Recently, the problems associated with the existing journal review process aroused discussions from seasoned management researchers, who have also made useful suggestions for improving the process. To complement these suggestions, we propose a more radical change: a manuscript should be reviewed...

The terms of reference for the inquiry on First Home Ownership asked the Commission to evaluate the affordability and availability of housing for first home buyers.The Commission's preliminary findings were released for public comment in December.In its final assessment, the Commission...

Recently many editors try to reduce the turnaround times of academic journals. Shorter turnaround times, however, will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers, increasing significantly the workload of editors and referees, and the number of rejections prior to publication. I...

In the present scenario, intellectual capital has been established as an important corporate asset because conventional performance measurement techniques are incapable of measuring the intangible dimensions of corporate performance. It is a challenge, especially for knowledge driven firms, to...

We exploit a natural experiment within each National Football League game, finding the first evidence in professional sports that referees succumb to the pressures of satisfying team personnel in the vicinity of possible violations. Using generalized additive models for binomial outcomes, we...

The article analyses the process of formation and development of coronations of Russian monarchs in XVI-XVIII centuries. The author comes to the conclusion that in the coronation ceremony Russian, Byzantine and Western European traditions were interweaved. The character of the ceremony was the...

In recent years, universities, particularly state funded institutions have seen revenues reduced by as much as 20 percent. This decline in revenues has forced colleges and universities of all sizes to adopt creative cost reduction and revenue generating practices. Colleges and universities have...

This paper investigates the effects of state-created homogeneity on the ability of socially distant individuals to trade. I show that where the state is absent, socially distant agents adopt the customs, practices and institutions of outsiders they desire to interact with. By creating a degree...

Valid and reliable individual time use data in connection with an appriate set of socio -economic background variables are essential elements of an empirical foundation and evaluation of existing time use theories and for the search of new empirical-based hypotheses about individual behavior....

This paper studies the role played by several bank specific financial indicators in determining the process of bank failure in Argentina after the Mexican crisis known as the quot;tequila effectquot;. Due to the relative scarcity of previous studies, this paper priorizes the use of...