A transcript of the Third Lord Goold Memorial lecture delivered at Bradford School of Management by David Bernstein in November 2000 at the 7th International Corporate Identity Symposium.

This article examines the relationship between personal discount rates and sexual behaviors in a sample of teenagers and young adults. We find that higher discount rates (an indication of less willingness to forego current consumption for future consumption) are significantly associated with a...

In high frequency transit operations, randomness and incidents often result in highly irregular headways which can significantly decrease service quality. Deadheading is one commonly used real-time operations control strategy that can improve service quality in such situations. When a vehicle is...

Traditional cost calculations do not accurately estimate the opportunity costs of using conveyances in intermodal operations, thus, results in many short-term pricing problems. The objective of this research is to develop a framework for estimating the opportunity costs of using conveyances in...

This paper uses data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, a U.S. health care survey, to simulate the impact of reinsurance on insured health care expenditures for different cohorts. The paper concludes that reinsurance would not eliminate potential risk selection by insurers and, even...

Under the current system of managed float exchange rates, large countries are able to absorb changes in their balance-of-payments by either manipulating international reserves to sterilize capital flows or by accepting changes in their exchange rates. In this system, the monetary authorities of...

This note corrects a small but important error in the uniform portion of the socially optimal step toll derived by Arnott et al. (1990a). In particular, we show that this toll is actually a function of the values of travel time, early arrival time, and late arrival time (i.e., not just the value...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the nature and ongoing incidence of what is termed “corporate dissonance”, making explicit reference to developments relating to corporate communications since the publication of Company Image and Reality in 1984 and the founding of the...

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are one of the dominant approaches to compare statistical methods. To date, there is no standard procedure for MC simulations. Although internally valid, they exhibit a certain degree of arbitrariness through the various choices that researchers make. In this paper,...