Media outlets sometimes incorporate ideological content into their programming. Such content may simply be a form of product variety, but it may also be due to media outlet owners who are willing to sacrifice some profit in order to engage in ideological persuasion. In this paper, we assume the existence of such owners, and we compare the amount and type of persuasion that will occur under two ...

This paper presents a new perspective on the origin and development of the Mary-merry-marry merger, the conditioned merger, or neutralization, of mid and low front vowels before /r/ in dialects of North American English. The city of Montreal, Quebec represents one of very few regions in which this merger has not taken hold, despite the fact that a near-complete merger is found in the nearby rur...

A. INTRODUCTION In 2010 a raft of articles offered contrasting views on analytic tools for assessing unilateral effects from differentiated products mergers. They provided some useful insights but did not acknowledge that this is just one of many scenarios encountered in merger assessment, and they paid insufficient attention to the problems faced by a competition agency. We revisit this debate...

Merger intensity spikes in times of high market valuations (i.e., when average M/B ratios are at their highest). This is especially true for stock-based mergers, supporting recent theories by Rhodes-Kropf and Viswanathan (2002) and Shleifer and Vishny (2003). To explore whether this is the result of correlated valuation errors or behavioral mispricing we decompose M/B into three components: fir...

We provide new estimates of merger value creation by exploiting revealed preferences of merging banks within a matching market framework. We find that merger value arises from cost efficiencies in overlapping markets, relaxing of regulation, and network effects exhibited by the acquirer-target matching. In our analysis of bank mergers, we find that merger value creation is unrelated to acquirer...

Although research acknowledges the role of IS in a merger, it has not addressed the issue of boundary management during the development of ISs aimed at supporting merged organizations. Yet, it has been shown, albeit not in a merger context, that knowledge sharing during IS development involving agents from different communities is critical and difficult. Hence, our study addresses the questions...

This work presents high S/N spectroscopic observations of a sample of six suspected merger remnants, selected primarily on the basis of Hi tidal debris detections. Single stellar population analysis of these galaxies indicates that their ages, metallicities, and α-enhancement ratios are consistent with those of a representative sample of nearby elliptical galaxies. The expected stellar populati...

In Japan, mergers of cities, towns, and villages have occurred rapidly as a result of the Special Law on the Merger of Municipalities, enacted in 2005. These mergers may impact civil servants' psychological adjustment. We developed the Municipal Merger Stress Questionnaire (MMSQ) to measure the impact of the municipal mergers and collected responses from 570 employees who had experienced a muni...

While much is known about how lexical tones are perceived in isolation, little has been done on the perception of tones in connected speech. This study, via visual world paradigm, investigates effect of contextual tonal variation on speech recognition in Tianjin Mandarin, where three types of contextual tonal variation have been identified: Near-Merger Sandhi, No-Merger Sandhi, and No-Sandhi Co...

We investigate the influence of magnetic fields upon the dynamics of, and resulting gravitational waves from, a binary neutron-star merger in full general relativity coupled to ideal magnetohydrodynamics. We consider two merger scenarios: one where the stars have aligned poloidal magnetic fields and one without. Both mergers result in a strongly differentially rotating object. In comparison to ...