This report uses data on individual smart phones as well as industry data to identify which smartphone firms capture the most value. It finds that Apple captures most of the industry profits, thanks to its high prices, large profit margins and the volume of iPhone sales worldwide. Apple's...

The antecedent studies have designed a novel financial mechanism in which, upon trading intellectual capital, the economy creates or receives money to ensure unimpeded capital access and spur its generation and exploitation. This piece summarises some mathematical aspects, allowing us to apply...

Factor investing provides investors with a low-cost path to participate in long-term stock returns. The quality factor is among the most well-established equity factors with important empirical and practical implications. However, compared with other factors, the quality factor is less well...

Intellectual Capital measuring and reporting is very crucial in annual reports due to its inestimable benefits. This study aims to examine the appropriate method for quantifying Intellectual Capital as well as investigate the impact of Intellectual Capital on consumer staples firm performance....

Today’s production processes are fragmented across countries and industries. Intangibles play an important role, but their measurement is elusive. Their use is not bound by a location and they can be shared across plants. We propose a new empirical framework to measure factor incomes in...

Job hopping in the modern world is one of the major challenges that can be observed in the current labor market in generation Y. The aim of this research is to explore among tangible or intangible rewards, which plays the most significant role in increasing job-hopping behavior in generation Y...

Coffee is one of the most important internationally traded commodities. Most of the ca. USD 200 billion value that coffee generates globally accrues to brands, retailers, and supply chain operators; yet most of the risks are borne by the producers at origin countries. Intangibles associated with...

The antecedent studies have designed new funding with the intellectual capital money (IKM) upon trading the intellectual capital (IK) to ensure unimpeded access to it and spur its generation and exploitation. This piece examines the static and dynamic behavior of IKM in an open economy. The...

Published macroeconomic data traditionally exclude most intangible investment from measured GDP. This situation is beginning to change, but our estimates suggest that as much as $800 billion is still excluded from U.S. published data (as of 2003), and that this leads to the exclusion of more...