financial policies such as cash and debt management. It suggests that cash should not be viewed as negative debt …

We present a model that characterizes the relationship between optimal dynamic cash management and the choice of the … produces a rich set of over-identifying restrictions for consumers' cash-management and payment choices which can be tested …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, and financial planning. These questions have been administered in surveys in …

understand the challenge of translating risk management theory into managerial action. Cephalon Inc., a biotech firm, bought a … both managers and theorists. Managers consider deadweight costs of financing and of risk management, whereas theory tends … arrive at decisions and this measurement problem is severe. Cephalon's risk management decisions seem motivated as much by …