development of technological capability is one of the effective methods for promoting the firm competitive performance. transfer of suitable technology help the firm to make a strong position in its industry faster than using in-house r&d.; successfulness of a firm based on technology transfer process can be measured with different scales such as measurement of firm competitive performance thro...

I develop a model of firm-to-firm search and matching to show that the impact falling trade costs on firm sourcing decisions consumer welfare depends relative size externalities in domestic international markets. These can be positive if firms share information about potential matches, or negative market is congested. Using unique transaction-level data from Uganda, document empirical evidence ...

Performance appraisal is a process which help shareholders make informed and optimal investment decisions. In recent decades, a long stream of research has devoted particular attention to the importance and impact of financial decisions on firm performance and firm value. The present study thus is primarily concerned with investigating the association between free cash flow and institutional ow...

Abstract This paper studies the implications of imperfect competition in firm-to-firm trade. Exploiting data on universe sales relationships between Belgian firms, we document that firms’ markups increase average input shares among their buyers. Motivated by this fact, develop and estimate a model where firms charge buyer–supplier-specific depend bilateral shares. We find markup dispersion with...

Undergraduate life science majors are reputed to have negative emotions toward mathematics, yet little empirical evidence supports this. We sought to compare emotions of majors in the life sciences versus other natural sciences and math. We adapted the Attitudes toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory to create an Attitudes toward the Subject of Mathematics Inventory (ASMI). We collected data...

This research aims to investigate the effect of CEO characteristics (female gender, education, and age) on financing policy (interest-bearing debt total assets), investing (capital expenditure), firm performance (return assets) when it is controlled by size age. Our uses data manufacturing companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in period 2010 - 2017. The results our show that female CE...