Two panel opinions of the Seventh Circuit reached opposite conclusions in two massive antitrust cases during the past year, even though they purported to apply the same, now-infamous Twombly-Iqbal pleading standard, and even though the complaints in the two cases were very similar and the...

Large deviations for fat tailed distributions, i.e. those that decay slower than exponential, are not only relatively likely, but they also occur in a rather peculiar way where a finite fraction of the whole sample deviation is concentrated on a single variable. The regime of large deviations is...

This paper attempts to present an alternative indicator to evaluate the purchasing power parity (PPP) in any country. This new indicator is entitled "The Starbucksication Index." The word "Stabucksication" is originated from the successful Starbucks coffee firm that they are expanding globally...

Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. To what extent would these differences fade away if people were exposed to economic instruction? In this paper we identify first-year college students' initial preconceptions about economic...

Authoritarianism literature emphasizes that repression suppresses dissent, while co-optation builds support. This paper theorizes that repression can serve not just to eliminate opposition, but to appeal to supporters. I argue that regimes can use political killings to justify rule, by...

Before 1989, the cultural industries were seen by the Romanian Communist state as political propaganda instruments. Journalism was state subsidized and private initiatives were not permitted. After the fall of the Communist Party, the changes in the political, economic and social systems,...

In this study we use the 2010-2013 Survey of Consumer Finances to analyze the allocation and location of financial assets in categorizing the tax-efficiency of investment portfolios by race/ethnicity. We find that Blacks and Hispanics tend to be more tax-efficient since they invest largely...

We examine the role that secondary Mathematics plays in the performance of students in introductory Business courses. Students who pass more advanced secondary Mathematics subjects perform significantly better in introductory Business courses. This 'Mathematics effect' is significantly stronger...

An analysis of the purported potential of social media as a democracy catalyzer is performed, paying attention to its role during the Iranian Protests and the Arab Spring. Then, the different ways in which authoritarian regimes can tamper social are explored.Social media is not a democratization...

This bibliometric analysis of the global presence of Austrian political science (104 senior political scientists) is based on Scopus and OCLC Worldcat. Our global market presence indicators are:• The number of articles indexed in Scopus• The total number of quotations documented in Scopus•...