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Can Reputation Ensure Efficiency in the Structured Finance Market?
(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 ... -
Convergence of the Unmanned Aerial Industry
(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, ... -
Corruption and Economic Growth: The Case of EMCCA
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)This article analyzes the relationship between corruption and economic growth in the countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (EMCCA). To our knowledge, there are no works dealing with the direct ... -
The Crude Oil Price Influence on the Brazilian Industrial Production
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)The oil price is a relevant variable for economic policy makers in countries where this commodity is the main energy source as well as in other countries where crude oil is not the only energy source. The sudden variations ... -
Determinants of Oil Futures Prices
(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 ... -
Determinants of Vertical Integration: Investment Efficiency, Product Differentiation and Firm Size
(Scientific Research, 2018-04)This study examines the determinants of Merger and Acquisition (M & A) when manufacturing firms integrate with retailing firms. We examine a manufacturing duopoly in which each upstream firm sells the output to its ... -
The Dilemma of Incumbents in Sustainability Transitions: A Narrative Approach
(MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2015-12)In the context of the larger sustainability discourse, “sufficiency” is beginning to emerge as a new value throughout Western societies, and the question asked in this article is: Can we observe and conceptually identify ... -
Diving Deep in Employee Training to Understand Employee Engagement
(OMICS Group, 2015-12)Human resource practices have prominently influenced employee behaviors and outcomes at work. This conceptual paper proposes motivations to explore employee training in depth to understand how its key component including need ... -
Does Innovative Financing Increase the Firm Performance? An Empirical Investigation of Indian Manufacturing Firms
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)The firms mobilizing resources using innovative debt from market reduce dependence on the traditional banking and financial institutions. The firms raising resources by directly approaching public have some incentive to ... -
Education Marketing Research
(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 ... -
Education Not for Money: An Economic Analysis on Education, Civic Engagement and Life Satisfaction
(Scientific Research, 2016-02)Many recent theoretical and empirical findings both in Economics and in Psychology show that, in addition to the effects on policy outcomes, political participation may affect individual utility and increase happiness ... -
Effect of Financial Development on the Transmission of Monetary Policy
(Scientific Research, 2017-06)This paper looks at the effect of financial development on output and bank liquidity by doing a cross-country analysis of 119 countries across 18 years from 1997-2014. We develop three hypotheses by combining multiple ... -
Efficacy of Facebook Fans: Can They Influence Perception of the Brand?
(Scientific Research, 2014-10)Using a qualitative single case study methodology, this research studied the effect that a Facebook page has on friends of the brand. The problem under investigation is the lack of understanding effects social media sites ... -
An Elementary Proof That Well-Behaved Utility Functions Exist
(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 ... -
The Emotion of Awe and Perception of Destination to Influence Tourists’ Satisfaction
(Scientific Research, 2015-10)This study aimed to explain tourist satisfaction by using an integrated model that incorporated cognitive and affective perspectives. Questionnaires data were collected from 385 participants in Tibet and the conceptual ... -
Entrepreneurship as Facilitator for Sustainable Development? Editorial for the Special Issue “Advances in Sustainable EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship as Facilitator for Sustainable Development? Editorial for the Special Issue “Advances in Sustainable Entrepreneurship"
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The Evolution of Pro-Social Behavior and the Role of the Government
(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 ... -
Explaining Systemic Risk in Money Market Funds
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)For the first time, this study evaluates the contributions to systemic risk in the context of U.S. institutional prime money market funds (MMFs) from different sources using partial least squares structural equation ... -
Exploring the Origin of Mathematical Economics
(Scientific Research, 2016-02)The existing studies on the origin and history of mathematical economics are euro-centric and cover only the past two centuries. It is intended to show that 1) mathematical economics has an ancient origin. Kautilya wrote ... -
The Features and Evolution of Cluster Supply Chain Network
(Scientific Research, 2016-10)Cluster supply chain (CSC) is a special kind of enterprise network with double feature of cluster and supply chain and is an important channel for enterprises close to the knowledge, resources, markets, and technologies. ...