The objective of evaluating public policy measures is to assess its implications and thus to obtain a measure for weather the respective program has been successful. In this paper, we consider and classify microeconomic and microeconometric approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the...

After the decision of withdrawal of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes from the economy by the Indian government it was noticed that the decision has impacted the general mass heavily and in various ways. There are various factors which were impacted during and after demonetisation. It became very...

Firm's social network can bring about competition advantage, while trade credit may reflect the competitiveness of firm's business operations, but it is a pity that there is a lack of studies on the social network and business credit. This paper investigate the influence of different degrees of...

Consumers' budgets are influenced by the temporal frame used for the budget period. Budgets planned for the next month are much lower than recorded expenses, while those for the next year are closer to recorded expenses (study 1). The difficulty of estimating budgets for the next year imparts...

Initial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) announcements are important economic signals that convey information on the state of the economy but contain substantial estimation error. We investigate how GDP estimation errors affect firms' real decisions and profitability. Consistent with theoretical...

In the present paper author attempts to examine with panel data the most important determinant factors affecting e-selling in EU. The analysis became feasible through the software package of Eviews. Data are taken from Eurostat

Although there is significant evidence that customer satisfaction is an important driver of firm profitability, extant literature has largely neglected two intermediate outcomes of customer satisfaction, namely, a firm’s advertising and promotion efficiency and its human capital performance....

The paper investigates the relationships between costs and user charges in the sewage industry in Norwegian local governments. The purpose of the analysis is to answer the following questions: (i) To what extent is a higher unit cost passed on to consumers in terms of a higher user charge? (ii)...

The current paper reveals evidence consistent with social promotion in Ohio's central city public schools. Relative to rural school districts, there is something about central city schools that makes their students perform worse on the state proficiency test. However, this same something makes...

The current paper reveals evidence consistent with social promotion in Ohio's central city public schools. Relative to rural school districts, there is something about central city schools that makes their students perform worse on the state proficiency test. However, this same something makes...