Economics and business topic list of research papers
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Flexibility in cash-flow classification under IFRS: determinants and consequences2017 / Elizabeth A. Gordon, Elaine Henry, Bjorn N. Jorgensen, Cheryl L. Linthicum
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Public health and the economy could be served by reallocating medical expenditures to social programs
Abstract As much as 30% of US health care spending in the United States does not improve individual or population health. To a large extent this excess spending results from prices that are too high and from administrative waste. In the public...
2017 / Linda Diem Tran, Frederick J. Zimmerman, Jonathan E. Fielding -
Art activities with Kinect to Students with Cognitive Disabilities: Improving all Motor Skills
Abstract The study presents a set of interactive activities based on the dance and on the music for students with cognitive disabilities which are resisting to the therapies of rehabilitation with the physical therapist. The activities developed has ...
2017 / César Bernal Bravo, Juan Jesus Ojeda-Castelo, Jose Antonio Piedra-Fernandez -
Development of Socio-emotional Skills through Cooperative Learning in a University Environment
Abstract This paper presents the results obtained on the socio-emotional variables arising from a cooperative learning project conducted in the university classroom. The idea of using this type of methodology comes mainly from the experience of...
2017 / Loida M. López-Mondéjar, Lina M. Tomás Pastor -
A world of difference? The impact of corporate venture capitalists’ investment motivation on startup valuation2017 / Patrick Röhm, Andreas Köhn, Andreas Kuckertz, Hermann S. Dehnen
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College Student Knowledge and Attitudes Related to Sustainability Education and Environmental Health
Abstract Environmental Health Education (EHE) and Sustainability Education (SE) go hand in hand with promoting environmentally sustainable and healthy attitudes and behaviors. Initiatives, legislation and recommendations issued by international...
2017 / Ligia Isabel Estrada-Vidal, Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado -
Effectiveness of a structured educational intervention using psychological delivery methods in children and adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes: a cluster-randomized controlled trial of the CASCADE intervention2016 / Deborah Christie, Rebecca Thompson, Mary Sawtell, Elizabeth Allen, John Cairns, et al.
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Agent-based simulation for symmetric electricity market considering price-based demand response2017 / Ziqing JIANG, Qian AI
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International Portfolio Flows And Exchange Rate Volatility in Emerging Asian Markets
Abstract This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility using monthly bilateral data for the US vis-a-vis seven Asian developing and emerging countries (India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the...
2017 / Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Faek Menla Ali, Fabio Spagnolo, Nicola Spagnolo -
The impact of consumer behavior on financial security of households in Poland
Abstract The paper applies the concept of identity to investigate whether consumer behavior matters for a household's financial security. It is assumed that considerable part of households may express their identity through status-oriented...
2017 / Maria Piotrowska -
Impact of infrastructure expenses in strategic sectors for Brazilian poverty
Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investments in the reduction of poverty in Brazil, controlled through other determinants such as economic growth, income inequality, average schooling years, unemployment rate and state...
2017 / Emerson Marinho, Guaracyane Campelo, João França, Jair Araujo -
The Analysis of Farmers’ Willingness to Accept and Its Influencing Factors for Ecological Compensation of Poyang Lake Wetland
Abstract Based on the household-level survey data, the authors adopt the contingent valuation method (CVM) and Ordinal Logistic model to study the farmers’ willingness to accept and its influencing factors for ecological compensation of Poyang Lake...
2017 / Kai Xiong, Fanbin Kong -
Developing entrepreneurship in primary schools. The Mexican experience of “My first enterprise: Entrepreneurship by playing”
Abstract “My first enterprise: Entrepreneurship by playing” is a Mexican educational sub-programme designed to promote entrepreneurship at the elementary level. The sub-programme led to the creation of 1327 minicompanies from 2009 to 2014, but a...
2017 / María de Lourdes Cárcamo-Solís, María del Pilar Arroyo-López, Lorena del Carmen Alvarez-Castañón, Elvia García-López -
Fostering and limiting factors of innovation in Micro and Small Enterprises
Abstract Literature discusses innovation factors by admitting differences between large and small firms. With this background, this research aimed to investigate the fostering and limiting factors of innovation in Micro and Small Enterprises. We...
2017 / Tiago Bomfim Claudino, Sandra Maria dos Santos, Augusto Cézar de Aquino Cabral, Maria Naiula Monteiro Pessoa -
Exploratory Study Based on Stakeholder Theory in the Development of Accounting Information Systems in the Catholic Church: A Case Study in the Archdiocese of Semarang, Indonesia2017 / Fransiscus Asisi Joko Siswanto, Francisca Reni Retno Anggraini, Bernardinus Sri Widodo
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Mediation as a Process for the Management of Conflict and the Improvement of Coexistence in Educational Centres. A Study Based on the Perceptions of Secondary School Students
Abstract School mediation is a strategy which is increasingly being implemented in a greater number of educational centres because of all its benefits. Besides being a communicative process which allows confronting conflicts in a participative...
2017 / Laura García-Raga, Roser Grau, Ramón López-Martín -
Characterization on the patents deposits from Public Research Institutes of Brazil from 2004 to 2013
Abstract Public Research Institutes (PRI) in Brazil have played a considerable role in the development of the country given the design and creation of specific usable knowledge in their areas. To this process is important the knowledge's...
2017 / Eduardo De-Carli, Andréa Paula Segatto, Fernanda Salvador Alves, Fábio Massashi Kuribara -
Application of Geoinformation Technologies for the Transportation Demand Estimation
Abstract One of topic issues in estimating transportation demands deals with gathering baseline data and development of transportation models subject to special trips generators, which include large objects of population gathering. Study of...
2017 / Alexey Levashev -
Multiculturalism and Internationalization in Spanish Universities: ¿North-south Socio-cultural Differences?
Abstract Introduction Spanish universities are undergoing a process of continuous Europeanization and globalization, translated into a growing interest in studying the development of internationalization and multiculturalism. ...
2017 / Laura C. Sánchez-Sánchez, Sagrario Salaberri, Mª del Mar Sánchez-Pérez -
Nonlinear Controllers for Active Composite Tuned Mass Dampers
Abstract This paper considers nonlinear control of buildings utilizing composite tuned mass dampers subject to earthquake. Basically composite tuned mass dampers are tuned mass dampers having two dampers connected in series, where auxiliary mass...
2017 / Yoyong Arfiadi