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Accuracy of Subjective Probabilities for a Financial Variable
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An Application of the CAPM to Divisional Required Returns
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An Intertemporal Asset Pricing Model with Stochastic Consumption and Investment Opportunities
This paper derives a single-beta asset pricing model in a multi-good, continuous-time model with uncertain consumption- goods prices and uncertain investment opportunities. When no riskless asset exists, a zero-beta pricing model is derived.…
An Investigation of the Equal Commission Rate Policy for a Multi-Product Salesforce
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Arbitrage And Equilibrium In Economies With Infinitely Many Commodities
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Asymmetric Information, Input Regulation and Output Regulation of Service Quality
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A Behavioral Analysis Of The Opec Cartel: Structure, Mechanisms Of Monopolization, And Alternative Model Paradigms
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Careers of Stanford MBAs With and Without Engineering Undergraduate Degrees
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Citizen Participation in Public Decisions: A Comprehensive Policy-Capturing Approach
This report provides an iterative methodology for obtaining a simple quantitative model of a special interest groups preferences when the group is essentially inaccessible. The context is Social Judgment Theory. Multiple public participation…
Cognitive Information Processing Biases: Implications for Producers and Users of Financial Information
The emerging information-processing and decision-making literature indicates that individuals use heuristic procedures that simplify cognitive processing requirements. Judgments (particularly subjective probabilities) are based on limited…
A Comparison Of Capital Structure Decisions Of Regulated And Non-Regulated Firms
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Concrete Action Plans in TV Messages to Increase Reading of Drug Warnings
A field experiment was conducted to test the effect on in-store behaviors of exposure to short messages, added to brand advertisements for over-the-counter drugs, which urged that package warnings be read. The messages varied in the concreteness…
Coordination Strategies for Production and Marketing in a Functionally Decentralized Firm
This paper analyzes a mathematical model which allows marketing to choose prices and promotion strategies and allows production to choose work force levels, production rates and inventory levels in an autonomous manner. The type and manner of…
Easily Computed Inventory Policies for Periodic Review Systems: Shortage Cost and Service Level Models
This paper builds on prior work of the authors by developing a shortcut method for determining approximately optimal (s,S) inventory policies for use in a periodic review inventory system in which shortage costs are assessed. The method seems to…
Economies of Scope and the Scope of the Enterprise: The Diversification of Petroleum Companies
This paper explores some comparative institutional considerations which help define the scope of the modern business enterprise. Specifically, an attempt is made to explain why a firm sometimes diversifies — through acquisition or de novo entry…
Effects Of A Crowded Television Environment: The ANA/MSI Clutter Study
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Effects of Name Calling and Small Requests on Receptivity to Direct-Mail Appeals
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European Economic And Political Integration: The Markets And Hierarchies Approach
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Exact Solution of Crew Scheduling Problems Using the Set Partitioning Model: Recent Successful Applications
The set partitioning model of the crew rotation problem has been well known for many years. This paper focuses on recent developments that have made this model more attractive and have resulted in several successful implementations. These…
FASB Statement No. 8: A Review of Empirical Research on Its Economic Consequences
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