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- Who's Your City: How Creative Class Cities Will Beat the Recession
- In this interview with BNET, Richard Florida explains why his latest book “Who’s Your City?” matters to workers during a recession and how a business's location affects not only the talent pool, but also its ability to innovate. ...
- Articles 2008-03-20
- Who's Your City: Top 10 Megaregions
- These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City? ...
- Articles 2008-03-19
- Who's Your City?: What Is a Megaregion?
- Forget the best cities to work in. Richard Florida envisions a world in which megaregions -- composed of several cities -- represent a new and powerful economic unit. Adapted from Florida's new book Who's Your City? Today, megaregions range in size from 10...
- Articles 2008-03-19
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- How Does U.S. Monetary Policy Influence Economic Conditions In Emerging Markets?
- This article quantifies the economic impact of changes in U.S. monetary policy on emerging market countries. It also explores empirically how country risk, as proxied by sovereign bond spreads, is influenced by U.S. monetary policy, country-specific fundamentals. In addition, it simulates the direct effects of tightening in U.S. monetary policy...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- All The Conditions Of Effective Foreign Aid
- The conclusion that foreign aid will promote economic growth only when allocated towards good policy regimes has been the subject of considerable debate. Aid effectiveness researchers have variously sought to falsify this result or to find other individual conditions of aid effectiveness. However, economic theory suggests that any factor which...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Tatum Survey Of Business Conditions May - December 2007
- Each month, Tatum conducts a survey of its financial and technology executives regarding current business conditions and economic trends. The survey looks back at the past 30 days and forward to the next 60 days, examining economic trends such as order backlogs, capital expenditure commitments, employment, and capital availability and...
- White papers 2008-01-18
- Does Regional Economic Performance Affect Bank Conditions? New Analysis of an Old Question
- The idea that regional economic performance affects bank health is intuitive and broadly consistent with the aggregate banking data. That said micro-level research on this relationship provides a mixed picture of the importance, size, and timing of regional variables for bank performance. This paper helps in reconciling the heterogeneous findings...
- White papers 2003-11-28
- Why Corporate Campuses Make Sense In All Economic Conditions
- Flexibility, cost control and increased employee retention are just some of the many attributes a corporate campus can deliver, regardless of economic conditions. Many real estate strategists and planners consider it to be the word that best describes the concept of corporate campuses. In a discussion on campuses, it also...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Stability of Market Leadership Positions in Japanese Manufacturing Industries
- Using a newly constructed panel data set, one investigate the stability of market leadership positions as a measure of market mobility. This paper not only shows the extent of stability of leadership positions across industries over time, but also empirically examines the impacts of industry-specific characteristics and macro-economic conditions on...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- What Moves Sovereign Bond Markets?The Effects Of Economic News on U.S. And German Yields
- Economic announcements are an important source of information, containing news that spills over internationally across markets, affecting yields. An analysis of the U.S. and German sovereign bond markets finds that the largest moves in yields are associated with U.S. announcements on labor market conditions, real GDP growth, and consumer sentiment....
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Economic Catastrophe Bonds
- The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed income markets, many investors focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Economic Analysis of Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMs)
- MediaNet addresses the domain of digital multimedia personal communication and content distribution, as well as cooperation schemes between content owners, service providers, network access operators, and telecommunication, computer, components and consumer electronics industries. It is crucial to examine the conditions under which Digital Rights Management systems (DRMs) could emerge and...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- An Investigation of Buyer Search in the Residential Real Estate Market Under Different Market Conditions
- The purpose of this research is to examine buyer search under different market conditions. The paper provides survival regression analysis of survey data generated by the National Association of Realtors for 1988, 1991 and 1993. It reveals in all instances, that economic conditions are the dominant factor influencing search duration....
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Communities and Health Policy: A Pathway for Change
- Improving the health system can reduce the effects of health disparities, but it can do little to eliminate them. An upsurge in new research is documenting the impact of physical, social, and economic environmental factors: air quality, housing conditions, racism, relationship to community institutions, and neighborhood economic conditions, all of...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Gasoline Stations: 2002
- The economic census is the major source of facts about the structure and functioning of the nation's economy. It provides essential information for government, business, industry, and the general public. This economic census on Gasoline Stations in the U.S. furnishes an important part of the framework for such composite measures...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Nutrition, Health, and Economic Development: Some Policy Priorities
- Most developing countries face different resource and infrastructural constraints that limit their economic growth. Nutritional deficiencies, poor environmental conditions, and inadequate educational infrastructure hamper childrenÆs learning, which is critical for the future supply of skilled labor and hence for economic development. There is a need to assign priorities for resource...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Quote of the Day: A Single Identity a Liability?
- "A single fixed identity is a liability today. It only makes people more vulnerable to sudden changes in economic conditions. The most successful and healthy among us now develop multiple identities, managed simultaneously, to be called upon as conditions change. Recent research also suggests that developing multiple identities is one...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Should You Up Your Marketing During a Recession?
- Should You Up Your Marketing During a Recession?Marketing in Tough Economic TimesThe average American receives thousands of marketing messages every day. When the frequency and intensity of 'negative' messages on economic conditions from news media outlets, economic forecasting organizations, governments and others make significant inroads into the consumer psyche,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Finance in a Mercurial World
- The U.S. economy's shallow recovery, ongoing globalization and heightened competition, the broad economic forces that have shaped business conditions in past years have left a permanent mark on finance. Chief Financial Officers are now applying practices they once reserved for recessions across all phases of the business cycle. Consistently high...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- The Role of Speculation in Real Estate Cycles
- This paper focuses on two explanations for housing price increases and volatility; and sets out why these factors are key for understanding the source of cycles. The paper first discusses alternative definitions of speculation. It then develops a conceptual model of how real estate and local business cycles can be...
- White papers 2002-06-26
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