Authors: Justin Y. Jin, Wenting Wang ABSTRACT This study investigates the determinants and consequences of intellectual capital efficiency in the U.S. banking industry. We find that banks’ individual institutional memory of bad times reduces their intellectual capital efficiency. We also … Continue reading
Author: Kungpo Tao ABSTRACT The icon design of mobile APPs could have a crucial effect on success of businesses since the initial contact with a business or service relies on the visual evaluation on the icons. It seems to be … Continue reading
Authors: William Darity, Bidisha Lahiri ABSTRACT This paper examines the implications of generalized returns to scale on the long-period equilibrium in an economy with 2 goods and 2 inputs where one of the inputs is a produced means of production. … Continue reading
Author: Frederick Betz ABSTRACT Leontief’s Input-Output Analysis equation has long been used around the world and especially in China to calculate production and consumption balances. This research shows how to connect environmental and financial balances to production balances in an … Continue reading
Author: Hannu Laurilaorcid ABSTRACT This paper tackles the textbook message that free migration of labour equalizes real wages between local labour markets, since nominal wages should rise and prices should fall in emigrating localities and vice versa in immigrating localities. … Continue reading
Authors: Hoang Ngoc Phong, Nguyen Quang Thai, Bui Trinh, Nguyen Hong Nhung, Nguyen Quang Tung, Nguyen Thi Ai Lien ABSTRACT The paper presents the importance of Vietnam’s coastal economy, including 28 of the 63 provinces and cities and analyzes six … Continue reading
Author:Atanu Adhikari ABSTRACT While conventional pricing strategy involves sellers to decide price of a tourism product, tourism companies carry the risk of capacity underutilization in many occasions when fixed costs are already incurred. Pay What You Think Fair (PWYTF) pricing … Continue reading
Author:Etienne Redor ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of arbitrage spread of S&P 500 firms between 2004 and 2014. We find that bid hostility, the relative size of the target compared to the potential bidder and the acquisition premium paid … Continue reading
Authors: Masayuki Matsui, Tetsuo Yamada, Masato Takanokura ABSTRACT There is a class of artifacts bodies and their science, also known as 3M & I-bodies in 2008, which consist of human, material/machine, monetary and informational components. For multi-body systems, the paper … Continue reading
Authors: Chérif Sidy Kane, Ismaila Sanghare ABSTRACT With the help of a vector model for dynamic panel error correction (PVEC), this article examines the extent to which a country’s policy shocks spread to the economic activity of other countries in … Continue reading