1 HOTEL OWNER / OPERATOR STRUCTURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR CAPITAL BUDGETING PROCESS Chris GUILDING Service Industry Research Centre, and School of Accounting and Finance Griffith University – Gold Coast Campus Queensland AUSTRALIA C.Guilding@griffith.edu.au Tel: (07) 5552 8790 Fax: (07) 5552 8068 I am grateful for funding support for this study provided by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism. I would also like to acknowledge the helpful comments
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THE ECONOMIC RECORD, VOL. 81, NO. 255, AUGUST, 2005, S2–S21 Economics of Social Capital∗ PARTHA DASGUPTA Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK The literature on the idea of ‘social capital’ is now enormous. Offering an alternative to impersonal markets and coercive states, the communitarian institutions built around social capital have looked attractive to scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The literature in consequence has a warm glow to
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Solutions to Quick Quizzes Chapter 1 1. There are many possible answers. 2. There are many possible answers. 3. The three principles that describe how the economy as a whole works are: (1) a country’s standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services; (2) prices rise when the government prints too much money; and (3) society faces a short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. A country’s standard of living depends largely on the productivity of its workers, which
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ECO 550 Managerial Economics Strayer University To Purchase Complete Quiz Bank for ECO 550 Strayer University Follow this Link http://www.researcherclub.com/product.php?id_product=192 Chapter 1 Quiz: 1. The form of economics most relevant to managerial decision-making within the firm is: a. macroeconomics b. welfare economics c. free-enterprise economics d. microeconomics e. none of the above 2. If one defines incremental cost as the change in total
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INTERNATIONAL ENTRY AND COUNTRY ANALYSIS A Lecture Programme delivered at the Technical University of Košice Andrew Harrison Formerly of Teesside University, United Kingdom December 20112 Andrew Harrison’s Brief Biography Andrew Harrison was a Principal Lecturer and Subject Group Leader in economics at Teesside University until August 2010 and has been a visiting lecturer at the Technical University of Košice since April 1993. He has also been a visiting lecturer in Germany, Ukraine and Singapore
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Legal Methods Outline How a Dispute Becomes a Case (16-29) I. Cases A. Procedural Posture: The movement of the case and the legal issues they hinge on. II. Reversing v. Overruling A. A court reverses the decision of a lower court in the same controversy. 1. Lower court is bound by precedent of higher courts – no exception. B. A court overrules itself - it disavows in a later, different case what it itself had ruled in a prior, different, but factually similar case
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7/7/2014 Evernote Export Modern Welfare Criteria Created: 5/22/2012 9:12 PM General Equilibrium and Perfect Competition General Equilibrium of Exchange and Consumption 1. We assume that there is no production and the economy is a pure exchange economy. There are 2 individuals and 2 goods, who will exhaust the goods together. Naturally they will consume until (MRS x,y )A = (MRS x,y )B. But we don't know beforehand what will be the exact equilibrium. But if we know the initial distribution
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