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Working Paper

Financial Implications of Divestment of South Africa-Related Stocks

Sanford J. Grossman, William F. Sharpe
1986

Abstract not available.

Book

Financial Statement Analysis

George Foster
Prentice-Hall, 1986, 2nd edition; 1978, 1st edition Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1986

This exploration of financial statement analysis offers both insight into the actual uses of financial statement information by practitioners as well as contemporary academic research on the use of such data.

This book has been translated…

Journal Article

Foundations of Dynamic Monopoly and the Coase Conjecture

Faruk Gul, Hugo Sonnenschein, Robert Wilson
Journal of Economic Theory 1986 Vol. 39 Issue 1 Pages 155-190.
Working Paper

Game Forms with Minimal Message Spaces

Stefan J. Reichelstein, Stanley Reit
1986

Abstract not available.

Book

Inside Corporate Innovation: Strategy, Structure and Managerial Skills

Robert A. Burgelman, Leonard R. Sayles
The Free Press 1986

The new wave of organizational innovations involves new types of arrangements between individuals and corporations. It is likely to continue to produce new organizational forms, spanning the entire range of combinations of markets and hierarchies…

Working Paper

Involuntary Unemployment and Imperfect Competition: A Game Theoretic Macro Model

John Roberts (1945–2026)
1986

This paper considers a game-theoretic, non-Walrasian, general equilibrium model of price determination, production, and exchange. In this game, firms first select prices and wages, consumers/workers then make input supply and output demand offers…

Working Paper

Lincoln's Leadership: Excellence in War Management

Thomas W. Harrell, Emmett Mac Corkle
1986

Lincoln’s management of the Civil War used so many of the principles described by Peters and Waterman (1982) in their best selling book, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best Run Companies, that we have attempted to analyze Lincoln…

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Loss-Leaders: A Phenomenon of Price Competition or Implicit Collusion

1986

In this paper we analyze equilibrium pricing strategies for firms competing in a market for two goods consumed by two types of consumers. It is shown that if the proportion of poor to rich consumers is not too small or too large, equilibrium…

Journal Article

Managing Organizational Decline: Lessons from Atari

Kathleen M. Eisenhardt , James V. Jucker
Organizational Dynamics 1986 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 17-29.
Working Paper

Money in General Equilibrium Theory

Darrell Duffie
1986

This paper establishes the existence of monetary equilibrium in a static economy with a finite number of agents, each described by a preference relation, an endowment of commodities and pure fiat money, and a transactions technology. In addition…

Working Paper

Monitoring, Moral Hazard, Asymmetric Information, and Risk Sharing in Procurement Contracting

David P. Baron, David Besanko
1986

Abstract not available.

Journal Article

A Monopolistic Market for Information

Anat R. Admati, Paul Pfleiderer
Journal of Economic Theory 1986 Vol. 39 Issue 2 Pages 400–438.

We analyze a model where traders buy information from a monopolistic seller, which is subsequently used in a speculative market. In order to overcome the dilution in the value of information due to its leakage through informative prices, the…

Journal Article

Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation of New Product Diffusion Models

V. “Seenu” Srinivasan, Charlotte H. Mason
Marketing Science 1986 Vol. 5 Issue 2 Pages 169-178.

Schmittlein and Mahajan (Marketing Science 1982) made an important improvement in the estimation of the Bass (1969) diffusion model by appropriately aggregating the continuous time model over the time intervals represented by the data.…

Journal Article

Norm Theory: Comparing Reality to Its Alternatives

Daniel Kahneman, Dale T. Miller
Psychological Review 1986 Vol. 93 Issue 2 Pages 136–153.

Presents a theory of norms and normality and applies the theory to phenomena of emotional responses, social judgment, and conversations about causes. Norms are assumed to be constructed ad hoc by recruiting specific representations. Category…

Journal Article

On Timing and Selectivity

Anat R. Admati, Sudipto Bhattacharya, Paul Pfleiderer, Stephen A. Ross
Journal of Finance 1986 Vol. 41 Issue 3 Pages 715–730.

The dichotomy between timing ability and the ability to select individual assets has been widely used in discussing investment performance measurement. This paper discusses the conceptual and econometric problems associated with defining and…

Working Paper

On Timing and Selectivity

Anat R. Admati, Paul Pfleiderer, Stephen Ross, Sudipto Bhattachary
1986

The dichotomy between timing ability and the ability to select individual assets has been widely used in discussing investment performance measurement. This paper discusses the conceptual and econometric problems associated with defining and…

Working Paper

On the Evaluation of Structural Equation Models

1986

Criteria for evaluating structural equation models with latent variables are defined, critiqued, and illustrated. An overall program for model evaluation is proposed based upon an interpretation of converging and diverging evidence. Model…

Working Paper

On the Robustness of Equilibrium Refinements

David M. Kreps, David Levine, Drew Fu
1986

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

On the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Darrell Duffie
1986

This is a brief review of the theory of the term structure of interest rates, and includes a discrete-time example that parallels the continuous-time model of the term structure due to Cox, Ingersoll, and Ross.