This study focused on the income generating capacity of farm family’s own resources and examined the vulnerability to financial risk among the remote and peri-urban farming systems of Imo state. Primary data was collected using the farming and rural systems approach to randomly select and interview 120 households. Descriptive statistics and Mann whitney test were used in assessing between group...

Firms spend considerable efforts to build brand awareness and associations among consumers. Yet there is a limited understanding of the financial returns of such investments. In this article, the authors present a framework that uses trademarks as measures of firms’ branding efforts. They classify trademarks into two categories—brandidentification trademarks and brand-association trademarks—and...

The tax law allows flow-through tax treatment for certain legal entities so that income is subject to tax only once—at the partner or shareholder level. The information return that flow-through entities file includes a Schedule K-1 that shows income, deductions, credits, and other items that are allocated to the owners. Flow-through treatment introduces complexity in auditing tax returns as flo...

Service firms seek customers with high revenues, profits, or lifetime value. However, they frequently ignore variations in consumption that lead to cash flow variability and adversely influence service operations and financial performance. This study shows that variation in individual customers’ consumption or spending on services can be decreased in ways that are actionable by most managers, w...

The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Friedman, Benjamin Morton. 1977. Financial flow variables and the short-run determination of long-term interest rates.

This paper examines the impact that political forces have on the flow of negative financial information into stock prices. Using a unique sample of listed Chinese firms ultimately controlled by local and/or provincial government entities, we test the proposition that the incentives of politicians and the local government shape financial reporting practices, especially with respect to the releas...

In the emerging competitive and technological driven banking era, banks have to strive hard for retaining and enlarging their customer base. Electronic customer relationship management (E-CRM) is the combination of traditional CRM with the e-business applications marketplace. An E-CRM system provides financial institutions with the opportunity to establish individual and need oriented customer ...

The main purpose of this paper is the development and validation of a failure classification model for UK public industrial companies using current techniques: logit analysis and Neural Networks. Our dataset consists of 51 matched-pairs of failed and nonfailed UK public industrial firms over the period 1988-1997. Prediction models are developed for up to three years prior to the failure event. ...

The ability to infer intentions of other agents, called theory of mind (ToM), confers strong advantages for individuals in social situations. Here, we show that ToM can also be maladaptive when people interact with complex modern institutions like financial markets. We tested participants who were investing in an experimental bubble market, a situation in which the price of an asset is much hig...

Recently the topic of financial network dynamics has gained renewed interest from researchers in the field of empirical systemic risk measurements. We refer to this type of network analysis as information flow networks analysis (IFNA). This paper proposes a new method that applies Fisher information metric to the evolutionary dynamics of financial networks using IFNA. Our paper is the first to ...