OBJECTIVE To explore the link between companies investing in the health and well-being programs of their employees and stock market performance. METHODS Stock performance of C. Everett Koop National Health Award winners (n = 26) was measured over time and compared with the average performance of companies comprising the Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500 Index. RESULTS The Koop Award portfolio o...

As the title suggests, this paper compares two “formula” or mechanical investment techniques, dollar cost averaging and a relatively new proposal, value averaging, to a form of random investing to determine if any technique yields superior investment performance. Results indicate that value averaging does provide superior expected investment returns when investment prices are quite volatile and...

The mobile online medium (i.e. mobile data communication) allows the creation of context-sensitive profiles for mobile consumers by using identityand context information and thereby enabling the efficient targeting of current consumers' needs. However, current implementations of Mobile Marketing activities do not make use of these beneficial unique features and apply, for instance, content-base...

We separate the “rentier” portion of the budget constraint of the representative agent from the “income-plus-distributed profits” segment. The former’s wealth consists exclusively of returns on government bonds, the latter’s wealth is wage income from working for firms plus the distributed profits of the latter. The non-neoclassical element is the non-imposition of the market-clearing assumptio...

Andreas Vesalius, On the fabric of the human body. Book II: The ligaments and muscles, a translation of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1999, pp. xxix, 490, illus., $250 (0-930405-75-7). Orders to Norman Publishing, 720 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-2502, USA. Tel.: (415) 781-6...

David B. Sarwer, PhD*, J. Kevin Thompson, PhD, Thomas F. Cash, PhD Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3535 Market Street, Suite 3108, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202 Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-8200, USA Department of Psycholog...

1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA [email protected] 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA [email protected] 3 Bioinformatics Cell, TATRC 110 North Market Street, Frederick, MD 21703, USA [email protected] 4 ...

Economic Policy institutE • 1333 H strEEt, nW • suitE 300, East toWEr • WasHington, dc 20005 • 202.775.8810 • WWW.EPi.org Despite internships’ importance to the labor market as a crucial form of vocational training and pre-employment vetting, they are only loosely regulated through vague and outdated employment law. Moreover, these regulations go essentially unenforced. As this paper demonstrat...

Various themed streets have recently been developed by local governments in order to stimulate local economies and to establish the identity of the corresponding places. However, the motivations behind the development of some of these themed street projects has been based on profit, without full considerations of people’s perceptions of their local areas, resulting in marginal effects on the lo...

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