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Featured in Volume 22 of Advances in Management Accounting are articles on: The Effect of Personality Traits and Fairness on Honesty in Managerial Reporting; The Impact of Firm Size on the Productivity of Resources; Transfer of Performance Measurement System Innovations Across Economic Sectors; Target Costing and Product and Production Interdependencies; Cost Accounting, Simulation, and Post-Structuralist Understanding; Input-Based Performance Evaluation, Incentive Intensity, and Proactive Work Behavior; Normative and Instrumental commitments on Budgetary Slack Creation; The Adoption of Lean O.

Volume 22 of Research in Economic History contains six papers. Three are on agriculture and two on macro issues related to the Great Depression. A concluding paper examines trends in interstate migration in the United States.Fred Pryor begins the volume with a provocative exploration of the degree to which the Neolithic revolution was in fact revolutionary. Pryor argues for a considerably lesser break with the past than has been commonly asserted. He maintains, in particular, that hunter-gatherer methods of procuring subsistence persisted alongside a continuum of agricultural practices. His ev

Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- From foraging to farming : the so-called "neolithic revolution" / Frederic L. Pryor -- The growth of world agricultural production, 1800-1938 / Giovanni Federico -- The Great Depression as a credit boom gone wrong / Barry Eichengreen, Kris J. Mitchener -- The length and the depth of the Great Depression : an international comparison / Jakob B. Madsen -- The decline and rise of interstate migration in the United States : evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990 / Joshua L Rosenbloom, William A Sundstrom -- The price history of English agriculture, 1209-1914 / Gregory Clark

Intro -- PROGRESS IN ECONOMICS RESEARCH. VOLUME 22 -- PROGRESS IN ECONOMICS RESEARCH. VOLUME 22 -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: DYNAMIC INVESTOR RISK PREMIA AND RECESSIONS -- THE INVESTMENT DECISIONS OF FIRMS -- THEORETICAL DYNAMICS OF THE RISK PREMIUM -- ASSET PRICING MODELS AND THE RISK PREMIUM -- MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS AND THE FAMA-FRENCH RISK PREMIA -- DISCUSSION AND INTERPRETATION -- NEW DIRECTIONS IN RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: TRANSITIONAL DYNAMICSAND WELFARE EFFECTS OF THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT/OUTPUT RATIO -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. TheEnvironment -- 3. The Equilibrium, the Calibration, the Simulation and the Government Problem -- 4. The Public Investment Policy under Alternative Tax Scenarios -- 5. Sensitivity Analysis -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix: Solving the Dynamics -- References -- Chapter 3: CUSTOMER RELATED FACTORS IN PARTNER SELECTION, MARKET ORIENTATION, AND PERFORMANCES OF INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES IN TAIWAN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESES -- 3. METHODS -- 4. RESULTS AND ANALYSES -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: THE CHOICE OF EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: EVOLUTION AND DETERMINATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: CLASSIFICATION AND EVOLUTION -- 3. DETERMINATION OF EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: MANAGING EXTERNAL VOLATILITY: CENTRAL BANK OPTIONS IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE MODEL -- 2. FISCAL AND MONETARY RULES -- 3. LINEARIZATION AND CALIBRATION -- 4. MANAGING AID SHOCKS -- 5. SHOCKS AND INTERVENTION POLICY -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

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