The paper investigates issues of scale equivalence and generalisability across different populations. This area of research is important because it allows for valid comparisons to be made when studies investigate the same constructs across qualitatively distinct populations. The study investigates the generalisability of the Narver and Slater (1990) and the Kholi, Jaworski and Kumar (1993) mode...

The market for music products has recently been subject to dramatic forces for change. We propose a model and theoretical perspective for understanding the transformation of the market structure in the recorded music industry value chain due to new forms of digital distribution. We take into account the traditional music industry’s value chain and distribution network, and the product character...

A Market-based system has been developed to assist in mission planning for a earth orbiting synthetic aperture radar ( S A R ) mission. The system enables participants to signal demands for spacecraft resources needed for data acquisitions by establishing a currency and "worth" for a part~cular data acquisition request. We compared a Serial Drafl approach to two Market-based approaches; a Simpl...

Trips to recreational sites generate two distinct kinds of economic impacts for the coastal and marine economy; market impacts and non-market impacts. Market impacts refer to the flow of money through an economy and the associated jobs, wages, and taxes associated with these flows. In contrast, non-market impacts refer to the consumer surplus that a resource provides. This paper examines both t...

One measure of the health of the Social Security system is the difference between the market value of the trust fund and the present value of benefits accrued to date. How should present values be computed for this calculation in light of future uncertainties? We think it is important to use market value. Since claims on accrued benefits are not currently traded in financial markets, we cannot ...

in this paper, we will review the foreign exchange market and will try to extract an exchange market pressure and an intervention index for iran by following the weymark (1995) approach to evaluate the central bank of iran’s exchange rate policy during 1368:q1 to 1391:q3. the estimation method employed, is the econometric technique known in the literature as the two-stage least squares (2sls).t...