Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or ‘institutional voids’ on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country’s capital markets, labor markets, and product markets, affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the va...

abstract in this paper,using a structural decomposition analysis (sda) and the latest available input-output tables we investigate the sources of labor productivity growth in norway, south korea and iran. then, the contribution of each source in the growth of labor productivity is discussed. the results show that among six factors, value added coefficient is the most influencing factoracross al...

objective: to classify different types of acute leukemia based on cooperative game theory and shapley value. materials and methods: in this study, patients data were collected from flow cytometry tests of the iran blood transfusion organization (ibto) have been used. 304 different diagnosed samples in 8 classes of acute leukemia were investigated. samples were initially in numerical format. i...

I explore theoretical conceptions of the use and exchange values of mathematics education within cultural-historical activity theory perspectives. The case of education in England is compared with that of health care (due to Engestrom). Then I draw on Lave and McDermott’s study of estranged learning from the early Marx, and from Marx’s later analyses in Capital. They deduced the source of learn...

A fundamental issue in the current debates over Marx’s value theory (in the IWGVT, on OPEL, in journal articles, etc.) is precisely what was Marx’s assumption regarding the determination of constant capital, in the case when the labor-time required to produce the means of production changes. The mostcommonly held interpretation of this issue, and my own interpretation, has been that Marx assume...