Measuring the impact of information technology (IT) investment on firm performance is a long standing issue among both information systems (IS) and researchers in other disciplines. Most research to date on the impact of IT spending on firm performance has focused on the returns that IT investments can provide to firms. Initial studies showed no impact of IT investment and more recent studies h...

Diskussionspapiere stehen in der alleinigen Verantwortung des jeweiligen Autors. Die darin vertretenen Auffassungen stellen keine Meinungsäußerung des IWH dar. Anregungen und kritische Bemerkungen zu den dargestellten Untersuchungsergebnissen sind jederzeit willkommen und erwünscht. Abstract The paper investigates the investment decision of a financially constrained multinational corporation (M...

The 2016–20 ECF/EFF helped rehabilitate Moldova’s banking sector, bolstering macro-financial stability. However, the COVID-19 pandemic, drought in 2020, and ongoing surge global energy prices, have slowed economic activity, intensified downside risks, complicated policy making. While emergency financial assistance under a blended RCF/RFI (100 percent of quota) SDR allocation (US$236 million) cu...

In this paper we resolve the long standing Feldstein-Horioka (FH, 1980) puzzle dynamically and explain it statistically. We first study the dynamic properties of capital mobility, and re-estimate the evolution of the FH coefficient using a time-varying-parameter model for each of 67 countries from 1970 to 2009. We find that the trend of the FH coefficient is highly consistent with increased glo...

The current financial turmoil has generated considerable discussion of liquidity. Moreover, it has been widely reported that the Federal Reserve played a major role in supplying liquidity to financial markets during this distressed time. This article describes two ways in which the Fed has supplied liquidity since late 2007. The first is traditional: The Fed supplies liquidity by providing cred...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of conflict of interest disclosure policies by comparing a competing interests disclosure statement that met the requirements established by the journal in a 2003 article on health effects of secondhand smoke based on the American Cancer Society CPS-I dataset with internal tobacco industry documents describing financial ties between the tobacco industry and...

no published information are available on the reproductive indices of local abadeh does reared innorthern fars province, southern iran. this study was conducted to determine the duration of the breedingseason, and the length and duration of the oestrous cycle. twenty single parity 2-year-old does from abadeh(weighing 19–26 kg) were purchased and transferred to the school of veterinary medicine ...

introduction: genu varum is considered a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis. being aware of postural swing changes in various standing positions among genu varum patients, provide insight to prevent osteoarthritis in this population. this study is undertaken to compare postural stability in various standing positions between young healthy and genu varum male individuals. materials and methods:...

We highlight primary care innovations gathered from high-functioning primary care practices, innovations we believe can facilitate joy in practice and mitigate physician burnout. To do so, we made site visits to 23 high-performing primary care practices and focused on how these practices distribute functions among the team, use technology to their advantage, improve outcomes with data, and make...