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A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Negotiation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is very important for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) of composite Web services-based business processes. The process of negotiation involves...
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Your Human Resources: What You know: What You Should Know
May 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
What does it take to attract top talent to your workforce? And once you have the best, how do you keep them? All these questions are answered in the paper. The numbers tell the story - boomers...
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Product Market Competition And Boundaries Of The Firm
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the effects of product market competition on firm boundaries. In a duopoly setting, each retailer is associated with a manufacturer who must decide how to allocate property...
Provided by Queen's University
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Transformational Leadership And Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Role Of Meaningful Work
July 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper is based on two studies which investigated the relationship between transformational leadership, the meaning that individuals ascribe to their work, and their psychological well-being....
Provided by Queen's University
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The Compatibility Of Market Models In Cap And Swaption Markets: Evidence From Their Dynamic Hedging Performance
April 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the dynamic hedging performance of one-factor LIBOR and swap market models in both cap/floor and swaption markets. The models were tested in a way similar to the way that these...
Provided by Queen's University
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Risk In Revenue Management And Dynamic Pricing
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a new model for optimal dynamic pricing of perishable services or products that incorporates a simple risk measure permitting control of the probability that total revenues fall...
Provided by Queen's University
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Workplace Aggression In Teenage Part-Time Employees
September 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Among adult employees, interpersonal injustice and abusive supervision predict aggression toward supervisors at work. The paper assesses whether similar relationships exist among teenage employees...
Provided by Queen's University
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How Do Spatial And Social Proximity Influence Knowledge Flows? Evidence From Patent Data
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
The paper examines how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects access to knowledge, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. Employing patent citation data and...
Provided by Queen's University
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Assessing Credit Quality From The Equity Market: Can Structural Approach Forecast Credit Ratings?
April 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper investigates the empirical performance of default probability prediction based on Merton's (1974) structural credit risk model. More specifically, it studies if Merton's default measure,...
Provided by Queen's University
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Knowledge Flows, Labor Mobility, And Enduring Social Relationships
September 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines the role of social relationships in facilitating knowledge flows by estimating the flow premium captured by a mobile inventor's previous location. Once an inventor has moved,...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Why Are IPO investors Net Buyers Through Lead Underwriters
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
In Nasdaq Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) issued between 1997 and 2002, purchases of lead underwriter clients exceed sales by an amount equal to 8.79% of the total issue. It's found that lead...
Provided by Queen's University
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Cargo Revenue Management With Allotments And Spot Market Demand
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper considers a problem faced by an airline that operates a number of parallel flights to transport cargo between a particular origin destination pair. The airline can sell its cargo...
Provided by Queen's University
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Public-Private Partnerships And The Privatization Of Financing: An Incomplete Contracts Approach
July 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Governments have begun to embrace Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) as vehicles for providing public services. This paper considers the controversial question of when private financing of public...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Price Guarantees In Dynamic Pricing And Revenue Management
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
A new model was presented for revenue management of product sales that incorporates both dynamic pricing and a price guarantee. The guarantee provides customers with compensation if, prior to a...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Predicting Workplace Aggression: A Meta-Analysis
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
A meta-analysis was conducted of 57 empirical studies (59 samples) concerning enacted workplace aggression to answer 3 research questions. First, what are the individual and situational predictors...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Pseudo-Transformational Leadership: Towards The Development And Test Of A Model
September 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A model was developed and tested of pseudo-transformational leadership. Pseudo-transformational leadership (i.e., the unethical facet of transformational leadership) is manifested by a particular...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
An Autonomic Web Services Environment Using a Reflective and Database-Oriented Approach
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The growing complexity of Web service platforms and their dynamically varying workloads make manually managing their performance a tough and time consuming task. Autonomic computing systems that...
Provided by Queen's University
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Provider-Independent Use of the Cloud
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Utility computing offers researchers and businesses the potential of significant cost-savings in that it is possible for them to match the cost of their computing and storage to their demand for...
Provided by Queen's University of Belfast
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Legacy System Evolution Towards Service-Oriented Architecture
February 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become popular in recent years, the majority of legacy systems are still not SOA enabled. The increase in the amount of information that companies...
Provided by Queen's University
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A Middleware Solution to Monitoring Composite Web Services-Based Processes
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Web services can be composed to create complex business processes that span multiple organizations. Quality of Service (QoS) of such a process is guaranteed by a set of Service Level Agreements...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
XML Structural Indexes
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
EXtensible Markup Language (XML), which provides a flexible way to define semistructured data, is a de facto standard for information exchange in the World Wide Web. XML employs a tree-structured...
Provided by Queen's University
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A Survey on Requirements and Design Methods for Secure Software Development
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Traditionally, security of software is not considered from the very beginning of a software development life cycle, and it is only incorporated in the later stages of development as an...
Provided by Queen's University
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Methods for Evaluating Software Architecture: A Survey
April 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software architectural evaluation becomes a familiar practice in software engineering community for developing quality software. Architectural evaluation reduces software development effort and...
Provided by Queen's University
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Web Applications Testing
February 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
A study from the Business Internet Group San Francisco (BIG-SF) found approximately 70% of websites contain bugs and suffer some kind of failure; not only commercial websites but also US...
Provided by Queen's University
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A Survey of Analysis Models and Methods in Website Verification and Testing
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Models are considered an essential step in capturing different system behaviors and in simplifying any further analysis required to check or to improve the quality of software. Verification and...
Provided by Queen's University
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Placement of Multiple Mobile Base Stations in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Due to energy constraints in individual sensor nodes, extending the lifetime is an essential objective in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's). Several proposals have aimed at that objective by...
Provided by Queen's University
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Key Distribution Versus Key Enhancement in Quantum Cryptography
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
It has been said that quantum cryptography in general offers a secure solution to the problem of key enhancement. This means that two parties who already share a small secret key, can use quantum...
Provided by Queen's University
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Mutation Operators for Concurrent Java (J2SE 5.0)
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
The current version of Java (J2SE 5.0) provides a high level of support for concurreny in comparison to previous versions. For example, programmers using J2SE 5.0 can now achieve synchronization...
Provided by Queen's University
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A Dimensionality Reduction Technique for Collaborative Filtering
November 27, 2006, 12:00am PST
Recommender systems make suggestions about products or services based on matching known or estimated preferences of users with properties of products or services (content-based), properties of...
Provided by Queen's University
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A Survey on Multi-Hop Cellular Networks
December 23, 2006, 12:00am PST
Wireless mobile communications technology has been evolving rapidly in the past decade. The number of mobile subscribers has reached 2 billions and is expected to reach 3 billions by the end of...
Provided by Queen's University
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Entanglement Verification With Application to Key Distribution Protocols
April 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop an entanglement verification method not based on Bell inequalities, that achieves a higher reliability per number of qubits tested than existing procedures of this kind. Used...
Provided by Queen's University
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A QoS Guided Workflow Scheduling Algorithm for the Grid
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Resource performance in the Computational Grid is not only heterogeneous, but also changing dynamically. However, scheduling algorithms designed for traditional parallel and distributed systems,...
Provided by Queen's University
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Predicting Faults Using the Complexity of Code
February 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Predicting the incidence of faults in code has been commonly associated with measuring complexity. In this paper, the authors propose complexity metrics that are based on the code change process...
Provided by Queen's University
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Growth, Cycles And Welfare: A Schumpeterian Perspective
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a Schumpeterian model in which both the economy's growth rate and its volatility are endogenously determined to assess some welfare and policy implications associated with business...
Provided by Queen's University
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FDI, Exports & Aggregate Productivity
March 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Empirical evidence confirms that trade exposure can shift resources towards the most efficient firms in an industry and induce substantial increases in aggregate productivity. Although studies...
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Distributed Voronoi Diagram Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the problem of computing Voronoi diagrams in the context of wireless sensor networks. Sensors can be seen as points in the plane and the Voronoi diagram of a set of sensors is a...
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Emerging Market Bank Rescues In An Era Of Finance-Led Neoliberalism: A Comparison Of Mexico And Turkey
March 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the current conjuncture, the international community is gripped by the problem of how to mitigate the impact of financial crisis on emerging markets while curbing the drift towards...
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Financial Market Integration And World Economic Stabilization Toward Purchasing Power Parity
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is one of the most important, but empirically controversial theories in international macroeconomics. Although many researchers believe that some variant of PPP holds...
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Search, Distributions, Monetary And Fiscal Policy
August 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the effects of anticipated inflation on the macroeconomic performance and whether the fiscal policy regime matters for such effects. The author constructs a tractable framework...
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Distributed Multimedia Content With P2P JXTA Technology
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
The peer-to-peer paradigm is explored through JXTA technology. In the first section an overview of JXTA peer-to-peer technology is presented. Secondly, an application is built as proof of concept....
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Performance-Driven Symbol Mapping for Downlink and Point-to-Point MIMO Systems
February 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
An adaptive symbol mapping scheme is proposed for single-user point-to-point and multiuser downlink multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems aiming at the minimization of the overall system...
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Localized Topology Control Algorithm With No Geometric Information for Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a localized algorithm (LTCA) for topology control in wireless sensor networks which has certain desirable properties. First, the algorithm is very simple, strictly local...
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Endogenous Bankruptcy And Expected Recovery
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Using a large sample of filings from 1996 to 2007 the authors find that the endogenously determined expected recovery derived from Leland and Toft (1996) has strong explanatory power on debt...
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Distributed Multimedia Content With P2P JXTA Technology
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
The peer-to-peer paradigm is explored through JXTA technology. In the first section an overview of JXTA peer-to-peer technology is presented. Secondly, an application is built as proof of concept....
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Search, Distributions, Monetary And Fiscal Policy
August 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the effects of anticipated inflation on the macroeconomic performance and whether the fiscal policy regime matters for such effects. The author constructs a tractable framework...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Financial Market Integration And World Economic Stabilization Toward Purchasing Power Parity
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is one of the most important, but empirically controversial theories in international macroeconomics. Although many researchers believe that some variant of PPP holds...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Emerging Market Bank Rescues In An Era Of Finance-Led Neoliberalism: A Comparison Of Mexico And Turkey
March 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the current conjuncture, the international community is gripped by the problem of how to mitigate the impact of financial crisis on emerging markets while curbing the drift towards...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Distributed Voronoi Diagram Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the problem of computing Voronoi diagrams in the context of wireless sensor networks. Sensors can be seen as points in the plane and the Voronoi diagram of a set of sensors is a...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Growth, Cycles And Welfare: A Schumpeterian Perspective
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a Schumpeterian model in which both the economy's growth rate and its volatility are endogenously determined to assess some welfare and policy implications associated with business...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Predicting Faults Using the Complexity of Code
February 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Predicting the incidence of faults in code has been commonly associated with measuring complexity. In this paper, the authors propose complexity metrics that are based on the code change process...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
A QoS Guided Workflow Scheduling Algorithm for the Grid
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Resource performance in the Computational Grid is not only heterogeneous, but also changing dynamically. However, scheduling algorithms designed for traditional parallel and distributed systems,...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Entanglement Verification With Application to Key Distribution Protocols
April 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop an entanglement verification method not based on Bell inequalities, that achieves a higher reliability per number of qubits tested than existing procedures of this kind. Used...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
A Survey on Multi-Hop Cellular Networks
December 23, 2006, 12:00am PST
Wireless mobile communications technology has been evolving rapidly in the past decade. The number of mobile subscribers has reached 2 billions and is expected to reach 3 billions by the end of...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
A Dimensionality Reduction Technique for Collaborative Filtering
November 27, 2006, 12:00am PST
Recommender systems make suggestions about products or services based on matching known or estimated preferences of users with properties of products or services (content-based), properties of...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Mutation Operators for Concurrent Java (J2SE 5.0)
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
The current version of Java (J2SE 5.0) provides a high level of support for concurreny in comparison to previous versions. For example, programmers using J2SE 5.0 can now achieve synchronization...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Key Distribution Versus Key Enhancement in Quantum Cryptography
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
It has been said that quantum cryptography in general offers a secure solution to the problem of key enhancement. This means that two parties who already share a small secret key, can use quantum...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Placement of Multiple Mobile Base Stations in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Due to energy constraints in individual sensor nodes, extending the lifetime is an essential objective in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's). Several proposals have aimed at that objective by...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
A Survey of Analysis Models and Methods in Website Verification and Testing
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Models are considered an essential step in capturing different system behaviors and in simplifying any further analysis required to check or to improve the quality of software. Verification and...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Web Applications Testing
February 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
A study from the Business Internet Group San Francisco (BIG-SF) found approximately 70% of websites contain bugs and suffer some kind of failure; not only commercial websites but also US...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Methods for Evaluating Software Architecture: A Survey
April 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software architectural evaluation becomes a familiar practice in software engineering community for developing quality software. Architectural evaluation reduces software development effort and...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
A Survey on Requirements and Design Methods for Secure Software Development
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Traditionally, security of software is not considered from the very beginning of a software development life cycle, and it is only incorporated in the later stages of development as an...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
XML Structural Indexes
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
EXtensible Markup Language (XML), which provides a flexible way to define semistructured data, is a de facto standard for information exchange in the World Wide Web. XML employs a tree-structured...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
A Middleware Solution to Monitoring Composite Web Services-Based Processes
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Web services can be composed to create complex business processes that span multiple organizations. Quality of Service (QoS) of such a process is guaranteed by a set of Service Level Agreements...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Legacy System Evolution Towards Service-Oriented Architecture
February 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become popular in recent years, the majority of legacy systems are still not SOA enabled. The increase in the amount of information that companies...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Provider-Independent Use of the Cloud
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Utility computing offers researchers and businesses the potential of significant cost-savings in that it is possible for them to match the cost of their computing and storage to their demand for...
Provided by Queen's University of Belfast
-
White Papers
An Autonomic Web Services Environment Using a Reflective and Database-Oriented Approach
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The growing complexity of Web service platforms and their dynamically varying workloads make manually managing their performance a tough and time consuming task. Autonomic computing systems that...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Pseudo-Transformational Leadership: Towards The Development And Test Of A Model
September 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A model was developed and tested of pseudo-transformational leadership. Pseudo-transformational leadership (i.e., the unethical facet of transformational leadership) is manifested by a particular...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Predicting Workplace Aggression: A Meta-Analysis
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
A meta-analysis was conducted of 57 empirical studies (59 samples) concerning enacted workplace aggression to answer 3 research questions. First, what are the individual and situational predictors...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Price Guarantees In Dynamic Pricing And Revenue Management
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
A new model was presented for revenue management of product sales that incorporates both dynamic pricing and a price guarantee. The guarantee provides customers with compensation if, prior to a...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Public-Private Partnerships And The Privatization Of Financing: An Incomplete Contracts Approach
July 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Governments have begun to embrace Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) as vehicles for providing public services. This paper considers the controversial question of when private financing of public...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Cargo Revenue Management With Allotments And Spot Market Demand
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper considers a problem faced by an airline that operates a number of parallel flights to transport cargo between a particular origin destination pair. The airline can sell its cargo...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Why Are IPO investors Net Buyers Through Lead Underwriters
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
In Nasdaq Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) issued between 1997 and 2002, purchases of lead underwriter clients exceed sales by an amount equal to 8.79% of the total issue. It's found that lead...
Provided by Queen's University
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White Papers
Gone But Not Forgotten: Knowledge Flows, Labor Mobility, And Enduring Social Relationships
September 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines the role of social relationships in facilitating knowledge flows by estimating the flow premium captured by a mobile inventor's previous location. Once an inventor has moved,...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Assessing Credit Quality From The Equity Market: Can Structural Approach Forecast Credit Ratings?
April 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper investigates the empirical performance of default probability prediction based on Merton's (1974) structural credit risk model. More specifically, it studies if Merton's default measure,...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
How Do Spatial And Social Proximity Influence Knowledge Flows? Evidence From Patent Data
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
The paper examines how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects access to knowledge, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. Employing patent citation data and...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Workplace Aggression In Teenage Part-Time Employees
September 5, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Among adult employees, interpersonal injustice and abusive supervision predict aggression toward supervisors at work. The paper assesses whether similar relationships exist among teenage employees...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Risk In Revenue Management And Dynamic Pricing
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a new model for optimal dynamic pricing of perishable services or products that incorporates a simple risk measure permitting control of the probability that total revenues fall...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
The Compatibility Of Market Models In Cap And Swaption Markets: Evidence From Their Dynamic Hedging Performance
April 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the dynamic hedging performance of one-factor LIBOR and swap market models in both cap/floor and swaption markets. The models were tested in a way similar to the way that these...
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Transformational Leadership And Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Role Of Meaningful Work
July 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper is based on two studies which investigated the relationship between transformational leadership, the meaning that individuals ascribe to their work, and their psychological well-being....
Provided by Queen's University
-
White Papers
Product Market Competition And Boundaries Of The Firm
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the effects of product market competition on firm boundaries. In a duopoly setting, each retailer is associated with a manufacturer who must decide how to allocate property...
Provided by Queen's University
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