William L. Wilkie is Nathe Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame (e-mail: [email protected]). How Did This Issue Come About? For much of my career, I have been intrigued with trying to comprehend what the field of marketing is actually about (and what it might be about, what it could be about, what it should be about, and so forth). In recent years, I have joined with my colleague Eliza...

In 1981, Paris and Wilkie [21] indicated it was an open question whether IΣ0 would satisfy the Second Incompleteness Theorem for Herbrand deduction. We will show that IΣ0 will both obey and defy the Herbrandized version of the Second Incompleteness Theorem, depending on which of several equivalent definitions of IΣ0 one examines.

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Measurement and methodology 2.1 The definition of fixed capital stock 2.2 The perpetual inventory method 2.3 The lifetime and age of capital stock 3. Privatisation and the institutional classification of capital stock 4. Growth in real fixed capital stock 5. The composition of fixed capital stock 5.1 Fixed capital stock by kind of economic activity 5.2 Fixed capital ...

This paper investigates a technique for developing investment assumptions for pricing that are consistent with the investment practices of the company. An investment strategy is defined to be a specific allocation of investable funds among given representative fixed-income instruments. The investment strategy problem consists of two parts: how to invest funds initially received on a block of ne...

Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we demonstrate that writing a simple fixed-price contract based on product delivery is of value even when relati...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’de tarım sektörüne yapılan tarımsal sabit sermaye yatırımlarının büyüme üzerindeki etkisini incelemektir. amaçla çalışmada büyüme, özel sermaye, kamu yatırımları ve istihdam değişkenleri 1995-2018 yılları arası yıllık veriler kullanılarak VAR Analizi Granger Nedensellik Testi yardımıyla incelenmiştir. Modelinden elde edilen varyans ayrıştırması etki tepki fonksiyonl...

While several retailers have popularized RFID (RadioFrequency Identification) technology, recent surveys indicate that many firms are still skeptical about it. In addition to variable costs of investment due to RFID tags, firms adopting this technology face significant expenses in upfront fixed costs due to system integration, installation of equipment and so on. Allocation of benefits from thi...