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The Fisher hypothesis and the forecastability and persistence of inflation
(Elsevier, 1987-01)
For the period 1860 to 1939, the simple correlation of the U.S. commercial paper rate with the contemporaneous inflation rate is -0.17. The corresponding correlation for the period 1950 to 1979 is 0.71. This paper attributes ...
Self Organization and Coordination
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-08)
In this paper, I analyze the organization of tasks or activities by acollection of agents. I begin by formally defining organized collections androbustly organized collections of agents in the context of a simple model.Within ...
International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies
(2003-02-01)
The U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have all recently voiced concern about international price- fixing cartels. The U.S. and European Union ...
Analysis of Entrepreneurial Attitudes in Poland
(1997-03-01)
It is increasingly apparent that widespread entrepreneurial activity is central to economic growth and to any market economy. A high level of this activity depends upon the willingness of individuals to start new firms, ...
Emotional Aperture and Emotional Sequencing
(2006-09)
Failure to recognize and regulate agitated organizational members' emotions triggered by strategic change can undermine a firm's performance. Organizational processes that detect, recognize, and respond appropriately to ...
A poverty profile for rural Botswana
(Elsevier, 1984-02)
Recognizing that for policy purposes it is important to learn in what ways households that are poor differ from households that have a more adequate income and recognizing that these differences may be cause or consequence ...
Studying (Small) businesses with the Michigan Employment Security Commission longitudinal data base
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-12)
This paper addresses the usefulness of a longitudinal data file constructed from records on employers from the Michigan Employment Security Commission. We describe the main features of the data file, which includes quarterly ...
“Maestro, what is ‘quality’?”: Language, literacy, and discourse in project-based science
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-04)
Recent curriculum design projects have attempted to engage students in authentic science learning experiences in which students engage in inquiry-based research projects about questions of interest to them. Such a pedagogical ...