The small-office/home-office (SOHO) professionals comprise the fastest growing segment in the labor force today. Typically being a one-person business based at home, SOHO owners mostly rely on office information technology to single handedly run their entire operation. Despite the segment's...

This article considers competition between nationally advertised brands and quality-equivalent privatelabel brands (a form of store, house or own-label branding). Philip Parker and Namwoon Kim investigate the impact of advertising on market power across brands. Supporting recent theoretical...

Previous studies dealing with product growth have dealt only with substitution effects among successive generations of one product category and not with complementarity and competition provided by related product categories. Based on a broadened concept of the competitive information technology...

This paper presents a new ideal point probabilistic choice model. Unlike the model suggested by Cooper and Nakanishi (Cooper, L. G., M. Nakanishi. 1983. Two logit models for external analysis of preferences. (4) 607–619.) which attempts to capture choices via a single ideal point, the proposed...

Analysis of the responses to a nationwide survey of investors demonstrates that individuals who invest in real estate differ in a predictable way from those who invest in assets other than real estate. Two types of real estate investment vehicles are studied: income-producing (rental) property...