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High Fidelity Denial of Service (DoS) Experimentation
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Experimentation with security attacks introduces additional requirements compared to traditional networking and distributed system experiments. High capacity attack flows can push systems beyond...
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Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes a network-based denial of service attack for IP (Internet Protocol) based networks. It is popularly called SYN flooding. It works by an attacker sending many TCP (Transmission...
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Hashing Techniques for Mobile Device Forensics
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Previous research conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has shown that mobile device internal memory hash values are variable when performing back-to-back acquisitions....
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Towards Optimizing Hadoop Provisioning in the Cloud
May 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data analytics is becoming increasingly prominent in a variety of application areas ranging from extracting business intelligence to processing data from scientific studies. MapReduce programming...
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Analyzing and Comparing the Protection Quality of Security Enhanced Operating Systems
January 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Host compromise is a serious computer security problem today. To better protect hosts, several Mandatory Access Control systems, such as Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and AppArmor, have been...
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Supporting Real-World Activities in Database Management Systems
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The cycle of processing the data in many application domains is complex and may involve real-world activities that are external to the database, e.g., wet-lab experiments, instrument readings, and...
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TraXplorer: Multi-Focus Interaction in Time-Series Data Visualization
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information visualization shows tremendous potential for helping both expert and casual users alike make sense of temporal data, but current time series visualization tools provide poor support...
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Real-Time Data Delivery and Remote Visualization Through Multi-Layer Interfaces
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The high resolution NEXRAD Level II data provides critical information for researchers and the broader community to understand, monitor, and predict weather in a timely manner. There are several...
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Strategic Planning White Paper: Student Access and Success Working Group in College of Agriculture
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Purdue Agriculture has an excellent national and international reputation for providing a great education for its students. Many of the programs are among the top tier in the country and the...
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Stochastic TCP: A Statistical Approach to Congestion Avoidance
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
High speed wide area networks offer a challenging environment for transmission protocols seeking an optimal balance between efficiency and fairness. Poor TCP performance in these environments is...
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Case Studies
Emulation Versus Simulation: A Case Study of TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This case study speaks about the application of simulation and emulation in the attack experimentation of Denial of Service (DoS). For this purpose, a low-rate TCP-targeted DoS attack has been...
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Work in Progress - Using Graphical Programming Languages in the Introductory Programming Course
July 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
First year engineering students are noted to have either a strong dislike for programming or an inability to write effective programs. This poses a problem, since many engineering departments...
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Alchemist: A Transparent Dependence Distance Profiling Infrastructure
December 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes event-based software that provide new opportunities for automatic refactoring such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), web applications, and network protocols. Techniques...
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Determinants Of Export Growth In Transition Economy Firms: Institutions, Aspirations, Incentives, And Inertia
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exports are an important source of revenue, especially in transitional economies. To better understand export growth, the paper examines the influence of institutional development, managerial...
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Some Evidence On The Nature And Growth Of Input Trade
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors examine the determinants of input trade. They employ an extension of a widely used model of intermediate input trade in which inputs and final goods are considered...
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A Symmetry Hypothesis And Measurement Biases In The Factor Content Of Trade
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Laura Puzzello revisits Reimer (2006), and Trefler and Zhu (2005, 2006) (RTZ) tests of the Vanek proposition in the presence of international differences in production techniques and global...
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Hedging Price Volatility Using Fast Transport
February 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Purchasing goods from distant locations introduces a significant lag between when a product is shipped and when it arrives. These transit lags are trade barriers for firms facing volatile demand,...
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The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
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Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures....
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Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
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The Social Construction Of The Responsible Corporate Citizen: Sustainability Reports Of The Global Automotive Firms
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The constitutive meanings of responsible corporate environmental citizenship are to be found in global discourses. The author uses Gubrium and Holstein's framework on interpretive practice to...
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A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
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An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
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Economic Performance And Enterprise Culture
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of economic performance on national culture and specifically, whether higher levels of economic performance contribute to the formation of an "Enterprise" culture...
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Large Shareholder Diversification And Corporate Risk-Taking
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, the paper reconstructs the equity portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. This...
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The Efficiency Cost Of Child Tax Benefits
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Families with children receive preferential treatment in the U.S. federal income tax. Over the past 15 years, the real value of child tax benefits approximately doubled reaching nearly $1,900 per...
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White Papers
Does Web Disclosure Matter?
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper to examine the way in which corporate website disclosures complement or substitute for firm-specific information provided by other sources- and how they affect the stock...
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Do Information Security Disclosures Reflect Future Incidents?
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how the nature of security related disclosures in financial reports is associated with breach announcements in the subsequent period. First build a decision tree to...
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Does The Exchange Rate Belong In Monetary Policy Rules? New Answers From a DSGE Model With Endogenous Tradability And Trade Frictions
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a 2-region DSGE model that integrates the theory of comparative advantage or endogenous tradability into a monetary model with nominal and real rigidities. The author fined...
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The Role Of External Accountants In Start-Up Firms
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Examining survey responses compiled from individuals in the process of starting a business, this study investigates factors influencing an entrepreneur's choice to hire an accountant to prepare...
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The Dynamics Of Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
In the current knowledge driven business environment, sustainable competitive advantage is enabled through efficient management of intellectual resources (Ashworth et al. 2004; Kogut and Zander...
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White Papers
The Commodity Terms Of Trade, Unit Roots, And Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper extends the recent literature on the Prebisch - Singer hypothesis of a long-run decline in the relative prices of primary commodities. The main innovation is testing for and estimating...
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An Interface-Driven Analysis Of User Behavior Of An Electronic Health Records System
March 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the user behavior of an electronic health records (EHR) system by discovering sequential usage patterns in clinicians' day-to-day interaction with the system's software user...
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Product Personalization And Customer Service Cost: An Empirical Analysis
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper conduct a field study to examine how personalizing a product affects a firm's cost to serve the customers through its call center. In this setting, the product is a health insurance...
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The Effect Of Regulator Oversight On Firms' Information Environment
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the content and determinants of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comment letters and then examines whether the resolution of the letter affects both the firm's...
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Participation Equality: Measurement Within Collaborative Electronic Environments- A Three Country Study
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
While the engendering of participation equality is generally viewed as a desirable group process attribute, findings from prior empirical research are both inconsistent and inconclusive regarding...
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Participation Input And Participation Equality Within Cross-Cultural Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The current study measured the influence of national culture, anonymity levels, and technological support (CMC and non-CMC) upon participation input and participation equality within and between...
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Coalitional Colonel Blotto Games With Application To The Economics Of Alliances
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines a multi-player and multi-front Colonel Blotto game in which one player, A, simultaneously competes in two disjoint Colonel Blotto games, against two separate opponents, 1 and...
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Inefficient Redistribution And Inefficient Redistributive Politics
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the effect of inefficient redistribution in Myerson's (1993) model of redistributive politics. Regardless of the absolute levels of the efficiency of political parties'...
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Price Dynamics In An Exchange Economy
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The pure exchange model is the foundation of the neoclassical theory of value, yet equilibrium predictions and models of price adjustment for this model remained untested prior to the experiment...
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TCP/IP Timing Channels: Theory to Implementation
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There has been significant recent interest in covert communication using timing channels. In network timing channels, information is leaked by controlling the time between transmissions of...
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In Search Of Attention
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Turnover, extreme returns, news and advertising expense are indirect proxies of investor attention. In contrast, the authors propose a direct measure of investor demand for attention - active...
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E-coupons Strategy Problems In Location Based Advertisement
December 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
Location Based Advertisement (LBA) is a new contextual marketing tool which enables advertisers to attract customers more effectively than ever, by sending location-aware advertisements, which are...
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Entry Into Winner-Take-All And Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner take-all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which that same prize...
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Fertility Response To The Tax Treatment Of Children
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm, and Peters (1990), claimed a large positive effect of child tax benefits on fertility using...
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Microfoundations For The Linear Demand Product Differentiation Model, With Applications
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper shows (1) that the Spence-Dixit-Vives model of linear demand for differentiated varieties is implied if supplies of substitutes reduce individual consumers' reservation prices as...
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Wald Tests For Detecting Multiple Structural Changes In Persistence
August 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the problem of testing for multiple structural changes in the persistence of a univariate time series. The authors propose sup-Wald tests of the null hypothesis that the...
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Continuity And Equilibrium Stability
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the problem of stability of equilibrium points in normal form games in the tremling-hand framework. An equilibrium point is called perfect if it is stable against at least one...
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A Refinement Of Perfect Equilibria Based On Substitute Sequences
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose an equilibrium refinement of strict perfect equilibrium for the finite normal form games, which is not known in the literature. Okada came up with the idea of strict perfect...
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Existance Of Perfect Equilibria: A Direct Proof
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors formulate and prove a modification of Eilenberg-Montgomery fixed-point theorem, which is a generalization of Kakutani's theorem. It enables them to provide a direct proof of the...
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Unit Roots, Level Shifts And Trend Breaks In Per Capita Output: A Robust Evaluation
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
Determining whether per capita output can be characterized by a stochastic trend is complicated by the fact that infrequent breaks in trend can bias standard unit root tests towards non-rejection...
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The Alliance Formation Puzzle And Capacity Constraints
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The formation of an alliance in conflict situations is known to suf-fer from a collective action problem and from the potential of internal conflict. Alliances are very common in many applications...
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Is The 50-State Strategy Optimal?
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign...
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Costly Buyer Search In Laboratory Markets With Seller Advertising
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this laboratory experiment sellers simultaneously post prices and choose whether to advertise. Buyers then decide whether to buy from a seller whose advertisement they have received, or engage...
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Strong Valid Inequalities For Orthogonal Disjunctions And Polynomial Covering Sets
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors develop a convexification tool that enables construction of convex hulls for orthogonal disjunctive sets using convex extensions and disjunctive programming techniques....
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Testing For Multiple Structural Changes In Cointegrated Regression Models
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper considers issues related to testing for multiple structural changes in cointegrated systems. The authors derive the limiting distribution of the Sup-Wald test under mild conditions on...
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Sharing Risk Efficiently Under Suboptimal Punishments For Defection
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper studies efficient risk sharing under limited enforcement (or "limited commitment") constraints determined by the threat of punishment after misbehavior. As in Kocherlakota (1996), the...
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White Papers
Price Dynamics In An Exchange Economy
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The pure exchange model is the foundation of the neoclassical theory of value, yet equilibrium predictions and models of price adjustment for this model remained untested prior to the experiment...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Inefficient Redistribution And Inefficient Redistributive Politics
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the effect of inefficient redistribution in Myerson's (1993) model of redistributive politics. Regardless of the absolute levels of the efficiency of political parties'...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Coalitional Colonel Blotto Games With Application To The Economics Of Alliances
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines a multi-player and multi-front Colonel Blotto game in which one player, A, simultaneously competes in two disjoint Colonel Blotto games, against two separate opponents, 1 and...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Participation Input And Participation Equality Within Cross-Cultural Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The current study measured the influence of national culture, anonymity levels, and technological support (CMC and non-CMC) upon participation input and participation equality within and between...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Participation Equality: Measurement Within Collaborative Electronic Environments- A Three Country Study
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
While the engendering of participation equality is generally viewed as a desirable group process attribute, findings from prior empirical research are both inconsistent and inconclusive regarding...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Effect Of Regulator Oversight On Firms' Information Environment
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the content and determinants of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comment letters and then examines whether the resolution of the letter affects both the firm's...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Product Personalization And Customer Service Cost: An Empirical Analysis
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper conduct a field study to examine how personalizing a product affects a firm's cost to serve the customers through its call center. In this setting, the product is a health insurance...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
An Interface-Driven Analysis Of User Behavior Of An Electronic Health Records System
March 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the user behavior of an electronic health records (EHR) system by discovering sequential usage patterns in clinicians' day-to-day interaction with the system's software user...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Commodity Terms Of Trade, Unit Roots, And Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper extends the recent literature on the Prebisch - Singer hypothesis of a long-run decline in the relative prices of primary commodities. The main innovation is testing for and estimating...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Dynamics Of Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
In the current knowledge driven business environment, sustainable competitive advantage is enabled through efficient management of intellectual resources (Ashworth et al. 2004; Kogut and Zander...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Role Of External Accountants In Start-Up Firms
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Examining survey responses compiled from individuals in the process of starting a business, this study investigates factors influencing an entrepreneur's choice to hire an accountant to prepare...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Does The Exchange Rate Belong In Monetary Policy Rules? New Answers From a DSGE Model With Endogenous Tradability And Trade Frictions
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a 2-region DSGE model that integrates the theory of comparative advantage or endogenous tradability into a monetary model with nominal and real rigidities. The author fined...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Do Information Security Disclosures Reflect Future Incidents?
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how the nature of security related disclosures in financial reports is associated with breach announcements in the subsequent period. First build a decision tree to...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Does Web Disclosure Matter?
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper to examine the way in which corporate website disclosures complement or substitute for firm-specific information provided by other sources- and how they affect the stock...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Efficiency Cost Of Child Tax Benefits
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Families with children receive preferential treatment in the U.S. federal income tax. Over the past 15 years, the real value of child tax benefits approximately doubled reaching nearly $1,900 per...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Large Shareholder Diversification And Corporate Risk-Taking
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, the paper reconstructs the equity portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. This...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Economic Performance And Enterprise Culture
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of economic performance on national culture and specifically, whether higher levels of economic performance contribute to the formation of an "Enterprise" culture...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Social Construction Of The Responsible Corporate Citizen: Sustainability Reports Of The Global Automotive Firms
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The constitutive meanings of responsible corporate environmental citizenship are to be found in global discourses. The author uses Gubrium and Holstein's framework on interpretive practice to...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures....
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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