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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 outpredict 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…
Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment
This paper builds on the theory of irreversible choice under uncertainty to give an explanation of cyclical investment fluctuations. The key observation is that, when individual projects are irreversible, agents must make investment timing…
Markets in Microcosm: Some Efficiency Properties of Vertical Integration
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A Model of the Demand for Investment Banking Advising and Distribution Services for New Issues
This paper presents a theory of the demand for investment banking advising and distribution services for the case in which the investment banker is better informed about the capital market than is the issuer and the issuer cannot observe…
Modeling-Based Organizational Development: A Longitudinal Assessment
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On the Foundations of the Theory of Market Segmentation
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Operations as Strategy: Lessons From Japan
The past year has witnessed tremendous interest in Japanese management practice. Owing in part to the increasingly worldwide competitive environment, and more particularly, the survivability of certain U.S. industries (television, automobiles,…