... the effect oftreatiesonforeigndirect investment: bilateralinvestment treaties, double taxation treaties, and investmentflows This page intentionally left blank the effect oftreatieson ... swenson part iii: exploringtheimpactof double taxation treatiesonforeigndirectinvestmentflows 17 Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote ForeignDirect Investment? 461 bruce a blonigen and ronald ... of Economics His current research is onthe empirical impactof taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational firms jason yackee Jason Yackee is an assistant professor...
... long-run, the presence of up-front investment costs in the short-run combined with their aforementioned lag in adjusting their valuation models to reflect theimpactof such strategies, will lead them ... particular, none of them has documented empirically and quantified theimpactof CSR behaviors on such channels Our paper is the first one to so by estimating theimpactof CSR strategies on sell-side ... expectations and perceptions ofthe long-run earnings potential of a firm (Fried and Givoly, 1982; O’Brien 1988) Therefore, by examining theimpactof CSR oninvestment recommendations and, by...
... revolutions because ofthe important economic and social effects derived from it This revolution involves the reformulation ofthe key resources for the companies If in the Industrial Revolution the ... measurement which involves the assessment ofthe results derived from the implementation of different marketing strategies One of these barriers is the complexity to isolate the effects of a particular ... are onthe verge ofthe most significant transformation in business Although CRM concept has been the central core of many articles, conferences and seminars, so far most of them corresponds...
... assess theimpactof public/private partnerships onthe practice of budgeting To examine theimpactof cross-service programmes on budgeting practice To compare the two authorities and examine the ... Indian sub-continent The other authority was located in the south of England near to London and faced different challenges based around issues of congestion and labour shortages in the public ... experience of ‘Eastmet’ 3.4 The experience of Southshire Conclusions Authors contact details References Overview The focus of this project was on post-1997 policy innovations for the local government...
... bonds, Altman (1989) used a mortality rate concept to measure default rates conditional onthe age ofthe bond Altman found that the cumulative bond mortality increases with the age ofthe bond ... where χ2 is the value ofthe model chi-square, k is the number of regressors in the model, and Λ(0) is the value ofthe log likelihood with no variables The second term in the numerator ofthe R statistic ... determine the level of significance ofthe variable coefficients included in the model The ImpactOf Firm's Characteristics On Junk-Bond Default 51 TESTING THE MODEL GOODNESS OF FIT To test the model...
... generalization ofthe findings beyond the Vietnam construction sector and not only on share construction firms Thus, the scope ofthe further research may be extended to the working components and profitability ... recommendations for the target populations Finally, the researcher present the limitations ofthe study, future research directions 5.1 Conclusions The object of this study is to examine theimpactof ... the context of Vietnam along with the importance of working capital management calls for research on their impacton firms’ profitability In light ofthe above points, the general objective of...
... time of life, if they have continued access to the economic resources of a non-migrant father, or if they indirectly benefit from remittances received from the migrant mother or parents Onthe other ... Transition Review Theimpactof rural-urban migration on child survival 139 six months less than children of rural non-migrants, but only one month longer than urban non-migrant children Since all of ... breastfeeding are one aspect ofthe modernization of migrant behaviour in urban areas that confers a wide range of health benefits on children of migrants Onthe other hand, relatively low durations of breastfeeding...
... this section in consultation with the Director of 20 the Office of Research on Women’s Health and with the 21 advisory council for the Institute 22 ‘‘(b) RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND INFORMATION AND ... environmental factors ‘‘(d) COORDINATION OF CENTERS; REPORTS. The Director ofthe Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among centers under sub6 section (a) ... is conducting multidisci16 plinary research on environmental factors that may be re17 lated to the development of women’s health conditions (as 18 defined in section 486) The Director of the...
... risk onthe cost of bank funding The empirical literature does not provide indications onthe size oftheimpactof sovereign risk onthe cost of bank funding This box examines whether the characteristics ... characteristics ofthe sovereign play a role in addition to the traditional determinants ofthe cost of issuing bonds for banks (ie the characteristics ofthe bank and the bond, and market conditions; see ... funding and the flow -on effects onthe real economy This report outlines theimpactof sovereign risk concerns onthe cost and availability of bank funding over recent years It then describes the channels...
... significantly impacted by SLR (Figure 2d) This is partly explained by theimpactof SLR onthe A.R of Egypt’s agricultural extent Indeed, most oftheimpactof SLR onthe agricultural sector ofthe region ... of threat Under the provisions ofthe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), some work has begun on National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) These are intended ... Approximately half ofthe population of these countries would be impacted with a 5m SLR In terms of economic activity (Figure 1d), theimpactof a 1m SLR on Suriname, Guyana, and The Bahamas’ GDP...
... security, the information quality of website, the company’s reputation strongly affects on Internet consumers’ trust Then, Internet consumers’ trust and perceived risk strongly impacton purchasing ... experience-based factors onthe purchase intention with the mediation of trust in the context of Vietnam B2C environment Little or no research is available in the area of trust, specifically in the e-commerce ... authorization I am concerned about the privacy of my personal information during a transaction This vendor will sell my personal information to others without my permission Perceived Security Protection...
... itemed questionnaire that assesses the individual's view of how their MS has impacted upon their daily functioning during the previous weeks Responses for each ofthe 29 items in the questionnaire ... lower in the Exercisers There was no significant difference between Exercisers and Non-exercisers onthe cognitive component ofthe MFIS Theimpactof disease severity on fatigue, depression and ... a patients' perception oftheimpact their disability has on their physical functioning This improved QoL in the physical function, and physical component summary scores ofthe SF36, may be particularly...
... dimensions ofthe SF-36 and OHIP-49 between BMS patients and controls without increasing in probability of type error, we considered Bonferroni correction So for comparison ofthe dimensions, the ... examinations to confirm the absence of oral lesions The control group consisted of healthy patients seen in the Dental Clinic of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais for periodic reviews of their ... their dental condition Page of They were not receiving any treatment at the time of study, and the patients in the group had no history of chronic pain syndrome or concomitant locoregional disease...
... itemed questionnaire that assesses the individual's view of how their MS has impacted upon their daily functioning during the previous weeks Responses for each ofthe 29 items in the questionnaire ... lower in the Exercisers There was no significant difference between Exercisers and Non-exercisers onthe cognitive component ofthe MFIS Theimpactof disease severity on fatigue, depression and ... a patients' perception oftheimpact their disability has on their physical functioning This improved QoL in the physical function, and physical component summary scores ofthe SF36, may be particularly...
... have addressed the analysis ofthe QoS gain achieved by adoption of AL-FEC, very few contributions concern the gain on QoE In particular, in [3], the authors analyze the reduction ofthe wireless ... into account the type of service associated with the information flow Onthe other hand, the QoS mechanisms enable the network operator to manage the effects of congestion on application performances ... parts ofthe video, and their entity can vary from a JND artifact to an extremely annoying one till the impossibility for the decoder of reconstructing some frames ofthe video The content of the...
... management selection, training, evaluation and promotion, and remuneration This part will focus theimpactof one of cultural dimensions (Short and long – term orientation) dimension on human recourses ... based on individual contribution Promotions in U.S companies are based primarily on individual performance Training is often undertaken with hesitation because ofthe cost and the concern that the ... are essentially considered performance of group rather than individual contributions In addition, they also care about training for their employees; they can spend money for their employees to...
... (Ali et al., 2010) One ofthe directions analysed in the scientific literature is the influence of CSR onthe internal stakeholders, many of them focusing onthe potential of CSR in attracting employees ... legitimacy in the eyes of employees are well known, there isn`t as much understanding onthe extent to which managers and non-profit partner are considering the opinions of employees, and involve them ... perception on social responsibility and to present the results of a quantitative research conducted inside the companies Methodology The objective of this study is to assess the attitudes of the...
... produced upon request9 Seasonal dummy variables were included in the initial round ofthe estimation procedure In the process of estimating the consumption function, the F-test onthe joint significance ... Following the convention in Ho and Wong (2003, 2008), we define domestic demand or expenditure as the sum of gross investment and private consumption Given the determinants of consumption and gross investment ... Thus, it can therefore be concluded that the consumption and investment functions are cointegrating equations The consumption and investment functions are thus estimated as ARDL models The underlying...
... populations [7,10] Furthermore, inference ofthe number of these refugia and the timing of isolation of populations has, until recently, depended onthe construction of gene trees, assumptions about ... population divergence and obtained confirmation of postglacial differentiation in the past 10,000 years or less, onthe basis ofthe 90% highest posterior density distributions By fitting a model of ... about whether these trees reflect population trees, calibrations of molecular clocks and mutation rates ofthe genes being studied All these components have uncertainties inherent in their estimates...
... influenced by the weather conditions during summer ofthe previous year, but oak shows a response conditioned by climate in the current year alone Dendroecological reconstruction ofthe past disturbance ... chronology indices were subtracted from the corresponding indices ofthe unaffected or con- 241 trol chronology The resulting deviation chronology reflected the effects of local disturbances on ... contrast, during the other months the climatic conditions in the Cantabrian lowlands are not quite restrictive, and thus they not limit the growth of trees Being this true, climatic response of...