Beaver and Wolfson (1982 BW) identify economic interpretability and symmetry as desirable properties for financial statement translation. They then analyze translation methods with respect to these properties assuming perfect and complete markets between and within both countries (referred to,...

This paper investigates how employment regulations affect firms’ use of moreflexible employment arrangements. Using firm level data from 27 countries in EasternEurope and Central Asia the paper not only looks at variations in the formal, de jurerestrictions on labor practices across countries,...

This is a seminar based on research literature. Papers covered are selected to illustrate important problems and approaches in the field of computational and systems biology, and provide students a framework from which to evaluate new developments. The MIT Initiative in Computational and Systems...