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Virtual Machine Hosting for Networked Clusters: Building the Foundations for "Autonomic" Orchestration
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Virtualization technology offers powerful resource management mechanisms, including performance-isolating resource schedulers, live migration, and suspend/resume. But how should networked virtual...
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Controlling Dynamic Guests in a Virtual Computing Utility
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtual Machine (VM) technology is rapidly emerging as a new foundation for server resource sharing and application service delivery. Virtual machines are instantiated from images containing...
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Making Scheduling "Cool": Temperature-Aware Workload Placement in Data Centers
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Trends towards consolidation and higher-density computing configurations make the problem of heat management one of the critical challenges in emerging data centers. Conventional approaches to...
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Robust Leasing for Virtual Infrastructure
October 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Lease contracts are a powerful and general abstraction for negotiating and arbitrating control of shared networked resources. This paper addresses failure handling and recovery for leasing...
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Learning Application Models for Utility Resource Planning
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Shared computing utilities allocate compute, network, and storage resources to competing applications on demand. An awareness of the demands and behaviors of the hosted applications can help the...
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Weighted Proximity Best-Joins for Information Retrieval
November 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of efficiently computing weighted proximity best-joins over multiple lists, with applications in information retrieval and extraction. They are given a multi-term...
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Empirical Comparison of Techniques for Automated Failure Diagnosis
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Failures of Internet services and enterprise systems lead to user dissatisfaction and considerable loss of revenue. Manual diagnosis of these failures can be laborious, slow, and expensive. This...
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Fa: A System for Automating Failure Diagnosis
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Failures of Internet services and enterprise systems lead to user dissatisfaction and considerable loss of revenue. Since manual diagnosis is often laborious and slow, there is considerable...
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A Sampling-Based Approach to Optimizing Top-k Queries in Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless sensor networks generate a vast amount of data. This data, however, must be sparingly extracted to conserve energy, usually the most precious resource in battery powered sensors. When...
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MobiCom 2009 Poster: Wireless Network Coding and Concurrent MAC: Are These Approaches Complementary?
May 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol precludes the possibility of concurrent transmissions by two neighboring nodes. There have been some MAC proposals such as CMAP for enabling concurrent transmissions....
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Subscriber Assignment for Wide-Area Content-Based Publish/Subscribe
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors study the problem of assigning subscribers to brokers in a wide-area content-based publish/subscribe system. A good assignment should consider both subscriber interests in the event...
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I/O-Efficient Statistical Computing With RIOT
October 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Statistical analysis of massive data is becoming indispensable to science, commerce, and society today. Such analysis requires efficient, flexible storage support and special optimization...
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Many-to-Many Aggregation for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless sensor networks have enormous potential to aid data collection in a number of areas, such as environmental and wildlife research. In this paper, the authors address the challenges of...
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On the Database/Network Interface in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The work performed by a publish/subscribe system can conceptually be divided into subscription processing and notification dissemination. Traditionally, research in the database and networking...
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A Survey of Join-Processing in Datastreams
June 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Stream join is a fundamental operation for relating information from different streams. For example, given two stream of packets seen by network monitors placed at two routers, people can join the...
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Query Suspend and Resume
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and people need to run it...
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Energy-Efficient Continuous Isoline Queries in Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Environmental monitoring is a promising application for sensor networks. Many scenarios produce geographically correlated readings, making them visually interesting and good targets for the...
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Compact Reachability Labeling for Graph-Structured Data
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Testing reachability between nodes in a graph is a well-known problem with many important applications, including knowledge representation, program analysis, and more recently, biological and...
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Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
The digital age has brought sweeping changes to the news media. While online consumption of news is on the rise, fewer people today read newspapers. Newspaper advertising revenues fell by a total...
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Starfish: A Selftuning System for Big Data Analytics
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
Timely and cost-effective analytics over "Big Data" is now a key ingredient for success in many businesses, scientific and engineering disciplines, and government endeavors. The Hadoop software...
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Grand Challenge: Experiment-Driven Adaptive Systems
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The collection, maintenance, and use of instrumentation data from systems is a central theme in autonomic computing research. Instrumentation data, collected through various sensors, can be used...
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Time-consistent Majority Rules And Heterogenous Preferences In Group Decision-making
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies a collective decision problem in which a group of individuals with interdependent preferences vote whether or not to implement a public project of unknown value. A utilitarian...
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Quality, Upgrades, And Equilibrium In A Dynamic Monopoly Model
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine an infinite horizon model of quality growth in a durable goods monopoly market. The monopolist generates new quality improvements over time and can sell any available...
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Herding Versus Hotelling: Market Entry With Costly Information
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why do businesses such as fast-food restaurants, coffee shops, and hotels cluster? In the classic analysis of Hotelling, firms cluster to attract consumers who have travel costs. The authors...
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Quality, Upgrades, And (The Loss Of) Market Power In A Dynamic Monopoly Model
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine an infinite horizon model of quality growth in a durable goods monopoly market. The monopolist generates new quality improvements over time and can sell any available...
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Harnessing Virtual Machine Resource Control for Job Management
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Virtual machine technology promises important benefits for grid computing and cluster batch job systems, including improved isolation, customizable workspaces, and support for checkpointing and...
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MobiNet: A Scalable Emulation Infrastructure for Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks
August 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The current state of the art in evaluating applications and communication protocols for ad hoc wireless networks usually involves either simulation or small-scale live deployment. Larger-scale...
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Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System
August 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is an emerging industrial standard for network-attached storage. DAFS takes advantage of new user-level net-work interface standards. This enables a user-level...
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Have Economic Models' Forecasting Performance For US Output Growth And Inflation Changed Over Time, And When?
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors evaluate various economic models' relative performance in forecasting future US output growth and inflation on a monthly basis. The approach takes into account the possibility that the...
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The Impact Of The U.S. Financial Crisis On Global Retail Lending
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the effects of the U.S. financial crisis on global lending to retail customers. In particular the authors examine retail bank lending in Germany taking advantage of a unique...
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Payoff Complementarities And Financial Fragility - Evidence From Mutual Fund Outflows
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper provides empirical evidence on the effect of strategic complementarities on investors' behavior in financial markets. The authors derive empirical implications from a global-game model...
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Quantifying Resiliency of IaaS Cloud
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud based services may experience changes - internal, external, large, small - at any time. Predicting and quantifying the effects on the quality-of-service during and after a change are...
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Capital Gains Tax Overhang And Payout Policy
January 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Jin (2006) documents that tax-sensitive institutional investors with large embedded capital gains are reluctant to sell their shares, creating upward stock price pressure. This price pressure...
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Designing a Rate-Based Transport Protocol for Wired-Wireless Networks
July 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A large majority of the Internet traffic relies on TCP as its transport protocol. In future, as the edge of the Internet continues to extend over the wireless medium, TCP (or its close variants)...
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No Time to Countdown: Migrating Backoff to the Frequency Domain
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Conventional WiFi networks perform channel contention in time domain. This is known to be wasteful because the channel is forced to remain idle, while all contending nodes are backing off for...
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Precise Indoor Localization Using PHY Layer Information
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper shows the viability of precise indoor localization using physical layer information in WiFi systems. The authors find that channel frequency responses across multiple OFDM subcarriers...
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Mobicom Poster: SurroundSense: Mobile Phone Localization Using Ambient Sound and Light
January 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
Proliferating mobile phones provide a foundation for revolutionary innovations in people-centric computing. Numerous applications are on the rise, many of which exploit the phone's location as the...
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For Here or to Go: Predicting Client Dwell Time in WiFi Hotspots
June 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Modern mobile phones provide a plethora of sensors, enabling high-resolution measurement of the user's behavior. Further, user behaviors are not random-detailed measurements of current activities...
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Characterizing Intrusion Tolerant Systems Using a State Transition Model
June 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Intrusion detection and response research has so far mostly concentrated on known and well-defined attacks. The authors believe that this narrow focus of attacks accounts for both the successes...
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A Hierarchical Model to Evaluate Quality of Experience of Online Services Hosted by Cloud Computing
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As online service providers utilize cloud computing to host their services, they are challenged by evaluating the quality of experience and designing redirection strategies in this complicated...
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Equilibrium Prices In The Presence Of Delegated Portfolio Management
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the asset pricing implications of commonly-used portfolio management contracts linking the compensation of fund managers to the excess return of the managed portfolio over a...
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Earnings Announcements Are Full Of Surprises
January 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Earnings Announcement Return (EAR) captures the market reaction to unexpected information contained in the company's earnings release. Besides the actual earnings news, this includes...
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Managerial Overconfidence And Corporate Policies
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Miscalibration is a standard measure of overconfidence in both psychology and economics. Although it is often used in lab experiments, there is scarcity of evidence about its effects in practice....
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact Of Chinese Imports On Innovation And Information Technology
February 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is a popular belief that Chinese imports have devastated US and European manufacturing and contributed to rising inequality. Somewhat paradoxically, the consensus amongst empirical...
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With Or Without U? - The Appropriate Test For A U Shaped Relationship.
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Non-linear relationships are common in economic theory, and such relationships are also frequently tested empirically. The author argues that the usual test of non-linear relationships is flawed,...
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Evaluation Of Supply Chains With Inventory Record Inaccuracy And Implications On IT Investments
March 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
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Single-Stage Bounds For Optimal Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Non-Stationary Demand
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a two-stage serial inventory system with a finite planning horizon. The downstream stage, referred to as stage 1, orders from stage 2, which orders from an external supplier...
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Optimizing Replenishment Intervals For Two-Echelon Distribution Systems With Fixed Order Costs
March 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a periodic-review inventory system with one warehouse and N non-identical retailers. Each location has a positive lead time and orders according to a base-stock policy in...
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Coordination Mechanisms In Decentralized Serial Inventory Systems With Batch Ordering
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial supply chain in which materials are ordered and shipped according to R(nQ) policies. Three information scenarios are considered, depending on the level...
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Evaluation Of Cycle-Count Policies For Supply Chains With Inventory Inaccuracy And Implications On RFID Investments
November 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
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Business Incubators And Market-Oriented Socio-Economic Development In Emerging Market Economies
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Business incubators present an increasingly popular approach to attempting to develop private sector businesses in emerging market economies. However, little is known about the nature of incubator...
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The Hollow Corporation Revisited: Can Governance Mechanisms Substitute For Technical Expertise In Managing Buyer-Supplier Relationships?
October 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers how a firm's system of exchange skills including internal technical expertise and supplier governance mechanisms influence supplier performance, both independently and...
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Improving Supply Chain Performance: Real-Time Demand Information And Flexible Deliveries
July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In some supply chains, materials are ordered periodically according to local information. This paper investigates how to improve the performance of such a supply chain. Specifically, the authors...
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Collateral, Risk Management, And The Distribution Of Debt Capacity
April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Collateral constraints imply that financing and risk management are fundamentally linked. The opportunity cost of engaging in risk management and conserving debt capacity to hedge future financing...
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Household Risk Management
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Households risk management, that is, households' insurance against adverse shocks to income, assets, and financing needs, is limited and often completely absent, in particular for poor households....
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The Power Of Voice: Managerial Affective States And Future Firm Performance
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
They authors measure managerial affective states during earnings conference calls by analyzing conference call audio files using vocal emotion analysis software. They hypothesize and find that...
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Innovating Through Acquisition And Internal Development: A Quarter-Century Of Boundary Evolution At Johnson & Johnson
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses how firms innovate within and across firm boundaries by reconfiguring their resources and business units over time. Focusing on acquisitions and internal development as key...
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Disentangling The Influences Of Leaders' Relational Embeddedness On Interorganizational Exchange
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on the concept of relational embeddedness and the associated mechanisms of mutual understanding, trust, and commitment, the authors examine how leaders' prior exchange experiences...
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Buyer Intention To Use Internet-Enabled Reverse Auctions: The Role Of Asset Specificity, Product Specialization, And Non-Contractibility
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Information technology enabled exchanges in electronic markets have significant implications for buyer - supplier relationships. Building on studies that emphasize the role of intangible assets in...
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Physician-Industry Cooperation In The Medical Device Industry
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Anecdotal evidence suggests that innovative medical devices often arise from physicians' inventive activity, but no studies have documented the extent of such physician engaged innovation. This...
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Lessons From India In Organizational Innovation: A Tale Of Two Heart Hospitals
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent discussions in health reform circles have pinned great hopes on the prospect of innovation as the solution to the high-cost, inadequate-quality U.S. health system. But U.S. health care...
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Complementarity, Capabilities, And The Boundaries Of The Firm: The Impact Of Within-Firm And Interfirm Expertise On Concurrent Sourcing Of Complementary Components
February 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Theories of the firm raise conflicting arguments about how complementarities between two or more components affect firms' knowledge and production boundaries. Traditional arguments in the...
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Talk, Think, Read (If Absolutely Necessary): The Impact Of Social, Personal, And Documentary Knowledge On Task Performance
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The organizational memory literature has compared social sources to documentary archives as potential sources of knowledge that decision makers can use when they seek information needed to carry...
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Structural Homophily Or Social Asymmetry? The Formation Of Alliances By Poorly Embedded Firms
September 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than...
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When The Social Structure Overshadows Competitive Incentives: The Effects Of Network Embeddedness On Joint Venture Dissolution
December 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
The embeddedness of interfirm relationships in the social structure can engender order in new tie formation, but competitive incentives may undermine the order that firms seek to achieve and lead...
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Scouts And Integrators: The Joint Effect Of Network Density And Firm Centrality On Business Innovativeness In Buyer-Supplier Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Several studies in the social networks literature suggest that more central firms in a given network will be more innovative, but the literature not considered how variation in network density...
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Inventory In Vertical Relationships With Private Information And Interdependent Values
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies if borrowers optimally conserve debt capacity to take advantage of investment opportunities due to temporarily low asset prices, when financing is subject to collateral...
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Collateral, Financial Intermediation, And The Distribution Of Debt Capacity
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes an empirical implementation of the consumption-investment problem using the martingale representation alternative to dynamic programming. The method outlined is based on the...
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Political Connections And Business Strategy
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a model that considers a moral hazard setup wherein leveraged firms have incentives to take on excessive risks and are thus rationed when they attempt to borrow in order to...
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Cointegration And Long-Run Asset Allocation
May 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
violations of the expectations hypothesis in bond and foreign exchange markets. The authors argue that key economic channels featured in the long-run risks model - long-run growth fluctuations and...
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Moral Hazard, Collateral And Liquidity
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
ously account for key asset price puzzles in bond, currency and equity markets.
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Risk And Return In Bond, Currency And Equity Markets
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a general equilibrium long-run risks model that can simultane-
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External Resource Sourcing: Does Experience Help Firms Select Governance Modes?
November 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores whether firms make better governance choices as they gain experience in different modes of governing external resource sourcing, modes that include acquisitions, alliances, and...
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Private Information, Limited Commitment, And Risk Sharing
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores a model that considers an exchange economy with a continuum of agents, each of whom is subject to idiosyncratic endowment shocks. It studies efficient allocations subject to...
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Compatibility, Interoperability, And Market Power In Upgrade Markets
January 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the market power of a seller who repeatedly offers upgraded versions of a product. In the case of pure monopoly, the seller also controls compatibility across versions. In the...
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When It Cannot Get Better Or Worse: The Asymmetric Impact Of Good And Bad News On Bond Returns
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines empirically the response of bond returns and their volatility to good and bad macroeconomic news in economic expansions and recessions. This paper finds that the information...
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Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty In Stock And Bond Markets
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper establishes an empirical link between the ex-ante uncertainty about macroeconomic fundamentals and the ex-post resolution of this uncertainty in financial markets. It measures...
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Risks For The Long Run: Estimation And Inference
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically evaluates the ability of the long-run risks model to explain asset returns. Exploiting asset pricing Euler equations this paper shows methods developed for estimating the...
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Learning, Long-Run Risks And Asset Price Jumps
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a long-run risks based general equilibrium model in which asset prices exhibit large infrequent moves (i.e. jumps), similar to those observed in the data. Investors in this...
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How Active Collaboration Affects Innovation Adoption By Weaker And Stronger Firms
July 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Existing research fails to explain why firms with weaker capabilities sometimes reach innovation adoption levels similar to those of their stronger competitors, even for competence enhancing...
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