This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in...

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in explaining...

This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for instance, is home to between eight and fifteen...

The U.S. military has become substantially engaged in the development and stabilization space and will likely continue to operate in this space for some time to come. Analyzing the Commanders Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan, we look at the scope and rationale for development related...

To identify the possible mismatch between what MBA students are supposed to learn and what they are actually exposed to in the case methods, we analyzed the manifest and latent meanings of popular MBA teaching cases in the United States and China. Our findings suggest that despite repeated calls...

This paper examines the impact of policies and programs implemented by Democratic Presidents in the United States on the economic predicament of African Americans. Policies and programs implemented by the Clinton Administration between 1992 and 2000 were examined to better understand the extent...

Despite the amount of accounting ethics research conducted over many years, ways to improve the measurement instruments and to make them appropriate for application in other cultures or countries are still needed. In that direction, the main purpose of this study is to test a modified...

This article examines the linguistic tools adopted by Twitter users to express their personal opinion on the Tea Party movement in the USA. The purpose of the current research is to define the link between the content of the message and the way it is expressed either implicitly or explicitly....

With its strong growth in exports, China is becoming increasingly competitive to Canadian exports in third markets. This is specially a concern in Canada's largest export market, the U.S., where China has quickly gained market share while Canada's has decreased. This paper asks the question; is...

Canadian trade with the U.S. is not only the largest bilateral trade relationship in the world, it also serves as the foundation of the present-day Canadian economy. Its importance for Canada is such that several industries are more susceptible to the U.S. economic conditions than to domestic...