Intervention strategies for the improvement of self-concept

The study was undertaken to review the current literature on strategies for improving the learning disabled students\u27 self-concept

Cinematic and aesthetic cartographies of subjective mutation

This article exmaines the use of cinema as a mapping of subjective mutation in the work of Deleuze, Gauttari and Berardi. Drawing on Deleuze's distinciton between the reduction of the art-work to the symptom and the idea of art as symptomatology, the article focuses on Berardi's use of cinematic examples, posing the quesiton in each case of to what extent they function as symptomatologies or mere symptoms of cultural and subjective mutations in examples ranging from Bergman's Persona to Van Sant's Elephant to finish on speculations about Fincher's The Social Network as a cirtical engagement with subjective mutation in the 21st Century

Els artistes i la guerra

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Structural constraints and excess capacity : An international comparison of manufacturing firms

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: ‘Structural constraints and excess capacity: An international comparison of manufacturing firms’, which has been published in final form at Wiley Online Library 10.1111/dpr.12168 . Under embargo. Embargo end date: 22 July 2018. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Excess capacity results in real and opportunity costs as well as lower factor productivity. Conventionally, variation in capacity utilisation rates has been explained with reference to the business cycles and market imperfections. In this article, we show that these two factors do not always fully explain the causes of idle capacity. Our ndings suggest that manufacturing rms in low-income countries tend to have lower capacity utilisation rates than those in middle- and upper-middle-income groups. To explain this peculiarity, it is proposed in this article that the level of excess capacity partly depends on supply-side conditions and institutional variables. The ndings provide strong support for this view and suggest that there are gains to be made in the manufacturing industries of the lower-income countries through improvements in the structural conditions.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

The all-pay-auction with complete information

In a (first price) all-pay auction, bidders simultaneously submit bids for an item. All players forfeit their bids, and the high bidder receives the item. This auction is widely used in economics to model rent seeking, R&D races, political contests, and job promotion tournaments. We fully characterize equilibrium for this class of games, and show that the set of equilibria is much larger than has been recognized in the literature. When there are more than two players, for instance, we show that even when the auction is symmetric there exists a continuum of asymmetric equilibria. Moreover, for economically important configurations of valuations, there is no revenue equivalence across the equilibria; asymmetric equilibria imply higher expected revenues than the symmetric equilibrium