PURPOSE This study examined the association between cognitive functioning and completion of a durable power of attorney for health care. DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were from the Second Longitudinal Study on Aging (LSOA II), a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling persons who were at least 70 years of age at the time of participation. The sample included 325 older adult r...

© Due to the time constraint, the paper was completed in a rush and thus some of the economic interpretation may not be completely accurate. Abstract Leasing has traditionally been one of the tools that firm employs to increase market share. It is not intuitive that this strategy would actually be beneficial. It is certainly not true if we consider only perishable goods. However, there are good...

Spare parts are held as inventory to support product maintenance in order reduce downtime and extend the lifetime of products. Recently, spare management has been attracting more attention due “right-to-repair” movement which requires that manufacturers provide sufficient throughout life-cyle their products waste so achieve sustainability. In this review, 148 papers regarding published from 201...

Hematopoietic chimerism is known to promote donor-specific organ allograft tolerance; however, clinical translation has been impeded by the requirement for toxic immunosuppression and large doses of donor bone marrow (BM) cells. Here, we investigated in mice whether durable chimerism might be enhanced by pre-treatment of the recipient with liposomal clodronate, a macrophage depleting agent, wit...

Thermally modified timber (TMT) is increasingly offered in Europe as an alternative to preservative treated timber. TMT durability in field tests as well as its moisture sorption behaviour in façade application was determined so as to consider its suitability for outdoor use. Additionally, abrasion and crack-formation of TMT deckings were examined and the optical appearance of a TMT façade was ...

We study the role an illiquid durable consumption good plays in determining the level of precautionary savings and the distribution of wealth in a standard Aiyagari model (i.e. a model with heterogeneous agents, idiosyncratic uncertainty, and borrowing constraints). Transactions costs induce an inaction region over which the durable stock and the associated user cost are not adjusted in respons...

Développement durable et territoires. Économie, géographie, politique, droit, sociologie. Revue électronique. La revue offre une approche interdisciplinaire du développement à l’échelle territoire. En proposant conception élargie de la notion d’environnement, entend contribuer réflexion sur les formes finalités des logiques dans nos sociétés contemporaines.

The demand for durable goods is more cyclical than that for nondurable goods and services. Consequently, the cash flow and stock returns of durable-good producers are exposed to higher systematic risk. Using the benchmark input-output accounts of the National Income and Product Accounts, we construct portfolios of durablegood, nondurable-good, and service producers. In the cross-section, an inv...

This study measures the effect of an increase in Japan’s Value Added Tax rate on the timing of household expenditures and consumption, which do not necessarily coincide. The analysis finds that durable and storable expenditures surged in the month prior to the tax rate increase, fell sharply upon implementation, but quickly returned to their previous long-run levels. Non-storable non-durable ex...