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Why Not Wait?: A Cognitive Model of Self-imposed Delay Termination
Conducted 3 studies with 158 3rd graders to examine a cognitive model of how children terminate self-imposed delay of gratification when a preferred but delayed reward is pitted against an immediately available nonpreferred reward. According to…
Judgment Calls in Research: An Unorthodox View of the Research Process
A term borrowed from sport, a judgment call is a decision that must be made without a fixed, objective rule. The authors highlight the discrepancies between what a researcher should do by textbook standards, and what researchers actually do. They…
STRATPORT: A Model for the Evaluation and Formulation of Business Portfolio Strategies
A decision support system to evaluate and formulate business portfolio strategies is proposed. Strategies are expressed in terms of market share objectives to be achieved in each of the N business units in the portfolio. STRATPORT evaluates a…
A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding
Sequential Equilibria
We propose a new criterion for equilibria of extensive games, in the spirit of Selten’s perfectness criteria. This criterion requires that players’ strategies be sequentially rational: Every decision must be part of an optimal strategy for…
Accumulating Damages in Litigation: The Roles of Uncertainty and Interest Rates
Adjustment Costs, Durables, and Aggregate Consumption
Previous tests of the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) have focused on either nondurables or durables expenditures in isolation. This paper studies consumer purchases of nondurables and durables as the outcome of a single optimization problem.…
Audience Presence During Breaks in Television Programmes
Experiments on the use of electricity data as an unobtrusive measure of household behaviour during breaks in television programmes have provided some new insights.Whilst confirming much of accepted “presence” research, there is a clear indication…
Capacity Expansion in a Growing Oligopoly: The Case of Corn Wet Milling
Capital Market Efficiency: Definitions, Testing Issues And Anomalies
Research on capital market efficiency continues to have an important impact on the accounting and finance literatures. This paper covers five topics related to market efficiency: I. Alternative viewpoints on what is meant by market efficiency, II…
Comments on the Role of Price in Individual Utility Judgments
A Comparison of Corporate Financial Reporting in Japan and the United States
This is a research on how corporate financial reporting practices are influenced by such environmental (to accounting) factors as the capital market institutions, the legal system and management behavior. International comparison provides an…
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management: A Review and Conceptual Integration
Firms need both diversity and order in strategy for their continued survival. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process through which organizations turn diversity, autonomously generated by their entrepreneurial operational level participants,…
Corporate Financial Reporting: A Methodological Review of Empirical Research
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Cournot Pre-Commitment and Bertand Competition Yield Cournot Outcomes
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Diagnosing the Experience Curve
Few strategy concepts have gained wider acceptance than the notion underlying the experience curve, that real unit costs decline systematically with increases in cumulative volume. The logic is appealing, the empirical support seems persuasive…
Double jeopardy : Resistance to affirmative action from potential beneficiaries
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Economic Dispatch of Electric Power by Stochastic Linear Programming
Operational improvements in the short-run scheduling of electric power generation can accrue considerable economic and fossil-fuel savings. This study has undertaken an evaluation of the worth and practicality of using “stochastic linear…
Emotion and Persuasion in Advertising: What We Do and Don't Know About Affect
Emotion and persuasion is an old topic in psychology and a difficult one to apply to advertising. Affect appears to have four possible effects on “learning” from advertising and a direct effect on advertising effectiveness in low depth-of-…