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Voters, Bureaucrats and Legislators: A Rational Choice Perspective on the Growth of Bureaucracy
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Wives' Labor Force Behavior and Major Family Expenditures
As the labor force participation of married women has increased dramatically since World War II, there has been increased speculation about the effect of wives’ employment on major family expenditures. This study examines working-wife (W-W) and…
An Application of Regression Smoothing for Forecasting Customer Utility Bills
This paper develops the methodology for regression smoothing models and then applies it to the problem of forecasting utility usage rates for individual customers in a city in Northern California. A class of models which use regression as a…
An Empirical Analysis of Differential Capital Market Reactions to Extraordinary Accounting Items
Corporations are required to disclose separately and distinctively measurements of transactions or economic events defined by the accounting profession to be extraordinary in nature relative to the typical operations of the firm. An assumption is…
An Empirical Study of the Professional Socialization of Accounting Students
The purpose of this paper is to investigate accounting student attitudes at one stage of the process of educating and orienting individuals to enter the profession of public accounting, i.e., the “professional socialization’ ” of accounting…
Bias in Stochastic Binary Models of Brand Choice
In stochastic models of brand choice, a k-brand market (k>2) is generally reduced to a two-brand market by denoting the brand of interest as A and combining all other brands to form the “other brand” B. It is shown that (i) market share…
A Characterization of the Optimality of Equilibrium in Incomplete Markets
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Decomposition of Arborescent Linear Programs
We apply what we call sequential projection to reformulate certain linear programs as recursive optimization problems. We then apply the standard idea of approximating_x000B_the return function at each stage of the recursion by using inner (or…
Dimensions of Professional Socialization for Accounting Students
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Diverse Anticipations, Rational Anticipations, Ex Ante Efficiency and Ex Post Efficiency
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Executives, Bureaucrats, and Politicians: Improving the Management of Government Agencies
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Exploring Territorial Differences in the Relationship Between Marketing Variables
The parameters of a market share response function are estimated by using time series data separately for several sales territories. In a second stage an attempt is made to explain territorial differences in parameter estimates. It appears that…
Financial Information Processing Models: An Empirical Study
Given the objective of describing quantitatively how people use financial data to generate financial judgments, second year graduate business school students were provided with data for each of sixty companies in an experimental setting and an…
A Framework for the Comparison of Marketing Models: A Delphi Study
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Further Beyond Conjoint Measurement: Toward a Comparison of Methods
An extensive body of research in marketing and related areas concerns the collection and analysis of data to assess preference formation by individuals. Alternative methods are available to analyze the information. Based on synthetic data, metric…
Implementation of an Interactive Graphics Model for Design of School Boundaries
This paper contains a description of an interactive graphics model for the design of school boundaries which has been implemented in two settings. The first involved a school district in which the Superintendent and his staff used the system to…
Incentive Contracting for National Defense: A Problem of Optimal Risk Sharing
This paper analyzes risk sharing in Defense contracting within an insurance framework with moral hazard present. The positive model specifies conditions under which risk sharing between the firm and the government can be expected to occur, and…
Independence and Calibration in Decision Analysis
An individual is said to be potentially miscalibrated if he is not sure whether his future subjective probability assessments will agree with observed frequency. Alternately, the individual is said to be uncertain about his own calibration. It…