Do Modern-Time Wars Make States? Panel Data Evidence

The article examines the impact of various socio-economic and financial indicators on the resilience of Russian regions. For each region, the integral index of resilience is calculated, and its correlation dependence with the selected indicators is revealed. The study confirms the relationship between fiscal resilience and socio-economic resilience of the regions. The analysis of panel data for 75 regions from 2007 to 2016 shows that there are significant differences in the dynamics of indicators in different periods. In particular, the degree of exposure to the negative effects of the crises of 2008—2009 and 2014—2015 in non-resilient regions is higher than in resilient ones.

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Credit Market Depth and Income Inequality in Vietnam: A Panel-Data Analysis

Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.33301/2016.18.02.01 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 5-18

Author(s):

Hoi Le Quoc ◽

Hoi Chu Minh

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Panel Data ◽

Income Inequality ◽

Financial Development ◽

Inflection Point ◽

Panel Data Analysis ◽

Credit Market ◽

Method Of Moment ◽

Market Depth ◽

Generalized Method Of Moment

Financial development could exert various effects on income distribution of a country. By employing Generalized Method of Moment, this paper aims at examining the impacts of credit market depth, one of most used financial development barometers, on income inequality in Vietnam. The empirical findings show that expanding credit market in the country could lead to higher income inequality. We have not found evidence that supports the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relation ever introduced by Greenwood and Jovanovich, although this hypothesis may still hold in a sense that Vietnam has not reached to the inflection point to generate such a curve alike.

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Does Diversity in The Boardroom Add Value to a Firm?

American Journal of Management ◽

10.33423/ajm.v18i5.255 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Panel Data ◽

Firm Size ◽

Significant Influence ◽

Negative Influence ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Future Research ◽

Board Composition ◽

Board Diversity

This study examines whether board diversity affects firm performance. We investigate this study using panel data of a sample of S&P 500 firms during a 12 year period. After controlling for industry, firm size, and other board composition variables, we find that all three board diversity variables of interest – gender, ethnicity, and age have a significant influence on firm performance. While ethnicity and age have a positive influence on firm performance, it was found that gender has a negative influence. Implications for future research are discussed.

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The Time of Indifference: Mandelstam's Age, Badiou's Event, and Agamben's Contemporary

CounterText ◽

10.3366/count.2016.0041 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 85-99

Author(s):

William Watkin

Keyword(s):

Modern Time ◽

Giorgio Agamben ◽

Alain Badiou

There has been little direct discussion between perhaps the two leading philosophers of our age: Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben. Yet both men have written about the same poem by Osip Mandelstam, ‘The Age’, around the topic of time. Significantly, Agamben's response, written after Badiou's, is a subtle and damning critique of Badiou's conceptualisation of time, in particular extended across the categories of the modern, the contemporary, and the now or the event – although it never actually mentions Badiou by name. In this paper the lens of the central role of indifference in the work of both is used to present alternating and competing views as to the nature of modern, contemporary, and ‘now’ time. Specifically, a contrast is drawn between Badiou's use of indifference as both quality-neutral and absolutely non-relational, and Agamben's application of the indifferent suspension of the temporal signature as such. The paper concludes that while Badiou uses temporal indifference to question and problematise the idea of modern time as ‘now’, through a theory of the event, Agamben appears to go further. Rather than analyse the nature of modern time, the contemporary and the now through his reading of Mandelstam, Agamben uses Mandelstam's poem to suspend the Western conception of time as a line composed of points in its entirety.

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ÖRGÜTLERDE ÖRGÜTSEL BOLLUĞUN GİRİŞİMSEL ORYANTASYON ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Business And Management Studies An International Journal ◽

10.15295/bmij.v4i3.10 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Nurdan Gürkan ◽

Ahmet Ferda Çakmak

Keyword(s):

Corporate Governance ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Panel Data ◽

Strategic Management ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽

Panel Data Analysis ◽

Organizational Slack ◽

Analysis Method ◽

The Relationship

The concept of entrepreneurial orientation, which emerges with the development of strategic management, refers to entrepreneurship orientations of businesses. The businesses need resources in other words organizational slack in order to develop their entrepreneurial trends. The organizational slack consists of three slack type. These slack types are available slack, recoverable slack and potential slack. The purpose of this study is to examine whether organizational slack in the businesses has an effect on entrepreneurial orientation. The relationship between organizational slack and entrepreneurial orientation was investigated through 20 companies that were traded in Borsa Istanbul Corporate Governance Index for 2010-2014 period using panel data analysis method. The results of the study indicate the existence of a statistically significant relationship between and the available slack and the recoverable slack with the entrepreneurial orientation in the businesses. According to findings; there was no statistically significant relationship between potential slack and entrepreneurial orientation.

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