Strategic Management Journal‚ Vol. 19‚ 269–290 (1998) META-ANALYTIC REVIEWS OF BOARD COMPOSITION‚ LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE‚ AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE DAN R. DALTON1‚ CATHERINE M. DAILY1*‚ ALAN E. ELLSTRAND2 AND JONATHAN L. JOHNSON3 1 School of Business‚ Indiana University‚ Bloomington‚ Indiana‚ U.S.A. College of Business Administration‚ California State University‚ Long Beach‚ California‚ U.S.A. 3 School‚ of Business Administration‚ University of Arkansas‚ Fayetteville‚ Arkansas‚ U.S.A. 2 Careful
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Finance‚ Firm Size‚ and Growth Thorsten Beck‚ Asli Demirguc-Kunt‚ Luc Laeven and Ross Levine* June 7‚ 2006 Abstract: This paper provides empirical evidence that financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on conflicting theoretical predictions about the distributional effects of financial development. Using cross-industry‚ cross-country data‚ the results are consistent with the view that financial development exerts a disproportionately
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Do people really like their jobs? Definitely‚ everyone knows from the news about dissatisfied workers going on strike or even acting violently toward their supervisors‚ directors‚ but overall people are quite satisfied with their jobs. A Conference Board study found that 58.6 percent of Americans were satisfied with their jobs in 1995. By the year 2000‚ that percentage was down to 50.7. But in Uzbekistan (the country of Central Asia where I was born)‚ people generally aren’t satisfied with their
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posited three types of economic dependence: the three types are (1) investment dependence: the extent to which the nation is penetrated by direct foreign capital; (2) aid dependence: the public debt that the nation’s state has contracted with external agencies; and (3) export partner concentration: the extent to which a nation occupies a restricted potition (sic) in the world trade network. (pp.7-8) Chase-Dunn’s 1975 study further listed other types of indirect dependence -he stated that they were not
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Simple Pendulum PURPOSE The purpose of this experiment is to study how the period of a pendulum depends on length‚ mass‚ and amplitude of the swing. THEORY A simple pendulum is an idealized model consisting of a point mass (sometimes called a pendulum bob) suspended by a massless unstretchable string. When the bob is pulled to one side of its straight down equilibrium position and released‚ it oscillates about the equilibrium position. The path of the bob is not a straight line but an arc
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30-day interval with results of the ASI ’s 30-day assessment of alcohol use in a sample of 79 outpatients with severe mental illness. They found an excellent level of agreement between the two assessment instruments (kappa coefficient of .79)‚ and a correlation of .75 between the two approaches on the number of days respondents reported that they had been drinking. The Time Line Follow Back procedure may actually yield higher estimates of drinking behaviors than the ASI for a 30-day interval. Given that
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Kasuya the charge and spin gap are one in the same since the correlation effects are between 4f moment and the 5d hole to form a bound state. Rise borough completes the model to give quantitative relationship to these correlated systems and to show that it is a virtual exchange rather than one mediated by a charge carrier. According to the measurements conducted at the NHMFL the in-gap states are affected by an applied field. The correlation effects‚ or in-gap state‚ seem to be moving up in energy scale
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assets. The derivation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model has taken place with the assumption of indirect symmetry in the returns from the assets. This basically shows that the instabilities have high level of dependence. With that we see that the instabilities have high level of dependence where issues of some kind occur such as biased standard error for OLS and with estimators this bias needs to be corrected and rectified in OLS and one of the methods to go about is the usage of facts and information
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expiration times and their underlying spot Economic variables and prices of financial instruments Key questions: Is there a co-movement pattern? Is there a correlation between one variable at next time and another at previous time? 3/46 0 5 10 15 US 1Y and 30Y CMT Yield 1953−04−30 1969−12−31 1986−08−31 2003−04−30 4/46 CCM (Cross Correlation Matrix) Assume rt is weak stationary‚ i.e.‚ the first two moments are time invariant. Define: µ = E (rt ) Γl = E (rt − µ) (rt−l − µ)T ρl = D −1 Γl
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Alcohol is a drug‚ and when a person consumes alcohol‚ it has an effect on many body systems. The effects begin to occur as soon as the alcohol enters the blood stream. Certain types of alcohol enter the bloodstream more quickly than others. Also‚ whether or not a person has eaten and how much he or she has eaten can affect how quickly the body absorbs any alcohol that is consumed. Individuals become addicted to alcohol because of the chemical and physical reactions that excessive alcohol use causes
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