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Volume III of National Accounts of OECD Countries comprises Volume IIIa - Financial Accounts - Flows and Volume IIIb - Financial Balance Sheets - Stocks . In both volumes, data, based on the System of National Accounts (SNA 1993), are expressed in national currency (in euros for euro area countries). Volume IIIa covers financial accounts of OECD countries and includes financial transactions (both net acquisition of financial assets and net incurrence of liabilities), by institutional sector (non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit insti

This biography examines the life of Helen Keller using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical and contemporary images and photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Keller's family background, childhood, education, and time as a world-renowned activist and speaker. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO

"The Communication Yearbook annuals" publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1999

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.

Mays (political science, The Citadel) presents entries on important people, military missions and other events, concepts, organizations, related to the major peacekeeping operations conducted by international organizations since 1920. He first presents a

The Washington Conference regulated the inter-war naval race between the world powers. In the era when it was still believed that battleships were the epitome of naval power and a sign of a country's strength, this conference led to limitations on the building of such weapons by the naval powers of Britain, the USA and Japan. This collection of essays deals with many aspects of the conference; the factors that caused it, the interests of the participating nations both present and future, and the results