WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said on Sunday he sees the current uncertain economic situation continuing for "quite some period of time." Rubin, who served at Treasury under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, appeared on CBS "Face the Nation" to promote...
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We need motivation to bring forth a plan of action that helps us to accomplish our goals. If we set short-term goals for our self, we must think that priorities are always in the way. No one can escape life devoid of working, so your job is part of our...
In this paper, the authors' consider a continuous-review inventory model for a retailer who faces constant, deterministic demand but whose supplier is unreliable. The supplier experiences "wet" and "dry" operational and disrupted periods whose durations are exponentially distributed. The retailer follows an EOQ-like policy during wet periods but may not...
This article reports on how the Southern District of New York granted partial summary judgment to certain property insurers in SR International Business Insurance Co. v. World Trade Center Properties LLC, 01 Civ. 9291 MBM (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 19, 2005). The court made clear that the period of restoration is the...
The paper develops a two-period, two-country, multigood model with endogenous investment. Borrowing is subject to quantitative restrictions. The authors examine the effect of promoting exports in period 1 on the level of exports in period 2. They consider a number of scenarios depending on how the initial values of the...
It is vital to create an authentic 'Employer brand' to recruit the best people. And it is vital to impress these people in the period between their acceptance of the employment offer and actually starting. This interim period is a time when the recruit may get cold feet; they may...
In this paper we explore the theoretical and empirical problems of estimating average excess return and risk of US equities over various holding periods and sample periods. The findings are relevant for performance evaluation, for estimating the historical equity risk premium, and for investment simulation. Using a unique set of...
The article says six-month period ended April 30, 2003, was difficult for international equity investors. The moves during the period were sharp: markets breached their October lows in mid-March before moving solidly higher in April. Asia was more defensive until late in the period when the news on SARS escalated...
This paper gives a brief background to the origins of the prototype device and presents the methodology for the analysis of the prototype conversion efficiency, calculated for the period of the sea trials as 34.5%. The prolongation of the sea trials period allowed the generation of physical data from which...
Proper dry cow nutrition and management is critical, since decisions made during this period will have a tremendous impact on milk production and health during the next lactation. The purpose of a dry period is to allow the cow's udder an opportunity to regenerate secretory tissue and to allow the...
Article provides a brief history of total pay of the employee, pay and reward practitioners preparing executive briefings and recommendations commonly ask for a 'chronology of pay and rewards' to include with their management recommendations. It defines total pay design that should be considered while compensating the employee for his...
The article boils down the terms like ordering period: the frequency with which you place orders, order lead-time: the number of ordering periods that pass while you are waiting for an order round up fractions, lead-time sales: average sales per period multiplied by order lead-time, safety quantity conservative: maximum sales...
Research has provided the evidence of important changes in the U.S. economic environment over the last few years. This appears to be associated with an alteration of the monetary transmission mechanism. This paper investigates the implications for the evolution of monetary policy effectiveness. Using an identified VAR Vector AutoRegression over...
This article table statistically and graphically summarizes the risk and reward characteristics of the stock and bond markets during various time periods. It notes that stocks from 1964-2001 (past 38 years) have delivered higher returns with less risk than in the first half of the measurement period, 1926-1963, yet the...
This white paper discusses about a model that is developed to analyze optimal product costing and pricing decisions when a firm must make long term commitments to some activity resource capacities. The problem is complex because of interactions between the initial capacity choices and adjustments in product costs and prices...
This article study the process of corporate restructuring for a sample of 298 firms during the 1989-98 period that announces that they are considering restructuring alternatives. One finds that restructuring is a lengthy process, with the majority of the restructuring period occurring before any definitive proposals for corporate change....
This paper exploits an unusually powerful setting to explore a choice many individual investors face regularly the decision to sell today or postpone selling until lower rates are available in the future. It examines trading volume and stock returns around the 1998 reduction in the holding period required for individual...
This article empirically examines office rent determinants in distinct periods of a market cycle. The study uses a dataset of office properties located in a large metropolitan area and spanning a six-year period. During this period, office rents experienced a significant decline and recovery. A time-varying parameter rent index identifies...
This article examines holding periods for commercial real estate held by institutional investors in the NCREIF database in the United States and contrasts them with those found in a United Kingdom study using the IPD database. The similarity of results suggests that there may be fundamental reasons for the relatively...
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