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Purchasing Services: Policies And Procedures
For many departments, the procurement of goods and services represents a considerable portion of their budget. These Purchasing Services Policies and Procedures set forth requirements and guidelines to help ensure a proper purchase. It is the responsibility of faculty, staff, and students who need to purchase goods and services on...
Managing The Forecasting Function Of A Firm
This paper discusses how to generally elicit probability estimations where the number of outcomes is countable. Theorem 1 states that if we use a strictly convex G, then truth telling is ensured. The paper discusses how to rank forecasters in the order of expertise. When we are comparing distributions with...
Implications For The Compensation Structure And Risk-Taking Incentives Of CEOs
This paper investigates the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX on the compensation structure and the risk-taking incentives of CEOs, as revealed by their research and development expenses and capital expenditures. It hypothesizes that firms will respond to the additional liability imposed by SOX on corporate executives by altering the...
Respondable Risk and Incentives: Evidence From Executive Compensation
Traditional agency theory treats risk as pure measurement error, yielding the standard prediction of risk-incentive tradeoff. This paper proposes a model in which the agent can respond to risk: he can exert effort to collect information about the underlying state in order to make correct decisions. Such effort is thus...
Settlement Patterns in the U.S. and Canada: Similarities and Differences - Policies or Preferences?
Smart Growth advocates in the U.S. and elsewhere worry about urban sprawl and typically advocate new controls on urban growth, including tougher land use planning and regulation. Comparing recent U.S. and Canadian settlement and travel trends suggests a test. Cultural differences are minor but urban policy differences are significant. The...
Endorsements, Licensing, and Insurance for Distributed System Services
This paper examines the issue of confidence in large distributed systems. When confidence is lacking in the real world," one relies on endorsements, licensing, insurance, and surety bonds to compensate. We show that by incorporating such assurances into a distributed system, users are better able to evaluate the risks incurred...
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