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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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Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty and Dynamic Choice Theory
We consider dynamic choice behavior under conditions of uncertainty, with emphasis on the timing of the resolution of uncertainty. Choice behavior in which an individual distinguishes between lotteries based on the times at which their…
The Determinants of Risk Sharing and Cost Parameters in Defense Contracts
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The "Jamaica Agreement," International Monetary Reform, and the Developing Countries
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Vertical Integration and Vertical Divestiture in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
This paper demonstrates that vertical integration in the U.S. petroleum industry represents a competitive response to the disabilities associated with market contracting. If intermediate product markets could operate, according to the…
Wives' Labor Force Behavior and Family Consumption Patterns
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