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Add ons are features or services that can enhance the functionality or quality of base goods. They are pervasive. Yet we know little about the behavior of add‐on prices over the business cycle. We use 10 years of data from a nationwide Canadian retailer to investigate the local cyclicality of extended warranty prices, a classic add on. We find base prices are acyclical. Warranty prices are procyclical because local stores use warranties to make demand for durable goods less price‐elastic. We show add ons amplify responses to national business cycles and study the implications for inflation rate bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Protection and inclusion have for long been some of the guiding principles of the European welfare states. The crisis of 2008 placed social investment high on the social policy agenda in the EU and specific policies that the new paradigm embraces have been in focus. Unfortunately, little attention is paid to administering policies. Creating one-stop shops, as a new way of easier and more efficient use of available resources for citizens, is perceived as the most suitable way for administration of specific policies. This paper is a contribution to this debate, looking at ways social policy is administered across the EU, from a double perspective. First, having social investment as the theoretical but also practical approach and second, looking at different welfare state regimes. This approach should point to major differences in social policy administration but also present which models perform the best. Most importantly, the paper aims to show how administering social care influences implementation of policy changes across the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main function of sports organizations is the implementation of the training process, which also leads to the integral development of an athlete, i.e. participant in sports activities. One of the crucial prerequisites for achieving the necessaiy qualify of the training process is appropriate management in sports organizations. However, we cannot discuss stable and successful organization without successful management. The structure of sports organization is its statics, while its processes stand for dynamics. Main challenge for coaches and managers in a sports organization is to connect them both into a functional unify through management functions, and therefore contribute to the quality and continuity of the training process as an essential mission of a sports organization. This paper highlights the specificities of the training process in sport, the complexity and responsibility of the role of coaches in its implementation, as well as the management's responsibility in providing necesany conditions for the management of the training process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]