Blogging is a form of social communication that facilitates human interaction. The cultural orientations of individualism and collectivism, which relate to basic beliefs about human relationships and interactions, should be determinants of blogging. This study explores the impacts of individualism-collectivism orientation on perceived self-efficacy in blogging, along with blogging and attitudes...

As the global financial crisis dethrones the developed world from its economic supremacy, by leading the global economic recovery and growth, the global growth generator (3G) countries are expected to fill the vacuum. Capital market i.e. stock market development can play a crucial role in augmenting such growth in these 3G countries. This study aims at augmenting the determinants of stock marke...

ExEcutivE compEnsation has suddEnly bEcomE a high-profile topic about which almost everyone has an opinion. Many shareholders, workers, and politicians believe that the entire system is broken and requires a substantial overhaul. The purpose of this piece is to take a hard look at the facts and assess whether the situation is as bad as some people fear. It also proposes the “Incentive Account” ...

Pranab Bardhan ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, US. Sandip Mitra ([email protected]) is with the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dilip Mookherjee ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, US and Abhirup Sarkar ([email protected]) is with the Economic Rese...

The right to be forgotten is often framed as being at odds with the freedom of expression. This paper aims to challenge that position. First, I briefly summarize Google Spain as an introduction to the right to be forgotten. Next, I review recent cases in the Canadian jurisprudence and argue that they potentially set the stage for a Canadian right to be forgotten. I then turn to an analysis of h...

„Patriotism‟ and the term „Patriot‟ refer to a new awareness of Irishness that emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. The birth of Patriotism was as a result of several contributory factors following the Jacobite wars at the end of the seventeenth century. Ireland‟s constitutional status as a separate kingdom had been supported by opponents of T...

This paper examines whether a human is aware of slight prosodic differences in a computer voice and changes his/her behaviors accordingly through interaction, when the prosodic difference carries informational significance. We conduct a route selection experiment, in which subjects were asked to find a route in a computer generated 3-D maze. The maze system occasionally provides a confirmation ...

We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face specific development problems in addition to weak institutions. Given their geographic and economic ...

where Q is an indefinite quadratic form on Z, f(m,n) is a doubly periodic function on Z such that the sums of f(m,n)q over all vertical and all horizontal lines in Z vanish. Some of these series appeared as coefficients in univalued triple Massey products on elliptic curves computed via homological mirror symmetry in [3]. In particular, in this context the condition of vanishing of sums over ve...

where Q is an indefinite quadratic form on Z, f(m,n) is a doubly periodic function on Z such that the sums of f(m,n)q over all vertical and all horizontal lines in Z vanish. Some of these series appeared as coefficients in univalued triple Massey products on elliptic curves computed via homological mirror symmetry in [3]. In particular, in this context the condition of vanishing of sums over ve...