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Entry And Vertical Disintegration, Christiaan Hogendorn

Christiaan Hogendorn

We formalize and extend George Stigler’s famous article “The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.” We emphasize economies of scale in intermediate goods production as a determinant of firm boundaries and vertical control. We show that there are potential coordination failures which may prevent efficient vertical disintegration, and we discuss how these might be either overcome or used to the advantage of incumbent firms.

Accessing Board Positions: A Comparison Of Female And Male Board Members’ Views, Alison Sheridan, Gina Milgate

Gina C Milgate

In Australia, as in many Western industrialised countries, women accessing corporate board positions are still the exception to the rule. This paper reports research exploring men's and women's views on the factors crucial in attaining a board position. While both groups identified the importance of a strong track record, a good understanding of business principles and business contacts in gaining board positions, we found that women also highlighted the importance of high visibility and family contacts to account for their nomination to boards. It seems that women's competence has to be widely acknowledged in the public domain or through family …

Oil For What?—Illicit Iraqi Oil Contracts And The U.N. Security Council, Paul Heaton

Paul Heaton

Over a 6½-year period the Iraqi government issued over 1300 oil contracts through the U.N. Oil-For-Food Program. This paper demonstrates that Security Council members obtained significantly more contracts than non-members and contract receipt is associated with pro-Hussein votes on resolutions. For non-permanent seat holders Council membership is associated with a 46% premium in contract value, while permanent seat holders obtained an estimated benefit of approximately $29 million each over the life of the program. A 10% increase in the probability of casting a pro-Iraq vote on the Council corresponds to $55 million in additional contracts. Contrary to median voter models, …

Evaluation Of The Federal Government's Human Health Preparedness Plan Developed In Response To The H5n1 Threat., Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Dr. Hsu reacted to President Bush's Avian Flu Preparedness and Response Plan in a media briefing panel at the National Press Club, Washington DC.

The Baring Crisis And The Brazilian Encilhamento, 1889-1891: An Early Example Of Contagion Among Emerging Capital Markets, Kirsten Wandschneider, Gail Triner

Kirsten Wandschneider

This article assesses the role of international markets in the brazilian financial crisis of 1890 91 (the crash of the encilhamento). it looks for the impact of the argentine financial crisis in 1890 (the baring crisis) on brazilian access to capital markets. the history of bond yield fluctuations in london for brazilian and argentine debt, exchange rates, data on investment flows and archival and journalistic accounts reveal a close congruence between the argentine and brazilian crises. the effects of the argentine experience carried over to brazil because the open capital and money markets of the period easily transmitted crisis from …

Profiling In The Context Of Crisis Negotiations, Brian Kingshott

Brian F. Kingshott

In this paper the author will discuss aspects of organisational culture, management and leadership roles, individual and group dynamics, feminist ethics and Trait Theories of Personality in order to assist in the psychological profiling of an offender in order to provide an effective crisis negotiation strategy.

Factor Shares From Household Survey Data, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu

Digital Preservation In Action: Toward A Campus-Wide Program, Richard Fyffe, Deborah M. Ludwig, Beth F. Warner

Deborah M. Ludwig

Finding Hidden Value Through Mixed-Methodology: Lessons From The Discovery Program’S Holistic Approach To Truancy Abatement, Holly Miller, J. Miller

Holly Ventura Miller

Policy makers often bemoan the shortcomings and inefficiency of youth development and similar social work programs whose effectiveness cannot be demonstrated by quantifiable performance indicators. This study argues, through illustration of the Odyssey Learning Center’s Discovery Program (an alternative school serving rural Southern youth in an abject poverty context), that program value can only be evidenced through a mixed-methodological evaluation design. Reasons precluding traditional statistical analysis and effectiveness determinations are discussed and alternative conceptualizations of program value are considered.

Japan's Quandary Over East Asia Summit, Kori Urayama

Kori Urayama

No abstract provided.

Contract Law Resources, Ruth Stevens

Ruth Stevens

No abstract provided.

Review Of Catharine A. Mackinnon, Women’S Lives, Men’S Laws, Rose Corrigan

Rose Corrigan

No abstract provided.

An Economic Analysis Of Alternative Policies For Controlling So2 Emissions In The Yangtze River Delta's Electric Generating Sector, Daniel Dudek, Ben Zipperer, Wang Hao, Zhang Jian-Yu, Lin Hong

Ben Zipperer

Mixed-integer optimization model of emissions trading policy effects on the Chinese electric generating sector.

On The Sources Of Islamic Law And Practices, Ahmed Souaiaia

Ahmed E SOUAIAIA

No abstract provided.

Victimization In The Peer Group And Children’S Academic Functioning, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Johnathan Nakamoto, Robin Toblin

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman

This short-term longitudinal investigation focused on associations between victimization in the peer group and academic functioning over a 1-year period. The authors used a multi-informant approach to assess peer victimization, symptoms of depression, and academic outcomes for 199 elementary school children (average age of 9.0 years; 105 boys, 94 girls). Frequent victimization by peers was associated with poor academic functioning (as indicated by grade point averages and achievement test scores) on both a concurrent and a predictive level. Additionally, the authors' analyses provided some evidence that peer group victimization predicts academic difficulties through the mediating influence of depressive symptoms. Taken …

Age Makes A Difference, Pennie Seibert, Tiffany Whitmore, Brian Dufty, Nichole Whitener, Fred Grimsley, Janat O'Donnell

Pennie S. Seibert

Considering the numerous adverse effects of sleep disorders, it is important to properly assess sleep problems in all age groups.

Are These Victims Worthy?, Erik Ugland, Karen Slattery

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.

The Timing Of Cabinet Reshuffles In Five Westminster Parliamentary Systems, Indridi Indridason, Christopher Kam

Indridi H Indridason

Despite their political prominence, cabinet reshuffles have not attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. We provide a theory of cabinet reshuffles that emphasizes both systematic and time-varying causes. In particular, we argue that prime ministers employ cabinet reshuffles to retain power in the face of both intraparty and electoral challenges to their leadership. We use repeated-events duration models to examine the timing of cabinet reshuffles in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom in the period 1960–2001, and find support for several of our hypotheses.

Resource And Peer Impacts On Girls' Academic Achievement: Evidence From A Randomized Experiment, Diane Schanzenbach

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

No abstract provided.

Integrating Resources Cataloging Workshop, Steven Miller, Wendy Robertson

Wendy C Robertson

This pre-conference covered the first four sessions of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program’s Integrating Resources Cataloging Workshop, focusing on electronic resources. Steven Miller defined integrating resources and how to identify them. He then explained initial decisions to make when cataloging these resources. He covered the MARC fields and AACR2 rules that are unique for integrating resources and new to people accustomed to cataloging e-journals. Miller discussed how records should be updated to reflect changes in the resources, including how to update records created before the new rules. He concluded by discussing the difficulties of maintaining records for these resources. …

Digital Editing: It's Time To Tell All, Erik Ugland, Karen Slattery

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.

Tariffs, Quotas, And The Corrupt Purchasing Of Inappropriate Technology, Neil Campbell

Neil Campbell

This paper develops a simple model where a manager of a firm in a Less-Developed Country (LDC) has the choice of whether or not to purchase an inappropriate technology in return for a bribe (kick-back) from the supplier of the technology. Provided that the manager achieves some minimum level of profit, the manager has a positive probability of not getting caught taking the bribe. The actual size of the bribe is determined by Nash axiomatic bargaining between the manager and the supplier. An interesting and not immediately obvious result is that, under certain circumstances, if the protective instrument is changed …

Actually, There Is No Line ..., Erik Ugland, Karen Slattery

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.

Wendy And The Lost Boys On The Lawrence Switcher, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Recounts an experience as a switchman in Southern Pacific. Duties and responsibilities as a switchman; Career opportunities provided by the job; Lessons learned from railroad jobs.

The Peculiar Externalities Of Professional Team Sports, James Whitney

Jim Whitney

The economics literature has long been divided regarding whether competing sports teams can achieve the same, efficient allocation of playing skills that a revenue-maximizing league monopolist would choose despite the external effects the teams impose on each other in their pursuit of athletic talent. In this article an explicit consideration of the arbitrage incentives that underlie the marketing and pricing of playing skills indicates that decentralized franchises generally fail to allocate talent efficiently. For fans concerned about the championship prospects of their preferred team, the popular complaint has merit: "Big-city teams win too much."

Open Access Or Differential Pricing For Journals: The Road Best Traveled?, David Stern

David Stern

Open access (OA) is becoming a reality, with new cost models under development. The various cost models will have serious short- and long-term implications for libraries and dangerously impact the scholarly communication network. I believe that the adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. OA, as a business model, is neither necessary nor desirable. With or without the often-discussed author charges approach, it would be almost impossible to obtain the same amount of total revenue through selected libraries as now exists from the much larger base of library subscriptions. Tiered …

Memory Perception And Strategy Use In Parkinson's Disease, Andrew Johnson, Carrie Pollard, Philip Vernon, Jennifer Tomes, Mandar Jog

Andrew M. Johnson

Although there is growing support for the existence of memory deficits within Parkinson's disease (PD), little has been done to evaluate the extent to which PD patients demonstrate differences in their use of metacognitive strategies. In the present study, 79 PD patients (46 men and 33 women) and 49 age-matched healthy participants (19 men and 30 women) were compared on a metamemory questionnaire. PD patients reported significantly less strategy-use than age-matched controls, particularly with regards to external memory strategies (such as making lists). This suggests that auxiliary treatments such as memory strategy training might be effective in this population.

The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing The Business Cycle, Peter Navarro

PETER NAVARRO

No abstract provided.

Cell Phone Roulette & Consumer Interactive Quality, Peter Navarro

PETER NAVARRO

Under current policies, cell phone consumers face a lower probability of finding the best carrier for their usage patterns than winning at roulette. Corroborating survey data consistently show significant dissatisfaction among cell phone users, network performance is a major issue, and customer churn is high. This problem may be traced to a new form of consumer interactive quality characteristic of emergent high technology products such as cell phone and broadband services. This problem is unlikely to be resolved by effective search and sampling, efficient secondary markets, or voluntary carrier disclosure. Traditional one-dimensional disclosure responses to this new variation on an …

Teaching Roles Of Librarians: New Variations, Melissa Harvey

Missy Harvey

Librarians have had to adapt in many ways over the last 20 years, and approaches to teaching information literacy have had to be modified. Not only do we have to think about online, 24/7 access to digital resources both inside and outside of the library, we often have to look at the larger role of our impact on workers in the digital economy.