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Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative: Final Evaluation Report
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The current paper is the final report in a series of twelve quarterly and annual reports provided to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) by Boston College's Technology and Assessment...
Provided by Boston College
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White Papers
The Economic Benefits of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?: Evidence From a Natural Experiment
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires firms with a public float over $75 million during 2002-2004 to file management reports beginning in 2004, but firms with a smaller float in...
Provided by Boston College
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White Papers
Visualizing Proximity Data
May 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the use of Graph Layout Algorithms (GLAs) for visualizing proximity matrices such as obtained in cultural domain analysis. Traditionally, MultiDimensional Scaling (MDS) has...
Provided by Boston College
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White Papers
Is Dividend Smoothing Universal?
August 2, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Starting with Lintner (1956), two important regularities of the dynamics of corporate dividend policy, namely, managerial smoothing of dividends and the reluctance to cut dividends, have been...
Provided by Boston College
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White Papers
Delayed and Controlled Failures in Tamper-Resistant Software
August 25, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Tamper-Resistant Software (TRS) consists of two functional components: tamper detection and tamper response. Although both are equally critical to the effectiveness of a TRS system, past research...
Provided by Trustees of Boston College
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An Empirical Security Study of the Native Code in the JDK
May 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that the use of native methods in Java defeats Java's guarantees of safety and security, which is why the default policy of Java applets, for example, does not allow loading...
Provided by Trustees of Boston College
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The Role Of Government In Life Cycle Saving And Investing
October 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the role of government in retirement saving and investment, a subset of the larger "Life-cycle" theme of the conference. It is a good time to consider government's role...
Provided by Boston College
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White Papers
A Sensemaking Perspective On The Reality Behind Executives' Perceptions Of IT Business Value
December 6, 2006, 12:00am PST
Although research has made significant strides in last few years in evaluating the performance impacts from Information Technology (IT), a dearth of easily-accessible objective measures,...
Provided by Boston College
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Social Bonds And Supplier Allocation Of Resources To Business Customers
August 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses questions about the effect that social bonds between relationship partners have on the way in which a supplier allocates resources to its relationship with a buyer. Two key...
Provided by Boston College
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Institutional Trading, Information Production, And The SEO Discount: A Model Of Seasoned Equity Offerings
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a model of the Seasoned Equity Offering (SEO) process, starting from the SEO announcement, through pre-offer trading, and ending in the offering itself. They use their model to...
Provided by Boston College
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White Papers
IPOs Versus Acquisitions And The IPO Valuation Premium Puzzle: An Empirical Analysis
October 15, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Using a hand-collected data set of private firm acquisitions and IPOs (Initial Public Offering), this paper presents an empirical analysis of a private firm's choice between IPOs and acquisitions,...
Provided by Boston College
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Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Abroad
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As the United States searches for ways to reform its system of financing long-term care, it may learn from the experiences of other developed nations. In Japan and much of Europe, public benefits...
Provided by Boston College
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How Can Customized Information Change Financial Plans?
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many workers nearing retirement experienced a dramatic decrease in their retirement assets when the stock market crashed in 2008. In order to maintain their expected standard of living in...
Provided by Boston College
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Does Medicare Part D Protect The Elderly From Financial Risk?
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 added the Part D prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program. This addition, which became effective in 2006, increased Medicare program costs by more...
Provided by Boston College
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Older Americans On The Go: Financial And Psychological Effects Of Moving
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Moving is an important decision for any homeowner, requiring one to weigh the familiar comforts of a home and neighborhood against the uncertain potential of a new location. A move decision may be...
Provided by Boston College
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The Financial Crisis And State/Local Defined Benefit Plans
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Equity assets in retirement plans dropped in value by about $4 trillion between October 9, 2007 and October 9, 2008. The decline was divided equally between defined benefit and 401(k)/Individual...
Provided by Boston College
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How Can We Improve Long-Term Care Financing?
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The system for financing and delivering long-term care in the United States is deeply flawed. While families and government spend more than $200 billion annually for such services, many frail...
Provided by Boston College
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The Financial Crisis And Private Defined Benefit Plans
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Between October 9, 2007 and October 9, 2008, the value of equities in retirement plans dropped by about $4 trillion, with the decline divided equally between defined benefit and 401(k)/Individual...
Provided by Boston College
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The Role Of Private Insurance In Financing Long-Term Care
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Private insurance currently plays a small, but potentially important role in financing the long-term care of the elderly in the United States. Some believe it can be a significant element in a...
Provided by Boston College
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Do Financial Literacy And Mistrust Affect 401(k) Participation?
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The private pension landscape has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, with a decisive shift away from traditional defined benefit plans toward defined contribution plans, primarily...
Provided by Boston College
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Software
Boston College: The Church in the 21st Century Center 1.1 (Mobile)
August 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Connect, pray, inspire: The Boston College C21 app is a new and illuminating resource for Catholics to engage and deepen their faith. Experience it for yourself.
Provided by Boston College
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Management Quality And Anti-Takeover Provisions
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present the first analysis in the literature of the relationship between the quality and reputation of a firm's management and the prevalence of anti-takeover provisions in the...
Provided by Boston College
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Security Analysis of the Native Code in Sun's JDK
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most real software systems are multilingual; that is, they consist of components developed in different programming languages. Multilingual software systems are convenient in practice. Developers...
Provided by Boston College
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Software
BC High Alumni 1.1.1 (Mobile)
December 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
The official Boston College High School alumni app. Join fellow alums connecting through their mobile devices. Access searchable and location based directory, social media, events and more!...
Provided by Boston College High School
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Software
BC High Alumni 1.1.1 (Mobile)
December 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
The official Boston College High School alumni app. Join fellow alums connecting through their mobile devices. Access searchable and location based directory, social media, events and more!...
Provided by Boston College High School
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White Papers
Security Analysis of the Native Code in Sun's JDK
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most real software systems are multilingual; that is, they consist of components developed in different programming languages. Multilingual software systems are convenient in practice. Developers...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Management Quality And Anti-Takeover Provisions
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present the first analysis in the literature of the relationship between the quality and reputation of a firm's management and the prevalence of anti-takeover provisions in the...
Provided by Boston College
-
Software
Boston College: The Church in the 21st Century Center 1.1 (Mobile)
August 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Connect, pray, inspire: The Boston College C21 app is a new and illuminating resource for Catholics to engage and deepen their faith. Experience it for yourself.
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Do Financial Literacy And Mistrust Affect 401(k) Participation?
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The private pension landscape has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, with a decisive shift away from traditional defined benefit plans toward defined contribution plans, primarily...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
The Role Of Private Insurance In Financing Long-Term Care
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Private insurance currently plays a small, but potentially important role in financing the long-term care of the elderly in the United States. Some believe it can be a significant element in a...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
The Financial Crisis And Private Defined Benefit Plans
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Between October 9, 2007 and October 9, 2008, the value of equities in retirement plans dropped by about $4 trillion, with the decline divided equally between defined benefit and 401(k)/Individual...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
How Can We Improve Long-Term Care Financing?
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The system for financing and delivering long-term care in the United States is deeply flawed. While families and government spend more than $200 billion annually for such services, many frail...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
The Financial Crisis And State/Local Defined Benefit Plans
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Equity assets in retirement plans dropped in value by about $4 trillion between October 9, 2007 and October 9, 2008. The decline was divided equally between defined benefit and 401(k)/Individual...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Older Americans On The Go: Financial And Psychological Effects Of Moving
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Moving is an important decision for any homeowner, requiring one to weigh the familiar comforts of a home and neighborhood against the uncertain potential of a new location. A move decision may be...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Does Medicare Part D Protect The Elderly From Financial Risk?
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 added the Part D prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program. This addition, which became effective in 2006, increased Medicare program costs by more...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
How Can Customized Information Change Financial Plans?
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many workers nearing retirement experienced a dramatic decrease in their retirement assets when the stock market crashed in 2008. In order to maintain their expected standard of living in...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Abroad
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
As the United States searches for ways to reform its system of financing long-term care, it may learn from the experiences of other developed nations. In Japan and much of Europe, public benefits...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Institutional Trading, Information Production, And The SEO Discount: A Model Of Seasoned Equity Offerings
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a model of the Seasoned Equity Offering (SEO) process, starting from the SEO announcement, through pre-offer trading, and ending in the offering itself. They use their model to...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Social Bonds And Supplier Allocation Of Resources To Business Customers
August 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses questions about the effect that social bonds between relationship partners have on the way in which a supplier allocates resources to its relationship with a buyer. Two key...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
An Empirical Security Study of the Native Code in the JDK
May 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that the use of native methods in Java defeats Java's guarantees of safety and security, which is why the default policy of Java applets, for example, does not allow loading...
Provided by Trustees of Boston College
-
White Papers
Delayed and Controlled Failures in Tamper-Resistant Software
August 25, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Tamper-Resistant Software (TRS) consists of two functional components: tamper detection and tamper response. Although both are equally critical to the effectiveness of a TRS system, past research...
Provided by Trustees of Boston College
-
White Papers
Is Dividend Smoothing Universal?
August 2, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Starting with Lintner (1956), two important regularities of the dynamics of corporate dividend policy, namely, managerial smoothing of dividends and the reluctance to cut dividends, have been...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Visualizing Proximity Data
May 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the use of Graph Layout Algorithms (GLAs) for visualizing proximity matrices such as obtained in cultural domain analysis. Traditionally, MultiDimensional Scaling (MDS) has...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
The Economic Benefits of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?: Evidence From a Natural Experiment
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires firms with a public float over $75 million during 2002-2004 to file management reports beginning in 2004, but firms with a smaller float in...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative: Final Evaluation Report
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The current paper is the final report in a series of twelve quarterly and annual reports provided to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) by Boston College's Technology and Assessment...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
IPOs Versus Acquisitions And The IPO Valuation Premium Puzzle: An Empirical Analysis
October 15, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Using a hand-collected data set of private firm acquisitions and IPOs (Initial Public Offering), this paper presents an empirical analysis of a private firm's choice between IPOs and acquisitions,...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
A Sensemaking Perspective On The Reality Behind Executives' Perceptions Of IT Business Value
December 6, 2006, 12:00am PST
Although research has made significant strides in last few years in evaluating the performance impacts from Information Technology (IT), a dearth of easily-accessible objective measures,...
Provided by Boston College
-
White Papers
The Role Of Government In Life Cycle Saving And Investing
October 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the role of government in retirement saving and investment, a subset of the larger "Life-cycle" theme of the conference. It is a good time to consider government's role...
Provided by Boston College
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