SAVING INCENTIVES FOR LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME FAMILIES: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT WITH H&R BLOCK* ESTHER DUFLO WILLIAM GALE JEFFREY LIEBMAN PETER ORSZAG EMMANUEL SAEZ We analyze a randomized experiment in which 14‚000 tax filers in H&R Block offices in St. Louis received matches of zero‚ 20 percent‚ or 50 percent of IRA contributions. Take-up rates were 3 percent‚ 8 percent‚ and 14 percent‚ respectively. Among contributors‚ contributions‚ excluding the match‚ averaged $765 in the control group
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Saina Zhao 01/21/2014 ANTH 210 X062 The protests about the amount of money Brazil is spending on the World Cup 2014 On October 30‚ 2007‚ FIFA in Zurich officially announced that the World Cup 2014 will hold in Brazil‚ and this is the first time after Brazil to host the football World Cup again since 1950. In the history of the football game‚ Brazil’s national team has win the highest honor of football five times‚ also Brazilian has hosted the World Cup in 1950. The football’s
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bottom-of-the-pyramid market? Can they beat the local firms in this market segment? Business cannot serve the entire bottom of the pyramid but they can extend their reach to the very deep. The market served by the Shakti team is one which is inaccessible and has low business potential. So getting profitability is certainly not easy. Also the input costs required is pretty huge in order to train the entrepreneurs and convince the local authorities. But over the time there is certainly potential to serve the bottom
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Session 5: Financing Investment Read: Chapter 14: Capital Structure in a Perfect Market 1. In Bermuda there are no corporate income taxes. Consider two Bermuda firms with perfectly correlated earnings. The first is Debt Galore and the second is Debt Zero. Each company is expected to earn $35 million (before interest) in perpetuity. All these earnings are distributed as interest or dividends. Debt Galore has $150 million of perpetual debt. The interest on this debt is 7 percent. It has 1.5 million
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Strategic marketing and marketing strategy: domain‚ definition‚ fundamental issues and foundational premises Rajan Varadarajan Received: 20 April 2009 / Accepted: 24 September 2009 / Published online: 28 October 2009 # Academy of Marketing Science 2009 Abstract This paper proposes a domain statement for strategic marketing as a field of study and delineates certain issues fundamental to the field. It also proposes a definition for marketing strategy‚ the focal organizational strategy construct
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Automotive strategies in Korea‚ Malaysia and Thailand ---- A good example of different approaches to creating competitive advantage Prepared by: Jingting Wang__________ Advisor: Dr Barry Unger_ _____ Date: Oct. 20 2012 Abstract This paper will analyze the automotive industry in three countries‚ Korea‚ Thailand and Malaysia. Each country will be analyzed through the aspects of goals of their strategy‚ the long and short
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Part 2: Marketing Objectives and Goals – SMART Principles 12 Part 3: Product‚ price‚ place and promotion 13 Products 13 Price 14 Place 14 Promotion 14 Section 4: Conclusion 14 Reference: 15 Executive Summary Growing probiotic market has a potential value that every relevant firm wants to share profit in this market. Collecting data from dependable source and thinking deeply to analyse the current market for Yakult‚ giving suggestions in marketing a new overseas
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Brazil’s New Role as a First World Power in Latin America Brazilian efforts to adjust their relations with foreign governments and institutions follows a strategy of projecting Brazilian influence within the concert of nations as a First World power. Brazil wants a greater voice and increased participation in international decision making at both the regional and global level. Globally‚ they have actively sought a reform to the United Nations Security Council structure and want to change an international
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I Marketing Strategy Plan 1 Company and Product 1.1 Company overview The “BIONADE GmbH” is a small German manufacturer and distributor of the organic lemonade brand “Bionade”. The family-owned-enterprise has 107 employees and is located in Ostheim‚ a small town in the northern Bavaria region of Germany. Sigrid Peter-Leipold is the industrial business manager‚ owner and executive manager of the “Privat Brauerei Peter KG Associate Partner” and the “BIONADE GmbH” and “BIONADE International
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Strategies for International Marketing The process of penetrating and then developing an international market is a difficult one‚ which many companies still identify as an Achilles ’ heel in their global capabilities. Two aspects of the typical approach are particularly striking. First‚ companies often pursue this new business opportunity with a focus on minimizing risk and investmentthe complete opposite of the approach usually advocated for genuine start-up situations. Second‚ from a marketing
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