Vertical vs Horizontal Integration: Pre-emptive Merging: A Correction

Horizontal vs . Vertical FDI : Revisiting

————————————————————————————————— Using confidential data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we document a new set of facts regarding the behavior of U.S. multinational firms. First, we find that intra-firm trade is concentrated among a small number of large affiliates. The median affiliate reports no shipments to the parent, and directs the bulk of its sales to unrelated parties in its coun...

Horizontal vs. Vertical Partitioning in Association Rule Mining: A Comparison

Association rules identify associations among data items and were introduced in [1,2,3]. There are useful rule mining algorithms [4] based on the horizontal partitioning approach. These algorithms partition the database and find frequent itemsets in each partition, and combine the itemsets in each partition to get the global candidate itemsets as well as the global support for the items. In thi...

Shareholders’ Pre-Emptive Rights

Pre-emptive analgesia.

Transmission of pain signals evoked by tissue damage leads to sensitization of the peripheral and central pain pathways. Pre-emptive analgesia is a treatment that is initiated before the surgical procedure in order to reduce this sensitization. Owing to this 'protective' effect on the nociceptive system, pre-emptive analgesia has the potential to be more effective than a similar analgesic treat...

Pre - Emptive Extradural Analgesia

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