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هكذا بدأ الانهيار : كلمات لوجه التاريخ
تناول كتاب (هكذا بدأ الانهيار- كلمات لوجه التاريخ) في مقدمته تناولت المؤلفة نجاح العطار الحديث عن شخصية القائد الخالد الراحل السيد الرئيس حافظ الأسد ومزايا شخصيته، وبوصفه قائدا عظيما قرأ التاريخ متبحرا، ويتناول الكتاب على ثلاثة أقسام، القسم الأول بعنوان على مشارف النكبة عام 1991، وفيه حديث عن غزو العراق للكويت، ورسالة ترحل مع الأمداء إلى مشرق الشمس ومغربها، القسم الثاني عنوان الكارثة تتنامى، والعدوان على العراق يتصاعد والحرب تقع 2003، وفيه استشراف الوضع العربي الراهن ومجابهة التحديات، والقسم الثالث من الكتاب يؤكد الإيمان بالعروبة كضرورة وهي وحدها المستقبل وسبيل النصر.
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Eat, Drink, Firms, Government: An Investigation of Corruption from the Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
We propose entertainment and travel costs (ETC) expenditures as a measure of corruption in Chinese firms. These expenses are publicly reported in firms’ accounting books, and on average they amount to about 3 percent of a firm’s total value added. We find that ETC is a mix that includes grease money to obtain better government services, protection money to lower tax rates, managerial excesses, and normal business expenditures to build relational capital with suppliers and clients. Entertainment and travel costs overall have a significantly negative effect on firm productivity, but we also find that some components of ETC have substantial positive returns to firms.
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Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can
exert financial externalities. We study a policy cange that raised patient cost
sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public employees in California. We
find that physician visits and prescription drug usage have elasticities that are
similar to those of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE). Unlike the HIE,
however, we find substantial \"offset\" effects in terms of increased hospital
utilization. The savings from increased cost sharing accrue mostly to the supplemental
insurer, while the costs of increased hospitalization accrue mostly to Medicare.
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The long road home : a story of war and family
\"The First Calvary Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on Sunday, April 4, 2004. More than seven thousand miles away, their families awaited the news for forty-eight hellish hours -- expecting the worst. In this powerful, unflinching account, Martha Raddatz takes readers from the streets of Baghdad to the home front and tells the story of that horrific day through the eyes of the courageous American men and women who lived it.\" -- Back cover.
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The \Dominant Bank Effect:\ How High Lender Reputation Affects the Information Content and Terms of Bank Loans
Three large banks control over half of the U.S. commercial loan market by volume through the syndication process. Using attributes of a borrower's location to instrument for lenderborrower matching, I show that the borrower stock price response to a loan announcement is more favorable if one of these dominant banks is the lender, especially if the borrower is \"opaque.\" I then show that these banks charge lower interest rates and are more likely to lend without the protection of a borrowing base. The results suggest that the dominant banks have a particularly high reputation for screening and monitoring borrowers.
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The endgame : the inside story of the struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
This book is a work of investigative journalism and historical recreation ranging from 2003 to 2012, giving a comprehensive, inside account of arguably the most widely reported yet least understood war in American history, from the occupation of Iraq to the withdrawal of American troops. Provides a blow-by-blow chronicle of the fighting, but also deftly pieces together the puzzle of the prosecution of American, Iraqi, and Iranian objectives, and the diplomatic intrigue and political struggle within Iraq since the American invasion.
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A SEARCH MODEL OF EARLY EMPLOYMENT CAREERS AND YOUTH CRIME
A large fraction of disadvantaged young individuals makes money from crime, and yet their labor market is usually studied ignoring the presence of the criminal sector. Consistent with the empirical evidence, I build a two-sector model of frictional labor search to study crime and employment outcomes jointly, and estimate it using a panel data set of young offenders. I use the model to illustrate sizable interactions between sectors, and show that, aiming at the same reduction in crime, policies targeting the legal labor sector generate larger welfare gains, and at a comparable cost, than traditional policies focusing on the criminal sector.
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Quicksilver War : Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict
\"'Quicksilver war' is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting conflict involving many different parties and phases. William Harris distils the highly complex dynamics behind the conflict, starting with the brutalising Ba'athist regimes in Damascus and Baghdad. He charts the malignant consequences of incompetent US occupation of Iraq and Bashar al-Assad's self-righteous mismanagement of Syria, through the implosion of Syria, and the emergence of eastern and western theatres of war focused respectively on future control of Syria and the challenge of ISIS. Beyond the immediate arena of conflict, geopolitical riptides have also been set in motion, including Turkey's embroilment in the war and the shifting circumstances of the Kurds. This history addresses urgent questions for our time.\"--Front jacket flap.
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Does Incarceration Length Affect Labor Market Outcomes?
This paper studies how longer incarceration spells affect offenders’ labor market outcomes by using a reform that increased incarceration lengths by approximately 1 month. I use detailed register data for offenders who predominantly serve incarceration spells of 1–2 months. I analyze the sample for several years prior to and after incarceration and show that the reform led to an exogenous increase in incarceration lengths. I find that the longer incarceration spells result in lower unemployment rates and higher earnings, possibly because marginal increases in short incarceration spells improve conditions and incentives for rehabilitation, while the costs of jail related to these outcomes are unaffected. I show that the estimates are robust to different econometric specifications and further provide evidence that my results are not driven by changes in macroeconomic conditions.
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