sample firms steadily increased diversification, a trend continued from earlier periods. Nevertheless, the relatedness of their constituent businesses gauged based on the Input-Output table remained high and stable throughout the study period. Econometric analysis reveals that firms pursuing the “constrained diversification” exploiting inter-business links centered on the core industry segment tend to achieve a higher profitability than firms engaged in the “linked diversification” exploiting links
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Keller Graduate School of Management Applied Managerial Statistics (GM533) Course Project Case Study: Grocery Bags data gathered and written by ME Applied Managerial Statistics GM533 Instructor: XX I. Executive Summary For this research I decided to develop my own case study and collect all the data myself. The data file named “Grocery Bag Study” (separate attachment), contains observations on 33 sample groups with a variation of 8 different characteristics (see table below). These
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Patron in Chief Khalid Amin, Chancellor and Chairman, Indus University (IU) Patron Mohammad Ahmed Amin VC, Indus University Co-patron Dr. Muneer Ahmed Qureshi PVC, Indus University President Dr. Gobind M. Herani, Dean, Indus University Organizing Secretary Dr. Aisha Ishrat Rizvi Dean, Social Sciences, IU Joint Secretary Mr. Usman Ali Warraich Chairperson, BA, IU Mr. Javed Iqbal Coordinator, BA, IU Ms. Sughandh Kumari, Faculty, KASBIT ADVOSORY BOARD Dr. Dora Marinova Curtin
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS 1 MOTIVATION • Usual textbook presentations treat producers as successful optimizers. They maximize production, minimize cost, and maximize profits. • Conventional econometric techniques build on this paradigm to estimate production/cost/profit function parameters using regression techniques where deviations of observed choices from optimal ones are modeled as statistical noise. • However though every producer may attempt to optimize, not all of them may succeed
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Mineral and Power Resources Introduction to Mineral Minerals are composed of inorganic particles. Minerals are found in the earth or are naturally occurring substances. They are found in rocks, and water. • Minerals are chemical substances. Some minerals like gold or silver are made of only one element. Other minerals, like quartz and calcite, are combinations of two or more elements. • Minerals always have the same chemical makeup. For example, quartz will always consist of one part silicon
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Monetary Policy ECON 201 Roger Capretta 5 October 2012 Governments use monetary policy as a tool to influence their economy. Usually, government will find a way to influence the economic activity in connection with their political objectives by using their monetary authority to control the availability and supply of cash flow throughout the economy. Their main goal is to achieve macroeconomic stability by enabling low unemployment, low inflation, economic growth and a balance of external payments
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Death Penalty Death penalty or capital punishment is the killing person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses. People have different opinion about this issue. Some people support death penalty and some people are against death penalty. It is very hard to decide what is right thing with this issue, but both sides have good reasons why should and why we should not have death penalty. In “The Federal
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marginal propensity to consume between the two periods and investigates the role of access to endowments and returns to endowments in explaining growth in household real food consumption spending. To achieve these objectives, use is made of a micro-econometric analysis of household real food consumption functions, a Shapley-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of growth in household consumption spending and the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys. Results show that the marginal propensity to
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Understanding the Factors Affecting The Unemployment Rate Through Regression Analysis An Individual Report Presented to The Faculty of Economics Department In Partial Fulfillment To The Requirements for ECONMET C31 Submitted to: Dr. Cesar Rufino Submitted by: Aaron John Dee 10933557 April 8, 2011 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 4 A. Background of the Study 4 B. Statement of the Problem 5 C. Objective 5 II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND RELATED
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Content Introduction 2 Literature Review 4 Analysis 6 Data Limitations 14 Conclusion 15 Bibliography. 16 Introduction A wage differential or also known as wage gap is the difference between pay rates of two identical jobs or types of worker that happens because of different reasons. Generally, wage differential might be due to different factors as geographic location, education, gender, occupation, experience, age and so on. Some argue wage differential might happen due to characteristics
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