Urban road pricing in the UK od Santos, G

“…Thus, the ghost that prevented the introduction of a policy supported by transport economists for over 80 years seems to have disappeared or at least, weakened.…”

Monetary policy, macro-stability and growth: South Africa’s recent experience and lessons. od Aron, J, Muellbauer, J

“…There is greater appreciation now amongst economists of the negative effect of uncertainty on investment, growth and equality, especially when credit constraints are widespread. …”

Road pricing : theory and evidence od Santos, G

“… <p.traffic 80="" a="" affects="" an="" and="" as="" at="" be="" by="" charging="" cities="" congestion="" demand="" disappeared="" economists="" effective="" everywhere="" for="" ghost="" have="" important="" in="" insurmountable.="" introduction="" is="" it="" least,="" london="" management="" most="" need="" not="" of="" one="" opposition="" or="" over="" p="" places="" policy="" political="" prevented="" pricing="" problems="" public="" recent="" recognised="" regarded="" road="" scheme="" seems="" showing="" solution.="" some="" supported="" that="" the="" thus,="" to="" tool.="" towns="" traffic="" transport="" undoubtedly="" urgent="" weakened.<="" years=""> <p>The book contains twelve papers useful to different types of audience, such as researchers and postgraduate students, civil servants, policy makers and consultants. …”

Current practices of Islamic home financing: a case of musharakah mutanaqisah in Malaysia od Hanafi, H.

“…In achieving the aims, this study employed the interviews with 19 individuals who are actively involved in the implementation of MM home financing in Malaysia including Islamic bankers, Islamic economists, Shari 'ah advisor and regulator. The interview finding revealed that despite MM current operation, Malaysian legal system is in fact, not duly in place to accommodate the true implementation of MM equity financing which is regarded as relatively a new home financing product.…”
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Book Review: How Solidarity Works for Welfare od Singh, Prerna

“…The comparisons between these three north and two south Indian states are well known to economists, public health specialists and educationalists, but there are few good explanations out there that try to account for these differences. …”
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Consumer Confidence and Residential Property Price: Evidence for Malaysia od lsmail, Nur Hafizah, Nayan, Sabri

“…In recent years, real estate market has become a major interest for economists and researchers. In general, property prices are influenced by supply and demand of the real estate market. …”
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To maximize or randomize? An experimental study of probability matching in financial decision making od Lo, Andrew W, Marlowe, Katherine P, Zhang, Ruixun

“…<jats:p>Probability matching, also known as the “matching law” or Herrnstein’s Law, has long puzzled economists and psychologists because of its apparent inconsistency with basic self-interest. …”
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Assessing Thai entrepreneur performance : Steps toward a new venture production function / Chris Batstone, Geoff Perry and Pussadee Polsaram od Batstone, Chris, Perry, Geoff, Polsaram, Pussadee

“…It focuses on technical aspects of a project undertaken as a research collaboration between business economists and educators from the Auckland University of Technology(AUT) and The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) investigating the attributes of successful Thai SME entrepreneurs in post currency crisis Thailand .The motivation for the innovation described in the paper is the questionable reliability of performance data collected by survey questions probing performance in a population of entrepreneurs. …”
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Understanding cultural diversity and economic prosperity in Europe: a literature review and proposal of a culture–economy framework od Yong, Enn Lun

“…Increasingly, cultural diversity is being paid attention to by economists, signifying the importance of international allocation of human capital to world economic wellbeing. …”
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Military expenditure and economic growth empirical evidence from Malaysia od Nur Surayya Mohd Saudi, Ariffin Ismail, Rogis Baker, Saizal Pinjaman, Aida Nasirah Abdullah, Nurhana Mohamad Rafiuddin, Amiruddin Sulaiman

“…The relationship between military expenditure and economic growth has attract ample interest among economists as well as policy makers. The importance of expanding defence expenditure is substantially to coincide with national security and defence. …”
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A preliminary study of sustainable transport indicators in Malaysia: the case study of Klang Valley public transportation od Bachok, Syahriah, Ponrahono, Zakiah, Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Jaafar, Samsuddin, Ibrahim, Mansor, Mohamed, Mohd Zin

“…They include transport planners, traffic engineers, public transport operators and managers, transportation economists, environmentalists, academician and researchers, as well as urban and regional planners. …”
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Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation od Knittel, Christopher R, Sandle, Ryan

“…Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US have relied on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards and Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS). Economists often argue that these policies are inefficient relative to carbon pricing because they ignore existing vehicles and do not adequately reduce the incentive to drive. …”
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Investor sentiment and stock returns od Brookins, Benjamin David Lee

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Japan and the Kyoto protocol : pespectives from power generation. od Kuan, Xiu Ling., Yip, Wan Wei., Yap, Chein Ning.

“…The findings and recommendations will be relevant to environmental economists for their work in related topics. The regression results and research on new policies and instruments can be used to provide them with insights to the direction Japan can head in mitigating its future emissions.…”
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Mangrove ecotourism - striking a balance between ecology and economics od Mohd. Yaman, Maheran, Ab Rahman, Nik Ismail Azlan

“…The mangrove environments benefits from visitors because they help to conserve the environment; they in turn benefit from their non-consumptive use of the resource which economists refer to as use value as they increase their knowledge about the site visited; and this raises their utility level. …”
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From the cradle to the craze: a study on China's indigenous automobile industry, 1953-2007 od Hsu, Y, Yungtai Alexander Hsu

“…In the last two decades, China progressed from being nearly a truck-only producer to becoming a major producer of passenger and commercial cars. Economists consider the time between 2001 and 2007 to be a period of ‘blowout’ in the Chinese automobile industry. …”

Economic evaluation of factorial randomised controlled trials: Challenges, methods and recommendations od Dakin, H, Gray, A

“…This article aims to examine issues associated with factorial trials that include assessment of costs and/or cost-effectiveness, describe the methods that can be used to analyse such studies; and make recommendations for health economists, statisticians and trialists. A hypothetical worked example is used to illustrate the challenges and demonstrate ways in which economic evaluations of factorial trials may be conducted, and how these methods affect the results and conclusions. …”

Common Agency Contracting and the Emergence of "Open Science" Institutions. od David, P

“…The desirability of closing this particular lacuna in the economics and economic-history literatures has been just as evident to economists concerned with extending the analysis of modern institutions as to those who have begun to approach the whole area of science and technology studies from the perspectives and methods of industrial-organization economics. [1] Even before the “new economics of science” had begun to direct attention to such a program, Douglass North (1990 p. 75) saw a significant challenge and a promising opportunity in explicit exploration of “the connecting links between institutional structures... and incentives to acquire pure knowledge.” …”

When the Leopard meets Gatsby. Inheritance, inequality, and social mobility in liberal and fascist Italy od Gabbuti, G

“…At the same time, the dissertation offers the first historical reconstruction of a crucial episode in the history of inequality in interwar Italy, that is, the abolition of inheritance tax, abruptly announced by Mussolini’s government few months after the March on Rome, within a broader discussion of the economic thought on inheritance, the transmission of status, and more broadly, social mobility, by Italian economists and statisticians between the end of the 19th century and the 1950s. …”

Civil War. od Collier, P, Hoeffler, A

“…This framework enables economists to analyse the distinctive feature of civil war: the emergence and persistence of a rebel army: some conditions make rebellion both more attractive and more feasible than others. …”