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Harmonic Regression Models: A Comparative Review With Applications
September 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Strongly periodic series occur frequently in many disciplines. This paper reviews one specific approach to analyzing such series viz. the harmonic regression approach. In this paper the five major...
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The Consumption - Real Exchange Rate Anomaly: An Asset Pricing Perspective
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Idiosyncratic consumption risk explains more than 60 percent of the cross-sectional variation in quarterly exchange rate changes and currency returns. The results are obtained from data of 13...
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Terrorism And Business
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The...
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Competition, Cooperation, And Corporate Culture
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. The authors show that these differences...
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Management Fashion Pay-For-Performance For CEOs
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors show theoretically and empirically that Pay-for-Performance, like many management fashions, has not achieved its intended aim. The paper focuses on previous empirical studies that...
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Navigation Support for Mobile Learning
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Mobile learning exposes learning to the natural environment. If this environment is large, the learners have to navigate to find the learning objects or to explore the environment. Current mobile...
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Should Firms Really Be Obliged To Provide Financial Interim Reports?
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Mandating interim reporting is lively discussed in Europe, especially since the European Union has set up mandatory quarterly reporting on the agenda. By examining the Swiss stock market, in which...
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Payout And Investment Decisions Under Managerial Discretion
November 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
In traditional signalling models, high-quality firms can separate themselves from low-quality firms by using their payout policy. Standard agency theory suggests that shareholders will pressure...
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What Do Dividends Really Say? Reconciling Old Theory And Recent Evidence
November 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
Unlike an important series of recent papers, the authors find that dividends carry an important message about future earnings. As in previous research, they find that dividend changes are better...
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The Executive Turnover Risk Premium
April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Executive compensation has increased dramatically over the past 15 years, but so has forced CEO turnover. The authors argue that part of the development of CEO pay can be explained by the adverse...
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Vanishing Liquidity, Market Runs, And The Welfare Impact Of TARP
January 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
The author models a financial market that dries out in the wake of premature liquidations. Two main results are obtained. First, liquidity may vanish even if small, risk-neutral buyers could...
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International Price And Earnings Momentum
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors find that price and earnings momentum are pervasive features of international equity markets when controlling for data snooping biases. In explaining the momentum phenomenon they show...
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RFID-Based Entry Into the German B2B Parcel Market and Its Effect on Competitive Strategies, Prices and Market Shares: The Case of Red Parcel Post
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the market entry of Red Parcel Post, a new player in the German Business-to-Business (B2B) parcel market. Currently there are four large service providers in the German B2B...
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Adding Data Mining Support to SPARQL Via Statistical Relational Learning Methods
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exploiting the complex structure of relational data enables to build better models by taking into account the additional information provided by the links between objects. The paper extends this...
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Exploratory Data Visualization for Reliable Integration
July 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Integrating different kinds of data is a typical feature and basic requirement of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In particular, the modeling of environmental data and processes with GIS...
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A Resource-Aware Program Logic for a JVM-Like Language
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Guaranteeing bounded resource consumption of mobile code is one important facet of improving the security of distributed, decentralised systems. To achieve an independent verification of resource...
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Experience With Model-Based Performance, Reliability and Adaptability Assessment of a Complex Industrial Architecture
January 24, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors report on their experience with the application of validated models to assess performance, reliability, and adaptability of a complex mission critical system that is...
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Emergence of Spontaneous Order Through Neighborhood Formation in Peer-to-Peer Recommender Systems
December 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
The advent of the Semantic-Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the existence of central...
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Predicting Coding Effort in Projects Containing XML Code
October 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the problem of predicting the coding effort for a subsequent year of development by analysing metrics extracted from project repositories, with an emphasis on projects...
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Introducing Automated Regression Testing in Open Source Projects
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
To learn how to introduce automated regression testing to existing medium scale Open Source projects, a long-term field experiment was performed with the Open Source project FreeCol. Results...
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Compiling ER Specifications Into Declarative Programs
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes an environment to support high-level database programming in a declarative programming language. In order to ensure safe database updates, all access and update operations...
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An ER-Based Framework for Declarative Web Programming
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe a framework to support the implementation of web-based systems intended to manipulate data stored in relational databases. Since the conceptual model of a relational database...
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Coding Solutions for the Secure Biometric Storage Problem
February 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the problem of securely storing biometric passwords, such as fingerprints and irises. With the help of coding theory Juels and Wattenberg derived in 1999 a scheme where similar...
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The Value Of A Statistical Injury: New Evidence From The Swiss Labor Market
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors' study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry skill-level of the job and capitalizing on...
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The Effects Of Bonus Taxes On Executive Compensation
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis from 2007-2010 was the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Politicians, economists and regulators search for measures to avoid such a crisis to repeat. One prominent...
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What Difference Do Beliefs Make? Gender Job Associations And Work Climate
September 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how women and men value their work climate if performing jobs with stereotypical male or female tasks. Using a special variable from a big data set the authors are able to...
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The Organizational Advantages Of Cooperatives: Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Acquisition, And Hold-Up Mitigation
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Considering their practical importance, cooperatives are among the least re-searched forms of organization found in the literature. In this paper, the authors develop a model to compare markets,...
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Renewable Energy Policy In The Presence Of Innovation: Does Government Pre-Commitment Matter?
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation the authors contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewable and tradable green certificates from...
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Competitive Markets Without Commitment
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the presence of a time-inconsistency problem with optimal agency contracts, the authors show that competitive markets implement allocations that Pareto dominate those achieved by a benevolent...
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The Relation Between Competition And Innovation - Why Is It Such A Mess?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities...
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Competition And Innovation: An Experimental Investigation
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper analyzes the effects of competitive intensity on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations through an experiment based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are...
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Considerations on the Interoperability of and Between Cloud Computing Standards
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has gaining importance in the recent past due to the conjunction of well-known key features, such as virtualization and pay-by-use, which together form an innovative concept. Even...
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Exploratory Data Visualization for Reliable Integration
July 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Integrating different kinds of data is a typical feature and basic requirement of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In particular, the modeling of environmental data and processes with GIS...
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Adding Data Mining Support to SPARQL Via Statistical Relational Learning Methods
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exploiting the complex structure of relational data enables to build better models by taking into account the additional information provided by the links between objects. The paper extends this...
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