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The Taxation of Risky Assets
This paper reconsiders the effects of taxation on risky assets, recognizing the importance of variations in asset prices. We show that earlier analyses which assumed that depreciation rates are constant and that the future price of capital goods…
A Transactions Cost Theory of The Multinational Enterprise
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Double Jeopardy: Why Some Women and Minorities Object to Affirmative Action Programs
There is now strong evidence to suggest that a significant percentage of women and minorities oppose current Affirmative Action policies. This dissatisfaction probably arises from an understanding of the treatment accorded to employees identified…
Achieving Styles in Men and Women: A Model, an Instrument, and Some Findings
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Advertising Situations: The Implications of Differential Involvement and Accompanying Affect Responses
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Aggregation Issues in Conjoint Analysis
In applications of conjoint analysis, results obtained at the individual level have to be aggregated for managerial purposes. For a main-effects part-worth model such aggregation can take place by averaging estimated part worths, averaging…
Applications of a Marketing Communication Research System
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Appropriable Rents and Quasi Vertical Integration
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Aspects of Monetary and Banking Theory and Moral Hazard
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Brand Life Cycle and Dynamic Market Communications Elasticities
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Commercial Use of Conjoint Analysis: A Survey
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Common Stock Returns and Rating Changes: A Methodological Comparison
This paper examines the adjustments in a firms common stock price during the eleven months before and during the month of announcement of a bond rating change. Based on several different measures of abnormal security return, the findings are…
Communication Research Guidelines for Corporate Communication
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A Complete Analysis of Efficient Funds and Full Pareto-Efficiency in Financial Markets
In this paper we develop the complete analysis of the necessary and sufficient conditions for the full Pareto-efficiency of financial markets. We show that full-Pareto efficiency obtains in exchange markets if and only if a type of partition of…
Cost Allocation Games
Considerable recent literature uses game theory techniques to enhance our understanding of cost allocation. These studies typically begin with a setting in which allocation is required and then derive or suggest properties that the required…
Decision Aids for MBA Program Admissions: Predicting Academic Performance
An approach for aiding and strengthening the MBA admissions process is proposed. The approach derives from the empirical finding that actuarial models out-predict clinical judgments. Multiple-regression models are used to make predictions of the…
Improving Managerial Effectiveness Through Modeling Based Training
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Improving Predictive Power of Conjoint Analysis by Constrained Paramenter Estimation
Predictions based on the full-profile method of conjoint analysis can be significantly improved by imposing a priori constraints on the estimated parameters. The a priori constraints are based on relative preferences for different levels within…
Innovation and Communication: Signaling with Partial Disclosure
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Intra-Industry Information Transfers Associated With Earnings Releases
The impact that a firm’s earnings releases have on the stock prices of other firms in its industry i s examined. For an identifiable subset of firms, the results are consistent with a significant information transfer occurring between the…