The testing of various explanations of international trade patterns always arouses a good share of academic interest. Unfortunately, due to imperfections embodied in the testing processes and due to imperfect data, the ...

The key variables in international trade policy are imports and exports elasticities with respect to income and prices. Thus their estimation has drawn~particular attention in the post war period. Most of the studies ...

This paper presents four consumer demand models. The Rotterdam, the Linear Expenditure, the Indirect Addilog and the Translogarithmic. In the first part their derivation and theoretical properties are outlined. Afterwards ...

Dans le but de consolider la paix sociale et de protéger l'intérêt général,l'Etat planifie et coordonne les activités économiques du pays, en recherchant d'assurer le développement économique -de tous les secteurs de ...

Είμαι ιδιαιτέρως ευτυχής γιατί απευθύνομαι τώρα σε ένα τόσο εκλεκτό και υψηλών θεσσαλικών προσδοκιών και απαιτήσεων ακροατήριο. Συγχαίρω και ευχαριστώ για την τιμητική πρόσκληση το Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο του Συλλόγου των ...

Πολλοί οικονομολόγοι σε πολλές Χώρες, εδώ και δύο δεκαετίες περίπου, αναζητώντας λύση στο πρόβλημα της ρύπανσης του περιβάλλοντος, πρότειναν στη Δημόσια Διοίκηση να καθορίσει ένα σύστημα επιβολής τελών στους ρυπαίνοντες ...

Τα τελευταία χρόνια η σχέση της οικονομίας με το περιβάλλον γίνεται όλο και πιο προφανής τόσο στο επίπεδο της επιστημονικής έρευνας όσο και στο επίπεδο της εφαρμογής συγκεκριμένων μέτρων πολιτικής. Η επίδραση της παραγωγής ...

Governments are expected to subsidy activities that would improve environmental conditions. In this respect, subsidies promoting the spread of new environment friendly technology are in effect in most parts of the world. ...

Self-managing teams hold a great interest for contemporary researchers and practitioners. There is an extensive literature which argues that such groups often exhibit high performance coupled with job satisfaction and ...

Numerous studies on leadership and on the relationship between leadership style and various individual and organisational outcomes have utilised either of two questionnaire instruments for the measurement of leader ...

Knowledge has been identified as one of the most important resources that contribute to the competitive advantage of an organisation. Many firms have reached the conclusion that effective management (acquisition) of ...

The purpose of radical process change (Re-Engineering), as well as the incremental business process improvement approaches (continuous improvement), is the transformation of business processes. The desire to achieve such ...

Abstract The objective of this chapter is to examine the ARCH family of volatility models and its use in risk analysis and measurement. An overview of unconditional and conditional volatility models is provided. The former ...

This study focuses on the development of a new methodology for the selection of the best solution for municipal solid wastes disposal, after evaluating all the important factors, including economical, social and environmental ...

Behavioural and interpersonal skills most often cited as essential for successful knowledge acquisition. Little is known, however, about the roles played by 'dispersed leadership' in the process of knowledge acquisition. ...

Performance is a key concern for organisations in the rapidly changing global economy. Although both leadership and the ability of employees to work in an autonomous manner are often cited as being essential for ...

Although both trust and the ability of employees to work in an autonomous manner are often cited as being essential for effectiveness of self-managed teams, little is known on the effect of interpersonal hust on knowledge ...

Knowledge has been identified as an important resource that contributes to the competitive advantage of an organisation. The problems associated with irresponsible use of power manifest itself in the loss of organisational ...

Little is known on the combined effect of interpersonal trust and power factors on the traits and skills of knowledge acquisition. A survey of 140 first line managers was conducted to investigate the relationship between ...

Σκοπός της συγκεκριμένης εργασίας είναι παρουσιαστεί η διαδικασία παραγωγής εκπαιδευτικού υλικού αλλά και τα αποτελέσματα για το μάθημα της αθλητικής - Πολιτιστικής επιχειρηματικότητας το οποίο θα εισαχθεί στα Δημόσια ΙΕΚ. ...