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Competition and monopoly in the U.S. economy: What do the industrial concentration data show?
(Sage Publications, 2021)
A recent series of academic studies, think-tank reports, and news articles shows widespread attention to rising industrial concentration and market power in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we focus on concentration in the ...
Is It Merely a Labor Supply Shock? Impacts of Syrian Migrants on Local Economies in Turkey
(Sage Publications, 2021)
The authors use the occurrence of a large and geographically varying inflow of more than 2.5 million Syrian migrants to Turkey between 2012 and 2015 to study the effect of migration on local economies. They do not find ...
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle
(Sage Publications, 2021)
This article explores the relationship between connective and collective group identity through the example of “You Won’t Walk Alone,” a social media platform of solidarity for women suffering from the pressures of Islamic ...
Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit
(Blackwell Publishing, 2021)
After experiencing a period of spectacular growth during the late nineteenth century, the Egyptian cotton sector underwent a phase of stagnation, which was followed by a gradual and steady increase in output during the ...
A Dynamic Game Theory Model For Tourism Supply Chains
(Sage Publications, 2021)
This article contributes to the game-theoretic analysis of tourism supply chains. We start with a baseline model including three types of agents: (a) one theme park, (b) multiple accommodation providers, and (c) multiple ...
Evaluation of the fractal dimension of polyacrylamide during gelation and swelling
(Elsevier, 2021)
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A max–min model of random variables in bivariate random sequences
(Elsevier, 2021)
We introduce a max–min model to bivariate random sequences and applying bivariate binomial distribution in fourfold scheme derive the distributions of associated order statistics in a new model. Some examples for special ...
Cognitive styles and religion
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)
I discuss recent research suggesting that individual differences in cognitive style give rise to and explain religious and related supernatural and paranormal beliefs. To do so, I illustrate intuitive cognitive biases ...