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Selected AbstractsCapital Assistance for Small Firms: Some Implications for Regional Economic WelfareGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS, Issue 1 2000Daniel Felsenstein This paper analyzes the role of finance capital in regional economic development. A cost-benefit approach is invoked in order to estimate the welfare impacts of a regional loan and guarantee program for small firms in Israel. Program-created employment is treated as a benefit and an employment account that separates net from gross employment, is presented. An estimate of net wage benefits is then derived. This involves adjusting wages across different earnings classes in order to account for the variation in opportunity costs of labor at different levels. The estimation of costs includes the opportunity costs of capital, administration, default, and tax-raising costs. Results point to substantial regional welfare effects. We stress the need to account for changing regional economic structure in this kind of evaluation framework. [source] CMA Candidate Attributes and Performance: Some Implications,ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVES, Issue 1 2005MANMOHAN RAI KAPOOR ABSTRACT A university degree or equivalent is one of the criteria for eligibility to write the entrance examination for qualification as a certified management accountant (CMA). This study assessed various attributes, including exposure to liberal or general education, that candidates acquired during their university studies and examined the impact of these attributes on candidates' performance in the examination. The data included academic transcripts of 270 candidates who wrote the examination. Results indicated a positive, statistically significant correlation between the examination score and the candidate's exposure to liberal or general education, credit hours passed in accounting, grade point average in accounting, and grade point average in the overall course work. Credit hours failed in accounting showed a negative correlation. These findings are relevant to accounting educators, student counsellors, students, and the accountancy profession in general. [source] Physiological Linguistics, and Some Implications Regarding Disciplinary Autonomy and UnificationMIND & LANGUAGE, Issue 1 2007SAMUEL D. EPSTEIN At least current irreducibility of biology, including biolinguistics, stems in at least some cases from the very nature of what I will claim is physiological, or inter-organ/inter-component, macro-levels of explanation which play a new and central explanatory role in Chomsky's inter-componential (interface-based) explanation of certain (anatomical) properties of the syntactic component of Universal Grammar. Under this new mode of explanation, certain physiological functions of cognitive mental organs are hypothesized, in an attempt to explain aspects of their internal anatomy. Thus, the internal anatomy of the syntactic component exhibits features that enable it to effectively interface with (i.e. function in a coordinated fashion with) other ,adjacent' organs, such as the Conceptual-Intensional (C-I) (,meaning') system and the Sensory- Motor (SM) (,sound') system. These two interface systems take as their inputs the assembled outputs of the syntactic component and, as a result of the very syntactic structure imposed by the syntax (as opposed to countless imaginable alternatives) are then able to assign their (linearized) sound and (compositional) meaning interpretations. If this is an accurate characterization, Chomsky's long-standing postulation of mental organs, and I will argue, the advancement of new hypotheses concerning physiological inter-organ functions, has attained in current biolinguistic Minimalist method a significant unification with foundational aspects of physiological explanation in other areas of biology. [source] Income, Location and Default: Some Implications for Community LendingREAL ESTATE ECONOMICS, Issue 3 2000Robert Van Order This paper investigates differences in default losses across income groups and neighborhoods, in an effort to see if there are significant differences between default experience on loans to low-income households or low-income neighborhoods and other loans. We find that while defaults and losses are somewhat higher in low-income neighborhoods, default behavior is similar in the sense that responses to negative equity are similar across neighborhoods, and remaining differences are small and might be explained by omitted variables such as those measuring credit history. [source] Not Afraid to Blame: The Neglected Role of Blame Attribution in Medical Consumerism and Some Implications for Health PolicyTHE MILBANK QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2002Marsha Rosenthal Starting roughly a quarter century ago, american medicine began a dramatic transformation from a system dominated by clinicians' decision making and professional norms to one in which medical care is expected to reflect the preferences and choices of individual consumers. This growing aspiration toward "medical consumerism" began during the 1970s with a set of popular social movements devoted to giving patients more control over their own treatment and a more informed choice of their physicians (Rodwin 1994). Although the seeds of consumerism were only haphazardly sown and incompletely germinated (Hibbard and Weeks 1987), by the end of the decade they had grown into a noticeable presence in the health care system (Haug and Lavin 1981). During the 1980s, these shifts in popular attitudes were reinforced by public policies and private practices intended to give consumers greater incentives to learn more about their medical choices and to exercise these choices in a cost-conscious manner (Arnould, Rich, and White 1993). [source] |