This study investigates whether personal taxes are related to asset valuations. The effective tax rate of investment income fluctuated considerably since federal income taxes were introduced. The main result of the paper demonstrates that there is an economically and statistically significant relationship between asset valuations and personal tax rates. Stock valuations tend to be higher when t...

We investigate how personal characteristics affect people’s desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in venture capital. We find that venture capitalists who share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect ...

Despite a significant global investment in continuing professional education (CPE) in nursing and health care (Jordan, 2000) and a lack of empirical evidence of its effectiveness (Clark, 2005; Attree, 2006), it has nevertheless continued to be a focus of UK government lifelong learning strategies. For example, the Department of Health in England asserted that ‘Every aspect of healthcare deliver...

40] A.J. Wilkie. Model completeness results for expansions of the ordered eld of real numbers by restricted Pfaaan functions and the exponential function. for discussions and comments, anonymous referees for suggesting numerous improvements, and Mihalis Yannakakis for his suggestions that helped improve the presentation.

sustained is by omitting any reference to the sensation novels thronged with palpably nervous middle-class bodies which gave rise during the 1860s to a fury of indignation. "The reader's nerves are affected like the hero's", Margaret Oliphant stridently complained in a review of the most famous of them all, Wilkie Collins's The woman in white (1860). Such omissions make Nerves and narratives, a...

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In multiple industries, including the biopharmaceutical industry, automation is synonymous with increased productivity. Environments with high-throughput needs commonly employ automation for efficiency. However, in a discovery bioanalytical ligand-binding assay laboratory setting where the focus is not necessarily on sample analysis throughput, but instead on assay development and characterizat...