To growers, stickiness means higher costs for insect control and reduced cotton marketability. To ginners, stickiness may mean special handling and processing requirements. At the textile mill, stickiness means reduced processing efficiency, lower yarn quality, and in severe cases total shut down. For everyone concerned, stickiness means reduced profitability. Stickiness occurs when excessive s...

In [4] the notion of stickiness for stochastic processes was introduced. It was also shown that stickiness implies absence of arbitrage in a market with proportional transaction costs. In this paper, we investigate the notion of stickiness further. In particular, we give examples of processes that are not semimartingales but are sticky.

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate the impact local political uncertainty on asymmetric cost behavior (i.e. stickiness) for listed firms in China. Design/methodology/approach In study, authors manually collect turnover data prefecture-city officials as a measure exogenous fluctuations and obtain firm-level financial information from China Stock Market Accounting Research (CSMAR) da...

BACKGROUND Recruiting and retaining health professions remains a high priority for health system planners. Different employment sectors may vary in their appeal to providers. We used the concepts of inflow and stickiness to assess the relative attractiveness of sectors for physical therapists (PTs) in Ontario, Canada. Inflow was defined as the percentage of PTs working in a sector who were not ...

This paper revisits an important issue concerning the persistent real effect of a shock to monetary policy. Although recent sentiment has shifted away from price stickiness toward wage stickiness in explaining persistence, the present paper shows that introducing an input–output structure tends to make the former an equally important monetary transmission mechanism. Under staggered wage setting...