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"Borrowing money costs money": Yes, but why not tell how much? [PDF]
, 2011 Consumers have substantial debts. Examples concern mortgages but also debts for products such as clothing and books. Facing difficulties when dealing with interest rates and percentages computations is one of the reasons for those debts.
Franses, Ph.H.B.F. (Philip Hans) +1 more
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, 2014 We develop a scheme for generating a universal qubit cluster state using probabilistic Bell measurements without the need for feed-forward or long-time quantum memories.
Dawson, Chris +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes +2 more
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A Theory of Financing Constraints and Firm Dynamics [PDF]
, 2002 There is widespread evidence supporting the conjecture that borrowing constraints have important implications for firm growth and survival. In this paper we model a multi-period borrowing/lending relationship with asymmetric information.
Clementi, Gian Luca, Hopenhagn, Hugo
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Local government unit borrowing in Croatia: opportunities and constraints [PDF]
, 2004 The paper analyses the practice and basic features of local government unit borrowing in Croatia from 1997 to 2003. Local government units still rely on classical forms of loans as a form of security for resources for financing capital projects and there
Bajo, Anto
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones +2 more
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
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LanguagesThis study investigates the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic factors in language contact scenarios, focusing on inner Asia Minor Greek (iAMGr), a dialect cluster influenced by Turkish and isolated from other Greek-speaking regions.
Stavros Bompolas +1 more
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Financial Developments in Canada: Past Trends and Future Challenges [PDF]
Freedman and Engert focus on the changing pattern of lending and borrowing in Canada in the past thirty to forty years, including the types of financial instruments used and the relative roles of financial institutions and financial markets. They examine
Charles Freedman, Walter Engert
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Household liquidity and incremental financing decisions:theory and evidence [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper we develop a stochastic model for household liquidity. In the model, the optimal liquidity policy takes the form of a liquidity range. Subsequently, we use the model to calibrate the upper bound of the predicted liquidity range.
Cunha, M Ricardo +2 more
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