Knowledge of how South Korean firms choose their capital structures has particular value
due to the country's specific corporate structure and the role of leverage in the evolution of its …

Quantitative sensory tests are widely used in human research to evaluate the effect of
analgesics and explore altered pain mechanisms, such as central sensitization. In order to apply …

During the last decade, a multi-modal approach has been established in human experimental
pain research for assessing pain thresholds and responses to various experimental pain …

The economics of dividend policy has focused on the single tight narrative that dividends
keep managers honest, mitigating concerns that they over-invest. This article provides a …

Despite massive regional policy efforts, GDP per capita in Southern Italy has only briefly
converged on Northern Italian levels in the 1960's. Failure of convergence since then is …

This paper analyzes the impact of production complexity and its adaptability on the level of
output and on its rate of growth. We develop an endogenous growth model where increased …

This paper sets forth a continuous-time OLG model in order to analyze intertemporal trade-offs
in the use of environmental resources. This theoretical framework proves to be particularly …

We demonstrate that, by exploiting more fully the distribution of leverage, conditional quantile
regression methods yield new insights into the choice of leverage ratio. For UK listed …

This research analyzes the role that air pollution plays, controlling for other socio-economic
factors, in the movement of the population among Italian provinces. In spite of the increased …

Background The authors applied an optimization model (direct search) to find the optimal
combination of bupivacaine dose, fentanyl dose, clonidine dose, and infusion rate for …