NBER: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS
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YSU students, faculty and staff now have access to the entire collection of National Bureau of Economic Research working papers.

Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

Over the years the NBER’s research agenda has encompassed a wide variety of issues that confront our society. Early research focused on the aggregate economy, examining in detail the business cycle and long-term economic growth. Simon Kuznets’ pioneering work on national income accounting, Wesley Mitchell’s influential study of the business cycle, and Milton Friedman’s research on the demand for money and the determinants of consumer spending were among the early studies done at the NBER.

Today, the NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization. Sixteen of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics and six of the past Chairmen of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers have been researchers at the NBER. The more than 1,000 professors of economics and business now teaching at colleges and universities in North America who are NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. These Bureau associates concentrate on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the economic effects of public policies, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

Toward a Firmer Basis of Economic Policy: The Founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Solomon Fabricant, 1984

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NEW IN MAAG REFERENCE:
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
REF HD60 .O94 2008

Business schools, the media, the corporate sector, governments, and non-governmental organizations have all begun to pay more attention to issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent years. These issues encompass broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society and government, environmental issues, corporate governance, the social and ethical dimensions of management, globalization, stakeholder debates, shareholder and consumer activism, changing political systems and values, and the ways in which corporations can respond to new social imperatives.

This Oxford Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. Bringing together leading experts in the area, it provides clear thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it.

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NEW IN MAAG REFERENCE:
2010 U.S. Master Tax Guide
REF KF6369 .A1 C6 2010.

The tax professional’s favorite quick reference - meticulously researched to cover today’s federal tax laws. The 93rd edition reflects all pertinent federal taxation changes that affect 2009 tax returns and provides fast and reliable answers to tax questions affecting individuals and business income tax.

A special webpage created by CCH for the U.S. Master Tax Guide will keep you up-to-date with late-breaking tax legislative developments ocurring after publication of the 2010 edition. Visit CCHGroup.com/MTG.

NEW IN MAAG REFERENCE:
Top Federal Tax Issues for 2010: CPE Course
REF KF6289.3 .C38 2010.

Identifies the events of the past year that have developed into “hot” issues. These tax issues have been selected as particularly relevant to tax practice in 2010. They have been selected not only because of their impact on return preparation during the 2009 tax season but also because of the important role they play in developing effective tax strategies for 2010.

This course is designed to help reassure the tax practitioner that he or she is not missing out on advising clients about a hot, new tax opportunity or is not susceptible to being blindsided by a brewing controversy. In short, it is designed to give the tax practitioner a closer look into the opportunities and pitfalls presented by the changes.

Among the topics examined are:

• Tax Relief and Incentives for Individuals
• Tax Relief and Incentives for Businesses
• Preparer Restrictions and Other New Taxpayer Privacy Issues
• Working with Tax Losses
• Cancellation of Indebtedness Income: Rules and Exclusions
• Innocent Spouse Tax Issues
• Same-Sex Marriage/Domestic Partner Tax Issues
• Rebuilding Retirement Savings: Tax Strategies

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NEW IN THE MAAG STACKS:
Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy
HF5549.5 .M3 H65 2009
Floor 3A

Building on surveys undertaken through Personnel Today magazine and research via Roffey Park Institute, Holbeche provides a set of tools and case studies that show how HR strategists have utilized their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, often within their current job role. The relationship between an effective people strategy and business success is hard to quantify in financial terms, but Holbeche provides persuasive examples to add to the growing body of evidence.

Case studies include mergers and acquisitions policies, organizational design, retaining high flyers in an international environment, and core competency approaches.

* Focuses on performance and developmental issues which are key to aligning HR and business strategies
* Shows how HR strategists have leveraged their role to deliver key business objectives
* Case studies and vignettes on managing change, influencing organizational development, identifying and retaining talent, and leadership development

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This book includes contributions by scholars from multiple disciplines, all involved in different aspects of community practice to advance economic justice. Their conception of this method includes community organizing and other forms of macro social work. These forms include policy practice, or the strand of urban planning that defines itself as advocacy or progressive planning, and the work of other organizations whose focus is on issues such as smart growth, immigrant rights, housing, homelessness, hunger, and other aspects of community life.

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Ronald Volpe, professor of Finance, recently co-authored two papers. “Consumer Retail Lending Environment in Brazil: A Review of Credit Granting Practices at Selected Brazilian Retailers” was presented at the 2009 International Conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science. The paper was co-authored with J. Silveira, J. Filho, and A. Rupert. Silveira and Filho are affiliated with the University of San Paulo in Brazil. Rupert is a YSU MBA graduate and is employed as a credit analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Another paper entitled “Small Business Lending Environment in Emerging Economies: A Comparison of Brazil and Russia” was co-authored with N. Schenck and published in the Journal of International Business Research. Schenck received both her MBA and MA degrees from YSU and is employed as a portfolio manager at First Place Bank.

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Your Life, Your Money features compelling, real-life stories of young people facing and overcoming intense economic challenges. This one-hour special will empower our youth with sound, simple financial advice - raising awareness on banking, credit, investments, budgeting, insurance, self-employment, and more.

Loaded with practical, engaging information, Your Life, Your Money has a full team of personal finance experts - including, best-selling author Beth Kobliner and syndicated columnist Michelle Singletary. The show also provides celebrity insights from hip-hop icon Russell Simmons and R&B pop singer D. Wood.

Beyond the program, Your Life, Your Money will host a number of national outreach events to improve money management skills for young adults. Teachers and parents can also find tools and resources to help create their own activities and lesson plans.

Watch Your Life, Your Money, the entire program as well as key moments. The videos — and other resources throughout this site — are all meant to help you manage your money, not be managed by it.

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