NGOs' influence over environmental policy in World Bank lending has involved successful application of international leverage to win compliance by borrowing governments. Decision-making at the World Bank on controversial environmental policy issues shows little evidence of growing consensus,...

This paper presents a decision framework that captures the major tradeoffs a firm faces when a software acquisition decision is made. This framework and the method of empirical analysis differ significantly from previous work on software acquisition. The software acquisition problem is depicted...

Effect size is a concept that can be especially useful in bioequivalence and studies designed to find important and not just statistically significant differences among responses to treatments based on independent random samples. We develop and explore a new effect size related to a maximal...