Despite sustained interest in product alliance activity, little is known regarding the effect of product alliances on shareholder value. Whereas proponents of alliances justify their formation by emphasizing access to relevant resources and know-how, critics highlight the risks inherent in alliance partner opportunism. To reconcile these opposing viewpoints, we develop and test a conceptual fra...

Mechanisms responsible for load compensation during fast voluntary movements were investigated in 20 normal subjects trained to carry out rapid wrist flexions against a standard load. When an unanticipated increase in load occurred, there was a compensatory increase in agonist EMG and decrease in antagonist EMG. Unanticipated decreases in load produced reciprocal changes with a decrease in agon...

One of the major premises of efficient market theory is that the market quickly impounds any publicly available information, including macroeconomic information, that might be used to predict stock prices. It is only new—and especially new and unpredictable—information that moves prices, and yet many studies examine only announcements that have a predictable component. Researchers typically sel...

although the word of “money laundering” isn’t very old in world literature, but attempted money laundering has a long history a long side with trade and commerce, as it always has been told. money laundering is a process that the incomes of criminal acts enter to the economic cycle and will purify dirty income. therefore, we can say launderers are actually committed two offenses, primaril...

We introduce an adaptation of the affect misattribution procedure (AMP), called the implicit preference scale (IMPRES). Participants who complete the IMPRES indicate their preference for one of two, simultaneously presented Chinese ideographs. Each ideograph is preceded by a briefly presented prime stimulus that is irrelevant to the task. Participants are hypothesized to prefer the ideograph th...

The central purpose of this study is to apply the NSM (Natural Semantic Metalanguage) method semantic-conceptual analysis word money and related economic transaction verbs, such as buy, sell pay, used in everyday English. It proposes semantic explications for these words on basis conceptual a range linguistic evidence taking account lexical polysemy. Even its basic meaning (in sentence like the...

This brief explores the role that savings can play in alleviating material hardship for low-income households. We use longitudinal household data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine whether modest liquid assets—sometimes referred to as precautionary or emergency savings, a rainy-day fund, or ready money—can protect against impending hardship for low-income hous...

When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across world in 2020, schools closed and education was moved to students’ homes. Consequently, many countries faced challenge of an unanticipated accele...