- Subscribe to this page:
- RSS
- Email Alert
Ohio State University (Fisher)
(33 results)-
White Papers
Geography And The Market For CEOs
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines the role of geography in the labor market for CEOs. Beginning with investigating the joint distribution of CEO state of origin and firm headquarters location and find that the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?
September 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents evidence on whether managerial entrenchment affects workers' pay, using a large panel dataset that matches public firms with detailed data on their subsidiaries and workers....
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Shareholder Rights, Boards, And CEO Compensation
February 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
The paper analyzes the role of executive compensation in corporate governance. As proxies for corporate governance, it uses board size, board independence, CEO-chair duality, institutional...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Founder-CEOs, Investment Decisions, And Stock Market Performance
September 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Eleven percent of the largest public U.S. firms are headed by the CEO who founded the firm. Founder-CEO firms differ systematically from successor-CEO firms. Founder-CEO firms invest more in R&D,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Do Investors Rely Only On Ratings? The Case Of Mortgage-Backed Securities
November 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents evidence that the prices at origination of residential mortgage backed securities contain information on the quality of the underlying asset pools above what is rejected in the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Do Financial Counseling Mandates Improve Mortgage Choice And Performance?
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper explores the effects of mandatory third-party review of mortgage contracts on the terms, availability, and performance of mortgage credit. Study is based on a legislative experiment in...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Financial Constraints, Inflated Home Prices, And Borrower Default During The Real-Estate Boom
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
During the housing boom, many subprime home buyers were not able to make a mortgage down payment and therefore were at risk of being rationed from the market. To resolve the issue, some buyers,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Corporate Financial And Investment Policies When Future Financing Is Not Frictionless
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper studies a model in which future financing constraints lead firms to have a preference for investments with shorter payback periods, investments with less risk, and investments that...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Changes In Bank Ownership Structure On The Allocation Of Capital
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A new wave of bank privatizations has significantly changed the ownership structure of banking systems around the world. This paper explores how these changes affect the efficiency of capital...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Why Do U.S. Firms Hold So Much More Cash Than They Used To?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The average cash-to-assets ratio for U.S. industrial firms more than double from 1980 to 2006. A measure of the economic importance of this increase is that at the end of the sample period, the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Does Corporate Culture Matter For Firm Policies?
January 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
Economic theories suggest that a firm's corporate culture matters for its policy choices. Constructing a parent-spinoff firm panel dataset that identify culture effects in firm policies from...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Economic Nationalism In Mergers & Acquisitions
April 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the government reaction to large corporate merger attempts in the European Union during 1997-2006 using hand-collected data. It documents widespread economic nationalism in...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Thriving In The Midst Of Financial Distress? An Analysis Of Firms Exposed To Asbestos Litigation
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Asbestos litigation is one of the most important mass tort litigations in the history of the United States. The paper analyze a comprehensive sample of 270 firms that were exposed to an...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Diving Into Dark Pools
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines unique data on dark pool activity for a large cross-section of US stocks in 2009. Dark pool activity is concentrated in large firms, stocks with high share volume, high price,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Role Of Boards Of Directors In Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey
April 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors, with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
How Do Investors Value IT? An Empirical Investigation Of The Value Relevance Of IT Capability
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on the resource-based theory of the firm and using Ohlson's (1995) residual income valuation framework, this paper investigates the relationships between IT Capability, IT spending and...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
IT Security Controls Quality And Firm Performance: A Strategic Liability Lens
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The information systems literature and the public press has called for organizations to more closely scrutinize their information technology (IT) security controls; however, little more than...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Learning To Cope: Voluntary Financial Education And Loan Performance During A Housing Crisis
May 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
At the end of 2009, delinquency and default rates on individual home mortgages had reached unprecedented levels. This wave of defaults reflected a vicious combination of a deep recession, a burst...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Does The Growing Presence Of Large Domestic Blockholders Around The World Affect Bank Performance?
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Large-scale bank privatizations over the past ten years have resulted in increased foreign and domestic blockholder ownership of banks. This paper explores how these changes in bank ownership...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Power Of Touch: An Examination Of Effect Of Duration Of Physical Contact On Valuation Of Objects
August 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The duration of ownership has been shown to increase the valuation of items a person currently owns as well as items they have owned in the past, a phenomenon termed the "length-of-ownership...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Role Of Explicit And Tacit Knowledge In Process Improvement
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically examines the role of knowledge creation mechanisms in process improvement projects. Using scales adapted from the knowledge management literature, the author collected data...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Explaining Anomalous High Performance In A Health Care Supply Chain
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How can independent organizations, in a supply chain, coordinate and collaborate in a process improvement endeavor, in the absence of financial or contractual mechanisms to enforce compliance...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
An Investigation Of The Value Of Cross-Docking For Supply Chain Management
July 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cross-docking is a strategy used to reduce the time that inventory spends in the supply chain. This is achieved by accelerating inventory flow via the receipt of a product at an inbound dock and...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Business Strategies And Manufacturing Decisions: An Empirical Examination Of Linkages
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to investigate whether linkages, proposed by previous researchers, among business strategies and structural and infrastructural investment decisions of manufacturing are...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Defining And Developing Measures Of Lean Production
January 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
The paper addresses the confusion and inconsistency associated with ''lean production.'' The author attempts to clarify the semantic confusion surrounding lean production by conducting an...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Quality, Operational Logistics Strategy, And Repurchase Intentions: A Profile Deviation Analysis
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The last decade has seen an increased focus on eBusiness as a method to create customer-driven value in a firm's logistics operations (e.g., Boyer and Olson 2002; Esper et al. 2003; Rodrigues,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Managing Internet Product Returns: A Focus On Effective Service Operations
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Product returns present one of the biggest operational challenges in world of Internet retailing due to the sheer volume and cost of processing returns. But returns also represent an often-missed...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Impact Of Information Technology Integration & Lean/Just-In-Time Practices On Lead-Time Performance
May 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Managers seeking to improve lead-time performance are challenged by how to balance resources and investments between process improvement achieved through lean/just-in-time (JIT) practices and...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Recursive Behavior Of Safety Stock Reduction: The Effect Of Lead-Time Uncertainty
May 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Motivated by a recent paper on the effect of lead-time variability reduction on safety stocks, this paper provides evidence of the recursive nature of safety stock changes. When lead times follow...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Supply Chains and Segment Profitability: How Input Pricing Creates a Latent Cross-Segment Subsidy
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on developing more precise accounting measures of market- and customer-level profitability. These efforts are aimed at helping prune unprofitable...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
Webcasts
The Early History Of Financial Economics
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Geoffrey Poitras discusses financial economics during the years 1478-1776 and relates history to present day.
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
Webcasts
Theory of Corporate Finance in the 1950's and 1960's
November 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
Professor Stuart Myers discusses corporate finance and the foundations that we now take for granted today.
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Pay For Performance From Future Fund Flows: The Case Of Private Equity
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Lifetime incomes of private equity general partners are affected by their current funds' performance through both carried interest profit sharing provisions, and also by the effect of the current...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Pay For Performance From Future Fund Flows: The Case Of Private Equity
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Lifetime incomes of private equity general partners are affected by their current funds' performance through both carried interest profit sharing provisions, and also by the effect of the current...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
Webcasts
Theory of Corporate Finance in the 1950's and 1960's
November 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
Professor Stuart Myers discusses corporate finance and the foundations that we now take for granted today.
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
Webcasts
The Early History Of Financial Economics
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Geoffrey Poitras discusses financial economics during the years 1478-1776 and relates history to present day.
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Supply Chains and Segment Profitability: How Input Pricing Creates a Latent Cross-Segment Subsidy
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on developing more precise accounting measures of market- and customer-level profitability. These efforts are aimed at helping prune unprofitable...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Recursive Behavior Of Safety Stock Reduction: The Effect Of Lead-Time Uncertainty
May 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Motivated by a recent paper on the effect of lead-time variability reduction on safety stocks, this paper provides evidence of the recursive nature of safety stock changes. When lead times follow...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Impact Of Information Technology Integration & Lean/Just-In-Time Practices On Lead-Time Performance
May 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Managers seeking to improve lead-time performance are challenged by how to balance resources and investments between process improvement achieved through lean/just-in-time (JIT) practices and...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Managing Internet Product Returns: A Focus On Effective Service Operations
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Product returns present one of the biggest operational challenges in world of Internet retailing due to the sheer volume and cost of processing returns. But returns also represent an often-missed...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Quality, Operational Logistics Strategy, And Repurchase Intentions: A Profile Deviation Analysis
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The last decade has seen an increased focus on eBusiness as a method to create customer-driven value in a firm's logistics operations (e.g., Boyer and Olson 2002; Esper et al. 2003; Rodrigues,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Defining And Developing Measures Of Lean Production
January 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
The paper addresses the confusion and inconsistency associated with ''lean production.'' The author attempts to clarify the semantic confusion surrounding lean production by conducting an...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Business Strategies And Manufacturing Decisions: An Empirical Examination Of Linkages
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to investigate whether linkages, proposed by previous researchers, among business strategies and structural and infrastructural investment decisions of manufacturing are...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
An Investigation Of The Value Of Cross-Docking For Supply Chain Management
July 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cross-docking is a strategy used to reduce the time that inventory spends in the supply chain. This is achieved by accelerating inventory flow via the receipt of a product at an inbound dock and...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Explaining Anomalous High Performance In A Health Care Supply Chain
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
How can independent organizations, in a supply chain, coordinate and collaborate in a process improvement endeavor, in the absence of financial or contractual mechanisms to enforce compliance...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Role Of Explicit And Tacit Knowledge In Process Improvement
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically examines the role of knowledge creation mechanisms in process improvement projects. Using scales adapted from the knowledge management literature, the author collected data...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Power Of Touch: An Examination Of Effect Of Duration Of Physical Contact On Valuation Of Objects
August 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The duration of ownership has been shown to increase the valuation of items a person currently owns as well as items they have owned in the past, a phenomenon termed the "length-of-ownership...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Does The Growing Presence Of Large Domestic Blockholders Around The World Affect Bank Performance?
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Large-scale bank privatizations over the past ten years have resulted in increased foreign and domestic blockholder ownership of banks. This paper explores how these changes in bank ownership...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Learning To Cope: Voluntary Financial Education And Loan Performance During A Housing Crisis
May 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
At the end of 2009, delinquency and default rates on individual home mortgages had reached unprecedented levels. This wave of defaults reflected a vicious combination of a deep recession, a burst...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
IT Security Controls Quality And Firm Performance: A Strategic Liability Lens
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The information systems literature and the public press has called for organizations to more closely scrutinize their information technology (IT) security controls; however, little more than...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
How Do Investors Value IT? An Empirical Investigation Of The Value Relevance Of IT Capability
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on the resource-based theory of the firm and using Ohlson's (1995) residual income valuation framework, this paper investigates the relationships between IT Capability, IT spending and...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Role Of Boards Of Directors In Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey
April 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors, with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Diving Into Dark Pools
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines unique data on dark pool activity for a large cross-section of US stocks in 2009. Dark pool activity is concentrated in large firms, stocks with high share volume, high price,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Thriving In The Midst Of Financial Distress? An Analysis Of Firms Exposed To Asbestos Litigation
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Asbestos litigation is one of the most important mass tort litigations in the history of the United States. The paper analyze a comprehensive sample of 270 firms that were exposed to an...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Economic Nationalism In Mergers & Acquisitions
April 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the government reaction to large corporate merger attempts in the European Union during 1997-2006 using hand-collected data. It documents widespread economic nationalism in...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Does Corporate Culture Matter For Firm Policies?
January 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
Economic theories suggest that a firm's corporate culture matters for its policy choices. Constructing a parent-spinoff firm panel dataset that identify culture effects in firm policies from...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Why Do U.S. Firms Hold So Much More Cash Than They Used To?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The average cash-to-assets ratio for U.S. industrial firms more than double from 1980 to 2006. A measure of the economic importance of this increase is that at the end of the sample period, the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Changes In Bank Ownership Structure On The Allocation Of Capital
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A new wave of bank privatizations has significantly changed the ownership structure of banking systems around the world. This paper explores how these changes affect the efficiency of capital...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Corporate Financial And Investment Policies When Future Financing Is Not Frictionless
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper studies a model in which future financing constraints lead firms to have a preference for investments with shorter payback periods, investments with less risk, and investments that...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Financial Constraints, Inflated Home Prices, And Borrower Default During The Real-Estate Boom
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
During the housing boom, many subprime home buyers were not able to make a mortgage down payment and therefore were at risk of being rationed from the market. To resolve the issue, some buyers,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Do Financial Counseling Mandates Improve Mortgage Choice And Performance?
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper explores the effects of mandatory third-party review of mortgage contracts on the terms, availability, and performance of mortgage credit. Study is based on a legislative experiment in...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Do Investors Rely Only On Ratings? The Case Of Mortgage-Backed Securities
November 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents evidence that the prices at origination of residential mortgage backed securities contain information on the quality of the underlying asset pools above what is rejected in the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Founder-CEOs, Investment Decisions, And Stock Market Performance
September 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Eleven percent of the largest public U.S. firms are headed by the CEO who founded the firm. Founder-CEO firms differ systematically from successor-CEO firms. Founder-CEO firms invest more in R&D,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Shareholder Rights, Boards, And CEO Compensation
February 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
The paper analyzes the role of executive compensation in corporate governance. As proxies for corporate governance, it uses board size, board independence, CEO-chair duality, institutional...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?
September 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents evidence on whether managerial entrenchment affects workers' pay, using a large panel dataset that matches public firms with detailed data on their subsidiaries and workers....
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
-
White Papers
Geography And The Market For CEOs
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines the role of geography in the labor market for CEOs. Beginning with investigating the joint distribution of CEO state of origin and firm headquarters location and find that the...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
Keep Up with TechRepublic
Upcoming Webcasts
Upcoming webcasts from leading IT vendors
-
2012-05-24 at 11:00 am PT | 2:00 pm ET
Live Webcast: The 2012 Guide to Better Business Benefits from Data Analytics
Sponsored by Tableau Software
-
2012-06-05 at 11:00 am PT | 2:00 pm ET
Live Webcast: Getting to Microsoft Office 365: The right migration for your business
Sponsored by Microsoft
-
2012-06-12 at 9:00 am PT | 12:00 pm ET
Live Webcast: WebSphere DataPower for Mobile Application Security
Sponsored by IBM
Submit a Paper
Get your content listed in our directory!
Our directory is the largest library of vendor-supplied technical content on the Web. It’s also the first place IT decision makers turn to when researching technology solutions. Our members are already finding your competitors’ papers here - shouldn’t they find yours, too? It's FREE so click here and submit your white paper, case study, data sheet, research report, or other document today!
