Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that the Intuitive Criterion does not always select a unique separating equilibrium. When the Intuitive Criterion bites and information is purely asymmetric, the...

This study extends from Liu and Mei (1992) by further investigation of assets, real estate related securities, which includes both equity and mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs), the stocks of builderand owner-companies, and mortgagebacked securities (MBSs). There are five major findings. First, expected excess returns of real estate related securities are more predictable than the e...

Broiler meat is one of the most common sources animal protein consumed by Indonesians. This study aimed to determine physical quality broiler including pH value, water holding capacity, and cooking losses in traditional market Bandar Lampung city. research was conducted December 2019--January 2020. used a survey method using 79 samples breast meat. The sample from 13 markets city (Rajabasa mark...

Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) are causative agents of bloody diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis (HC) and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). Humans acquire infections primarily through contaminated beef. In India, STEC has not been implicated as a major cause of diarrhoea. The study was carried out to know the prevalence of shiga toxin (ST) producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and virulence ...

The effects of dietary Coptis chinensis herb extract (CHE) on growth performance, blood characteristics, nutrient digestibility and meat quality of growing-finishing pigs were investigated in an 18-wk feeding trial. A total of 36 Landrace×Yorkshire-Duroc pigs with an initial body weight of 20±1.0 kg were randomly assigned to 3 dietary treatments with 6 replications per treatment and 2 pigs per ...

Poultry meat production has been very dynamic over the last decade and now occupies the second place in the world just after pork. At the same time, the marketing of poultry has been greatly diversified: if in the sixties in the USA only 17% of broilers were sold as parts or further processed products, it represented more than 90% in 1998 (Mandava and Hoogenkamp, 1999). The same trends are obse...

Traceability ensures a link between carcass, quarters or cuts of beef and the individual animal or the group of animals from which they are derived. Meat traceability is an essential tool for successful identification and recall of contaminated products from the market during a food crisis. Meat traceability is also extremely important for protection and value enhancement of good-quality ...

Summa y and Cmlusions The losses of nutrients in the cooking and plate waste of milk, eggs, fish and meat and the losses in the storage and preparation of vegctables have been studied. Records are presented also of waste in school and other canteens. Scrambling is the most wasteful method of cooking eggs. Thermostatically controlled panv would reduce the waste in cooking eggs. The filleting of ...

The main objective of this study was to examine the diversity of meat quality traits among 5 chicken genotypes. The genotypes included 2 Chinese native breeds (Wenchang,WCH, and Xianju), 1 commercial broiler line (Avian, AV), 1 commercial layer line (Hy-Line Brown, HLB), and 1 Chinese commercial broiler line (Lingnanhuang, LNH) synthesized by exotic and native breeds, which were slaughtered at ...

In a model with endogenous number of innovating firms, we show that whether patent protection increases R&D investment is ambiguous, and depends on the market demand function and the cost of R&D. If the market size increases with number of firms, patent protection reduces R&D investment if the cost of R&D is sufficiently high, and higher product differentiation increases the possibility of lowe...