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Expectancy-Value Attitude Models: An Analysis of Critical Theoretical Issues
Expectancy-value models are analyzed in terms of their level of abstraction and the rules governing how beliefs and evaluations combine to produce an attitude. In addition, suggestions are made as to modes of operationalization and methods for…
Hidden Barriers to Acquisition Research
Traditional prescriptions for making acquisitions ~work include aspects of both strategic and organizational fit. But, because some acquisitions continue to yield disappointing results, a different perspective may be useful. This paper provides…
Holding Idle Capacity to Deter Entry
In his 1980 Economic Journal article, Dixit concluded that a firm would never hold idle capacity to deter entry. We show that his result depends crucially on the special assumption that products are “strategic substitutes”, so that in Nash…
Implementing Arrow-Debreu Equilibria by Continuous Trading of Few Long-Lived Securities
A two-period (0 and T) Arrow-Debreu economy is set up with a general model of uncertainty. We suppose that an equilibrium exists for this economy. The Arrow-Debreu economy is placed in a Radner (dynamic) setting; agents may trade claims at any…
Incentives, Compensation, and Social Welfare
Alternative reward structures under conditions of moral hazard are analyzed from a social welfare standpoint. We argue that social welfare judgments under uncertainty should incorporate ex post judgments; in particular, a distribution-sensitive…
Individual and Couple Utility of Children: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Issues
A comparison is made between two alternatives for explaining family size decisions: a psychological model based on the individual utilities of the spouses and a social psychological model based on the husband-wife relationship. By use of higher…
Investing in New Parameter Values in the Discounted EOQ Model
Recently, Porteus (7) was motivated by the observation that the Japanese have devoted much time and energy to decreasing setup costs in their manufacturing processes and that there has been little in the way of a formal framework for thinking…
Investing in Reduced Setups in the EOQ Model
This paper is motivated by the observation that the Japanese have devoted much time and energy to decreasing setup costs in their manufacturing processes and that there has been little in the way of a formal framework available to use to think…
Labour Force Participation and Fertility: A Social Analysis of Their Antecedents and Simultaneity
The nature of the relationship between labour force participation and fertility are examined for 172 families comprising a marriage cohort. The results show that labour force participation and fertility are spuriously related in that they are…
Managing the Internal Corporate Venturing Process: Some Recommendations for Practice
The strategic management of internal corporate venturing (ICV) presents a major challenge for many large, established firms. A process model conceptualization of ICV suggests that vicious circles and managerial dilemmas typically emerge in the…
Measuring Investment Performance in a Rational Expectations Equilibrium Model
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Multimarket Oligopoly: Strategic Substitutes and Complements
A firm’s actions in one market can change competitors’ strategies in a second market, by affecting its own marginal costs in that other market. Whether the action provides costs or benefits in the second market depends on (a) whether it…
New Evidence that Taxes Affect the Valuation of Dividends
This paper uses British data to examine the effects of dividend taxes on investors relative valuation of dividends and capital gains. British data offer great potential to illuminate the dividends and taxes question, since there have been two…
A Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium for Musti-Asset Securities Markets
Abstract not available.
Noncooperative Regulation of a Nonlocalized Externality
A nonlocalized pollution externality poses special regulatory problems when both a) the costs and benefits of abatement are borne by different persons and b)the interests of the two groups are represented by different regulatory agencies. A…
Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation of the Bass Diffusion Model of New Product Acceptance
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. However,…
Optimal Lot Sizing, Process Quality Improvement and Setup Cost Reduction
This author has recently contributed to understanding the economic tradeoffs of alternative production systems by introducing the option of investing in reducing the setup cost parameter in the classical undiscounted EOQ model. That work only…