This paper is devoted to econometric analysis of broadband adoption efficiency in EU member states. Stochastic frontier models are widely used for efficiency estimation. We enhanced the stochastic frontier model by adding a spatial component into the model specification to reflect possible...

Cosmetics are not the only providers of Beauty. Beauty can be boosted and enhanced through various treatments which give a new dimension to beauty. The Spas, have become the new age beauty service providers. The fastest-growing segment of the beauty industry is day spas. Spa services include...

I present several definitions of auto/ethnography by the leading academics that have championed and co-created the method; I also discuss critical positions against it. I offer both my own response and the defenses of others, and then reveal modest proposals for new definitions, theories, and...

This article investigates past and present understandings and applications of khul (a type of divorce by mutual agreement whereby a Muslim wife can rid herself of a husband who is not at fault, by a ransoming procedure) synthesizing existing scholarship on the subject as well as Hanafi juristic...

Perhaps the two most wildly recognized building blocks of inventory theory are the EOQ and the quot;newsboyquot; or quot;newsvendorquot; models. Moreover, almost the entire supply chain contract literature was built around the latter. The idea behind this paper is the following: before we can...

Applying the approach used by Eisenberg (2007) to derive the marginal price of risk for an expected value maximizing manager who has a Var constraint, I derive the marginal price of risk given a Cvar (Acerbi and Tasche, 2001), also known as an expected shortfall constraint. Despite the criticism...

In 1988, Professor Heald found a lost manuscript of Steve Allen's groundbreaking television show, quot;A Meeting of the Minds.quot; In that episode, published in 6 J. of Law amp; Rel. 279, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Kelman, Blaise Pascal, and Richard Posner discussed the nature of law. While...

Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), who lived and taught in the United States for over three decades, was one of those emigre intellectuals whose quot;style of thinking,quot; as H. Stuart Hughes put it, quot;withered or barely held [its] own in the new American setting.quot; Kelsen's relative obscurity in...

A lot of experimental evidence document that people are loss averse and that the compensation that they require to give up a possession of a good is higher than the amounts they agree to pay to get this possession. This paper analyzes how optimal English auction design changes when we take...