E xecutive compensation is a topic that has received attention both in the media and the academic literature. This article discusses issues relevant to the construction and interpretation of compensation …gures typically reported in both sources. First, it is not clear what precisely should be included within a measure of the chief executive o¢ cer’s (CEO’s) income tied to his …rm. Second, the ...

This paper examines whether the different types of block shareholdings will have a different impact on the extent of Web voluntary disclosure during the differential privatization stages. Prior literature suggests that block ownership may have a substitutive or complementary monitoring effect on corporate disclosure. However, for economies transferring from state endowment to being privately he...

With rapidly growing network, Internet has turned into an essential wellspring of transmitting confidential or secret data, for example, military data, money related records, and so forth. In such cases, strategies committed to ensure such kind of information are needed and they play an imperative role in providing confidential and secure transmission over network. Visual cryptography scheme is...

We also thank Kunal Sadhu for his assistance with the collection of macroeconomic statistics; and Lucien Van Elsen for his help in data analysis. John Grant read previous versions and gave valuable comments, but the usual disclaimer applies. Summary Several studies have demonstrated a generally positive association between market share (MS) and business profitability (BP), and that this relatio...

Running and Programming Linux Introduction Linux shares very little in common with Microsoft Windows, the operating system that the vast majority of people have been taught to use or program. This report aims to provide the background information required to begin programming under Linux, with an emphasis on interfacing; to point the reader in the direction of further help that is available; as...

this paper investigates the effects of advertising, profitability, concentration and research & development on the market share of iranian great food and beverage industries during the period of 2000-2011. for this purpose, we used the more than 50 employee's statistics of industrial 4- digit firms and panel data technique for estimating the model. the main results of this paper reveal that, th...

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Over the generations, the popularity of the Austrian School’s approach to economics has risen, fallen, and risen again. Figure 1 represents a speculative guess at the “market share” of Austrian ideas among academic economists, where “Austrian” is broadly defined as individuals who believe in, or are at least highly sympathetic to, most of the core doctrine emanating from the Austrian School fou...

Market share and quality, or customer satisfaction, go hand in hand. Yet it is hard to find in the literature a clear formal statement to the effect that higher market share indicates higher quality. Indeed, such an inference would need detailed information about customer behavior. Moreover, even when that data is available, the validity of the inference is cast in doubt by common modes of beha...