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Regional Business Confidence as Early Indicator of Regional Economic Growth [PDF]
Managing Global Transitions, 2021 Official sub-national GDP figures in South Africa are usually published with long delays or not at all, i.e. relevant, reliable, and real-time economic data on a provincial and local (municipal) level are often non-existent, causing a significant data ...
Ewert Kleynhans, Clive Coetzee
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Do monetary policy credibility and disagreements in inflation and interest rate expectations affect business confidence? Evidence from an inflation targeting developing country [PDF]
Journal of Money and Business, 2023 Purpose – Business confidence is crucial to firm decisions, but it is deeply related to professional forecasters' expectations. Since Brazil is an important inflation targeting country, this paper investigates whether monetary policy credibility and ...
Gabriel Caldas Montes +1 more
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Learning, confidence, and business cycles [PDF]
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021 Abstract We argue that information accumulation provides a quantitatively successful propagation mechanism that challenges and empirically improves on the conventional New Keynesian models with many nominal and real rigidities. In particular, we build a tractable heterogeneous-firm business cycle model where firms face Knightian uncertainty about ...
Cosmin Ilut, Hikaru Saijo
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Euro Area Business Confidence and COVID-19 [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as well as average household confidence in neighboring countries.
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Policy uncertainty, the economy and business
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2022 Elevated policy uncertainty acts as a tax on investment. In 1921, Frank Knight made a basic conceptual distinction between risk and uncertainty. In a market context, risks can be hedged through the use of different instruments, yet in the policy context,
Raymond Parsons, Waldo Krugell
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Brazilian farmer confidence in business performance [PDF]
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2022 The aim of this article is to understand how rural producers in Brazil generate their investment expectations in terms of their costs, productivity, and other macroeconomic variables related to agricultural production. This study contributes to the formulation of more efficient public policies that take into account not only market information, but ...
Caetano Haberli Júnior +4 more
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Expectations of a Post-Wwii Depression
Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2021 The forecast of a Post-WWII depression is contrasted against the vigorous growth that actually happened. Economists called for continued control over the economy to prevent the feared depression.
Clifford F. Thies
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Are employees well evaluated in their CSR actions? The perception of managers in an emerging country
Revista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios, 2020 Purpose – This paper tests the influence of employees’ involvement in CSR activities on managers’ perceptions regarding business confidence. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative methodology was used to contrast the hypotheses presented ...
Edmundo Lizarzaburu Bolaños +1 more
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Adjusting the Trapping Process of a Directed Weighted Edge-Iteration Network
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Controlling the trapping process is one of the important themes in the study of random walk in real complex systems. We studied two types of random walks that are different from the traditional random walk on a directed weighted network.
Jing Su +7 more
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Mediating role of entrepreneurial competencies: Influence of personality traits on entrepreneurial intention [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2021 This study aims to examine the role of entrepreneurial competency in mediating the influence of personality traits on entrepreneurial intention. Data were collected using a questionnaire sent to medium-sized business managers in the province of Bali ...
Ida Ketut Kusumawijaya +1 more
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