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Title: AUTOMOTIVE AND LOGISTICS CLUSTERS TO DRIVE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS IN JAVA, INDONESIA
Author: Anggoro, Yudo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This study assesses the competitiveness of logistics and automotive industry clusters in Java economic corridor, Indonesia. The need for competitive industry clusters in Indonesia has emerged especially after the government launched its Master Pla...

Title: DEFLATEGATE: THE EFFECT OF THE 2006 RULE CHANGE REGARDING FOOTBALL PREPARATION ON RELEVANT GAME STATISTICS
Author: Satterwhite, William
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study investigates the impact of 2006 NFL rule change on the 2015 DeflateGate controversy. This analysis contributes to the discussions surrounding Tom Brady, the Patriots and their role in game day football preparation. This study is unique ...

Title: Forecasting Inflation - An Empirical Study on Predictive Power of Various Time-Series Models
Author: Zhao, Peng
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: In this thesis, I investigate the background and causes of major inflation in recent history and empirically study forecasting of future quarterly inflation rates for three typical countries and regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...

Title: If You Win, They Will Come: Major League Baseball and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis
Author: Pouler, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Sports administration
Description: ABSTRACTThis paper extends the Knowles et al. (1992) paper titled "The Demand for Major League Baseball: A Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis." The main research question is to replicate, and improve, the original paper using data from ...

Title: The Incentives and Effects of Unnecessary Emergency Ambulance Transport
Author: Deziel, Jackson
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: In the EMS field, the problem of low-acuity, non-emergency individuals who summon an emergency ambulance for simple transport to a local hospital is ever-present. Any person may summon an emergency ambulance and receive transport for the most mino...

Title: The Influence of Reference Group Contributions on Individual Charitable Giving
Author: Skeate, Keegan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The act of giving to charity seems to arise from interpersonal comparisons of relative well-being. The purpose of this study is to test if reference group comparisons of charitable contributions influence the propensity to give to charity. Apart f...

Title: The Price of Control: An empirical investigation of the control premium in M&A transactions, pre and post the financial crisis of 2007/2008.
Author: Dietz, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: This paper investigates the control premium in change of control transactions. Ithas taken a large-scale approach to the subject while also adding a pre- and post-crisisperspective. A regression model is built based on financial theory and previou...