UNLABELLED Most Internet vendors offer tax-free cigarettes making them cheaper than those sold at stores. This undermines the impact that higher prices have upon reducing consumption. Most Internet tobacco sales have violated taxation and youth access laws, which led to landmark voluntary agreements in 2005 with the major credit card companies and major private shippers to ban payment transacti...

One purpose of this study is to explore theoretical background to find out store image attributes suggested by many previous researchers as important determinants of store loyalty and another is to identify which store image attributes affect store loyalty significantly according to retail type respectively. The results of empirical analyses show that store image attributes of store loyalty dep...

chances are you're engaged in a work-flow. Even when you're doing non-computer work—for example, ordering parts for your project or factory by telephone, or calling an airline or a government office—you are most likely participating unwittingly in a workflow. A workflow is a composite activity consisting of tasks involving a number of humans, databases, and specialized applications. The compone...

Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance with the potential to overcome credit, crop storage, and behavioral constraints through a localized inventory credit system. Using randomized controlled trial varying household level access warrantage, we measure its impacts among households interested in participating. Among treated households, take-up storage high, while moderate. Treated pri...

Although the increasing adoption of digital finance in recent years has exerted a wide-ranging influence on farmers’ consumption and production activities, many farmers China still seriously suffer from financial exclusion. Few studies have documented different impacts e-commerce characterized by online purchases sales participation market measured their engagement payments, wealth management, ...

This paper adopts the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to model working capital efficiency (WCE) on a sample of 6170 European firms from 2009 2018. We find: (i) larger are more efficient with their management (WCM) than smaller firms, (ii) higher cash holding contributes WCE, (iii) high competition is less conducive WCE low competition, (iv) export and sales growth potential decrease (v) incr...

This research focuses on the influence of two independent variables, namely Role Internal Audit and Credit Sales Accounting System one dependent variable, Effectiveness Control Accounts Receivable. The results analysis found that factors have a positive significant hypothesis uses t test shows variables studied are proven to significantly affect variable Effectiveness.

Relying upon a rich and unique panel of Hungarian firms over 7 years, from 1992 up to 1998, this paper estimates simultaneously TFP, Total Factor Productivity, identified as efficiency, and the parameters of a model where investment depends upon internal funds, wages, and sales, as in Prasnikar J. and Svejnar J. (2000). It shows that while real investment is higher in foreign firms, the improve...