At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...

The advertising sector in Albania has grown to millions and millions of Euros spent by advertisers yearly, but how efficiently are these huge budgets being spent remains still unknown to many experts in the field, and most important of all, to advertisers themselves as well. The thesis aimed to...

By 2011, approximately 83% of Fortune 500 companies were using some form of social media to connect with consumers (Hameed 2011). Further, surveys suggest that consumers are increasingly relying on social media to learn about unfamiliar brands. However, best practices regarding the use of social...

Im Prozess der Bildungs- und Berufsberatung spielen Berufsinformationsmaterialien eine zentrale Rolle. Für diesen Zweck gibt das AMS Österreich, Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation, zahlreiche Printprodukte heraus. Die aktuellen und vergangenen Pisa-Studien haben jedoch auf das...

In three empirical essays, this dissertation investigates changes in consumer behavior during the retirement transition. The data demonstrate that consumers are more likely to change brand and patronage preferences during the transition phase than in periods before and after. Furthermore, the...

Recent years have seen the emergence of low-cost innovations targeted at economically weaker sections of the society, seeking to align business with social welfare. In many instances, results on the ground have been, however, rather sobering as firms have generally (probably justifiably) worried...

This paper examines the effects of increased transparency over online news sources, which, for example, is enhanced by the new institution of news aggregators. The role of news aggregators is controversially discussed, where the discussion widely points on user side effects. The present paper...