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Working Paper

Trade Response to Promotion: A Preliminary Report

David Bruce Montgomery (1938–2025)
1983

Abstract not available.

Book Chapter

Truth or Corporate Propaganda: The Value of a Good War Story

Joanne Martin, M. Powers
Organizational Symbolism JAI Press Greenwich, CT 1983 Pages 93-107.

No additional information is available at this time.

Book

Unionism, Economic Stabilization, and Incomes Policies: European Experience

Robert J. Flanagan, David Soskice, Lloyd Ulman
Brookings Institution Washington, D.C. 1983

This book draws on experience in nine European countries to examine the efficacy of wage restraint policies in limiting inflation and facilitating economic stabilization.

 

Working Paper

What's at Stake in Proposals to Index the Minimum Wage?

James C. Cox, Ronald L. Oaxaca
1983

Abstract not available.

Journal Article

Why Not Wait?: A Cognitive Model of Self-imposed Delay Termination

Rachel Karniol , Dale T. Miller
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1983 Vol. 45 Issue 4 Pages 935–942.

Conducted 3 studies with 158 3rd graders to examine a cognitive model of how children terminate self-imposed delay of gratification when a preferred but delayed reward is pitted against an immediately available nonpreferred reward. According to…

Book

Judgment Calls in Research: An Unorthodox View of the Research Process

Joseph E. McGrath, Joanne Martin, Richard A. Kulka
SAGE Publications Newbury Park, CA October11982

A term borrowed from sport, a judgment call is a decision that must be made without a fixed, objective rule. The authors highlight the discrepancies between what a researcher should do by textbook standards, and what researchers actually do. They…

Journal Article

STRATPORT: A Model for the Evaluation and Formulation of Business Portfolio Strategies

Jean-Claude Larréché, V. “Seenu” Srinivasan
Management Science September1982 Vol. 28 Issue 9 Pages 979-1001.

A decision support system to evaluate and formulate business portfolio strategies is proposed. Strategies are expressed in terms of market share objectives to be achieved in each of the N business units in the portfolio. STRATPORT evaluates a…

Journal Article

A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding

Paul R. Milgrom, Robert J. Weber
Econometrica September1982 Vol. 50 Issue 5 Pages 1089-1122.
Journal Article

Sequential Equilibria

David M. Kreps, Robert Wilson
Econometrica July1982 Vol. 50 Issue 4 Pages 863-894.

We propose a new criterion for equilibria of extensive games, in the spirit of Selten’s perfectness criteria. This criterion requires that players’ strategies be sequentially rational: Every decision must be part of an optimal strategy for…

Journal Article

Accumulating Damages in Litigation: The Roles of Uncertainty and Interest Rates

James M. Patell, Roman L. Weil, Mark A. Wolfson
Journal of Legal Studies 1982 Vol. 11 Issue 2 Pages 341-364.
Working Paper

Adjustment Costs, Durables, and Aggregate Consumption

Ben S. Bernanke
1982

Previous tests of the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) have focused on either nondurables or durables expenditures in isolation. This paper studies consumer purchases of nondurables and durables as the outcome of a single optimization problem.…

Working Paper

Audience Presence During Breaks in Television Programmes

Derek W. Bunn
1982

Experiments on the use of electricity data as an unobtrusive measure of household behaviour during breaks in television programmes have provided some new insights.Whilst confirming much of accepted “presence” research, there is a clear indication…

Journal Article

Capacity Expansion in a Growing Oligopoly: The Case of Corn Wet Milling

Michael E. Porter, A. Michael Spence
National Bureau of Economics 1982 Pages 259-316.
Working Paper

Capital Market Efficiency: Definitions, Testing Issues And Anomalies

George Foster
1982

Research on capital market efficiency continues to have an important impact on the accounting and finance literatures. This paper covers five topics related to market efficiency: I. Alternative viewpoints on what is meant by market efficiency, II…

Journal Article

Comments on the Role of Price in Individual Utility Judgments

V. “Seenu” Srinivasan
Choice Models for Buyer Behavior, Research in Marketing (Supplement 1) 1982 Pages 81-90.
Working Paper

A Comparison of Corporate Financial Reporting in Japan and the United States

Hiroyuki Itami, Kunio Itoh
1982

This is a research on how corporate financial reporting practices are influenced by such environmental (to accounting) factors as the capital market institutions, the legal system and management behavior. International comparison provides an…

Working Paper

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management: A Review and Conceptual Integration

Robert A. Burgelman
1982

Firms need both diversity and order in strategy for their continued survival. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process through which organizations turn diversity, autonomously generated by their entrepreneurial operational level participants,…

Working Paper

Corporate Financial Reporting: A Methodological Review of Empirical Research

George Foster, Ray Ball
1982

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Cournot Pre-Commitment and Bertand Competition Yield Cournot Outcomes

David M. Kreps, Jose Scheinkman
1982

Abstract not available.