This paper studies the relationship between industry diversity and economic stability. The economic stability has been estimated using a panel-GARCH model. Our sample consists of US county-level data for the period 2003 to 2017. The results suggest that industry diversity improves economic...

The teleworkability of jobs - whether they can and will be performed remotely - has been increasingly contested in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain which jobs are teleworkable and why, we emphasize the institutional context of a job, including differences among firms, union...

Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers beyond organizational and physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional work organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing,...

Real estate appraisers represent a unique and very interesting form of business organization characterized by both cooperation and competition that is quite unlike any of the normal models of competition (such as perfect competition, oligopoly, or monopoly) that were studied in introductory...

The teleworkability of jobs - whether they can and will be performed remotely - has been increasingly contested in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain which jobs are teleworkable and why, we emphasize the institutional context of a job, including differences among firms, union...

The paper studied the asset pricing behavior in India for the time period from April 1991 till March 2015 by employing the Fama-French three factor model and discovered a structural break in November 2001. This structural break was due to the coefficient of the value factor that showed a...

We study the relationship between a firm's leverage deviation from target debt ratio and its leasing intensity. We find a significant negative relationship between the deviation of leverage from target and leasing intensity, implying that firms actively use leasing as a source of financing when...

There has been much debate within the FOMC committee on when to raise the target rate from the 0 to 25 basis points range (zero lower bound) and the information conveyed to the financial community. This paper uses a recursive vector autoregressive model to examine the impact of an increase in...