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Essays on Issues in New Product Introduction: Product Rollovers, Information Provision, and Return Policies
Koca, Eylem - 2011
In this dissertation we study several key issues faced by firms while introducing new products to market. The first essay looks at product rollovers: introduction of a new product generation while phasing out the old one. We study the strategic decision of dual vs. single roll jointly with...
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Essays on the Market for Corporate Control
Kim, Hwagyun (contributor) - 2009
This dissertation examines the relative importance of the information effect oncorporate takeover in total takeover …-offer. Overall, the corporatetakeover bid generates information gains up to 15 percent of total takeover gains.It also develops a … the sources of takeover gains? Dotakeovers create value? Why are stock offers more common? Who gains from suchtransactions …
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For The Many of The Few?
Wong, Wai Kin - 2011
Recent studies [Bebchuk and Fried (2002)] have shown that managerial power and negotiations play important roles in the design of executive pay arrangements, suggesting that some CEOs may extract greater economic rent from shareholders when provided with the opportunity. This paper seeks to...
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Divergence of investors? opinion and takeovers: the impact on announcement returns, bid success and merger arbitrage investment strategies
Whitehead, Marcela, Banking & Finance, Australian … - 2010
, we examine the effect of the market reaction to a takeover announcement in conjunction with divergence of opinion on deal … Australian acquirers and 584 targets and find some evidence that managers in takeover negotiations listen to the acquirer market … analysed this mpact. We find that by using divergence of opinion to predict takeover success, we can build a merger arbitrage …
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions
Shepsle, Kenneth A. - 1983
"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...
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