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Institutions and Multinational Ownership Strategy
This paper examines the impact of institutions on a multinational firm’s ownership strategy. We develop an international joint venture (IJV) model in which a multinational firm and its local partner both can undertake costly ex post actions to increase their revenue share specified by the ex ante IJV contract. The model captures the effects of two institutional features on the optimal IJV ownership structure: contract enforceability and cronyism. We introduce the IJV model into an industry equilibrium framework to analyze the impact of institutions on a multinational firm’s choice between forming an IJV or setting up a wholly-owned subsidiary. Ce papier examine l'impact des institutions sur la stratégie de propriété d’une entreprise multinationale. Nous développons un modèle de coentreprise internationale dans lequel une entreprise étrangère et son partenaire local peuvent ex post entreprendre des actions coûteuses pour augmenter leur part de revenus indiquée dans le contrat de coentreprise. Le modèle analyse les impacts de deux caractéristiques institutionnelles sur la structure de propriété optimale : le renforcement du contrat et le copinage. Nous introduisons le modèle de coentreprise dans un modèle d'équilibre général pour analyser l'impact des institutions sur le mode d’entrée des entreprises multinationales.liability of foreignness, international joint venture, contract enforceability, cronyism, coentreprise internationale, renforcement du contrat, copinage
Bayesian spike inference from calcium imaging data
We present efficient Bayesian methods for extracting neuronal spiking
information from calcium imaging data. The goal of our methods is to sample
from the posterior distribution of spike trains and model parameters (baseline
concentration, spike amplitude etc) given noisy calcium imaging data. We
present discrete time algorithms where we sample the existence of a spike at
each time bin using Gibbs methods, as well as continuous time algorithms where
we sample over the number of spikes and their locations at an arbitrary
resolution using Metropolis-Hastings methods for point processes. We provide
Rao-Blackwellized extensions that (i) marginalize over several model parameters
and (ii) provide smooth estimates of the marginal spike posterior distribution
in continuous time. Our methods serve as complements to standard point
estimates and allow for quantification of uncertainty in estimating the
underlying spike train and model parameters
Body Mass Index, Sleep Quality, Stress Conditions Determine Menstrual Cycles Among Female Adolescents
Menstrual cycles are an important indicator of women's health. Menstrual cycles can be affected by body mass index (BMI), sleep quality, and stress. This study aimed to analyse the relationship between BMI, sleep quality, stress and the menstrual cycle. The subjects of this research were the female adolescents at the age of at least 15 years old that had experienced menstruation for at least 2 years. The dependent variable is the menstrual cycle while the independent variables are BMI, sleep quality, and stress conditions. Observational analytic research method with Cross sectional design was used in this research. The subjects were 148 female students. The BMI data were obtained through the anthropometric measurement. The sleep quality data were taken with PSQI questionnaire, and the stress condition data obtained from PSS-10 questionnaire which were then analysed using Chi-Square test and Logistic Regression. Results of study showed that there is a significant relationship between BMI, sleep quality, stress conditions and the adolescent menstrual cycle. The results of the multivariate analysis showed that the female adolescents with abnormal BMI are at risk of having menstrual cycle disorders 1.91 times. The adolescents with poor sleep quality are at risk experiencing menstrual cycle disorders 2.05 times, and the adolescents with stress conditions at risk of the menstrual cycle disorders 2.26 times. There is a relationship between BMI, sleep quality, stress conditions and the menstrual cycle. Stress conditions most influence the regularity of the menstrual cycle
Anomalous quartic couplings in collisions at the LHeC and the FCC-he
We conducted a study on measuring production and on the sensitivity
limits at Confidence Level on thirteen anomalous couplings obtained by
dimension-8 operators which are related to the anomalous quartic
couplings. We consider the main reaction with the sub-process at
the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) and the Future Circular
Collider-hadron electron (FCC-he). For the LHeC, energies of the beams
are taken to be and 140 GeV and the energy of the beams is taken
to be TeV. For the FCC-he, energies of the beams are taken to
be and 140 GeV and the energy of the beams is taken to be TeV, respectively. It is interesting to notice that the LHeC and the FCC-he
will lead to model-independent limits on the anomalous quartic
couplings which are one order of magnitude stringent than the CMS Collaboration
limits, in addition to being competitive with other limits reported in the
literature.Comment: 28 pages, 10 Figures and 13 Table
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