Beginning with Anderson, Banker, and Janakiraman (2003), a rapidly growing literature attributes the short-run asymmetric cost response to activity changes (i.e., sticky costs) as resulting from short-run managerial choices. In this paper, we are agnostic on the theory of sticky costs. Rather,...

The academic and practitioner literature justifies firms' use of product costs in product pricing and capacity planning decisions as heuristics to address an otherwise intractable problem. However, product costs are the output of a cost reporting system, which itself is the outcome of heuristic...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Q'eqchi' Language and Orthography -- Notes on Measurements -- Maps -- Introduction: Commons Past -- 1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q'eqchi' History -- 2. Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' Lowland Migrationand Territorial...