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Keynes (1936) was right to emphasize that the investors' expectations have a paramount effect on the evolution of the national economy. Indeed, an impor­ tant part of the role of the financial services sector in a modern economy is to try to forecast how the central bank will react to macroeconomic shocks, and any Wall Street economist worth his or her salt has a rule of thumb-a model drawn per...

conclusions the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among street children in southeast iran is almost high. in this regard, street vendors and children who their parents are illiterate or have been separated are more at risk. generally, principal organizing these children and family education could decline their problems. however, these actions need intersectoral collaboration in society. backgro...

Keynes (1936) was right to emphasize that the investors' expectations have a paramount effect on the evolution of the national economy. Indeed, an impor­ tant part of the role of the financial services sector in a modern economy is to try to forecast how the central bank will react to macroeconomic shocks, and any Wall Street economist worth his or her salt has a rule of thumb-a model drawn per...

In order for organizations to survive on increasingly competitive and global markets, adequate management of intellectual capital is essential. Although increasingly more information is found in electronic formats, turning this information into valuable knowledge is still the responsibility of people by applying it in professional situations to generate value. In this paper, we describe an appr...

Existing research has focused on why and when firms may choose to access the external technology market. Surprisingly, however, less is known about the reliability of the patents attached to these external technologies in the face of litigation. “Weak” external patents expose a firm to the potential loss of downstream revenues. To address this question we construct a novel dataset of patent lit...

(1)Potential Demand for Spatial Analysis on a Network Recently locational competition of retail stores in a densely inhabited region becomes very hard. For instance, in the central region of Tokyo (23 Wards; 621 squared km with 8 million inhabitants), almost five thousands convenience stores are competing their locations. A distinctive feature of this type of stores is small market areas. Becau...