Musical skills and expertise vary greatly in Western societies. Individuals can differ in their repertoire of musical behaviours as well as in the level of skill they display for any single musical behaviour. The types of musical behaviours we refer to here are broad, ranging from performance on an instrument and listening expertise, to the ability to employ music in functional settings or to c...

Extremist organizations are heavily utilizing Internet technologies to increase their abilities to influence the world. Studying those global extremist organizations’ Internet presence would allow us to better understand extremist organizations’ technical sophistication and their propaganda plans. In this work, we explore an integrated approach for collecting and analyzing extremist Internet pr...

Purpose – Studies in performance measurement systems (PMS) seem to receive little attention in the information system (IS) literature. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to contribute to the stream of research in the fields of performance measurement and ISs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines how IS sophistication is linked to PMSs by investigating the use of performance me...

We propose a model in which investors cannot costlessly process information from asset prices. At the trading stage, are boundedly rational, and their interpretation of prices injects noise into price, generating source endogenous trading. Our setup predicts price momentum yields excessive return volatility volume. In an overall equilibrium, optimally choose sophistication levels by balancing b...

We study the extent to which countries undergo structural change during and after episodes of sustained investment surges. In particular, we explore evolution trade flows, considering (i) exports sophistication or complexity, (ii) diversification, (iii) capital goods imports. Using identified by Libman et al. (2019), document heterogeneous nature these find that, while imports increase, they ar...