When not performing a task, we are usually engaged in a variety of thoughts, for instance about current problems, opportunities, our self-image, our relationships, about past experiences, and about plans for the future. Such mind wandering was found to occupy almost half of our time spent awake (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Mind wandering may have had the evolutionary advantage of better a...

Auerbach and Gorodnichenko provide impressive evidence about what happens in a panel of advanced economies when government purchases rise or fall. They find that changes in purchases in a weak economy have large effects in the same direction on output and employment. Their point estimate is that one added dollar of government purchases results in about $3.50 of added GDP when the economy is wea...

Recent management research has indicated the importance of family, sleep, and recreation as nonwork activities of employees. Drawing from entrainment theory, we develop an expanded model of work-life conflict to contend that macrolevel business cycles influence the amount of time employees spend on both work and nonwork activities. Focusing solely on working adults, we test this model in a larg...

The recent developments and adoptions of digital technologies give rise to the growth of information economies, understood as an aggregate of economic activities that produce informational outputs. Several key characteristics of an information economy differ to the conventional economic wisdom derived from the industrial age, which may impose governmental policy implications and therefore const...

Asian economies and China as major economic actors in terms of both regional and global economy are in the process of economic stagnation for now. Therefore, it is expected a sharp decrease in energy demand –that has continued since 1990sof Asian economies which will be directly affected by export and investment flows. In this context, first of all, the literature on the relation between econom...

In this paper, I aim to provide empirical evidence about how an efficient integration into global value chains can promote economic growth through industrial upgrading and prevention of external imbalances in Latin America (LATAM). define US-China political economics region for the period from 1998 2015. The research uses TiVA raw data that obtained UNCTAD-EORA database US, China, nine major ec...

The shakeup in e-commerce gives us an opportunity to reevaluate the effectiveness of various business strategies in this electronic revolution. This study investigates the strategies adopted by 125 online retailers in the PDA market during the period between July 2001 and December 2002, including economies of scale, developing first-mover or multichannel advantages, branding, offering value-add...

Patents support technological innovations in any economy and would also a clean environment. We investigate the effects of economic growth, patents, industrialization, urbanization on CO2 emissions 17 Middle East North Africa (MENA) economies by applying spatial econometrics. substantiate Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) domestic whole MENA region as per direct total estimates. Moreover, increas...