"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample of merged firms over a ten-year period using a managerially controlled efficiency measure, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our individual, firm-level, year-by-year analyses...

The current study examines the effect of segregation or integration of the issues under negotiation. Subjects negotiated a transaction under four conditions of Frame (profit or loss) and Agenda (5 segregated issues vs. 1 integrated issue). It also provides a competitive test of several economic...

This dissertation extends previous research on bubbles by investigating whether changes in the financial asset prices of the S&P500 reflect changes in fundamentals. We propose that if this is not the case the volatility is due to a bubble. Hence, this is the general hypothesis from which several...