News tagged with economic theory
Hoover's pro-labor stance helped cause Great Depression, economist says
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, ...
Study: Financial windfalls hasten early retirement
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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Older workers who get a jolt of cash out of the blue are more likely to cash in on early retirement, according to new research led by two University of Illinois finance professors.
Performance pay is a good lesson for education, expert finds
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced a new education reform, calling for a merit-pay system for teachers in hopes of improving student performance. As the nation's public schools spend $187 billion in salaries, based ...
Markets outperform patents in promoting intellectual discovery, say economists
Mar 05, 2009 |
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When it comes to intellectual curiosity and creativity, a market economy in which inventors can buy and sell shares of the key components of their discoveries actually beats out the winner-takes-all world of patent rights ...
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Entrepreneurial activity affected by degree of states' economic freedom
Oct 15, 2008 |
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A new study in the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice examines how entrepreneurial activity and level of employment in U.S. service industries respond to changes in the degree of economic freedom among states. Resear ...
Policy Reforms May Increase Petty Corruption
May 26, 2008 |
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A study in the International Journal of Economic Theory published by Wiley-Blackwell finds that certain proposed reforms intended to reduce petty corruption can actually have the opposite effect and increase the occurrence of cor ...
Cut and run: New research predicts risk avoidance in the face of chronic economic loss
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Individual investors are liquidating their holdings at record levels as financial markets sink, often absorbing losses to avoid possibly worse pain later. Contradicting the counsel of many financial advisers, it also flies ...
New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO pay
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to a new type of theoretical analysis proposed by a Purdue University researcher ...
Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis
Nov 24, 2009 |
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The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...
Caltech economist makes a game of economic theory
Feb 16, 2009 |
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How game theory and insights from cognitive psychology can shed light on the economic choices people and corporations make will be the focus of a topical lecture presented by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) behavioral ...
What spooks the stock market in October?
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- October ushers in the fourth quarter, falling leaves, football and in some, now infamous, years, financial meltdowns. Is the tenth month of the year more prone to stock market crashes than others? Economics ...
High Unemployment Insurance Benefits Employment and the Economy
May 26, 2008 |
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Companies are willing to pay higher wages in order to ensure that workers remain committed and contribute their best efforts to maximize productivity levels, according to a study in the International Journal of Economic Theory ...
Decision making, is it all 'me, me, me'?
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Apr 28, 2008 |
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People act in their own best interests, according to traditional views of how and why we make the decisions that we do.
Motivation of small business managers affects firm growth
Jun 05, 2008 |
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Economic theory often assumes that firm growth is automatic, given the existence of growth opportunities in the marketplace. However, a new study published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice reveals that the motivation ...
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