The relationships between fire danger indices and fire risk have been extensively studied in many regions of the world. This work uses partial effect analysis in semiparametric logistic regression models to assess the nonlinear relationships among location, day, altitude, fire danger indices,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of top management support (TMS) and inter-organizational relationships (IORs) on external involvement (EI), and their differences across different ownerships. Design/methodology/approach – To test the research hypotheses,...

The current study points out that the derivation of the aggregate demand curve based on theory of consumer behavior has a fundamental flaw, from which the Giffen product has to be inferior good and has been always regarded as an exception of law of demand is therefore not convincing. The current...

Friedman's monetary theory suggests that the supply of money is constantly equal to the demand of money. Therefore, it cannot justify that inflation is indeed caused by over issuance of money. The root cause of inflation should be the short supply of a basket of goods. The weight of each goods...