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16927
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The availability of corporate finance is of critical importance to local and regional development. Since equity finance is the only method of capital acquisition that is not collateralized, the firms that compete most effectively for it are thought to be stronger competitors in the current marketplace. It was found that equity investment in North Carolina is highly concentrated both spatially and sectorally.
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North Carolina Geographer (NoCar F 254.8 N67), Vol. 9 Issue , 2001, p24-41, map, bibl
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23262
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Geary examines the global and worrisome trend of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
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24231
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This article presents the ranking of the top private companies in North Carolina in 2003 and compares them to last year's winners to shed insight about economic change in the state.
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24324
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The author presents what economists believe will happen in the next fifteen years in North Carolina.
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24329
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This article discusses how urban centers in North Carolina generated the most growth over the years. To analyze economic health in the state, North Carolina was separated into eighteen regions with population and city expansion examined as growth indicators.
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25843
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Since arriving at East Carolina University, Dr. Jamie Kruse, professor of economics and director of the Thomas Harriot Center for Natural Hazards Research and the RENCI@ECU Center for Coastal Systems Informatics and Modeling, has built an interdisciplinary program on natural hazards research, and shown students how to approximate and model the uncertainty of disasters.
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Edge (NoCar LD 1741 E44 E33), Vol. Issue , Spring 2007, p8-11, il Periodical Website
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26010
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Koleman Strumpf, associate professor of economics, is studying the effects of file sharing on music record sales. While the music industry says it’s being decimated by file sharing, Strumpf believes it will not deter people’s desire to form bands and create music.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Winter 2004, p28-30, il, por Periodical Website
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26219
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Jonathan Veum, an economics doctoral candidate, is examining the effects of mandatory child-support payments on the poverty levels of absent fathers and custodial mothers. He suspects that family breakups contribute to income inequality.
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27336
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North Carolina’s economic story is examined through 35 key events in the state’s history. According to Charlotte historian Tom Hanchett, the state has frequently re-made itself to stay successful, moving from farming to factories to finance and from slavery to segregation to the Civil Rights movement. One important lesson learned over four centuries is that the current conflicts between regions and political parties are not new and dates back to the founding of the state.
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27370
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Against conventional wisdom, the Triangle area is not “recession proof” and is feeling the effects of the national recession. Local merchants, economists, and real-estate experts have shared some of the most concerning problems facing the area. The job picture for 1991 is predicted to be flat at best, the real-estate market is suffering and will struggle to rebound to former highs, and this recession could be worse than the 1982 recession.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 9 Issue 3, Jan. 16-22 1991, p10-11 Periodical Website
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27576
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President Ronald Reagan’s economic plan has affected the way North Carolinians live and work. Triangle area residents Candice Carraway, David Johnson, Jan Schetzina, William Connolly, and Sandy Hendrickson explain the personal effects of Reaganomics on their lives. The results have been reported have been mostly negative. Reaganomics has seen funding for Legal Services decrease, has been slow to fund and study AIDS research and education, has increased spending for military research, has failed to address the affordable housing crisis, and has decreased federal aid to small towns and cities for federal projects.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 40, December 7-13 1989, p11-14 Periodical Website
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28385
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This study determined the economic value of reptiles and amphibians inhabiting the Charlotte-metropolitan area of North Carolina. Results provide a mechanism for placing a quantitative economic value on an important natural resource that can be used to mitigate for anthropogenic impacts.
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30205
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Until this past season, the Charlotte Hornets (formerly Bobcats) had an unsuccessful basketball streak over the last decade. One area in which the franchise has been consistently attractive is the low ticket prices. This article explains the economics of North Carolina’s professional sports franchises, and which factors guide pricing.
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32438
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During the 1975 session of the General Assembly, Cleveland County Senator William K. Mauney, Jr., initiated efforts to improve economic literacy. A proposed bill requires North Carolina public schools to teach free enterprise economics.
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32941
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Recent research has shown that the Developmental Economic Education Program, is sponsored by the North Carolina Council on Economic Education, is having positive effects on student learning. Students at schools which participate in the program are significantly more likely to understand the role of profits in a market economy, competition, and the relationship between education and income.
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