By providing guidance about future economic developments, central banks can a¤ect private sector expectations and decisions. This can improve welfare by reducing the e¤ects of asymmetric information and by leading to smaller forecast errors. But it can also magnify the impact of noise in the central bank’s forecasts. I employ a model of heterogeneous information to compare outcomes under opaque...

The present paper uses a modified version of the Service Brand Verdict (SBV) model. The objective of the study is to incorporate service brand loyalty as an ultimate dependent measure seen as the outcome of consumers' evaluation of various service brand dimensions and communication, and test the generalizability of the modified SBV model in two different service sectors and cultural settings. T...

FORECASTING OF CAPITALIZATION OF BANKING INSTITUTIONS IN UKRAINE Abstract. In this article peculiarities of existing approaches to the assessment of the bank capitalization are investigated. The advancing tools for mathematical analysis modelling were put forward by authors for predicting of the Ukrainian banks capitalization. The forecast of Ukrainian bank capitalization is given for various c...

Nationalization was particularly important in the early 1930s in Germany.The state took over a large industrial concern, large commercial banks, and other minor firms. In the mid-1930s, the Nazi regime transferred public ownership to the private sector. In doing so, they went against the mainstream trends in western capitalistic countries, none of which systematically reprivatized firms during ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of animated demonstrations, to determine if those using animated demonstrations would exhibit the worked example effect [1], and a delayed performance decrement, described as Palmiter’s animation deficit [2], [3]. The study measured relative condition efficiency (RCE) [4] and developed a construct called performance effici...

Recent years have ushered in tremendous advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and infrastructures for disaster management. Still, daily news on disasters has been telling us that even people in technologically advanced regions remain ill prepared. Smart and intelligent environments now offer us an increasingly broader spectrum of devices and services for comfort and conve...

With industrial integration accelerating in domestic and foreign enterprise, industrial integration is becoming the only way for regional development to break through its bottleneck. Compared with advanced foreign enterprises, there exists a significant gap in regional industrial integration, especially in the urban agglomeration of the energy chemical industries of Urumqi-Changji-Shihezi in Xi...