www.phil.frb.org rising incomes. Between 1996 and 1999, labor productivity grew at an average rate of 2.6 percent a year, much faster than the 1.6 percent average annual increase experienced over the previous two decades.1 This allowed the U.S. economy to grow more rapidly, and with less inflation, than most economists dared to predict five years ago. Economists Stephen Oliner and Daniel Sichel...

The promotion and uptake of Electronic Healthcare Record (EHCR) systems has been much slower than originally envisaged due to a number of factors. These include, the widespread under-investment in clinical computing, fragmented markets with attendant low profitability exacerbated by a lack of proven standards together with the need to protect investment in existing (legacy) IT systems. Furtherm...

among investments in different sections of economy, investment in agriculture is great importance. in addition to increasing production and job opportunities in agriculture, investment in this section will help to increase these in other sections as well, due to back and front relations with other economic activities. due to the fact that investment does not yield rapidly, and it takes some tim...

PURPOSE To date few studies have compared nursing home caregivers' perceptions about the quality of information and benefits of nursing documentation in paper and electronic formats. With the increased interest in the use of information technology in nursing homes, it is important to obtain information on the benefits of newer approaches to nursing documentation so as to inform investment, orga...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of financial distress on investment behavior for the years of 2011 to 2016. The statistical population of the research is Tehran Stock Exchange. According to the systematic elimination method, 104 companies have been selected as the statistical sample. In this research, financial distress is independent variable and corporate investmen...

In the past, organisations relied on traditional quantitative metrics, such as return on investment (ROI) to make decisions when investing in technology. With the advent of electronic commerce (EC), these decisions are becoming less reliant on ROI measures. Instead different driving forces are taking precedence in the decision making process. This paper presents the findings of a study of 118 S...

Internet facilitates easy access to data, information, and knowledge sources available online. This provides an unprecedented opportunity to empower decision support systems with capabilities of directly accessing problem environment and implementing decisions while effectively combining higher degree of automation with human judgment. The central argument of this work is that in dynamic electr...

Investors prefer to hold diversified combinations of assets. We take this dictum seriously and propose a bundle trading mechanism that would allow investors to trade diverse combinations of assets. The portfolio trading market is designed as an order-driven process where traders submit sealed orders. A mathematical algorithm is used to continuously match orders listed in a closed limit order bo...

Electronic learning is seen as a good solution for organisations that deal with fast changing knowledge and for reducing the cost of training. E-learning is a good opportunity for companies but needs to be well prepared because it takes often high investment costs. That is why it is important for a company to know if it is e-ready. E-readiness is already well covered in literature and several m...