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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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How do R&D factors affect total factor productivity: based on stochastic frontier analysis method
by Shikuan Zhao , Wen Tian  and  Abd Alwahed Dagestani
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Based on provincial panel data from 1998-2018, this paper estimates research and development (R&D) factors, and a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model is constructed to examine the effects of R&D factors on regional total factor productivity (TFP). The results show that both R&D capital stock and R&D personnel can significantly promote regional TFP, but the [...] Read more

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Performance Negative Feedback and Firm's R&D Efficiency: Moderating Roles of Regional Institutional Environment
by Furong Guo , Yiwen Xiang  and  Pan Wang
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Based on the behavioral theory of the firm, we investigate the impact of performance negative feedback on R&D efficiency. The results show that when performance falls below aspirations, firms pay more attention to R&D projects with high R&D efficiency to get rid of the operating pressure, reputation pressure and resource constraints caused by the decline in performa [...] Read more

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Theory and Method of Ecological Value Accounting of Forest Resources
by He Zhu , Yan Liang , Zhaoyang Li  and  Chuanbao Qiu
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Forest resources, as one of the most important natural resources, have high ecological value. The calculation of their ecological value is an important part of improving the accounting of natural resources assets. Based on the analysis of the basic situation of China's forest resources, this paper starts from the economic theory of forest resources, discusses the principle of f [...] 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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Unlocking the Potential of Chinese Urban Innovation: The Role of Support Policies for New R&D Institutions from an Innovation Chain Management Perspective
by mingyang Zhang
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The enactment of policies that bolster new research and development (R&D) institutions stands as a pivotal strategy to catalyze urban innovation and development. Adopting a strategic lens of innovation chain management and employing the Differences-in-Differences (DID) method to scrutinize panel data from 43 Chinese cities spanning 2008 to 2019, this study probes the effica [...] Read more

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Green HR Practices & Green Recovery Performance: The Mediating role of P-O Fit & Affective Commitment in Fast Food Industry of Pakistan
by Sainan Zhao
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Environmental concerns are increasing and business firms are inclined towards adoption of eco-friendly products and services. They are hiring employees via set of green HRM practices and struggling to become an environmentally sustainable firm. Pakistani food industry is booming day by day. However, less is known about the green HRM practices executed in the fast food industry [...] Read more

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Academic Prestige and Entrepreneurship: Differences and Similarities in UK Universities
by Ismael P. Soler  and  Pilar López-Delgado
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Understanding how academia and industry operate and relate to each other is core to improving the efficiency of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Reason why, this paper focuses on whether university prestige has a homogeneous effect on university entrepreneurship. Specifically, whether the relationship between academic prestige and entrepreneurship varies according to the nature o [...] Read more

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Psychopathy, prospect theory, and the Madoff Curve: a dual behavioral neuroscience and behavioral economic framework for understanding White Collar Crime
by Eric C. Prichard  and  Adam J. McKee
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Reckless behavior by business leaders can be a systemic risk for individual firms and the economies in which the firms exist. We propose that a synthesis of behavioral economics, in particular prospect theory, and the study of psychopathy may help researchers better understand why some business leaders engage in high-risk criminal activity. We propose that psychopathy is associ [...] 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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Testing an Extended Knowledge-Capital Model of Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Public Knowledge Inputs
by Henk L. M. Kox
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The knowledge-capital model explains outward foreign direct investment (FDI) of a country from its relative abundance of its knowledge assets. Early versions of the knowledge-capital theory model these assets as if they were only the results of knowledge investments by private firms. We extend the theory by a formal model of the public-private interaction in knowledge developme [...] Read more

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How does financial development environment affect regional innovation capabilities? New perspectives from digital finance and institutional quality
by Feiling Lu
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Based on China's 30 provincial panel data from 2006 to 2018, this paper uses the spatial Durbin model to empirically study the influence path and transmission mechanism of financial development on regional technological innovation, and introduce digital finance environment, marketization degree, and government environmental management as an adjustment variable to verify its reg [...] Read more

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Don’t worry about the debt-GDP Ratio
by Yasuhito Tanaka
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I will show that if the propensity to consume from savings satisfies appropriate conditions, the debt-GDP ratio will not grow infinitely large and fiscal collapse will not occur. Using a basic macroeconomic model, with an overlapping generations model in mind, we show the following results: 1) The budget deficit including interest payments on the government bonds equals an incr [...] 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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Bayesian-Nash equilibria for fuzzy value auctions
by Alexey S. Shvedov
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This paper analyses a model of private value auctions with symmetric risk-neutral bidders, where bidders' private values of an indivisible good are fuzzy. The auction is studied as a game with incomplete information. Fuzzy random variables, their quantile functions, and expressions for expectations through quantile functions are used. An explicit expression for the solution is [...] Read more

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The gap between formalism and empirical science: the example of the non-dictatorship condition
by W. Robert J. Alexander
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Since the establishment of neoclassical economics in the nineteenth century, there has been a debate in the economics profession over the role played by mathematics. Mathematics can add precision to discussion of real-world empirical problems in economics, but care needs to be taken when formalizing a problem to ensure that errors of translation are not made. Formalism allows o [...] Read more

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An Examination of Ramsey's Critique: The Lack of Support in Dismissing Keynes's Logical Theory of Probability
by Michael Emmett Brady
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In his 1922 review for Cambridge Magazine of Keynes's A Treatise on Probability, and again in his 1926 review "Truth and Probability" (published in 1931 and republished in Kyburg and Smokler's 1980 edition), Ramsey provided examples critiquing Keynes's logical theory of probability. However, these examples do not disprove Keynes's theory as all of them are flawed. The flaws ari [...] 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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Does Nomination Committee Matter for Innovation?
by Meriam Attia , Ouidad Yousfi  and  AbdelWahed Omri
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This study analyzes how the presence and the composition of nomination committees could influence innovation. Specifically, we focus on the committee size, the frequency of meetings, and the presence of independent and female members. Innovation is measured by (1) the firm’s ability to produce innovations such as new or improved products/processes and the number of patent [...] Read more