Agglomeration Economies in the US and Location Choices of Research Laboratories: New Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Japan

We examined how people's belief that human traits are either malleable or fixed—that is, mindset—can shape consumers' variety seeking through learning goal orientation. We also tested the moderating effect of susceptibility to interpersonal influence in the mindset–variety seeking relationship. Participants were 364 adults in the US, who completed a survey on mindset, variety seeking, learning goals, and susceptibility to interpersonal influence. Results show that consumers with a growth (vs. fixed) mindset were more likely to engage in variety seeking as they were more motivated by learning goals. This relationship was more evident when they cared less (vs. more) about others' approval. These findings offer new evidence for how mindset is related to consumption tendencies, provide insight into the conditions under which these relationships are stronger or weaker, and suggest that practitioners should pay more attention to mindset when they are developing marketing strategies.

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Some observations on endogeneity in the normal rate of capacity utilisation

Review of Keynesian Economics ◽

10.4337/roke.2020.03.05 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 385-406 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brett Fiebiger

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Sector ◽

Aggregate Demand ◽

Manufacturing Industries ◽

Normal Rate ◽

Capacity Utilisation ◽

New Approach ◽

Long Run ◽

The Us ◽

Normal Shift ◽

Kaleckian Model

As is well known, the closure of the canonical Neo-Kaleckian model is an endogenous rate of capacity utilisation. To allay concerns of Harrodian instability one response has been to endogenise the normal rate to effective demand pressures. Recent contributions have stressed microfoundations for an adjustment in the normal rate towards the actual rate. The new approach focuses on shiftwork and redefines capacity utilisation as the average workweek of capital. This paper examines whether the new concept of capacity utilisation can provide a firmer basis for endogeneity in the normal rate. It argues that the assumption of variability in the normal shift system cannot be generalised across manufacturing industries, while the potential relevance for non-manufacturing industries is unknown. Another concern is that long-run trends in the average workweek of capital and aggregate demand do not coincide. The paper also finds that the long-run trend in the US Federal Reserve's index of capacity utilisation for the manufacturing sector is not flat as frequently claimed. Instead, there is a downward trend from the mid 1960s, which matches the slowdown in aggregate demand.

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Protohistoric Marine Shell Working: New Evidence from Northern Illinois

American Antiquity ◽

10.1017/aaq.2019.44 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 84 (3) ◽

pp. 549-558 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Madeleine McLeester ◽

Mark R. Schurr ◽

Katherine M. Sterner ◽

Robert E. Ahlrichs

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Small Scale ◽

Craft Specialization ◽

Trade Networks ◽

The Us ◽

Us Midwest ◽

New Evidence ◽

Marine Shell

In the US Midwest, the working of marine shell procured through vast trade networks has typically been associated with elite prestige economies and craft specialization at major Mississippian centers. Outside of these contexts, marine shell goods are often assumed to have been brought into communities as completed goods. A recent finding suggests that local, small-scale marine shell working occurred at an early seventeenth-century village in northern Illinois, Middle Grant Creek (11Wi2739). This finding represents the first probable evidence of marine shell working in the Midwest outside of large, Mississippian contexts. Consequently, this practice may be much more geographically and temporally expansive than previously thought. This evidence encourages a rethinking of marine shell finds whenever they are assumed to be imported as finished goods.

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Relationship between stock returns and inflation: New evidence from the US using wavelet and causality methods

International Journal of Finance & Economics ◽

10.1002/ijfe.2384 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Aviral Kumar Tiwari ◽

Adeolu O. Adewuyi ◽

Olabanji B. Awodumi ◽

David Roubaud

Keyword(s):

Stock Returns ◽

The Us ◽

New Evidence

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Personality trait inferences about organizations and organizational attraction: An organizational-level analysis based on a multi-cultural sample

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/s1833367200002327 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 140-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marc H Anderson ◽

Jarrod Haar ◽

Jenny Gibb

Keyword(s):

Personality Trait ◽

Organizational Level ◽

Organizational Attraction ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽

Five Factors ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

The Us ◽

Trait Inferences ◽

Additional Support ◽

New Evidence

AbstractResearch has shown that people make inferences about the personality traits organizations possess, and that these inferences affect their perceptions of organizational attraction. The nature of the relationship between personality trait inferences and organizational attraction is unclear, however, as the results of prior studies have been somewhat inconsistent, have had several distinct limitations, and have only been conducted using US samples. We present new evidence regarding the nature of this relationship, with data on a much larger number of firms, using a multi-cultural sample. Our exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses find a seven-factor structure of personality trait inferences that includes the five factors identified by previous researchers, suggesting that while the five factors have some generalizability outside the US, there may also be important differences. Our results also provide additional support that personality trait inferences are related to perceptions of organizational attraction.

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