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New Title Release: Posted 01/18/2012
Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms
Link and Scott provide a statistical assessment of the employment growth associated with public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
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New Title Release: Posted 12/14/2011
The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers?
Wolff examines whether the switch to Americans having predominantly defined contribution pension plans, from traditional defined benefit contribution plans, is good for workers.
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New Title Release: Posted 11/21/2011
Advances in Economic Forecasting
The six chapters included in this book focus on how the reliability of economic forecasts can be improved. Three of the chapters focus on forecasting in real time while predicting turning points for macro aggregate measures such as Gross Domestic Product, inflation, growth, and unemployment. Authors of two chapters argue that data can be more efficiently exploited through model and forecast combination. They, along with the authors of another chapter, also advocate for using models that are adaptive and perform well in the presence of nonlinearity and structural change.
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New Title Release: Posted 10/21/2011
Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives
An international group of pension experts propose what they view as the ideal pension systems for their countries.
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