S&T manpower act as the most important ingredient for scientific and technological activities. It is also an indicator of technological competitiveness of a country, which is most important in the 21st century. The manpower outturn and stock is also an important input while designing science...

This study seeks to understand how executive director heterogeneity affects the performance of US banks. To measure the expected performance effects linked to director heterogeneity, we compute changes in the market valuation of banks linked to announcements of executive director appointments....

The competitiveness of modern human and business are inextricably linked with the work of the stock market. In some cases, easily could be detected a correlation between trends or tendencies of the stock market and the directions of transformation of human behavior. What should people and...

This paper documents a robust new fact about the cross section of stock returns: stocks of companies with higher past production efficiency earn significantly higher average returns in the future. The return difference between the high production efficiency and the low production efficiency...