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    • Piketty’s Inequality between the Profit and Growth Rates and Its Implications for the Reproduction of Economic Elites 

      Sánchez, Alberto Benítez (Scientific Research, 2016-12)
      This paper studies, within a growth model, some effects of the inequality between the profit and growth rates on the reproduction of economic elites. To this end, it considers as functions of the capital/income ratio the ...

    • Can Reputation Ensure Efficiency in the Structured Finance Market? 

      Elamin, Mahmoud (Scientific Research, 2017-01)
      Structured finance products are opaque and their ratings are unverifiable. Therefore, a credit rating agency (CRA) cannot credibly fully reveal its information about the quality of a rated structured finance project. Can ...

    • On Volatility Transmission from Crude Oil to Agricultural Commodities 

      Kumar, Dilip (Scientific Research, 2017-02)
      The paper examines volatility transmission from crude oil market to agricultural commodities like wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans. We find that the volatility transmission from crude oil to agricultural commodities ...

    • Savings-Growth Nexus in Ghana: Cointegration and Causal Relationship Analyses 

      Pickson, Robert Becker; Enning, Koduah Dawud; Siaw, Anthony (Scientific Research, 2017-02)
      The wide range of controversies surrounding the direction of causality between savings and economic growth necessitated this study. The study was intended to investigate the relationship between gross domestic savings ...

    • Convergence of the Unmanned Aerial Industry 

      Chamata, Johnny Elie (Scientific Research, 2017-02)
      Industry convergence—the merger of previously unrelated industries—is a model that has had a strong influence on various industries and received substantial attention among practitioners over the past years. Despite this, ...

    • Implementability by a Canonical Indirect Mechanism of an Optimal Two-Dimensional Direct Mechanism 

      Kojima, Naoki (Scientific Research, 2017-02)
      The present paper investigates the multi-dimensional mechanism design in which buyers have taste and budget as their private information. The paper shows an easy proof of a two-dimensional optimal direct mechanism by ...

    • Public Expenditures, Private Investment and Economic Growth in Togo 

      Yovo, Koffi (Scientific Research, 2017-02)
      This paper assesses firstly the impact of the level and the composition of public expenditures on growth and secondly the link between public investment and private investment in Togo. For this purpose, a neoclassical ...

    • Education Marketing Research 

      Yang, Xiaogang (Scientific Research, 2016-10)
      “Education marketing” is a new concept used in high frequency interiorly in recent years, but it has significantly different interpretations in the educational circles and business circles, extremely easy to cause the ...

    • Non-Linear Effect of Remittances on Banking Sector Development: Panel Evidence from Developing Countries 

      Keho, Yaya (Scientific Research, 2016-10)
      This paper examines the impact of remittances on financial sector development in a panel of 19 developing countries. Contrary to previous studies that focus on mean effects, it uses quantile regression methodology to ...

    • A Review of Green Consumer Behavior Based on the Social Perspective 

      Lin, Dandan; Chen, Haiquan (Scientific Research, 2016-10)
      The significance of the research on green consumption behavior is not only to reveal the laws of green consumption behavior, but also to provide useful suggestions for the promotion of green consumption behavior. Therefore, ...

    • The Evolution of Pro-Social Behavior and the Role of the Government 

      Farhat, Daniel (Scientific Research, 2016-12)
      This study explores the impact of government intervention on the evolution of cooperation using a popular framework for understanding cooperative behavior (the public goods game). Agents either contribute to the production ...

    • Financial Integration and Portfolio Diversification: Evidence from CIVETS Stock Markets 

      Saleem, Kashif; Al-Hares, Osama; Ahmed, Sheraz (Scientific Research, 2016-12)
      This paper investigates the extent of financial integration among a new group of six frontier markets called “CIVETS” by utilizing the multivariate GARCH framework of Engle and Kroner [1]. These countries are expected ...

    • Non-Neutral Technological Progress and Income Distribution—Piketty’s Fundamental Laws in a Neoclassical Two-Sector Model 

      Morita, Masanori (Scientific Research, 2016-12)
      This paper discusses the theoretical validity of Thomas Piketty’s fundamental laws about income distribution in the context of a standard neoclassical growth model. We take Uzawa’s two-sector growth model as the platform ...

    • Determinants of Oil Futures Prices 

      Abraham, Rebecca; Harrington, Charles (Scientific Research, 2016-08)
      This study is directed at predicting the determinants of oil futures prices. We evaluate commodity pricing with oil occupying a special position due to highly inelastic demand. Given the sudden fall in oil prices, there ...

    • Using Patents in Promotional Activities 

      Tsuchihashi, Toshihiro (Scientific Research, 2016-10)
      A traditional view of patents and patenting shows a trade-off between the benefit of appropriation and the cost of information revelation. However, firms may benefit from information revelation to consumers because patents ...

    • An Elementary Proof That Well-Behaved Utility Functions Exist 

      Voorneveld, Mark; Weibull, Jörgen W. (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      Starting from an intuitive and constructive approach for countable domains, and combining this with elementary measure theory, we obtain an upper semi-continuous utility function based on outer measure. Whenever preferences ...

    • Research on the Method of Capitalization of Entertainment Products in GDP Statistics 

      Gong, Weiguang; Hu, Jiaojiao; Peng, Xiaobao; Li, Yang (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      It is one of directions of the reform about China’s national economic statistics system to incorporate the intellectual property products into the GDP statistics, and the capital of intellectual property products is the ...

    • A Method for Estimating the Participation Rate of Elder Care 

      Nissim, Ben David; Daphna, Halperin; Ruth, Kats; Ariela, Lowenstein; Aviad, Tur Sinai (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      This paper focused on estimating the participation rate of care giving to elders. We used a theoretical model frame that was in common use for analyzing activity in the labor market and adjusted it for analyzing the care ...

    • Greed Supports Economic Growth But Might Make Us More Miserable 

      Nissim, Ben David; Tchai, Tavor; Zvi, Winer (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      Most economists, who refer to utility as representing wellbeing, do so under the assumption that utility increases with consumption. In contrast, lately researchers have found evidence that individuals' wellbeing is by ...

    • Speed of Adjustment of Capital Structure in Emerging Markets 

      Supra, Bharath; Narender, Vunyale; Jadiyappa, Nemiraja; Girish, G. P. (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      Speed of Adjustment (SOA) is a concept well studied in the area of capital structure. The concept is premised upon the fact that firms have a target capital structure for the next year and strive to achieve this target; ...