It's really about managing yourself and your priorities. The best we can do is manage what we do with the time we have. There are three critical variables: knowing how long the things you do take you; knowing how much of your time you have already committed so that you...
This paper expounds and tests a theory of the financial structure of the new small business enterprise. Its approach is evolutionary in that it focuses on how, in theory and practice, the key variables which characterise the small firm's financial structure evolve over several time periods after inception. The variables...
The purpose of this paper is to identify and test a set of variables that were related to the longevity of small family firms. The paper identifies a number of potentially relevant variables for inclusion in the predictive model. The final model included a total of 13 variables. These ranged...
This article studies the influence of cultural, economic, and psychological attitudinal variables on differences in the level of entrepreneurship. It combines data on entrepreneurial and economic variables with data on cultural variables. It considers cross-sectional relationships between the cultural and psychological attitude variables and level of entrepreneurship. The results yield...
Structural vector auto regression SVAR models are commonly used to investigate the effect of structural shocks on economic variables. The identifying restrictions imposed in many of these exercises have been criticized in the literature. This paper extends this literature by showing that if the SVAR includes one or more variables...
One of the most important questions that needs to be asked when a company is planning to relocate their office to a new space is, how long does it take to do everything? Determining a time frame from when one starts, from selecting the design team to the day when...
This paper propose a customer-oriented conceptual model of segmentation variables for mail-order repeat buying behavior. The paper investigates from a theoretical perspective what customer-related variables should be included in response models for modeling repeat purchasing, and empirically validates how these variables perform for predictive purposes. Binary logit modeling is used.
Customer Relationship Management CRM enjoys increasing attention as a countermeasure to switching behavior of customers. This paper focuses on the treatment of a company's most promising customers in a non-contractual setting. The paper builds a model in order to predict partial defection by behaviorally-loyal clients using three classification techniques: Logistic...
Using panel regression analysis, the paper investigates what factors may help to explain increases in loan-loss provisions for the major UK banks. Explanatory variables reviewed include aggregate variables such as GDP growth as well as bank-specific factors such as the composition of the loan portfolio. The main findings of the...
From the executive summary: ‘The performance of a product or process is often evaluated based on its failure or defect rate. The metric has an advantage in that it can easily be converted into monetary units, and is therefore useful in managerial decision-making. The failures can often be thought of...
Winning the bidding race to host a major world sporting event depends on an intricate mix of variables. These variables can range from tangible, measurable elements such as infrastructure, accommodation, stadia and media facilities to intangible, emotive factors such as image, reputation and star endorsement. As a result, cities have...
This paper assesses the extent to which stock market information may help bank regulators identify bank financial distress. The research specifies a variety of stock return and other market-related variables that might contain elements of longer-term trends and be capable of anticipating changes in regulatory ratings of commercial banks and...
Statistical inference in predictive regressions depends critically on the stochastic properties of the posited explanatory variable, in particular, its order of integration. Confidence intervals computed for the largest autoregressive root of many explanatory variables commonly used in predictive regressions, including the dividend yield, the book-to-market ratio, the short-term rate of...
This paper applies the uncertain nonlinear parameter approach, originally by Avellaneda et al. and Lyons, to model non-local changes in financial variables and its impact on portfolios of derivatives and their underlying assets. It formulates the non-probabilistic uncertainty assumptions as a governing system of nonlinear PDEs about both the spatial...
This paper proposes a dynamic multinomial probit model in order to estimate the long-run and short- run effects of marketing mix variables on brand choice. The latent variables, which contain the unobserved perceived utilities, follow a first-order vector error correction autoregressive process of order with current and lagged explanatory variables....
The author estimates the relationship between the provincial credit ratings, as assessed by Standard & Poor's, and a number of economic variables, using the ordered probit methodology. All the variables in her estimation prove to be significant. In particular, she finds that downgrades take place at almost the same speed...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to RecessionC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As the economic downturn causes consumers to reprioritize their spending habits and forces consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers to reevaluate their...
INTRODUCTION In the last two decades, solution of Navier Stokes equations using colocated arrangement has received great interests. On the other hand, unstructured grids are popular for solution of flow field in complex geometries. Colocated arrangement has some obvious advantages over staggered grids especially in case of non-orthogonal...
INTRODUCTION In urban environment, the dynamic spatio-temporal of the fluid movements is there very complex, he occurred of movements of vortex, of very variable scale. The turbulence that occurred can have several reasons. Indeed, the presence of the obstacles, their geometry and their orientation are as many the...
BY TOM KEANE motor matters If everyone owned a Chevrolet Aveo5, the ridiculous high price of gasoline would topple. This car provides 34 mpg, which is in the range of upcoming hybrid vehicles. But you don't have to wait until affordable...
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