This article introduces new decision models for franchising, and optimal conditions for franchising. Franchising has become a major business model (particularly in the retailing industry and hospitality industry), and has substantial effects on company strategy, growth and survival. This article...

Equity Based Incentives (“EBIs”) remain the dominant form of incentives in many developed and developing countries; and thus have significant effects on the quality-of-life and subjective well-being of individuals in both small and large firms. The timing of exercise of EBIs and the...

During 2005-2018, the “Sharing Economy” (which includes Airbnb; Apple; Alibaba, Uber; WeWork; Liquidspace, Lyft; Ebay; Didi Chuxing; Taxify; Amazon; HomeAway; etc.) blossomed across the world, triggered structural changes in industries and significantly affected international capital flows...

Structural Change is the basis for many decisions such as government fiscal and monetary policies, government interventions, corporate-expenditure decisions, corporate strategic decisions, portfolio management decisions in finance; household allocation decisions, etc.. Structural change in...

This article addresses decision-making parameters in machine-learning algorithms, and more specifically, critiques the mathematical explanation for the Hipster Effect (a group of evolutionary processes), and discusses implications for portfolio management and corporate bankruptcy prediction (two...

The problem of determining optimal rents in commercial real estate leases (as credit contracts, investments and as part of the supply chain) affects many companies in various industries such as retailing, healthcare, manufacturing, leasing, etc.. The advent of companies such as WeWork,...

Investment returns are a core element of decisions in various “end-uses”. Investment returns are often calculated in different ways and over different horizons, and regardless of the method of computation, they often contain substantial Biases which distort results in the “end-uses”....

Investment Decision Analysis using NPV has become the primary method of investment evaluation. However, NPV, Modified-IRR (MIRR) and related approaches are deeply flawed and are very sensitive to the time horizon, the signs of the periodic cash flows, and discount rates that exceed 100% or are...

Although the number of “legal” online filesharing networks has increased, Digital Piracy has become more pervasisve and affects several industries such as new/information, entertainment, education, sports, etc. The main objectives of this article are a) to develop pricing schemes (for...

This article explains the relationships among Constitutions, Sovereign Debt policies and Foreign Aid and systemic risk; and why it's improper to criticize what is termed “Foreign Aid”. During the last fifty years, Foreign Aid has remained functionally, politically and economically the same...