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The Female/Male Salary Differential in Public Schools: Some Lessons from San Francisco, 1879
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The Horizontal Divestiture of Petroleum Companies: Some Technological Considerations
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A Theory of Lateral Integration: Corporate Diversification in Energy
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Use of Strategies to Reduce Time Pressures: Some Non-Difference Between Working Wives and Non-Working Wives
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Cognitive Responses To Mass Media Advocacy And Cognitive Choice Processes
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A Convergence Theorem for Competitive Bidding With Differential Information
This paper investigates the behavior of the winning bid in a sealed bid tender auction where each bidder has private sample information. With an appropriate concept of value, the winning bid will converge in probability to the value of the object…
Dynamic Choice Theory and Dynamic Programming
Finite horizon sequential decision problems with a “temporal vonNeumann-Morgenstern utility” criterion are analyzed. This criterion, as developed in [7], is a generalization of vonNeumann-Morgenstern (expected) utility of the vector of rewards,…
Estimation of a Noninvertible Moving Average Process: The Case of Overdifferencing
The effect of differencing all of the variables in a properly specified regression equation is examined. Excessive use of the difference transformation induces a noninvertible moving average (MA) process in the disturbances of the transformed…
Horizontal Integration in Energy: Organizational and Technological Considerations
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Initial Observations on a Pioneer Cohort: 1974 Women MBAs
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Money, Income, and Sunspots: Measuring Economic Relationships and the Effects of Differencing
Various techniques for estimating linear relationships between economic time series are considered. We argue that many economic models should be estimated between the changes of the variables, rather than the levels of the variables. Examples…
Organizational Structure and Economic Performance: A Test of the Multidivisional Hypothesis
This paper empirically investigates the proposition that the organization and operation of the large enterprise along “M-Form” multidivisional lines favors goal pursuit and least cost behavior more nearly associated with the neoclassical profit…
Overseas Research and Development by U.S.-Based Firms
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Sex Differences in Economists' Incomes
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The Analysis of Seasonal Economic Models
Many important insights can be obtained about economic relationships and seasonality when an economic model contains an explicit specification of the mechanism generating seasonality in the endogenous variables. Unfortunately, determining the…
Wives' Labor Force Behavior and Major Family Expenditures
As the labor force participation of married women has increased dramatically since World War II, there has been increased speculation about the effect of wives’ employment on major family expenditures. This study examines working-wife (W-W) and…
Executives, Bureaucrats, and Politicians: Improving the Management of Government Agencies
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