Purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between board monitoring and firm performance after controlling the endogeneity and multicollinearity problem that exist in most corporate governance research. Prior studies failed to establish any significant relationship between board monitoring and firm performance because of not properly control for endogeneity and multicollinearity probl...

The German dual apprenticeship system came under pressure in recent years because enterprises were not willing to offer a sufficient number of apprenticeship positions. A frequently made argument is that the gap could be closed if more firms would be willing to incur net costs during the training period. This paper investigates for the first time whether German enterprises on average indeed inc...

background over the last decade there has been an increase in healthcare expenditures while at the same time the inequity in distribution of resources has grown. these two issues have urged the researchers to review the determinants of healthcare expenditures. in this study, we surveyed the determinants of health expenditures in economic cooperation organization (eco) countries.   methods we us...

Recent years have witnessed the increasing popularity of housing allowance as a major housing policy in countries across the world. However, the research on behavior impacts of housing benefits is still in paucity. In this paper, we present a tentative attempt to investigate an issue that not explored before: does higher level of welfare reliance on housing allowance promote or depress recipien...

This paper examines the effects of co−specialized information technology (IT) on the growth and performance of IT−investing firms as a driver of competitive advantages. By adopting resource−based and dynamic−capability perspectives on firm−specific IT systems, we first identify the mechanisms of resource co−specialization strategy in the process of IT implementation as organizational restructur...

Summary Learning about cause and effect is arguably the main goal in applied econometrics. In practice, validity of these causal inferences contingent on a number critical assumptions regarding type data that has been collected, substantive knowledge available phenomenon under investigation. For instance, unobserved confounding factors threaten internal estimates; availability often limited to ...

the main object of this paper is to find out the impact of economic and institutional factors on export of services in considering the example of oic countries. panel data method as an econometrics approach is used for estimating models. results show that variables such as gdp per capita, the real exchange rate, foreign direct investment, and information infrastructures have positive and signif...

Abstract Prescribing behavior of physicians affected by many factors. The present study is aimed at discovering the simultaneous effects of the evaluated factors (including: price, promotion and demographic characteristics of physicians) and quantification of these effects. In order to estimate these effects, Fluvoxamine (an antidepressant drug) was selected and the model was figured out by pan...

abstract prescribing behavior of physicians affected by many factors. the present study is aimed at discovering the simultaneous effects of the evaluated factors (including: price, promotion and demographic characteristics of physicians) and quantification of these effects. in order to estimate these effects, fluvoxamine (an antidepressant drug) was selected and the model was figured out by pan...