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On the Term Structure of Interest Rates
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.
Optimal Auditing, Insurance, and Redistribution
The objective of this paper is to analyse optimal tax and audit strategies for a principal seeking to redistribute income among a population of taxpayers when the principal can observe the income of an individual at a cost. We show that in very…
Optimal Hedging and Equilibrium in a Dynamic Futures Market
In this paper optimal hedging strategies are solved for in a continuous time setting. We consider a single agent maximizing the expected utility of the sum of the terminal value of a fixed portfolio of spot market assets and the terminal value of…
Optimal Innovation of Futures Contracts
This paper provides an expression for the revenue maximizing and open interest maximizing choice of futures contracts by exchanges in incomplete markets under uncertainty, with quadratic Von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences and proportional…
Organization Development Theory: A Typology and Evaluation
Two types of Organization Development theory are identified and discussed. The first, implementation theory, focuses on the intervention activity required to carry out effective planned change efforts in organizations. The second, change process…
Organizational Ecology and Strategic Management: An Evolutionary Process Perspective
Organizations can be viewed as opportunity structures motivating strategic behavior on the part of their participants and the strategic process in organizations constitutes an internalized and contrived evolutonary mechanism nested in the…
Plans, Performances, and Experiences: A Theory of Goal Directed Behaviors and Outcomes
This paper presents an integrative theoretical framework explaining goal achievement and behavioral performance and then tests the theory in head-to-head comparisons with the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior. Our…
Price Promotions: Limiting Competitive Encroachment
In this paper we explore equilibrium pricing strategies in an infinite horizon repeated game for an oligopoly. In a model where two symmetric firms (out of three) have a loyal customer base, it is shown that if there are sufficiently large number…
Process Constraints on Strategic Capability Transfer During Acquisition Integration
This paper reports the results of an in-depth study of the acquisition integration process in seven acquisitions representing twelve firms. A grounded theory of acquisition integration is elaborated. Three constraints in the integration process…
Questioning the Assumptions of Value Engineering: Alternative Views of the Cultural Change Process
Advocates of “value engineering” typically share assumptions about what culture is an how it changes. We delineate these assumptions and argue that they are misleadingly limited. Perceiving and enacting culture change. We present two alternative…
Service-Induced Campaign Contributions and the Electoral Equilibrium
Congressional incumbents are successful in over 90 percent of their reelection contests. Once explanation for this incumbency advantage is that incumbents provide services to constituents and interest groups as a means of generating both campaign…
Setup Reduction and Increased Effective Capacity
Setup reduction is an important aspect of the Just in Time (JIT) and Zero Inventory (ZI) concepts. This paper continues the study of the benefits of such reduction. Porteus (1985b) examined the tradeoff between investment in reduced setups and…
Social Group Identity and the Emergence of Cooperation in Resource Conservation Dilemmas
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Some Observations on Capital Structure and the Impact of Recent Recapitalization on Share Prices
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Stochastic Production-Exchange Equilibria
This paper examines the role of production and stock markets in a continuous-time stochastic economy. The results include sufficient conditions for the existence of general equilibria: spot price processes and security price processes under which…
Strategic Capability Transfer in Acquisition Integration
This paper presents a grounded theory of the acquisition integration process. The theory proposes that the central element in successful acquisition integration is the transfer of strategic capabilities between firms. A series of interactions…
Strategic Delay in Bargaining
This paper analyzes a bargaining model with incomplete information in which the time between offers is an endogenous strategic variable. We find equilibria involving a delay to agreement that is due to the use of strategic time delay by…
Structural Consistency, Consistency and Sequential Rationality
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