Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances* We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers’ hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique F...

CHUM214 The Modern and the Postmodern In this course we will examine how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change during the last 200 years. Our readings will be drawn from a variety of areas-philosophy, novels, music, painting, and photograph...

Consumer credit is any of the many forms of commerce under which an individual obtains goods or services on condition of a promise to pay for their value, along with a fee (the interest), at some specific future date or dates. Consumer credit can take a variety of forms: bank loans, credit cards, retailer’s card, car finance schemes, etc. In industrialized countries, this form of credit has bec...

This paper explores the substitution relationship between trade credit and bank credit, and its countercyclic dynamic pattern through economic cycles. We propose a new theoretical model, using a mechanism design method, which predicts the substitution between the two credits and its counter-cyclic behavior, subject to the condition of technological efficiency not less than one. This model also ...

financial markets are considered because of their role in acquiring small and large savings of national economy, optimizing the flow of financial resources and distributing these resources to consumption and investment needs of economic sectors. the aim of this study was investigating the influence of financial market extension on agriculturalsector’s development of kohgilouye and boyer ahmad p...