Asset correlation and international portfolio diversification benefit / Noor Azida Abu Bakar by Abu Bakar, Noor Azida

“…Most of the investors apply international diversification in their investment to gain higher return with low risk as well as. Financial economists recommend adding international assets to portfolios because they actually reduce risk. …”
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Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? by Kingdon, G, Knight, J

“…The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. …”

Hypothermia for perinatal asphyxia: trial-based resource use and costs at 6 to 7 years by Rivero Arias, O, Eddama, O, Azzopardi, D, Edwards, A, Strohm, B, Campbell, H

“…A quantification of the relationship between costs and levels of disability experienced will be useful to healthcare professionals, policy makers, and health economists contemplating the longer-term economic consequences of perinatal asphyxia and hypothermic neural rescue.…”

Methods for assessing the costs of transfusion management strategies in cardiac surgery by Stokes, E

“…</p> <p>This thesis provides hospital managers and health economists with accurate information on the costs of administering blood for budget impact assessments and economic evaluations. …”

Dependency and development in central and eastern Europe's new capitalist systems by Tarlea, S

“…This work thus contributes to explaining processes of skill formation, which are becoming of increasingly broad interest to political economists and area studies scholars alike.</p>…”

Core Items for a Standardized Resource Use Measure (ISRUM): expert delphi consensus survey by Thorn, J, Brookes, S, Ridyard, C, Riley, R, Hughes, D, Wordsworth, S, Noble, S, Thornton, G, Hollingworth, W

“…Objectives: To identify a minimum set of core resource use items that should be included in a standardized adult instrument for UK health economic evaluation from a provider perspective. Methods: Health economists with experience of UK-based economic evaluations were recruited to participate in an electronic Delphi survey. …”

The value of a smile: Game theory with a human face by Scharlemann, J, Eckel, C, Kacelnik, A, Wilson, R

“…Many economists and biologists view cooperation as anomalous: animals (including humans) that pursue their own self-interest have superior survival odds to their altruistic or cooperative neighbors. …”

Estimating the association between SF-12 responses and EQ-5D utility values by response mapping. by Gray, A, Rivero-Arias, O, Clarke, P

“… BACKGROUND: Reliably mapping from generic or disease-specific health status measures into health state utilities would assist health economists. Existing studies mainly use ordinary least squares (OLS) regression equations to predict utility values for particular health states. …”

Essays in finance by Dai, B

“…There are three principles in financial economics which well known even by non-economists: (1) stock return and risk should be positively correlated; (2) people’s happiness should depend on their own consumption, and not on other people’s wealth, in other words, wealth inequality should not matter if people can think and behave rationally; (3) stock prices only reflect agents’ rational forecasts of future cashflows, so should not affect the real economy. …”

Greed and Grievance in Civil War. by Collier, P, Hoeffler, A

“…But since grievance assuagement through rebellion is a public good that a government will not supply, economists predict such rebellions would be rare. Empirically, many rebellions appear to be linked to the capture of resources (such as diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone, drugs in Colombia, and timber in Cambodia). …”

Issues related to the economic analysis of genomic diagnostic technologies in the UK National Health Service: an exploration of methods by Buchanan, J

“…The main focus of the thesis is the identification of the most appropriate economic evaluation approach to use in this context. Health economists are currently uncertain as to whether existing extra-welfarist approaches are sufficient to evaluate genomic technologies. …”

The politics of A Modest Proposal: Swift and the Irish crisis of the late 1720s by McBride, I

“…Swift joined other patriotic commentators in deploring the conversion of arable land to pasture and the resultant expulsion of communities of villagers. Political economists marshalled statistics to demonstrate that human tenants could be as profitable as livestock. …”

School attendance 1880-1939 by Sheldon, N

“…This study draws instead on the insights of development economists into household decision-making over children's schooling to investigate the effectiveness of enforcement in several contrasting localities - rural and urban, industrial and agricultural, and in a seaside resort. …”

The cyclical behaviour of wages by Michie, J, Michie, Jonathan

“…What is interesting about this debate is the light it sheds on the response of economists to apparent falsification.</p><p>A third level of the debate is the issue of inference. …”

Health economic evaluation of gene replacement therapies: methodological issues and recommendations by Aballéa, S, Thokagevistk, K, Velikanova, R, Simoens, S, Annemans, L, Antonanzas, F, Auquier, P, François, C, Fricke, F-U, Malone, D, Millier, A, Persson, U, Petrou, S, Dabbous, O, Postma, M, Toumi, M

“…<br><br> Conclusions: <br>While some of the limitations of economic evaluations of GRT are inherent to limited clinical data and lack of experience with these treatments, others may be addressed by methodological research to be conducted by health economists.…”

A problem of industries and regions: unemployment and structural change in Britain during the interwar years and 1980s by Paker, M

“…</p> <p>Chapter I reviews how structural and cyclical unemployment were understood by economists in a pre-Keynesian setting. Chapter II analyzes interwar unemployment with novel data, finding that structurally-disadvantaged industries had higher unemployment and that the labor market was more flexible for some workers than others. …”

Stature and relative deprivation: Fatherless children in early industrial Britain. by Horrell, S, Humphries, J, Voth, H

“…Economic historians and development economists have exploited links between nutrition, health status and physical stature to argue that evidence about height can be used to supplement conventional economic indices of well-being. …”

Determinants of Savings Behaviour Among University Students in Sabah, Malaysia. by Amer Azlan Abdul Jamal, Wijaya Kamal Ramlan, Rosle Mohidin, Zaiton Osman

“…Most economists believe that anincrease in savings will flourish the growth of economic activities and further strengthening the economy of that particular nation. …”
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Non-performing loans sensitivity to macro variables: panel evidence from Malaysian commercial banks by Alizadeh Janvisloo, Mohammadreza, Muhammad, Junaina

“…The result of this study can be helpful to bank supervisory and economists to adjust banking system stability and economic policies.…”
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The Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade Balance in Sudan by Ibrahim Ahmed, Ahmed Abd Allah

“…One of the primary economic objectives of most developing countries is to improve their trade balance. Economists have suggested that trade deficit can be reduced through currency devaluation. …”
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