Firms need to incur substantial sunk costs to break in foreign markets, yet many give up exporting shortly after their first experience, which typically involves very small sales. Conversely, other new exporters shoot up their foreign sales and expand to new destinations. We investigate a simple theoretical mechanism that can rationalize these patterns. A firm discovers its profitability as an ...

R. L. EMANUEL,1 J. S. TORDAY,2 Q. MU,3 N. ASOKANANTHAN,3 K. A. SIKORSKI,3 AND M. E. SUNDAY3 1Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and 2Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; and 3Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Torr...

Joal Hill I read with interest the debate about for-profi t versus non-profi t institutional review boards (IRBs) [1], but was disappointed that no one addressed the ability (or inability) of for-profi t IRBs to review studies with the local context of research subjects in mind and then monitor what actually occurs during the consent process throughout the research trial. To my mind the “bignes...

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Blind identification of code word length for non-binary error-correcting codes in noisy transmission EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Sample doi:10.1186/s13638-015-0294-5 Yasamine Zrelli ([email protected]) Roland Gautier ([email protected]) Eric Rannou ([email protected]) Mélanie Marazin ([email protected]) Emanuel Radoi (eman...