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Capital Flows Among The G-7 Nations: A Demographic Perspective
White Papers This paper examines whether demographic factors can contribute to the understanding of these long-term capital flows. Large and persistent current account imbalances are a common feature of the modern global economy.
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Banking The "Demographic Dividend": How Population Dynamics Can Affect Economic Growth
White Papers The relationship between population change and economic growth has taken on added salience in the last few decades because of demographic trends in the developing world. This paper synthesizes recent research that sheds light on the debate over the...
[February 28, 2005, 23:00]
Implications Of Demographic Changes For The Budget And The Economy
White Papers This paper discusses the challenges presented by projected changes in the makeup of the U.S.population. This paper suggests that those changes - together with, notably, rising health care costs - will produce a set of intertwined challenges for the...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Alternative Perspectives On Social Security
White Papers Any approach to Social Security will have to confront the new demographic situation - low fertility rates, declining mortality rates, and changing patterns of marriage, divorce, participation in the labor force, and immigration - as well as a host...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
'New Geek' Arises With Money And Power
News Far from being shy, retiring teenagers spending hours hunched over computer screens and living off a diet of Coke and pizza, today's geeks are, in reality a sophisticated demographic that spend a whopping £8.2bn on computer games, high-tech...
[August 2, 2005, 13:00]
10,000 Free PCs...and The Catch?
News Gross, head of start-up Free-PC.com, announced it will give away 10,000, sub-$1,000 Compaq Presario computers and throw in free Internet access for users who match a certain demographic profile. But they say the demographic profiles that will...
[February 9, 1999, 11:26]
Microsoft Gets Personal With Online Ads
News While Google and Yahoo have made millions dishing up ads based on the context of what is being searched for or read, Microsoft is hoping it can leapfrog its rivals by combining that information with demographic details on who is doing the searching.
[November 14, 2005, 12:05]
Study Says The Internet Is Not Reducing TV Viewership
News At that time, Bob Pittman, president and chief operating officer of AOL, said that the study proved the Internet's -- and AOL's, in particular -- advantage compared to television, which is under-delivering to upper-demographic Internet/online...
[November 12, 1998, 10:31]
Poor Mobile Banking
Blog By this statement I merely intend to suggest that this demographic is less likely to use the higher-end handset spectrum (which boasts better security) while they are also less likely to seek a third-party software to bolster the security...
[May 5, 2008, 15:27]
Free-PC.com Sets Off 'sales' Frenzy
News The stampede to apply for the PCs, which the company will give away to users fitting a so-far-undisclosed demographic model, was so great that the Free-PC.com site was inaccessible at times Monday and Tuesday.
[February 11, 1999, 10:31]
'Subsidise Broadband', Says US Ex-regulator
News Furthermore, "The physical link to the user, the so-called 'last-mile', does appear in some geographic and demographic markets to have elements of natural monopoly such that rigorous competition is not likely to be sustained in this market for...
[September 19, 2002, 9:53]
Nintendo Bullish On Game Boy's Prospects
News This will be a demographic-stretching device" for handheld gaming, McNealy said. This could lower the demographic for mobile phones. Japanese game maker Nintendo expects to continue to dominate the portable-gaming market, despite renewed threats...
[February 6, 2003, 11:43]
YouTube Generation Key To Mobile WiMax Uptake
News The analyst said the 18- to 35-year-old age group is likely to be a key demographic — and mobile WiMax service providers must think about developing packages that will appeal to this target market, bearing in mind this may mean developing...
[December 12, 2007, 10:33]
The Day Ahead: Is Alloy Online A 'best Small Cap Investment Idea'?
News The companies will also work together to target Alloy's teen demographic through Liberty Digital's interactive TV commerce initiative. Wall Street is going to hear a lot about the Web-centric teen demographic in upcoming weeks.
[March 17, 2000, 12:14]
Mail Room
News But the design as a whole is cutting edge, and has mass appeal to the most dynamic, largest and most lucrative demographic in history: the(roughly) 26 and under age group affectionately known as GenX.
[July 30, 1999, 16:48]
Unum Optimizes Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Processes With Oracle Governance, Risk, And Compliance Manager
White Papers With economic pressures and demographic trends creating fundamental changes in the employee benefits market, Unum embarked on a continuous improvement plan in 2005 to increase operational effectiveness across its principal subsidiaries and better...
[February 8, 2008, 23:00]
Human Capital, Fertility And The Industrial Revolution
White Papers The Industrial Revolution and the Demographic Transition are the two great forces that explain the upward march of modern incomes. This paper sets out the empirical realities attempts to unify these events through theories of human capital...
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Employers Target Pensioners To Fill Skills Gaps
News Karen Price, chief executive of e-skills UK, said businesses need to prepare for the looming "demographic timebomb" as fewer young people come through university. UK businesses are actively targeting older workers in order to address recruitment...
[June 12, 2006, 15:30]
Find The Best Prospects For A New Product By Using A Data Mining Model
White Papers The market department of a financial firm keeps records on customers, including demographic information and their type of accounts. The firm is launching a new product and wishes to determine who are the best prospects among the existing customers...
[June 1, 2007, 0:00]
WiMAX: The Business Case
White Papers Two demographic scenarios are analyzed and two market models, one in which the operator only elects to offer services to residential customers and the second in which both residential and small to medium business customers are addressed.
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
