The success of the US military recruiting depends not only on recruiting efforts but also on the labor market conditions. In this paper we review the econometric literature that examined the effects of marketing as well as recruiting effort on high quality enlistment contracts in the 1980s. A...

In Korea, many forms of credit guarantees have been issued to fund small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with a high degree of growth potential in technology. However, a high default rate among funded SMEs has been reported. In order to effectively manage such governmental funds, it is important...

As the influences of science and technology on its national economy have increased, each country has devised various funding programs for research and development (R&D) projects. Numerous studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of such R&D projects. In most studies, the...

The market for mobile phones has increased substantially. In an attempt to maintain or increase their market share, mobile phone companies invest a significant amount of their budget on advertising. In this paper, we analyze TV advertising lifetime data of five mobile phone companies in Korea....

Evidence of communication traffic complexity reveals correlation in a within-queue and heterogeneity among queues. We show how a random-effect model can be used to accommodate these kinds of phenomena. We apply a Pareto distribution for arrival (service) time of individual queue for given...