Some theorists propose that systems of law largely arise spontaneously, as an extension of customary rules. At most, the role of the state is to endorse customary laws and add some minimal general rules. Some see no essential ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to comment on the differences in perceptions that exist between academic and professional marketing researchers, as creators of new marketing knowledge, and explore how academics and ...

Peer mentoring has been used by some institutions in order to help those who are less able at something to improve, by pairing them with a mentor of a similar background. Mentoring has been used in academic milieus, where ...

The objective of this paper is to explain and derive the non-linear, S-shaped diffusion path of price expectations and provide a forecasting model, three months ahead with the implications assessed. Bounded rationality ...

This article considers how permissive regulatory conditions helped change the size and scope of the US mortgage market. Asset backed securitization facilitated an expansion of the US mortgage market and modified the structure ...

In this paper we present a framework that can be used to generate web-based, semantically adaptive, e-learning and computer-assisted assessment (CAA) tools for any given knowledge domain, based upon dynamic ontological ...

In recent years several accounting standards issued by the IASB substitute measures of fair value for historical cost, and give managers the discretion to determine the fair value without an actual market for the asset. ...

This paper attempts to summarize the information contained in bank financial statements on the risk management capabilities of banks and then ascertains the sensitivity of bank stocks to risk management.