor bear a disproportionate share of such costs The construction and operation of infrastructure ... savings andthe ways in which they are reflected through the economy, the field research considered other effects that projects may have onthe poor One of the most important attributes mentioned...
... health care and education conditions and enhances the contact and communication of the poor with the outside world However, the study team found that the positive impacts of transport and energy ... another The province has three natural regions: the mountainous southern region, the central Weihe Valley, andthe northern upland plateau Population density is highest in the central region, ... productivity of land by increasing their cash crop income This conclusion is reinforced by data from the field survey sample (Table 5.24) Owing to the constraints on land and climate conditions, the varieties...