ECON 352x – 26363 – Macroeconomics for Business Syllabus – Spring 2013 – MW – 6:00-7:50 pm Professor: F. Ibrahimi Nazarian Office: Bridge Hall 204C Office Phone: (213) 740-3934 Office Hours: Monday &Wednesday 3:00-4:00 pm‚ or by appointment E-mail: ibrahimi@marshall.usc.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION Making sound business decisions requires knowing the economic environment in which firms operate. It requires an understanding of key economic indicators‚ the relationship among economic
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Journal of South Asian Development http://sad.sagepub.com The Rationale of Self-help in Development Interventions: A Case Study of a Self-help Group Programme in Tamil Nadu Tanya Jakimow JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT 2007; 2; 107 DOI: 10.1177/097317410600200105 The online version of this article can be found at: http://sad.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/107 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Journal of South Asian Development
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Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California By JUSTINE S. HASTINGS* Since the late 1990’s‚ West Coast cities have consistently experienced substantially higher retail gasoline prices than other regions of the country. For example‚ for the rst week of August 1999‚ the price of reformulated gasoline in California was 39.6 cents higher than the average price in Gulf Coast States (about 10 cents of this difference
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Land and Law in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy Williams College December 2010 Forthcoming in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden eds. Long-term Economic Change in Eurasian Perspective‚ Stanford University Press. 1 1. Introduction The East India Company’s conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes‚ the principal source of governmental revenue‚ be collected? But taxation was not a thing unto itself; it was
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American Finance Association Efficient Capital Markets: II Author(s): Eugene F. Fama Source: The Journal of Finance‚ Vol. 46‚ No. 5 (Dec.‚ 1991)‚ pp. 1575-1617 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2328565 Accessed: 30/03/2010 21:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and
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CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT AND PROFITABILITY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KENYA BY ANGELA M. KITHINJI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS‚ UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI‚ NAIROBI – KENYA. akithinji@yahoo.com or akithinji@uonbi.ac.ke OCTOBER‚ 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................1 1.1 Background ....................................................................................................................
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1st NUSRL IPR Essay Writing Competition’12 increased protection of knowledge linked to genetic resources from plants‚ animals and micro-organisms. Bilateral agreements encourage countries to join the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties (UPOV) Convention. The UPOV Convention‚ formed in 1961‚ acknowledges breeders of new plant varieties through uniform and clearly defined principles for exclusive property rights‚ based on criteria that the variety is distinctive‚ uniform‚ stable
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A Project Report On “FOREX as Risk Assets and its effect on Indian Rupee” Supervised By Submitted By DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY‚ AMRITSAR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am grateful to have received guidance‚ encouragement and assistance from many entities during the course of my training. Firstly‚ I extend my sincere gratitude to Trustline Securities Limited for giving me the opportunity to undergo summer training. I would like to take this
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Section A Markets and governments have complementary roles in industrialization. Markets are dealing with the growing economics complexity that came with industrialization. Then‚ governments have to determine the types of economy. a) Identify the type of economics system and explain the economic characteristics of each. Economic systems are normally distinguished by the extent of government involvement in resource allocation and goods production. There are three major types of economic systems
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Introduction: Economists have a very well-established theory of market trading and are on the way to processing a similarly well-developed other theories of the firms (Hart‚ 1995). Particularly‚ neoclassical theory of the firm‚ the dominant economics paradigm‚ has influenced and been influenced by developments in regulated industries can be the foundation to explain many other theories. Whether a company should expand the scale and scope of their business or not still is the controversial question
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