Abstract This paper argues that, as far the investment behavior of non-financial corporations is concerned, apparent continuity over last four decades suggested by corporate financialization label misleading. Indeed, while disconnection between profitability and a robust stylized fact for most period, with cumulative detrimental consequences labor, we contend that underlying mechanisms changed ...

In this paper we try to present the main trends of evolution of the ICT sector. Its dynamics, supported by a constant technical progress in ICs, compounded with “non convexities” such as network effects and high sunk costs, may either lead to a Schumpeter Mark I or Schumpeter Mark II competition regime. This means that in some segments, the market will be more competitive (Mark I), while in oth...

In the rst part of the paper, I present a new treatment of the imperfective paradox (Dowty 1979) for the restricted case of trajectory-of-motion events. This treatment extends and re-nes those of Moens and Steedman (1988) and Jackendoo (1991). In the second part, I describe an implemented algorithm based on this treatment which determines whether a speciied sequence of such events is or is not ...

The low-energy D = 4, N = 1 effective action of the strongly coupled heterotic string is explicitly computed by compactifying Hořava-Witten theory on the deformed Calabi-Yau threefold solution due to Witten. It is shown that, to order κ, the Kähler potential is identical to that of the weakly coupled theory. Furthermore, the gauge kinetic functions are directly computed to order κ and shown to ...

in this study, an attempt has been made to expound the iranian law of intellectual property in relation to biotechnology. the most important themes studied are patents, industrial designs and trade marks. the latest relevant piece of legislation concerning the subject matters was passed in march 2008. however, the history of laws and regulations in this field goes back to early twentieth centur...

In this paper we prove the asymptotic formula for the moments of Minkowski question mark function in the interval [0, 1]. The main idea is to demonstrate that certain variation of Laplace method (a forerunner of saddle-point approximation) is applicable in this problem, hence the task reduces to a number of technical calculations. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Unive...