The paper enriches a standard signaling model of education with issues of social distance defined over educational achievements. More specifically it considers the effects that the presence of conformist and status seeking individuals has on educational dynamics. Under very reasonable assumptions about the composition of the society, the model endogenously displays a growing average level of sc...

An approach to the development of the economically optimal dietary concentration of Paylean, duration of the Paylean feeding, and dietary lysine concentration for finishing hog production is presented. A simulation model describing daily growth of hogs under different Paylean and lysine concentration combinations was adapted for optimizing nutrition and marketing when feed is supplemented with ...

The rise of the blogosphere has empowered the average consumer to influence the public perception and profitability of brands. As such, marketing organizations need to be aware of what people are saying in influential blogs, how the expressed opinions could impact their business, and how to extract business insight and value from these blogs. This has given rise to the emerging discipline of So...

The recent surge in the stock market has called attention to movements in the underlying rate of profit. Over the last decade and a half, profitability in the total private sector has trended upward, and by 1997, according to some definitions, it was coming close to its postwar peak of the mid-1960s. Even in the corporate business sector, the average rate of return earned on the value of its pl...

In this paper we investigate the profitability of evolved technical trading rules when controlling for data-mining bias. For the first time in the evolutionary computation literature, a comprehensive test for a rule’s statistical significance using Hansen’s Superior Predictive Ability is explicitly taken into account in the fitness function, and multi-objective evolutionary optimisation is empl...

V.Hanitha University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka Email: [email protected] Abstract This paper aims to investigate whether factors such as capital structure, working capital, firm size, non-debt tax shield and growth rate, determining profitability have any impact on profitability of selected manufacturing companies listed on Colombo stock exchange, Sri Lanka over a period of five years fro...

This study aims to analyze the comparative effect of profitability, liquidity, company size, and inventory turnover on firm value. Empirical studies manufacturing companies in food beverage cosmetics sub-sector households listed IDX 2016-2021. Profitability is proxied by ROE using formula net profit divided equity. Liquidity CR current assets liabilities. Company size SIZE natural logarithm (to...

The topic of Customer profitability is a focal concern for telecommunication sector who seeks to identify its antecedents and causal structure with the aim of better understanding managing customer profitability. For this reason, Customer expansion processes and “Knowledge from Customer” is widely used in this competitive environment to achieve Customer profitability. The purpose of this paper ...

We conducted an empirical analysis of the dynamic relationship between growth and profitability for smalland medium-sized construction companies that faced long-term economic stagnation in Korea. The period of the analysis spanned 2000 to 2014, and the full period was divided into two halves: before the 2008 global financial crisis and after it. Our empirical model was based on the system gener...