empirical investigations
The micro foundations of export behaviour: Empirical investigations
... the empirical level, studies employing micro-data find th a t imports enhance perfor mance (Levinsohn,1991; McDonald,1994), and macro-studies support the link between exports and economic growth (Edwards, ...
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Empirical Investigations Into The Causal Impact Of Healthcare Provider Behavior On Patient Care
... This dissertation in operations management focuses on the study of healthcare operations management using large-scale empirical datasets and econometric methods. In chapter one, we utilize infrared location ...
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Empirical investigations of social learning, cooperation, and their role in the evolution of complex culture
... Here I take a cultural evolutionary approach to investigating the question of whether children are better characterized as ‘over-‘ or ‘optimal-’ imitators. Cultural evolutionary theory predicts that social learning ...
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Household investment behaviour: Empirical investigations of durable consumption, returns to human capital, and borrowing restrictions
... the empirical evaluation of the model, even in its simplest ...the empirical assessment of the ...its empirical failures can be reconciled with the theory when a broader definition of consumption is ...
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The effects of 2007-2008 crisis on the CDS and the interbank markets: Empirical investigations
... The empirical analysis also suggests that counterparty risk is not priced for CDS on financial contracts. This finding particularly poses a puzzle for the second period under analysis. In principle, the ...
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The doctor patient relationship and adherence to medication: Empirical investigations in Greece and a game theory approach
... the empirical evidence on the topic of non-adherence focuses on a specific disease group, as a result of which evidence on the general population’s beliefs and attitudes is very ...the empirical ...
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Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations
... It is shown that verbal nouns behave like other inflectional processes, namely present participles, whereas EDNs are closer to the derivational pole,.. represented by agent nouns in -er.[r] ...
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A model for structured document retrieval : empirical investigations
... Other major investigations in the use of D-S to model IR, e.g. [SH93, dSM93], have re- lied on external knowledge representation such as thesauri, to define how elements interact, and none have been applied to ...
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Essays on political dynasties: evidence from empirical investigations
... existing empirical work suggests that a political leader’s identity (such as gender or caste) can have an important role in motivating policy outcomes (Pande, 2003, Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004, Rehavi, ...
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When Motivation Research Motivates: Issues in Long-Term Empirical Investigations
... 3 Qualitative research has provided a different kind of evidence for L2 motivational change. Two pioneering studies were Ushioda (2001) and Norton (2000), both of which showed, in different ways, that ‘thick ...
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Empirical investigations into stock market integration and risk monitoring of the emerging Chinese stock markets
... 1986; Wheatley, 1988; and Gultekin, et al., 1989). Since then, international stock market integration has been the subject of considerable empirical investigation. In particular, this issue has been of heightened ...
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The effects of crisis on the interbank markets and sovereign risk: empirical investigations
... Network analysis of the degree of interconnectedness in the financial system can inform policymakers on optimal bank resolutions mechanisms and how regulation can help to reduce instability. Empirical networks ...
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Empirical and methodological investigations into novelty and familiarity as separate processes that support recognition memory in rats and humans
... the empirical investigations outlined in the previous experimental chapters 2 – 4 which question the dissociation of novelty and familiarity as separate processes that support recognition memory across ...
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Assessing Fiscal Sustainability in Ukraine: TVP and VAR/VEC Approaches
... ). Empirical investigations concerning fiscal sustainability used to be conducted in a test- ing framework based on stationary or co-integration properties of fiscal variables (Afonso, 2005), even though ...
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The Determinants and Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment
... Borensztein et al (19998) ruled out the possibility those FDI inflows contribute to economic growth by increasing capital stock in the host country. For them, it is, instead, by stimulating technological progress that ...
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Want to win? Let music give you the edge
... 100 empirical investigations of music in sport and exercise conducted over the past century has confirmed that music produces significant beneficial effects on psychological responses, perceived exertion, ...
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Sentence Decisionmaking: The Logic of Sentence Decisions and the Extent and Sources of Sentence Disparity
... The study used these seven factors because other empirical investigations of sentence decisions conducted at the state and local level have indicated their importance.' 0 An additional e[r] ...
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INNOVATION AND ACCESS TO MICROFINANCE – A CASE STUDY OF K-REP PROGRAMME IN KENYA
... However, empirical investigations revealed mixed performance on credit repayment in developing countries (Morduch 1999), meaning that high successes attributed to group lending cannot be entirely credited ...
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Renminbi as Number two in East Asia
... 2010). Empirical investigations into the influence of the renminbi on the regional currencies in East Asia are hampered by China’s fixed exchange rate system, which makes the renminbi variations ...
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Governance and Firm Performance: An Expository Analysis of Listed Firms at Pakistan Stock Exchange
... of empirical investigations depicting the relationship among the control variables (Corporate Governance) and the response variables (Performance of the Firms) by utilize and the raw facts by means ...
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