...Econ 251 7:30 a.m. in EE 129 1:30 and 3 p.m. in CL50 224 Spring 2012 Instructor: Dr. Kelly Blanchard Office: KRAN 477 Office Phone: 494-7956 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9-11 a.m. and by appointment Email: khb@purdue.edu Teaching Assistants: Curtis Ball (ball10@purdue.edu) KRAN B024E T/Th 11:30-1:30 p.m. 496-1664 Ross Winegar (rwinegar@purdue.edu) KRAN 487 W/Th 3-5 p.m. Weekly Review Session: Thursdays 6-7 p.m. in KRAN G9 Exam Review Sessions: Friday, February 10 from 6-7 p.m. in WTHR 200 and Monday, March 26 from 6-7 p.m. in WTHR 200 Administrative Assistant: Bree Miller KRAN 443 496-7964 (9 a.m. – 1 p.m. M-Th) bree2@purdue.edu Course Web Site(s): blackboard.purdue.edu (for accessing grades and course information or postings) www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com (for e-text, online homework, study guide) Course Overview: Econ 251 is intended to introduce you to microeconomic theory and its application in everyday life. The course will explain how individual consumers and producers together determine the prices and quantities of goods available in the marketplace. We will investigate the underlying incentives of consumers to buy goods and of firms to produce products that satisfy consumer demand. In addition, we'll look at how government can help or hinder market efficiency. The textbook for the course is Microeconomics for Economics 251, published by Pearson Custom Publishing (ISBN: 1256128546). The publisher has created an online resource site...
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...Homework Assignment 4 (20 pts) - Due Wednesday 11/14/2012 8:00am Please complete the Next Day Air Case questions for Chapter 3 (handed out in class and posted to Blackboard) as per the instructions below: A, Complete Question 3 – noting that this is all for using dial-up modems. B. Complete Question 4. C. Complete Question 2 – as if you were were redesigning their network(s). D. Complete Question 5. Post to the Assignments area of Blackboard, and bring a hardcopy to class to turn in. Please turn in hardcopy at start of class in order to not lose any points for being late. Ex e r c is e s 1 . Pres id en t Coon e is b a ffled a b ou t h ow d igita l in form a tion from a com p u ter ca n b e s en t over a n etwork con n ection . Prep a re a b rief p os ition p a p er for m a n a gem en t exp la in in g th e wa y in form a tion is tra n s ferred from on e com p u ter to a n oth er over d igita l lin es . Keep it s im p le. Be s u re to d es crib e th e typ es of d evices u s ed in d a ta tra n s m is s ion . In clu d e com m en ts on th e role of d a ta com p res s ion in in crea s in g tra n s m is s ion ra tes . J u s tify th e ob s erva tion th a t a s a gen era l ru le, it is b es t to p u rch a s e th e fa s tes t d evices you r com m u n ica tion s lin es ca n s u p p ort. 2 . As you b egin th in k in g a b ou t th e red es ign of th e n etwork , you rea lize th a t th ere a re va riou s typ es of m ed ia to ch...
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...Journal of International Money and Finance xxx (2014) 1e24 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of International Money and Finance journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jimf Living with the trilemma constraint: Relative trilemma policy divergence, crises, and output losses for developing countries Joshua Aizenman a, 1, Hiro Ito b, * a b University of Southern California and the NBER, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043, USA Department of Economics, Portland State University, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, USA a b s t r a c t JEL classification: F31 F36 F41 O24 Keywords: Impossible trinity International reserves Financial liberalization Financial crisis Exchange rate regime This paper investigates the potential impacts of the degree of divergence in open macroeconomic policies in the context of the trilemma hypothesis. Using an index that measures the relative policy divergence among the three trilemma policy choices, namely monetary independence, exchange rate stability, and financial openness, we find that emerging market countries have adopted trilemma policy combinations with the least degree of relative policy divergence in the last 15 years. We find that a developing or emerging market country with a higher degree of relative policy divergence is more likely to experience a currency or debt crisis. However, a developing or emerging market country with a higher degree of relative policy divergence...
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...competition in the solar panel industry. Solar firms manufacture panels that are differentiated both vertically and horizontally, and compete by setting quantities. The equilibrium of the model is consistent with a set of stylized facts that we document, including variation in prices, markups and market shares across firms. We calibrate the model using a new dataset data on prices, costs and shipments of leading solar companies, as well as solar sales in four leading markets. The calibrated model is applied to evaluate the impact of a decline in the price of polysilicon, a key raw material used in the manufacture of solar panels, on the equilibrium price of solar panels. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 12 June 2012 Received in revised form 14 May 2013 Accepted 20 May 2013 Available online 14 June 2013 JEL classification: L19 Ł13 O30 Keywords: Photovoltaics Competition Polysilicon 1. Introduction The electricity generation sector is the leading contributor of greenhouse gas emissions. Most plans to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions view solar photovoltaics as an electricity generation technology with potential to replace a sizeable section of fossil fuel generation (see Nakicenovic and Riahi, 2002; Baker and Solak, 2011; Lewis and Nocera, 2006). At present however, electricity from solar photovoltaics constitute a very small fraction of the world...
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...HOSTED BY Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Wine Economics and Policy 4 (2015) 116–127 www.elsevier.com/locate/wep Wine consumption and sales strategies: The evolution of Mass Retail Trading in Italy Caterina Continia,n, Caterina Romanoa, Gabriele Scozzafavaa, Fabio Boncinellia, Leonardo Casinia a Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali, Università degli Studi di Firenze, P.le delle Cascine, 18, 50144 Firenze, Italy Received 9 September 2015; received in revised form 20 November 2015; accepted 5 December 2015 Available online 11 December 2015 Abstract The recent economic crisis has brought considerable changes also to food consumption: on one hand, many products have recorded consistent absolute declines in demand, while on the other hand, we have witnessed preferences shift towards low-cost foods or, in any event, foods of lower quality standards. In order to study these phenomena and, especially, the strategies firms adopt to confront them, the wine sector constitutes a particularly interesting focus due to its wide supply range and the elevated reactivity to price and income of demand. Our paper intends to take a close look at wine consumptions, focusing on the sales made on the Mass Retail Trading (MRT) channel from 2009 to 2013, and to conduct a thorough analysis of the performances of the single products, in view of pointing out the sector's overall trend, as well as the principal typologies of wine, in terms of their sales results...
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...Delaware State University – College of Business Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance Managerial Finance (43-300-02 - CRN#17392) Spring 2014 Place & Time Bank of America Building, Room 208 T&TH 12:00 – 1:15p.m. Instructor: Nancy Ning, PhD Office: Bank of America Building, Room 212F Office Hours: T&TH 11:00 – 11:50 a.m., 2:50 – 4:00 p.m.; W 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. and by appointment Email: zning@desu.edu Phone: 857-6966 REQUIRED MATERIALS: 1. Principles of Managerial Finance, Brief (6th ed.), plus MyFinanceLab, by Lawrence Gitman & Chad Zutter, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN-10: 013611945X or ISBN-13: 978-0136119456. 2. Financial calculator: the Texas Instruments’ TI BAII PLUS is recommended. The link http://www.tvmcalcs.com/calculators/baiiplus/baiiplus_page1 gives a tutorial for the use of the calculator. PREREQUISITES: The following courses must have been completed previously with a grade of C or better: ACCT-205 and ECON-208. Students who have not met these prerequisites must drop this course. COURSE DESCRIPTION: The concepts developed in this course form the foundations for the area of finance. Major topics may include time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, risk and return, capital...
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...Serv Bus (2012) 6:265–278 DOI 10.1007/s11628-012-0135-0 EMPIRICAL ARTICLE Innovation and imitation effects in the mobile telecommunication service market Sang-Gun Lee • Byeonghwa Park • Si-Hyeon Kim Hong-Hee Lee • Received: 11 February 2011 / Accepted: 26 January 2012 / Published online: 15 May 2012 Ó Springer-Verlag 2012 Abstract This study investigates adoption patterns of the first mover and the followers in the Information and Communication Technology industry. The continuous behavior of adopters over time is difficult to analyze and most previous studies were cross-sectional rather than longitudinal. In order to overcome these limitations, a mathematical diffusion model with verified official time-series data is used to analytically investigate the impact of both innovation and imitation effects on the mobile phone adoption in South Korea. The results showed that the imitation effect of the first mover was larger than those of the followers in the mature mobile telecommunication services market in South Korea. The innovation effect of the follower was larger than that of the first mover, and the innovation effect was larger than the imitation effect in the market. Keywords Innovation effect Á Imitation effect Á Diffusion model Á Mobile telecommunication market S.-G. Lee Department of Business Administration, School of Business Administration, Sogang University, Shinsu-dong #1 Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, Korea e-mail: sglee1028@yahoo.com B. Park College of Business Administration...
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...Bootstrapping Estimates of the CER Model Econ 424/Amath 540 Eric Zivot Summer 2012 Updated: July 17, 2012 © Eric Zivot 2006 Monthly Returns on MSFT, SBUX and S&P 500 0.0 -0.4 returns Returns on Microsoft Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 0.0 -0.4 returns Returns on Starbucks Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 -0.15 returns 0.05 Returns on S&P 500 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 © Eric Zivot 2006 1 Estimated Standard Errors > se.muhat = sigmahat.vals/sqrt(nobs) > rbind(muhat.vals,se.muhat) sbux msft sp500 muhat.vals 0.0277 0.0275 0.01253 se.muhat 0.0135 0.0106 0.00378 > se.sigma2hat = sigma2hat.vals/sqrt(nobs/2) > rbind(sigma2hat.vals,se.sigma2hat) sbux msft sp500 sigma2hat.vals 0.01845 0.01141 0.00143 se.sigma2hat 0.00261 0.00161 0.00020 > se.sigmahat = sigmahat.vals/sqrt(2*nobs) > rbind(sigmahat.vals,se.sigmahat) sbux msft sp500 sigmahat.vals 0.1358 0.1068 0.0378 se.sigmahat 0.0096 0.0075 0.0026 © Eric Zivot 2006 R function sample() # random permutations of the...
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...Slide 4. 1 Chapter 4 E-Environment David Chaffey, E-Business & E-Commerce Management, 5th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2012 Slide 4. 2 Learning Outcomes • Identify the different elements of an organization macro-environment that impact on an organization‟s e-business and e-marketing strategy • Assess the impact of legal, privacy and ethical constraints or opportunities on a company • Assess the role of macro-economic factors such as economics, governmental e-business policies, taxation and legal constraints. David Chaffey, E-Business & E-Commerce Management, 5th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2012 Slide 4. 3 Management Issues • What are the constraints such as legal issues placed by the e-environment on developing and implementing an e-business strategy? • How can trust and privacy be assured for the customer while seeking to achieve marketing objectives of customer acquisition and retention? • Assessment of the business relevance of technological innovation. David Chaffey, E-Business & E-Commerce Management, 5th Edition, © Marketing Insights Limited 2012 1 Slide 4. 4 Activity 4.1 Introduction to Social, Legal and Ethical Issues • List all the social, legal and ethical issues that the manager of a sell-side e-commerce website needs to consider to avoid damaging relationships with users of his or her site or which may leave the company facing prosecution. You can base your answer on issues which may concern...
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...Free eChapters (FALL 2012) eChapters offer students immediate access to the first few chapters of their textbooks while they are waiting for the print book to arrive. eChapters help students to keep up with required reading and assignments until they receive their course material, without having to pay expedited shipping costs. eChapters that are available from the publisher are attainable free of charge. How do students gain access to free eChapters? Not all courses or textbooks have eChapters available. For all courses where eChapters are available, the files are located in the student’s Blackboard course shell under the Student Center. Below is a list of courses with eChapters loaded into the course shells, giving students free access as of the first day of classes. * = eChapters are forthcoming Course ID ACC100 ACC206 ACC303 ACC304 ACC305 ACC306 Text Title Accounting Principles – 9th edition Accounting Principles – 9th edition Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Intermediate Accounting 14e Microcomputer Applications for Accounting Excel 2010 Microsoft® Excel 2010: A Case Approach, Complete, 1st Edition, copyright 2011 SOUTH WESTERN FEDERAL TAXATION 2012: COMPREHENSIVE, 36th ed. South-Western Federal Taxation 2013: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts, 36th Edition Cost Accounting 13th 09 ed. Advanced Accounting 4th 10th ed. Auditing & Assurance Services 13th 10 ed. Core Concepts of Government and Not for Profit Accounting 2nd ed., 2011 ed ACC...
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...Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States ge Le ar ni ng BUSN BUSN BUSN 6, 6th Edition Kelly | McGowen | Williams © 2014 Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Senior Project Development Manager: Linda deStefano Market Development Manager: Heather Kramer Senior Production/Manufacturing Manager: Donna M. Brown Production Editorial Manager: Kim Fry Sr. Rights Acquisition Account Manager: Todd Osborne en C Printed in the United States of America ga ge Le Compilation © 2013 Cengage Learning ISBN-13: 978-1-285-88034-1 ISBN-10: 1-285-88034-X Cengage Learning 5191 Natorp Boulevard Mason, Ohio 45040 USA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein LL RIGHT th repro reprodu ted, s may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means electro graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, scann di recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, a or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under o t Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior writ written permission of the publisher. pro For product information and technology assistance, contact us at Cen Cengage Learning Customer & Sales Support, 1-800-354-9706 For permission to use material from this text or product, submit all requests online at cengage.com/permissions Further permissions questions can be...
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...2014 -HFT2220-Human Resources Management -Sections RXD -Fall 2014 Employees Motivation in Hospitality Industry 李春峥 5468744 童品涵 5469018 潘 超 5486745 2014-12-11 Content 1. Background ....................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Case 1 ........................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Case 2 ........................................................................................................ 4 2. Theory and System about employee motivation ............................................ 5 2.1 Two-factor theory: ................................................................................. 5 2.2 Expectation theory: ............................................................................... 6 2.3 Equity theory: ........................................................................................ 7 2.4 Reinforcement theory: .......................................................................... 7 2.5 Incentive principle and system ............................................................... 8 2.6 Full Spectrum Organization Employee Motivation Strategy .............. 9 3. Workplace C .A.R.E........................................................................................ 10 4. Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 12 Reference ..................................
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...MBAC 6101 Summer 2016 MBAD CED 6101 Business and Community Development II Capitalist development creates winners and losers, both socially and geographically. The fundamental process of capitalism is the transfer of wealth created by particular people in particular places into the hands of other people in other places. Communities that are unable to Jorge Sousa, Ph.D Contact sousa@ualberta.ca capture the wealth that they create tend to decline. Sustainable economies require rooting wealth within communities. Businesses are the organizations in a society that create wealth. They can be used to exploit a region and extract a community’s wealth or they can be used to ground wealth in a community. The course will explore the relationship between business and the community. At the outcome students will have an appreciation for the challenges and issues community-based business surrounding institutions as well as an understanding of how those challenges are currently being met by existing community businesses. Learning Activities The classroom will follow a seminar model. This means that we are all responsible for the success of the classroom discussion. As well as focussing on set readings, the class will use case studies for shaping the seminar discussions. Being prepared for class is essential for productive discussion. While class activity may focus on the readings, the readings will...
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...Data of Phas-II Sr no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 NAME Abdul Hafeez Abu Bakar Siddique Awais Munir Basharat Mahboob Maroof Ilyas Mazhar Iqbal Miss Ayesha Ch. Miss Fariha Iftikhar Miss Kashaf Yaseen Miss Ujala Ashraf Muhammad Abdullah Waleed Muhammad Aftab Muhammad Essa Khalid Muhammad Khalid Hameed Muhammad Maqsood Khan Muhammad Shoaib Muhammad Waqar Murzooq Saleem Noor Nauman Altaf Roman Majeed Syed Ahmad Hassan Bukhari Waqar Ali Zain Qayyum Abdul Ghaffar ABDUL REHMAN Abdul Rehman ABDUL SHAKOOR Abrar Anwar ABRAR JAMIL ADEEL AHMED ADEEL IRSHAD ADNAN SHAUKAT Aftab Shaukat Ahmed Zeeshan Ahsan Mahmud AIMEN BASHIR ALI AUN ALI EHSAN MANJ ALI EJAZ ALI HAMED ALI MEHBOOB ALI USMAN BASHIR Allah Ditta Shahid Ameer Hamza ANAM ALVI ANAM MOOSA Anam Ullah Aneel Shahzad ANUM INTISAR ANUM JAVED ARSLAN RAZZAQ CNIC 3310226618167 3310114158887 3530374620369 3830212044729 3310246045471 3640282454573 3310068099318 3310208917468 3430126117362 3110248981000 3660180459853 3660119940117 3210224181181 3310054615453 3660215126755 3430288411671 3310221134839 3310286092337 3310267032475 3330104275587 3130374936045 3530220857361 3310031746769 3520130546281 3540489657861 3230412338735 3310206565785 3310425262179 3510288617907 3310002339509 3310271578631 3310330195673 3410434351359 3310694673473 3310266881555 3310094300496 3550103015009 3410316103425 3410254910063 3640240257955 3310280974795 3310365417863...
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...1 of 17 Xianghui(Ray) Chen 2153583 China and Global Financial Crisis US-Led TPP VS China-Backed RCEP —Applying Main IR Theories To US Policy-Making Process And Relevant Developments The backdrop of the TPP and RCEP WTO and TPP TPP and TTIP are drawn from the two precedent successful free-trade experiments, the EU and NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement). EU originated from the European Coal and Steel Community, before developing into the Common Market and further into European Community, and finally, into the EU. 1The ‘living’, ‘evolving’ treaties and agreements of the EU very much guide the living agreement of TPP/TTIP. NAFTA originated from CUSFTA (Canada-US FTA), which was implemented in 1989, and followed by NAFTA, ratified in 1994. Both EU and NAFTA existed before the WTO finally replaced GATT at the beginning of 1995. The replacement not only greatly expanded sectoral coverage but also replaced the GATT’s quite weak dispute-settlement mechanism.2 The liberalization and integration of trade had mainly proceeded under the auspice of WTO prior to the year 2000. With the evolvement characterized by the widening of the trade agenda to include the movement of people and not just that of goods, services, investments and capital,3 international society called for an update of the WTO. Although the Doha round did inspire some discussion in 2001, developing states fundamentally refused to open their market to the services and goods of the developed ones...
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