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On the Optimality of Structured Policies in Countable Stage Decision Processes, III: Regular Terminal Value Functions
The study of structured countable stage decision processes is continued. Rather than requiring the terminal value functions to be what are called regular-structured [6], we only require them to be regular. Since the infinite horizon values are…
Optimal Initiation of Bankruptcy Proceedings by Debt Holders
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Optimal State-Dependent Pricing Policies for a Class of Stochastic Multi-Unit Rental Systems
This paper models a k-unit rental system with Poisson arrivals, exponential service times and no queue. Denoting the number of units that are out on rent as the state of the system, the state-dependent pricing model formalizes the intuitive…
Organizational Control and Work Satisfaction
Data from 2,398 employees of two retail companies indicate that the relationship between control and job satisfaction is complex. Control does not produce low job satisfaction unless the supervisor using the control is seen as unfair or as…
Public Goods, Collective Choice, and the Regulated Firm
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Sharing Rules and Equilibrium in an International Capital Market Under Uncertainty
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Some Organizational Properties of Resource Directive Allocation Mechanisms
This paper discusses some of the organizational aspects of a class of decentralized resource allocation mechanisms based in theory upon decomposition of linear programs. Organizational aspects refer to those attributes which have behavioral…
A State-of-the Art Analysis of Behavioral Accounting Research
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The Advertising Pretest as Part of a Multimeasure, Multimethod, Multisituation Validation and Application Research System
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The Comparative Performance of Minority Controlled Savings and Loan Associations
The Concept of the Amount of Information in Information Evaluation
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The Information Content of Published Quarterly Earnings and Quarterly Dividend Announcements: Further Empirical Evidence
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The Relationship Between Organizational Structure and Organizational Control
This paper reports on the nature of control in 78 retail department store companies. It begins with the argument that control and structure have not been clearly distinguished in the literature on organizations. Control is not the same thing as…
The Theory of Recapitalizations Under Incomplete Capital Markets and the Evidence of Dual Purpose Funds
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The Time Series Behavior of Quarterly Earnings: Preliminary Evidence
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The Valuation of Options for Alternative Stochastic Processes
This paper examines the structure of option valuation problems and develops a new technique for their solution. It also introduces several jump and diffusion processes which have not been used in previous models. The technique is applied to…
Triangular Factorization and Generalized Upper Bounding Techniques
A compact inverse method is developed for linear programming problems having block triangular or sparse constraint matrices. Special cases of the method are, for example, the generalized upper bounding technique and its extensions. For these…
Women Economists: Career Aspirations, Education and Training
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An Adaptive Consumer's View of Attitudes and Other Choice Mechanisms, as Viewed by an Equally Adaptive Advertiser
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An Algorithm for Determining Optimal Sales Commissions
Relatively simple experimental data which embody a salesman’s assessment of relationships between his efforts and sales are used in a computational algorithm to determine the parameters of a functional relationship between sales volume and sales…