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Analysing younger online viewers’ motivation to watch video game live streaming through a positive perspective

by Lifu Li , Kyeong Kang and Osama Sohaib

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The paper focuses on younger online viewers’ motivation to watch video game live streaming on live streaming platforms. Unlike existing scholars, it analyses younger online viewers’ watching motivation through a positive perspective and draws on the Play-Others-Downtime theory (P-O-D theory) and the motivation theory to establish the research model. By analysing 397 [...] Read more

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Impact of Institutional Quality and Research and Development (R&D) on Agricultural Productivity in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

by Agossou Justin Tovilode and Wanki Moon

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This study investigates the impact of institutions and public agricultural Research and Development (R&D) on agricultural productivity in low- and middle-income countries. The paper employs panel data with fixed-effects models, spanning 12 years and including 49 low-and middle-income countries. Agricultural productivity is measured by cereal yield, while institutional facto [...] Read more

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Five Common Finance and Accounting Problems of Start-Up Companies

by Derrald Stice , Earl K. Stice and James D. Stice

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You have a product or service for which the world has been waiting. You've scraped together enough cash to get your idea off the ground. You are confident that your business will succeed. And yet, it is often the case that a short time later you are out of business. Numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that about half of new businesses fail within the first [...] Read more

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Does Trust Beneficiary Protection Affect the Performance of Trust Companies? An Analysis Based on the Theory of Law and Finance

by Jinxian Li

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Trust beneficiary protection constitutes an important legal system in the trust industry. This paper, based upon the study approach of the “Theory of Law and Finance”, establishes the trust beneficiary protection index of China. We also test the influence of trust beneficiary protection on the performance of trust companies. As indicated by our study’s results [...] Read more

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A Virtual Economics Laboratory: What Generated High Inflation? 14 Different Explanations to One Inflation Period

by Yair Barak

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A high inflation period of seven years (1978-1985) in Israel, which turned into a hyperinflation, puzzled Israeli economists, who tried to understand its causes and mechanisms. As a result, they provided fourteen different explanations. Although all of the explanations were based on the same data, the researchers’ conclusions were either different or contradictory. This s [...] Read more

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Discovering online Chinese consumers’ impulse buying in live streaming by the theory of planned behavior

by Lifu Li and Kyeong Kang

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The study explores online consumers’ impulse buying intentions and behaviors on live streaming platforms. Unlike traditional shopping modes, the development of real-time video streaming provides online consumers with a distinct approach to interacting with live streamers and browsing online products in real-time, potentially causing their impulse buying intentions. To und [...] Read more

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Did the UEFA Champions League winners start in an easy group?

by Antonio Avila-Cano and Francisco Triguero-Ruiz

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Competitive balance indicates the degree of control participating teams have over a sports competition. Supporters look for excuses to justify their team’s defeat and the triumph of their rivals. If the competition has required a preliminary qualifying group stage, they will argue that the winning team was in an "easy group" from the start, and their team was unlucky to b [...] Read more

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Department of Economic Theory and Economic History, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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Transitioning from Interest Rate to GDP Growth Rate for More Sustainable Equitable Economy

by Samir Alamad

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Exiting literature and central banks have recently raised concerns about the ominous overlooked threat of growing global debt, and its fundamental role in financial crises and economic instability. This paper develops and models an alternative economic theory that calls for a paradigm shift from the prevailing debt-based financial economy. Through a structured literature review [...] Read more

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Corporate social responsibility and the likelihood of external financing

by Shahbaz Sheikh

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This paper empirically investigates the relation between firm performance in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the need and likelihood of external financing to test the predictions of agency and stakeholder theories. Empirical results from Logit, Linear Probability Model, OLS and Firm fixed effects regressions indicate that CSR is negatively related to the likelihood an [...] Read more

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Exports of Renewable Energy Goods among RCEP members: Potential and Constraints

by Yichang Liu and Kaliappa Kalirajan

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Objective: The paper, specifically examines whether the recently formed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) can potentially facilitate minimising the constraints to renewable energy goods exports at the regional level in Asia. Data, Methodology and Findings: Using the panel data from 11 RCEP members from 2006 to 2014, this study has applied the ‘meta fronti [...] Read more

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Keynesian Without the Policy: Why the Business Cycle is all about Business Confidence and Finance

by Karl Johan Bergstrӧ m

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Many of Keynes´s ideas and concepts are proven correct in this paper. The demand side, mainly business investments, drives the economy. Business firms steer the business cycle via profit expectations and animal spirits. Injections to and withdrawals from the circular flow of income are multiplied throughout the economy in accordance with Keynes´s multiplier. A sudde [...] Read more

Many of Keynes´s ideas and concepts are proven correct in this paper. The demand side, mainly business investments, drives the economy. Business firms steer the business cycle via profit expectations and animal spirits. Injections to and withdrawals from the circular flow of income are multiplied throughout the economy in accordance with Keynes´s multiplier. A sudden and sharp rise in households´ saving rates has a detrimental effect on aggregate demand, in line with Keynes´s paradox of thrift. Finance, not saving in the S=I sense, is the necessary condition for business investments and economic growth to be realized. Keynes´s finance motive thus makes money endogenous, contradicting the textbook result that exogenous money steers aggregate demand, contradicting the mainstream loanable funds theory and putting into question the Keynesian theory of sticky prices as a condition for real growth. However, a crucial omission in Keynes´s productive writings is the lack of an accelerator tying income to investment. Some of his followers such as Paul Samuelson tried to remedy that by developing multiplier-accelerator models. The problem with them is that the accelerator lacks micro foundations, in specific disregarding business confidence. Linking macro accounting identities with empirical national accounts data for five major economies produces the finding that business firms explain more than all aggregate expenditure growth during a 25-year period. Thus, it is concluded that business confidence is the root of the business cycle. Making the accelerator account for business confidence casts new light on the perhaps most well-known Keynesian “truth”: active fiscal policy as a main force stabilizing the business cycle. With business confidence being the endogenous and ubiquitous variable driving the business cycle, it turns out that any exogenous factor has the possibility to affect it. Policy needs to be viewed as a competing factor to the factor(s) driving the cycle in the other, destabilizing direction. The more powerful those factors are (e.g., a deadly virus), the tougher it gets for policy to “win” the competition, turning business confidence around. This leads up to the paper´s main conclusion: the worse the economy, the stronger is the case for active fiscal policy, but the lesser is the chance for it to succeed.p>

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The Sensitivity of the Human Development Index to Assumptions about Income

by Maria Cornachione Kula , Charles J. Moyer, Jr. and Priniti Panday

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The Human Development Index (HDI) aims to present a more robust picture of a country’s development status than that suggested by national income per capita. The HDI aggregates dimension indices based on transformed measures for the core values of health, education, and income per capita. Assumptions are made regarding the upper and lower bounds used to re-scale each core [...] Read more

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The high price of green energy: Adjustments in general equilibrium

by Henry Thompson

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The high price of energy due to green energy policy will cause adjustments across the US economy predicted in the present general equilibrium model that includes energy Btu input with capital and labor to produce manufactures and services. This same model in trade theory examines the effects of a tariff on an imported factor of production such as a natural resource or capital.& [...] Read more

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Model-Based Poststratification of Measurements that Imperfectly Cover the Universe Studied: The Case of Postal Delivery Times

by Alain Bultez and Bert Seghers

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The goal of this paper is to work out a poststratification method for estimating in-time indicators for international end-to-end delivery processes when collected data cannot cover all the strata making up the logistics universe to be surveyed, the true weights of the strata - needed to correct biases in representativeness caused by disproportionate sampling and incomplete [...] Read more

The goal of this paper is to work out a poststratification method for estimating in-time indicators for international end-to-end delivery processes whenp>

collected data cannot cover all the strata making up the logistics universe to be surveyed,
the true weights of the strata - needed to correct biases in representativeness caused by disproportionate sampling and incomplete coverage - are unknown but can be inferred from marginal subtotals related to stratification criteria considered separately, rather than jointly, and conditional on each end of the delivery journey: outbound- versus inbound-specific. Within this perspective, poststratification is used here to mean a statistical correction of measurements derived from incomplete stratified samples, an ex-post calibration aimed at yielding more accurate estimates based on an analysis of the data. Thus, we tackle instances where ex-ante assignment to strata is not a problem, but when surveying all strata is out of the question.

For that purpose, an econometric model is designedp>

to link the discrete transport lead times, counted in days, of tested items to the specifics of their material characteristics (e.g. size/weight), as well as those of the routes they take through the distribution network (e.g. origin and destination zones),
and provide performance predictions for each of the strata, covered as well as non-covered.

Benchmarking the multinomial cumulative logit regression against the negative binomial one reveals that delivery time had better be treated as an ordinal categorical system’s response, rather than as a ratio-scaled count.p> The model-based fitted and extrapolated estimates are then used as inputs to the ex-post weighting stage, which produces robust point- and interval-estimates of aggregate key performance indicators (KPIs) through bootstrapping. Simple linear programs provide two extreme weighting sets, one per country-to-country path: the first minimizes the KPIs’ values, while the second maximizes them. p> Probabilities of delivery within deadlines summarize distributions of delivery times better than their means and standard deviations, because logistical efforts to cut transit by one day must be enhanced more and more as it gets shortened. Three types of graphs are proposed to help visualize this exponential increase in the service quality required. The applicability of the methodology developed is demonstrated on the 2023 database of the International Post Corporation. In this case, the imprecision of the KPI estimates depends much more on the uncertainty caused by disturbances occurring during the first- and last-miles, than on the imperfection of the information about the real weights of the strata. p>

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Forecasting Parameters in the SABR Model

by Li Chen , Jianing Zhu and Cunyi Yang

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We present two approaches to forecasting parameters in the SABR model. The first approach is the vector autoregressive moving-average model (VARMA) for the time series of the in-sample calibrated parameters, and the second is based on machine learning techniques called epsilon-support vector regression (ε-SVR). Using daily data of S&P 500 ETF option prices from Janu [...] Read more

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Does Social Security Crowd out Private Wealth? A Survey of the Literature

by Marcin Wron ski

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In this paper, we review the research on the substitution between social security wealth and private wealth. Our review includes over 100 theoretical and empirical contributions. Nearly 70% of the literature identifies the statistically significant impact of social security wealth on different forms of private savings. A strong majority of authors, who obtain statistically sign [...] Read more

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Inflation: Thruway of ECB’s Monetary Policy

by Christian Seidl

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Part of the present inflation is caused by the breakdown of globalization, in particular supply chains, part is caused by the Corona Pandemic, in particular lockdowns, part is caused by the Ukrainian War, part is caused by European sanctions, and part – and not the smallest one – is caused by the European Central Bank’s printing money by hook or by crook in th [...] Read more

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Effects of Horizontal Mergers on Prices of Generic Drugs

by Antonio J. Trujillo , Mariana Socal and Gerard Anderson

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This paper quantifies the impact of horizontal mergers on the prices of drugs. We study all mergers between two publicly traded pharmaceutical companies working in the US between 2010 and 2015 and their effect on their drugs prices. Using a differences-in-differences approach, we estimate that drugs marketed by the merging firms experience an AWP increase of about between 8% an [...] Read more

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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on the U.S. Stock Market Return

by Ilhami Gunduz

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In this study, I analyze the impact of the aggregate, income, corporate and social security tax revenues on both the U.S. output and the stock market return in a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework between 1960:Q1 and 2015:Q4. Unlike some of the other studies, I use aggregate and disaggregated tax revenue variables to examine the impact of scal policy. Results sho [...] Read more

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Informed Trading of Sell-Side Analysts: Evidence from Class Action Lawsuits

by Hyoseok David Hwang

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This paper examines whether sell-side analyst-affiliated investors trade stocks before their analysts release material information. Using class action lawsuits, I explore the pre-lawsuit periods and investigate how potentially informed analysts trade their covered firms. The event study finds that analyst-affiliated investors reduce their stockholdings of firms prior to their o [...] Read more

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