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Showing 1 to 20 of 397 for “"economic activity"”.
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Estimating Economic Activity from Space
… spatial distribution of both formal and informal economic activity is necessary to achieve various social and economic goals of societies and countries at different levels of analysis. However, collection of data on economic variables, especially of national and sub-national income levels is …
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Asset Prices, Banking and Economic Activity
… of shocks, and the corresponding changes in economic activity. The behavior of a heterogeneous agent economy in response to a technology shock is simulated using computer programs. The simulations show that a one percent technology shock translates into a more than four percent change in …
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Derivatives markets and real economic activity
… of the impact of derivative growth on macroeconomic policy and the macroeconomy. Such insights should enable policy makers to use derivatives to their best advantage. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to examine how monetary policy transmission changes in the presence of derivative …
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Essays in unemployment and economic activity
… Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1982
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Time Series Analysis and Indicators of Economic Activity (Forecasting)
Some of the problems involved in identification of time series models and forecasting variables of interest are considered. A theoretical/empirical comparison of various information criteria of interest is provided and it is concluded that Hannan and Kavalieris criterion is the most appropriate …
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The Effects of Federal Fiscal Programs on Economic Activity
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:04:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0010560.pdf: 11617731 bytes, checksum: e38168ef09e8a2cee72f6e0b1eb2fb3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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An analysis of sectoral components of aggregate economic activity
… the real outputs of a large number of individual economic sectors. Two main hypotheses were tested: (1) monetary and fiscal policy actions have direct effects upon sectoral outputs, in addition to indirect effects working through the influence of general economic activity; (2) monetary and fiscal …
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Living with Institutions: A Micro-Level Explanation of Informal Economic Activity
Informal economic activity (IEA) plays a significant part in the service sector, although it remains relatively underexplored. This thesis applies a qualitative case study approach to explore why a group of small service sector business owners within a developed economic setting adopt informal …
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Financial instability and economic activity in Brazil: Theoretical and empirical evidence
"The current financial instability experienced by Latin American countries, with the persistence of high and unstable inflation, was in part the motivation behind this project. Particularly, this work provides theoretical and empirical support to the idea of ""non-neutrality"" of the financial …
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Unemployment, Economic Activity and Crime Rates: A Reexamination From an Opportunity Perspective
… and test a general causal model of criminal activity that accounts for the relationship between unemployment rates and crime rates. The model proposed here argues that when predicting the sign of the unemployment rate two direct and opposing effects must be considered. First, decreases in …
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Commercial bank behavior and the level of economic activity: an econometric study
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1963.
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The effects of the St. Lawrence seaway on the location of economic activity
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1954.
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Analysis of the interaction between air transportation and economic activity : a worldwide perspective
Air transportation usage and economic activity are interdependent. Air transportation provides employment and enables certain economic activities which are dependent on the availability of air transportation services. The economy, in turn, drives the demand for air transportation services resulting …
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Scientific research and economic activity : the perceptions of academic and industrial scientists of the production and capitalization of knowledge
… specialization such as the adoption of an economic development function in addition to teaching, research and community engagement.
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Establishment of Batik Making as a Sustainable Economic Activity to Juhudi Women Enterpreneurs Group in Kisarawe Village, Kisarawe District
… establishment of batik project as a sustainable economic development activity to Juhudi Women Entrepreneurs Group in Kisarawe village, Kisarawe district. The project was a result of Participatory Needs Assessment which was carried out at Kisarawe village and provided an overview of the Community …
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The spatial dimensions of economic activity in South Africa: the role of regional policy, crime and the business environment
The spatial distribution of economic activity is unevenly distributed across regions within countries. Regional development policies and the incidence of crime rates, an important aspect of the quality of the local business environment, may both impact spatial disparities in economic activity. This …
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The relationship between electricity and economic activity, and the saturation level of the electricity share in the secondary energy usage
The consumption of electric power is pervasive in the lives of all of us. Electricity heats and cools homes, offices and factories. Electricity helps preserve and prepare food. It powers office machinery, and in manufacturing establishments provides energy to utilize the capital stock. In some …
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Managing human-induced material use: adding cyclic inter-sectoral flows to Physical Input-Output Tables to analyse the environmental impact of economic activity
Current human activity is degrading the environment and depleting biotic and abiotic resources at unheard-of rates, inducing global environmental change and jeopardising the development of humankind. The structure of human activity determines which resources are extracted, how they are transformed …
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