Fostering creative minds: what predicts and boosts design competence in the classroom?

International Journal of Technology and Design Education - Can originality in real-world creative design thinking be improved through instruction and practice? Do such frequently-used...     

Discretionary loan loss provision behavior in the US banking industry

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting - Earnings management can be opportunistic and add noise to earnings, or informative about a firm’s underlying economic performance and add...     

OECD unbundled local loop pricing

This study examines OECD fully unbundled and line sharing monthly wholesale prices for 2002–2008. The results are informative with economic analysis appearing to inform regulator decision making. However, with the cost proxy (viz., copper-wage relative price, population density, urbanisation and business line penetration), regulator costing methods (long run incremental and fully allocated cost), and time trend arguments only explaining approximately 40% of the price variation there remains ample unexplained variation, and political and institutional variables may help reduce this. Finally, both price series are subject to increasingly rapid value declines, although the patterns are somewhat distinct. This suggests that initial prices are truly transitory.     

Axiomatic characterizations of the Choquet integral

Summary. The Choquet integral is an integral part of recent advances in decision theory involving non-additive measures. In this article we present two new axiomatic characterizations of this functional. Received: January 27, 1997; revised version: April 28, 1997