This paper examines (i) the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports, as well as (ii) the relationship between the export prices of a firm and its productivity. The paper extends Melitz’s (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality, credit constraints and marketing costs. There are three key finding...

Advances in cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience raise a host of new questions concerning the ways in which neuroscience can and should be used. These advances also challenge our intuitions about the nature of humans as moral and spiritual beings. Neuroethics is the new field that grapples with these issues. The present article surveys a number of applications of neuroscience to such d...

This paper tries to construct a performance evaluation procedure for printed circuit board (PCB) industry combining productivity and financial ratios. A case study is conducted using 22 PCB companies in Taiwan as example. A total of 51 indicators are initially considered and fourteen are selected. They represent five indicators for production efficiency, four for marketing efficiency, and five ...

D about outpatient treatment of unipolar depression is characterized by tensions between science and the marketplace and by ideological differences between and within the major mental health professions. Billions of dollars are spent annually on sales and marketing of antidepressant medications; the pharmaceutical industry also funds research, but it controls whether to submit results of funded...

This paper argues that substantive and sustainable population-wide improvements in physical activity can be achieved only through the large scale adoption and implementation of policies and practices that make being active the default choice and remaining inactive difficult. Meta-volition refers to the volition and collective agency of early adopter leaders who implement such changes in their o...

The recently published Swedish eGovernment Action Plan stresses that “the need of the user should always be an important starting-point in the efforts made by administrations to develop eServices.” But, is that the picture communicated in the action plan? This article reflects critically on the action plan from a marketing perspective. The discussion focuses on citizens as consumers of public e...

to investigate how the buying behavior of firms work is always needed, since it is an every changing process influenced by many forces in its surroundings. industrial firms tend to have a smaller number of customers which means that they are easier to identify than customers in consumer markets. effective marketing strategy relies on understanding consumers and their needs. this understanding m...

The study analyzed farm management extension services (FMESs) performed by the extension agents of Agricultural Development Projects in South West Nigeria. Study representatives were sampled randomly from Oyo ADP, Osun ADP and Ekiti ADP, making a 50% representation of the South-West. A proportionate sample of 80% of the total of the extension agents in each of the 3 case studies was randomly se...