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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Economic Phenomena"”.
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Minimum Wage: Theoretical and Empirical Debates
… highlights the limitations of relying on one economic school of thought in understanding socio-economic phenomena complexations and policy decisions. As well as it creates the necessity to critical evaluation of the method of economic research design, and essential need to adopt methodological …
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ΑΝΤΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ, ΑΓΟΡΑ, ΚΑΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ. ΜΙΑ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΟΑΥΣΤΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΩΡΙΑΣ
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE "NEOAUSTRIAN" ECONOMIC THEORY. THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF THE NEOAUSTRIAN POSITIONS ON QUESTIONS LIKE THE THEORY OF COMPETITION AND KNOWLEDGE, THE CONCEPT OF "ENTERPRENEURSHIP", THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CAPITAL, THE THEORY OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE ETC., IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE …
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The Law of One Price and Virtual Worlds
… setting for studying price convergence and other economic phenomena. This dissertation begins by surveying the extant research on virtual worlds throughout the social sciences to illustrate the usefulness of virtual worlds in economics research. In the second chapter price convergence is tested in …
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The employment relationship of new labour migration
… as: 'one of the most important social and economic phenomena shaping the UK today. This movement of people has dramatically changed the scale, composition and characteristics of immigration to the UK' (Pollard et al. 2008: 7). CEE nationals play an important role in the British economy as …
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The cost management and control of inter-organisational relationships: a case from the Greek shipping industry
… deployment of resources, which is central to economic phenomena. Such constructs refer to dialectics of control, path dependency, isomorphism, contradiction and praxis. It is proposed that future research in IOCM and control employing Stones’ version of structuration, would benefit from …
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The political socialisation of youth : a comparison of private and state educated girls.
… of human relationships, incorporating socio-economic concepts. Two elements of socialisation are identified which inform both theory and research design. First, political socialisation content is explored, operationalised in terms of political attitudes. Second, political socialisation …
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Atypical workers: the quest for an inclusive workers protection regime
… follow the dynamics of the development of socio-economic phenomena. Very often, new social phenomena are governed by old rules, which in their scope, contents and cultural inspiration cannot correspond to the new realities. This situation is compounded by the attitude of collective agreements, …
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A Behavioural Data Approach Towards Predicting Direct Real Estate Markets in the United Kingdom
… and reach beyond the grasp of established macroeconomic indicators. These applications had considerable success in predicting a wide range of economic phenomena with the assumption that internet interaction behaviour resembles probable offline behaviour. Despite the considerable success of this …
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World Court
… of environmental, technological, political and economic phenomena that are not yet part of our definition of International Law. To consider these issues as such, is to drastically rethink the institution of International Law itself, and with it, this thesis argues, the role of architecture in …
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Essays on Spatial Inequalities in Income and Education: Econometric Evidence from Pakistan
… knowledge economy, history has shown that economic development has taken place unevenly across regions. National economies are a complex mix of varying types of geographical configurations which in turn involve varying economic systems, infrastructure, and human capital. In this context …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
… investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with everyday corruption in developing countries? In …
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Neuroeconomics of Reward Information and Motivation
… of decision making, and combines tools from economics, psychology, and neuroscience. I employ a neuroeconomic approach to understand the processing of reward information and motivation in the brain, utilizing neural data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to make connections …
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The origin of the Polish National Catholic Church of St. Joseph County, Indiana
… chapters, the first three consider the socio-economic phenomena which help explain this schism from Roman Catholicism; while the fourth traces the actual organization of the new church. Chapter V concludes the study by offering probable causes for this schism, and for the sake of simplicity, …
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Essays on Firms' Behavior in International Trade with Vertical Specialization
… me to investigate two related trade induced economic phenomena -- processing trade and offshoring -- using diverse datasets and theory. In Chapter 1, a joint work with Mi Dai and Miaojie Yu from Peking University, we solve the documented puzzle that exporters in China are less productive than …
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Essays on repeated games and reputations.
… between two parties that can explain various economic phenomena. The first paper, "Reputation Effects in Two-Sided Incomplete-Information Games," studies reputation effects in a class of games with imperfect public monitoring and two long-lived players, both of whom have private information …
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A history of Straits Settlements foreign trade 1870-1915
… trade in the period 1870-1915 reflected the economic phenomena of the time. These included the rapid industrialization of Europe and the United States, the brief period of free trade which was followed by a return to protectionism, and great advances in transport and communication. The …
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A history of Straits Settlements foreign trade 1870-1915
… trade in the period 1870-1915 reflected the economic phenomena of the time. These included the rapid industrialization of Europe and the United States, the brief period of free trade which was followed by a return to protectionism, and great advances in transport and communication. The …