This paper suggests how a MNC subsidiary’s knowledge outflow can influence its performance. We distinguish between direct costs and opportunity costs. Direct costs are contingent on knowledge types and the lack of appropriate communication channels. Opportunity costs are due to resource-use for knowledge outflows that could have been utilized for the subsidiary’s own business and development ac...

The kin term product calculations used by culture-bearers to compute kin relationships from kin terms without reference to genealogy are the basis for the structure of a kinship terminology and its underlying generative logic. The details of that logic account for differences in the structural forms for kinship terminologies. The structural form of the Polynesian kinship terminologies, like tha...

We propose a simultaneous equation system with GARCHX errors to model the contemporaneous relations among Asian and American stock markets. We thus evaluate the correlation matrix over rolling windows and introduce a correlation matrix distance which allows a simple graphical analysis of contagion. The empirical analysis on Asian and American stock markets shows some evidences of contagion.

According to Halliday (1967), there is a ban on simultaneous resultative and depictive modification in English. It is here observed that such a ban is not general, but instead restricted to certain examples of modification with abnormal theta relations, which are commonly found in the resultative construction. Otherwise, simultaneous resultative/depictive modification is possible. An account of...

Steele et al. (2005) describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, with an application to a study of partnership transitions and fertility among a cohort of British women. A multilevel multistate competing risks model is used to examine the relationship between prior fertility outcomes (the presence and characteristics of children and current pregnancy) and the di...

Results on the simultaneous scaling of nonnegative matrices involving one sided inequalities are presented. These are applied to scalings involving two sided inequalities. The proofs are graph theoretic. The setting is generalized to matrices with elements in lattice ordered Abelian groups with 0.

E Ciavolino and Jens Jörn Dahlgaard , Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy for studying the effect of management factors on enterprise performance, 2009, JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, (36), 7, 801-815. JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664760802510026 Copyright: Taylor & Francis http://www.tandf.co.u...

This note revisits the identification theorems of B. Brown (1983) and Roehrig (1988). We describe an error in the proofs of the main identification theorems in these papers, and provide an important counterexample to the theorems on the identification of the reduced form. Specifically, contrary to the theorems, the reduced form of a nonseparable simultaneous equations model is not identified ev...

Ground-level ozone concentration is a key indicator of air quality. There may exist sudden changes in ozone concentration data over a long time horizon, which may be caused by the implementation of government regulations and policies, such as establishing exhaust emission limits for on-road vehicles. To monitor and assess the efficacy of these policies, we propose a methodology for detecting ch...