Publications

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…

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…

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…

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…

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Conducted 2 experiments to examine the relationship between frustration and coping strategies in 2 delay-of-gratification situations: self-imposed delay (optional waiting for a preferred reward) and externally imposed delay (required waiting for…

The disclosure of corporate forecasts of projected annual earnings was a topic of intensive debate within the investment community during the years 1970-75. Questions of accuracy, objectivity, independent certification, and investment utility…

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…

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Investigated the impact of task importance on the causal attributions for success and failure on a bogus social-perceptiveness task which was given to 52 undergraduates. Consistent with previous research, Ss assumed more personal responsibility…

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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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…