The purpose of the present study is to show that an independent group contingency (GC) combined with self-management strategies and randomized-reinforcer components can increase the amount of written work and active classroom responding in high school students. Three remedial reading classes and a total of 15 students participated in this study. Students used self-management strategies during i...

Despite the acknowledged importance of trust in the sharing economy, especially for continuance use intention, a solid understanding of this phenomenon is still lacking. Due to the nature of the unique characteristics of Airbnb, as one of the most representative cases of sharing economy businesses, the effort of this research contributes to the literature by integrating attachment theory with t...

Recent years have brought many changes in the U.S. economy. The rapid development of telecommunications and the Internet are only two examples of an incredible continuing evolution and progressively changing business environment. Correspondingly, economists and statisticians are improving their tools for measuring the economy. One basic tool is the classification of businesses by industry. Sinc...

It is widely recognised that for the green economy to develop successfully, new educational curricula will be required to help professionals develop appropriate knowledge and skills. Relatively few university courses have been developed to date that explicitly focus on the green economy, reflecting its recent origins. Here we present the lessons learned from developing and implementing a new Ma...

We consider a multi-attribute outsourcing economy where both price and delivery date are relevant decision factors. In the economy, there is an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) who needs multiple items to be delivered on the predetermined delivery dates and suppliers who are capable of delivering some or all of the items. We first show that there exists a competitive equilibrium in this ec...

As contained in her national development mission, Malaysia is expected to become a developed and high income economy by 2020. A mission favourably referred to as the Vision 2020. The realisation of such a noble goal will not come on a silver platter. Perhaps this awareness underscores the identification of certain sectors of the economy by the Malaysian government as key to achieve this develop...

We build a dataset of the industrial composition of the stock market and the economy for 26 countries. This composition is far from representative of that of the economy, particularly in less-developed markets. Based on this, we build a measure of scarcity of investable securities and show that industries that are underrepresented relative to the economy exhibit higher valuations. Moreover, val...

The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003 Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 145 developing, transition, developed OECD countries, South Pacific islands and still communist countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 2002/2003 in developing cou...