Economic theory Microeconomics Macroeconomics Decision Sciences Mathematical Economics Econometrics MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Application of economic theory and decision science tools to solve managerial decision problems OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS TO MANAGERIAL DECISION PROBLEMS Managerial Decision Problems Economic theory Microeconomics Macroeconomics Decision Sciences Mathematical Economics Econometrics MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Application of economic theory and decision science tools to solve
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Lalonde* Principal Researcher International Department Bank of Canada Zhenhua Zhu Economist Research Department Bank of Canada October 18, 2002 Frédérick Demers** Economist Research Department Bank of Canada Abstract This paper develops simple econometric models to analyze and forecast three components of the Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI), namely non-energy commodity prices (BCNE), the West Texas Intermediate crude oil price (WTI), and other energy prices. In the paper, we present different
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Article Brief analysis The article focused and stressed on how organizations may be able to invest on their lowest level employee to add-value to the organization and ultimately achieve in building assets in the long-term. The case study article focused on proving the effectiveness of an incentive plan on companies and corporations. In addition, the authors wanted to prove that productivity of an organization will be on the rise. There are several positive outcomes resulted from the Jenkins Bricks
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is to check the weak form of efficiency and presence of calendar anomalies in equity markets of developing and developed countries. On the basis of most recent and relatively longer horizon (14 Year) data on daily basis and a range of powerful econometrics this study suggested that in broader sense both of developed and developing equity markets are weak form inefficient. Hence there is no remarkable difference in term of market efficiency in equity markets of developed and developing countries.
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forecasters have displayed a tendency to over-predict the level of unemployment, while simultaneously also over-predicting inflation. It is likely that these forecast errors have come from having been too gloomy about the NAIRU. In Section 3, I discuss econometric evidence suggesting that, in the 1990s, the traditional relationship between inflation and unemployment broke down. It is likely that a whole host of structural changes in the labour market (Sections 4 and 6) and the product market (Section 5)
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The Relationship between Real Interest Rates and Inflation Michał Brzoza-Brzezina* Abstract In the recent decade, a huge amount of papers, describing monetary policy rules based on nominal interest rates, has been written. As it is, however, well known, it is in fact the real and not the nominal interest rate, that can influence spending decisions of enterprises and households and thus inflation. One way, to describe the relationship between real interest rates and inflation, is based on our
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Political advertising – a brief survey The empirical political advertising literature is limited. Most authors refer to Rothschild’s seminal (1978) article, which is both a review and a report on his tests of an involvement model. The level of involvement of voters in a particular election could depend on a wide range of factors, but Rothschild offers three general ones: 1. the level of the election (national/local etc.); 2. the closeness of the race; and 3. the volatility of the issues
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Lecture 4: Credit risk The nature of banking is strongly related to the management and control of risks. This lecture gives an overview of the main risks to which banks are subject, namely interest rate risk/market risk, liquidity risk and credit risk, as well as broader systemic risks. We then examine economic issues relating to the core of banks’ traditional business, namely onbalance-sheet lending. We focus in particular on the various ways in which banks seek to control the risks arising from
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J.KAU: Islamic Econ., Vol. 19, No. 2, pp: 23-36 (2006 A.D./1427 A.H.) A Panel Data Analysis of Fee Income Activities in Islamic Banks SHAHIDA bt. SHAHIMI Candidate of Islamic economics and assistant lecturer of Islamic economics, banking & finance, Email: shahida@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my, ABD. GHAFAR B. ISMAIL Professor of banking and finance, Email: agibab@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my and SANEP B. AHMAD Lecturer of Islamic economics and statistical economics, Email: nep@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my Islamic Economics and Finance
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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