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American Depository Receipts (ADRs) represent shares of foreign firms that are issued and traded in the U.S. Since an ADR and its underlying shares represent ownership interest of the same firm, they should be perfect substitutes in a perfect market. However, market imperfections such as...
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Understanding how decisions for international investments are made and how this affects the overall pattern of investments and firm’s performance is of particular importance both in strategy and international business research. This dissertation introduced first home-host country relatedness...
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Neurodesign and emotional design are applied in the development of products that connect with consumers’ vision and lifestyle. These techniques are also used for banknotes, as more secure and reliable designs are needed, which the public can identify with and be proud to use. The aim of this...
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In recent years, payment systems have benefited from technological developments that have accelerated their evolution and adaptation to user needs. Payment systems ultimately depend on central bank money, and the debate about the advisability of updating the different ways of representing this...
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This study considers competing theories concerning the role of mass media in hindering or facilitating the translation of personal experience into political preferences. Using national survey and media content data that allows evaluations of both media coverage and individual patterns of media...
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In thinking about the diffusion of innovation, one tends to overlook the obvious fact that not all innovations are adopted by, or are intended to be adopted by, individuals. In the first place, different sorts of innovations may "require" different units of adoption- for example, "it takes two...
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communication by the agent (i.e., a self-report). In a simple setting with no communication, alternative labor market frictions lead … signals serve as a veracity check on the agent’s self-report. Finally, such communication sometimes makes delaying the …
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but that it may be useful to create the perception of opacity. The optimal communication strategy for the central bank is …
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This thesis aims to accomplish four goals. First, to establish the extent to which a gender wage gap exists in the American workforce and why it matters. Second, it seeks to explore the various factors that scholars have advanced as potential explanations for this gap with the aim of identifying...
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of new communication technologies as a means of sharing information and expanding capacity for innovation. The main … question for this research is: When new communication technologies are introduced into organizations, how do they work together … Dollar General Corporation. Results include an introduction to each company, a report on their implemented new communication …
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