School of Business Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Evaluating Negative Benefits
(University of Washington School of Business Administration, 1978-03) -
Solution Properties of Deterministic Auctions
(University of Washington School of Business Administration, 1976-06) -
Decreasing Average Cost and Competition: A New Look at the Addyston Pipe Case
(University of Chicago Press, 1982-10) -
The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis
(The University of Chicago Press, 2007)For industries ranging from software to pharmaceuticals and entertainment, there is an intense debate about the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet provides a natural crucible to assess ... -
Did Antitrust Policy Cause the Great Merger Wave?
(University of Chicago Press, 1985-04) -
Property Rights, Progress, and the Aircraft Patent Agreement
(University of Chicago Press, 1988-04) -
Feeling and Liking Responses to Television Programs: An Examination of Two Explanations for Media-Context Effects
(University of Chicago Press, 1992) -
Students and Housewives: Differences in Susceptibility to Reference Group Influence
(Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1977-09) -
Familiarity and Its Impact on Consumer Decision Biases and Heuristics
(University of Chicago Press, 1981-09)The impact of familiarity on consumer decision biases and heuristics is examined. Subjects at three different familiarity levels revealed interesting differences in perceptual category breadth, usage of functional and ... -
Determinants of Role Structure in Family Financial Management
(University of Chcago Press, 1983)Variables determining the role of husband and wife in family financial management are explored based on in-home, personal interviews. Financial tasks reflecting implementation activities and two groupings of decision ... -
Implicit Discount Rates and the Purchase of Untried, Energy-Saving Durable Goods
(1983-09)Many consumers appear to rationally calculate the net worth of a household investment, but a substantial minority may lack the skills or alertness to perceive an investment opportunity and initiate analysis. Intentions to ... -
Consumer Demand under Price Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from the Market for Cigarettes
(MIT Press, 2007-08)We develop a demand model for goods that are subject to habit formation. We show that consumption plans of forward-looking individuals depend on preferences, current period prices, and individual beliefs about the evolution ... -
Competitive Inventory Models
(EDP Sciences, 1987)This paper deals with the question of optimal inventory sizes in a competitive environment in which demand for a product at a vendor depends on the inventory level of the product at that vendor relative to the inventories ... -
Profit Centers, Single-Source Suppliers and Transaction Costs
(Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 1991-03)This paper addresses criticisms of transaction-cost theory that it overstates the effect of asset specialization on vertical integration and understates the costs of managing interunit relationships within an organization, ... -
Effects of coupled atomic states on the resonance scattering of radiation
(IOP Publishing, 1974)The excitation and decay probabilities for resonance scattering of radiation from an atom with two coupled excited states in an external static field are calculated as a function of time and frequency. Various oscillatory ... -
Diversification in a Three-Moment World
(Cambridge University Press, 1978-12) -
Executive Compensation and Business Policy Choices at U.S. Commercial Banks
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2010-01)This study examines whether and how the terms of CEO compensation contracts at large commercial banks between 1994 and 2006 influenced, or were influenced by, the risky business policy decisions made by these firms. We ... -
Modifiable combining functions
(Cambridge University Press, 1987-02)Modifiable combining functions are a synthesis of two common approaches to combining evidence. They offer many of the advantages of these approaches and avoid some disadvantages. Because they facilitate the acquisition, ... -
Multiple hypothesis evaluation in auditing
(The Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), 2002-11)In many audit tasks, auditors evaluate multiple hypotheses to diagnose the situation. Research suggests this is a complex task that individuals have difficulty performing. Further, there is little guidance in professional ... -
Holes in Spectral Lines
(American Physical Society, 1973-06)The decay of an atom in the presence of a static perturbation is investigated. The perturbation couples a decaying state with a nondecaying state. A "hole" appears in the emission line at a frequency equal to the frequency ...