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In order to attract the best students, institutions of higher education need to understand how students select colleges and universities (Kotler and Fox, 1995). Understanding the choice process of a university is an instrument with high potential for developing universities marketing strategies...
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Confirming the well known thesis knowledge is power, A. Toffler argued that the knowledge based society represents the acme of the human society development and P. Drucker said that the developed countries passing through the knowledge based society represents the biggest change of the modern...
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
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The number of Social Networking Sites (SNS) users continues increasing globally. SNS is quickly becoming popular tools for social communication and entertainment. It has now become a trend to share knowledge and the latest news and also interact with each other as well. This paper aims to...
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context, the idea of continuing learning as investment is developed, tacit and explicit knowledge are differentiated and a … continuing learning process for management team and the stages of continuing learning. Finally, a model of appraising investments …
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Exploration is a costly activity that helps a business improve their understanding of a potential mineral deposit. Yet, even with strong exploration results, the business faces uncertainty over the value of the mine. I model this situation as a game of chance. The game starts by giving an agent...
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Using data from a randomized experiment in rural China, this paper studies the influence of social networks on weather insurance adoption and the mechanisms through which social networks operate. To quantify network effects, the experiment offers intensive information sessions about the...
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different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning based on level-k reasoning. We find …
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Cycle models. To our knowledge this thesis is the first attempt to formally introduce adaptive learning and expectation … various econometric adaptive learning tools: Auto ARIMA, VAR and AR(2) models. In all simulations, output and other economic … obtained in simulations with Auto ARIMA models, while the VAR learning tool leads to diverging fluctuations in the majority of …
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This paper modifies a standard model of law enforcement to allow for learning by doing. We incorporate the process of … enforcement learning by assuming that the agency’s current marginal cost is a decreasing function of its past experience of … ability of future apprehension at a lower marginal cost. We focus on the impact of enforcement learning on optimal compliance …
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