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Missouri Tax Credits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
Missouri's first tax credit was authorized in 1973 and many more have been adopted in the following years. Some of these programs have expired or have been eliminated from the statutes; however, the majority of the programs ...
Fringe Benefits: There is More to Compensation than a Teacher's Salary
(Education Next, 2003)
Each year, the two national teacher unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), release their surveys of public school teacher salaries across the nation, and each year they take advantage...
The making of a university
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2014)
As the 175-year anniversary approaches, the University of Missouri prepares to celebrate its stature as a global leader in teaching and research.
Trends in Food Pantry Use Since Welfare Reform: Evidence from the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2003)
This study uses a unique database to examine the trend in the use of food pantries in the Kansas City metropolitan area from 1997 to 2000. We find a slight increase in the use of food pantry services over this period, less ...
Electronic Commerce, Sales Tax, & the Implications for Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
The internet is an ever-growing source of information, services, products, communication, and income for millions of people around the world. With these growing capabilities comes the issue of how to tax goods and services ...
Overview of State Government
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
General overview of the organization of Missouri state government prepared by David C. Valentine for the Missouri Legislative Academy.
Our role and scope : cover story
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1990)
"The University of Missouri-Columbia is Missouri's premier public research institution--bolstering the state's economy, enhancing the citizenry's quality of life and offering superior undergraduate, graduate and professional education to high...
Testing for the Presence of Financial Constraints in US Agricultural Cooperatives: An Investment Behaviour Approach
(Blackwell, 2005)
This study examines the presence of financial constraints in US agricultural cooperatives. We test the cooperative capital constraint hypothesis with a panel data econometric analysis of agricultural cooperatives' investment ...
Domestic Violence Victim's Services — A Preliminary Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview of domestic violence in Missouri and discuss how well domestic violence records are tracked in the justice system. This note compares how Missouri's records on domestic ...
The role of agricultural financing and development on sustainability : evidence from ASEAN clountries
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2021)
The introduction of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides a blueprint for sustainable growth which has received widespread attention from policymakers, industry players and academics globally. The objective of this ...
The impact of sustainable finance and agriculture growth on poverty alleviation : the role of digital agriculture in Vietnam
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2023)
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), spanning the years 1991 to 2022. The article employed the dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (DARDL) model to analyse the relationship between various constructs. The findings indicate that sustainable...
Missouri Medicaid Program: The A Graphical Profile
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
This report provides a graphical summary of the Missouri Medicaid program. It is intended to provide background information of the policy issues being considered by the Missouri Medicaid Reform Commission. The report was ...
Entrepreneurship and the Economic Theory of the Firm: Any Gains from Trade?
(University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004)
Though they developed in isolation, the theory of entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm can be usefully integrated. In particular, the concept of entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Knight (1921) and some Austrian school...
Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures
(Transaction Publishers, 2001-06)
Mises (1990) famously showed that economic calculation is not possible without private property in all markets, especially markets for factors of production. The Austrian business-cycle literature (Mises 1934; Hayek 1935; Garrison 2001) suggests...
Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization
(Wiley, 2008)
This paper reviews and critiques the "opportunity discovery" approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic organization, by adopting...
Quality as value-added bioeconomy : analysis of the EU policies and empirical evidence from Polish agriculture
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
characteristics but also from economic processes as societal and environmental services. It is argued that bioeconomy policy so far fails to address sustainability quality but, being coherent with Common Agricultural Policy, can be shifted in such direction...
Evaluating the financial performance of commercial banks in Iraq under the Corona pandemic using the CAMELS criterion
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
Due to environmental factors such as the Corona pandemic and capital adequacy and liquidity requirements, the financial performance of commercial banks has been poor. Researchers and policymakers are required to focus on ...
The impact of macroeconomic variables on the performance of the Iraqi stock market
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
Recent stock market volatility is a result of economic problems that require the attention of policymakers and current scholars. Consequently, this article examines the effect of macroeconomic variables such as inflation, national income, employment...
Changes in farms' environmental sustainability in Poland -- progress, or regress?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
development arises, whether it is sustainable or industrial development. Research conducted on the basis of Polish public statistics from 2005, 2007, and 2016 indicated some progress in farms' sustainable development. Data analysis indicated...
Changes in public library youth services : a content analysis of youth services job advertisements.
(Public Library Quarterly, 2004)
This article investigates requirements and responsibilities for public library youth services librarians. Position advertisements were published in American Libraries in five-year increments, from 1971 to 2001. Youth services librarian positions...