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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…
Industry Differences in the Relationship Between Advertising and Profitability
The assumption that the relationship between market structure variables and profitability is the same across industries is critically examined. Using observations on food, tobacco and cosmetic firms, the null hypothesis of equal coefficient…
Managerial Communications and Performance: A Study of Decision Making and Implementation in Japanese and American Managed Firms in the United States
Japanese subsidiaries in the United States, representing a hybrid of Japanese and American managerial systems, were paired with American companies in ten industries. A variety of empirical measures were utilized to identify differences, if any,…
Mergers in the Savings and Loan Industry. Structural Changes, Financial Comparisons, and the Performance of Merging Savings and Loan Associations
First, this study analyzes the financial and charter-ownership characteristics of the acquiring and acquired savings and loan associations (S&L’s) involved in non-supervisory mergers for the period January 1969 through December 1974.…
A Monte Carlo Study of Metric and Nonmetric Estimation Methods for Multiattribute Models
Several procedures for estimating the parameters in a model of preference formation have been developed and applied in the past decade. Four methods are compared based on synthetic rank order data. The results indicate that one nonmetric…
Network Models for Estimating Brand "Images"
In multi-attribute models in marketing, a consumer’s preference for a brand in a product class is expressed as a weighted sum of the brand’s attribute values. However, marketing is abundant with examples where two brands may have approximately…
On Optimal Dividend, Reinvestment, and Liquidation Policies for the Firm
The liquid asset management problem of a firm with a fixed business is considered. Two questions are addressed. First, how much, if any, of the firm’s liquid assets should be paid to the owners as dividends? Second, if the liquid asset level is…