[PDF] Top 20 About winners and losers: the Euro Area example

... The U.S. case shows that maintaining the owners’ equity percentage in homes would have been a far safer economic objective rather than allowing the gearing of personal incomes to run totally out of hand. The Euro ... See full document

... In addition, the Moroccan State has pursued its policies of picking winners and losers through its credit policy. Since most financial institutions at that time were in state ownership and run by ... See full document

... Much assessment in higher education, even with criterion referencing, is highly competitive. Although we could imagine a scenario in which all students meet the criteria to a high standard and obtain a high grade or ... See full document

... In our paper we start from D. North’s (1990) under- standing of institutions as the “rules of the game in the society, or more formally, the humanly devised con- strains that shape human interaction”. Working with in- ... See full document

... The initial objective of performance budgeting is to allocate resources to funding programmes that deliver results. Performance budgeting therefore explicitly establishes a link between programme performance information ... See full document

... few winners in any of our style categories but there are far fewer equity income funds that are truly poor performers, relative to the number of poor performers in either the All Companies or Small Company ...and ... See full document

... 2008 about ESRD QIP and bundled payment, which reduced incentives to provide expensive erythropoietin stimulating agents (ESAs), occurred at the same time as evidence mounted of potential harms of ESAs at high ... See full document

... For example, there was a rise in the marginal impact of education and Irish nationality on the probability of a successful transition from unemployment to ... See full document

... This means that countries like Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and 2 Lesotho are likely to be losers since they are exporters of precious stones, iron steel and manufacturing and manufactured products. However, it ... See full document

... Studies which have addressed the recent experience in Ireland include Callan et al. (2013), Madden (2013), and Whelan and Maître (2013), although it is arguable that recent Irish economic history does not constitute a ... See full document

... Initially, picoeukaryotes were abundant (Fig 3) and contributed about half of the total chla concentration (Figs 4 and 5). Their abundance started declining, however, around day 10 (Fig 3B and 3J) which is also ... See full document

... money market mutual funds facilitated banking by mail and telephone, which weakened local bank monopolies; and, (3) improvements in communications technology lowered the costs of using distant banks. These innovations ... See full document

... Several U.S. policymakers and certain business men and labor representatives argued that theChinese government “manipulates” its currency in order to make it significantly undervalued against the U.S. dollar, thus making ... See full document

... A little bit of thought shows that the Treaty writers did not think hard enough about this. As one can easily confirm, Luxembourg’s one vote never matters. Any coalition (group of yes-voters) that has enough votes ... See full document

... However this regulation did not also force giant energy market players to make real ownership unbundling – which was the original Commission recommendation – but they could keep their previous networks with the creation ... See full document

... Figure 5 shows the aggregate supply and the aggregate demand for good i in each market. There are three effects in country A: a reduction in profits for the specific factor owners; an increment in the consumers’ surplus; ... See full document

... The government’s headline pay award lifted the main pay scale by 3.5 per cent, the upper pay scale by 2 per cent and the leadership pay range by 1.5 per cent. It does not automatically increase teachers’ salaries as they ... See full document

... In this paper we argue that extra traction may be gained by considering the losers of tournaments. The logic for this is provided by an implication of the model of Lazear and Rosen (1981): participants in the ... See full document

... For example, if the cross-section of funds’ “true” alphas are normally distributed with a mean of zero, and a sample of n-funds is drawn from this distribution, then the distribution of the fund with the largest ... See full document

... information about the individual which was previously private, the outside options of an individual might decrease following a tournament, lead- ing to a fall in ...for example if the director finds it more ... See full document