Sentences with phrase «economic agents in»

These activities are ones involving huge numbers of economic agents in a large number of countries where the costs and benefits of action do not indicate any obvious focal policy or technological fix.

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There are no such restrictions in Dandong, the main gateway into North Korea in northeastern China, where listed prices of apartments in some projects seen as most likely to gain from an economic opening up of North Korea have jumped by as much as 50 percent since Kim's Beijing visit in late March, according to five real estate agents and three local residents.

In 2016, CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. found that some of the most in - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialistIn 2016, CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. found that some of the most in - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialistin - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialists.

For a more general treatment of this issue of overconfidence and other ways in which economic agents depart from complete rationality, see Richard Thaler.

There are many other ways of allocating a significant portion of the debt - servicing cost to unwilling agents in the economic equivalent of debt forgiveness: to creditors when debt is repudiated, to workers when wages are suppressed in order to increase net revenues for debt servicing, to small business owners when assets are expropriated to pay down debt, and so on.

After all the way you distribute earnings is a major part of an institution's incentive structure, and changes in the structure of incentives lead almost automatically to changes in the ways economic agents behave.

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

All the major economic agents begin to behave in ways that worsen the debt crisis until finally the country slides into default.

In that case, with incentives lines up so that all the major economic agents worsen the debt problem, debt must rise faster than both GDP and the country's debt - servicing ability.

Shiller is also an advocate of behavioral finance, the soft form of which proposes that real economic actors do not act like the agents in Marshallian economic models.

Political and economic difficulties in Russia mean that buyers of Italian property are looking for cheaper options, says a leading global agent.

He is the author of «Competition in the Distribution of Travel Services — The Future of Travel Agents,» an economic study published by ASTA in January, 1997, and authored and edited the ASTA Travel Agent Manual (1990, 1995).

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

Frank suggests» and he is far from alone in this» that the party's success depends on reaffirming its traditional identity as the agent of «equality and economic security.»

The possessors of power (through the communications technology) to control men today are the political and economic institutions which rely on and in turn maintain the national state as the prime agent of mankind's organization.

The economic crisis, previously viewed as an indispensable ally in helping the President enact the agenda, now appears as a malevolent agent, and a perversely ill - timed one at that, since, as Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker explained, «the longest and deepest mass suffering» of the Great Recession, in contrast to the Great Depression, «has occurred with Obama in the White House.»

Aristotle, in his Politics, described the workings of an economy using a household model in which economic agents distribute goods to maximize the flourishing of their loved ones.

Worship in the full sense — worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economic power.

Television has, as a secular tool, largely rejected the concept of God, but in the place of God television substitutes the larger economic order, and like the Christian religion has created its own «super-natural» agents or saints to help maintain and represent this order.

The Organic Center, in collaboration with USDA Economic Research Service and eOrganic will bring farmers, scientists, extension agents, industry members and key policy influencers together this spring for what will be the third annual Organic Confluences Summit to address the challenges facing organic agriculture and to share knowledge and research findings.

A republican model of economic governance sees the company as a self - governing association of members that incorporates owners, employees, users, and other agents that have an interest in the company's success.

We might add to this the implicit assumption of consensus: buyers and sellers consensually engage in their transactions, and in theory, these rules apply universally to economic agents.

These «East Bankers» have long represented the regime's power base, and as agents, they exchange their support for the regime for privileged access to jobs in the state bureaucracy, security services and broader economic rewards.

Stern and the undercover FBI agent led the politicians involved to believe that they were wealthy developers looking for to curry favor and would use their economic resources to help Smith bribe his way into City Hall in exchange for political favors that would pave the way for their upstate development projects.

Walrond in turn laments the economic conditions in the District and the lack of improvement during the 62 years of combined legislative experience of Rangel and Espaillat, casting himself as the true change agent.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the outcome of the hotly contested Pennsylvania Congressional race, the nerve agent used against a former Russian spy, Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as Trump's top economic advisor, and walkouts across the nation in regards to gun violence.

There are also geo - political reasons for the recent violence — long - enmity to the West, economic and social unrest, and agent provocateurs in the Muslim world who are trying to destablise the new Arab leadership.

People, firms and other economic «agents» act rationally, in their own self - interest and with profound insight.

In 2005 and 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded economic research on alternative corporate governance models, namely the principal / agent and team production models, and their ability to explain both the legal and economic behaviors of public companies.

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Cut to newbie real - estate agent Leigh (Catalina Sandino Moreno), working in an environment of widespread foreclosures and economic hardships.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Oliver Stone Examines Banana Republics in Documentary If you've read «Confessions of an Economic Hitman» by John Perkins, then you are well aware of the lengths to which CIA and other agents operating on behalf of the U.S. government and Fortune 500 corporations have gone to install puppets as heads of state in countries all across Latin America.

Occupation Change in real wages (2002 - 6) Change in real wages (2007 - 10) Change in real wages (2011 - 14) Social worker 7.5 % -0.5 % -3.9 % Transport professional 4.8 % 6.8 % 13.7 % Police officer 3.2 % -2.5 % -8.1 % Education professional 2.3 % 0.0 % -6.9 % Technology professional 1.6 % -3.7 % -5.2 % Nurse 0.0 % 3.2 % -6.4 % Electrician -0.3 % 3.9 % -4.0 % Travel agent -0.7 % -0.4 % -3.9 % Accountant -1.3 % -6.1 % -3.7 % Engineering professional -1.8 % -0.9 % -4.1 % Retail sales assistant -4.8 % -0.4 % -5.0 % Building trades -11.9 % -10.3 % -12.8 % Management consultant -17.8 % -6.3 % -10.4 % All UK full - time workers 3.8 % -0.9 % -5.9 % Table 3: Change in real wages in different economic conditions 2002 - 14

knowledge and including all educational agents, representing one necessary task to promote a dynamic and critical thinking, generating new ideas that bring economic and social development, aimed to create a better world in the future.

Therefore, we believe that the school should be seen as the place of learning, rather than the place where they teach, achieving an active and participatory education, disseminating trans - disciplinary knowledge and including all educational agents, representing one necessary task to promote a dynamic and critical thinking, generating new ideas that bring economic and social development, aimed to create a better world in the future.

About Innovators OC Innovators OC invests in individuals and organizations in Orange County who are working in innovative ways to create self - sustaining enterprises that address social problems by becoming effective agents of positive community and economic impact.

Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, said of Change Agents: «In the face of dramatic demographic, economic, technological, and global change, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profoundly.

A graduate of the University of Michigan with double majors in English and History, her earlier careers include agent and manager in the music industry, public television, associate vice president of university advancement, public relations, and economic development.

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In both instances, these services or products may include: company financial data and economic data (e.g., unemployment, inflation rates and GDP figures), stock quotes, last sale prices and trading volumes, research reports analyzing the performance of a particular company or stock, narrowly distributed trade magazines or technical journals covering specific industries, products, or issuers, seminars or conferences registration fees which provide substantive content relating to eligible research, quantitative analytical software and software that provides analyses of securities portfolios, trading strategies and pre / post trade analytics, discussions with research analysts or meetings with corporate executives which provide a means of obtaining oral advice on securities, markets or particular issuers, short - term custody related to effecting particular transactions and clearance and settlement of those trades, lines between the broker - dealer and order management systems operated by a third party vendor, dedicated lines between the broker - dealer and the investment adviser's order management system, dedicated lines providing direct dial - up service between the investment adviser and the trading desk at the broker - dealer, message services used to transmit orders to broker - dealers for execution, electronic communication of allocation instructions between institutions and broker - dealers, comparison services required by the SEC or another regulator (e.g., use of electronic confirmation and affirmation of institutional trades), exchange of messages among broker - dealers, custodians, and institutions related to a trade, post-trade matching of trade information, routing settlement instructions to custodian banks and broker - dealers» clearing agents, software that provides algorithmic trading strategies, and trading software operated by a broker - dealer to route orders to market centers or direct market access systems.

The internet did not kill the industry as many speculated, and in speaking with some agents, they did not even feel a hiccup during the recent economic downturn.

Simon Allison, Hoftel chairman, warned: «This will be a year where the Gulf and Indian Ocean market faces challenges like never before — the continuing rise of the online travel agents, the spread of home - sharing and serviced apartments, the consolidation of brands, significant supply increases and, in some places, a tough economic environment.»

Maybe the an economic organization will be able to use large vessels for trade to make a name for themselves, running their own shops or monopolizing a system's trade economy (though with the number of NPC agents in the economy, maybe players won't stand out enough for this to happen).

It takes in the uncompromising spirit, the ever dissatisfied ambition and the never tired renewal of effort to which the professional, in the sense that he is bound to his art by all the economic ties of modern times, can never attain as can the independent agent.

Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses and actors in history, and as dynamic agents — linking nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity — across different geographies, histories and systems of knowledge, with a variety of curative, spiritual and economic powers.

Economic agents are then assumed to decide rationally on (i) how much to invest in flood protection; (ii) how much to invest in flood - prone (protected) areas; and (iii) how much to invest in safe areas.

What is essential though, is that every economic agent be incentivized at the margin to participate in and support the global organization as a whole.

Financial markets will play an important role in helping economic agents and governments in coping with climate change - induced shocks.