We examine how product life cycle affects investment and financing by estimating an industry equilibrium model that embeds portfolio characteristics. In the model, firms trade off higher profitability of newer products versus introduction costs. Using product-level data, we find dimension is critical in quantitatively explaining cash flow dynamics, corporate policies, structure. show introducti...

In this paper, a system for the extraction of key argument phrases – which make the opinion holder feel negative or positive towards a particular product – from product reviews is introduced. Since the necessary amount of training examples from any arbitrary product type (target domain) is not always available, the possible usage of domain adaptation in the task of opinion phrase extraction is ...

There is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. The study aims to contribute to the literature by looking jointly at two dimensions of corporate diversification as product diversification and international diversification and the relationship between them. The results show negative relationship between product diversification...

The paper presents the articulated strategy of valorization, implemented by the international movement called Slow Food in Italy and abroad in order to reconsider the concept of agricultural profitability. In particular, the paper suggests profitability lays on the value markets recognize to agricultural production. In this perspective, the Slow Food strategy represents a good practice to be em...

multiple intelligences (mi), second/foreign (l2) proficiency and gender are postulated to contribute to language learning strategies (lls). this study, first, examined whether there was any relationship between iranian efl learners’ lls, on the one hand, and their mi, l2 proficiency, on the other hand. in so doing, it explored the relationship of the overall l2 strategy as well as individual st...

Self-adaptive software systems make decisions at run time that seek to change their behavior in response to faults, changing environments and attacks. Therefore, having an appropriate decision making approach to find an adaptation strategy is critical to successful self-adaptation. Ideally, when an adaptation is triggered, one would like to have a decision making approach that is both quick and...