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Techniques of the Office Politics Masters
How five of the country's top CEOs maneuvered to reach the top and stay there. Steve Jobs CEO, Apple Political Style: The charismatic visionary Passion is Jobs’ greatest asset in motivating employees, negotiating deals, and cultivating a...
Goals And Plans In Decision Making
This paper proposes a constructed-choice model for general decision making. The model departs from utility theory and prospect theory in its treatment of multiple goals and it suggests several different ways in which context can affect choice. It is particularly instructive to apply this model to protective decisions, which are...
Fortune Or Evil?: The Effects Of Inward Foreign Direct Investment On Corruption
One prominent phenomenon in the global economy of the last two decades is booming cross-border flows of Foreign Direct Investment FDI. FDI inflows have grown faster than world income since the 1960s, and MultiNational Corporations MNCs now account for about 70 percent of world trade, and the sales of their...
Sovereign Bankruptcy: A Piece Of The International Financial Architecture Is Still Missing
The argument in this paper began by indicating how the debt problems of low income countries have largely been subsumed in their aid relationship with their major donors, from which aid donors would do well to look at experiences in monitoring HIPC relief for lessons that might be applied to...
Supply Chain Relationships And Contracts: The Impact Of Repeated Interaction
Consider a firm developing an innovative product. Due to market pressures, production must begin soon after the product development effort is complete, which requires that an upstream supplier invest in capacity while the design of the product and production process are in flux. Because the product is ill-defined at this...
The Politics Of Investment Partisanship And The Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment
This paper analyzes how Foreign Direct Investment FDI reacts to changing political conditions in host countries. More specifically, paper explores the existence of partisan cycles in FDI investment performance. It develops a model that predicts that the incumbent government's partisanship -i.e.: its allegiance to labor or capital-should affect foreign investors'...
Government And Market Failures In Emerging Market Economies
Corporate governance and bankruptcy are about ensuring that market signals are channeled into corporate decisions, and corporations do not abscond with resources entrusted them by investors. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how market and government failures influence the design of institutions supporting corporate finance in emerging market...
Outsourcing And Technological Change
Data for the 1990s show that the usage of information technology and expenditures on outsourcing of certain services are positively correlated. This evidence is the motivation for the development of a model of the relationship between outsourcing and technological change. Our model shows that the distinguishing feature of information technology,...
On the Relationship Between Pricing and Capacity Decisions in Inventory Systems With Stochastic Demand
The authors address the simultaneous determination of pricing and capacity investment strategies in a multi-period setting under demand uncertainty. In their model a monopolistic firm makes three decisions: capacity investment or disinvestment, production inventory, and price, all of which can be specified dynamically as a function of the state of...
Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations
This paper explores the hypothesis that gender wage differentials arise endogenously from the interaction between the intra-household allocation of labor and the contractual relation between firms and workers in the presence of private information on workers' labor market attachment. The purpose of this paper is to study the emergence and...
Is Electronic Contracting Different?: Contract Law In The Information Age
In response to recent and anticipated future growth in long-distance commerce using electronic media such as the Internet, some commentators have suggested that legal and economic institutions will have to change substantially in response to new technologies of trade, in the same way that they did in response to the...
Beyond Cost Reduction: The Risks and Rewards of Global Services Sourcing
Managers have been exposed to a steady diet of anecdotes and rhetoric on how off shoring affects employment, customer service quality and costs. From the perspective of business strategy, these accounts leave a number of questions unanswered: What is the totality of risks and rewards that off shoring offers today?...
Pricing Strategies And Service Differentiation In Queues
In this paper we study the problem of designing a profit maximizing pricing-scheduling policy for a capacity-constrained firm with a heterogeneous customer base. The main conclusion we draw form our analysis is that under certain conditions it might beneficial to pool customers of different characteristics together and treat them equally;...
Derivatives and Systemic Risk: What Role Can the Bankruptcy Code Play?
In Fall 1998 the Federal Reserve Bank ("Fed") arranged a bailout of the massive hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management LTCM, which faced the prospect of immediate liquidation if it filed a petition under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Although the Code generally prevents creditors from seizing assets of...
Martingale Pricing Applied to Options, Forwards and Futures
This paper applies martingale pricing theory to the problems of pricing European and American options, as well as forwards and futures contracts. It first considers the problem of pricing European and American options. The paper interprets the classic binomial model in the context of martingale pricing theory and uses it...
What Role For Entrepreneurship In India?
This paper discusses three issues on the optimum role for entrepreneurship in the Indian economy. First, how and why the optimal role for individual entrepreneurs is likely to be different in India and other countries at a similar state of economic development than in an advanced economy? Second, are Indian...
A Structural Demand Analysis for Wireless Services Under Nonlinear Pricing Schemes
Service industries are a rapidly growing sector in the US economy and account for over 60% of its total output. Wireless communications in particular have become ubiquitous and there are an estimated 160 million subscribers in the US alone. In this paper, the authors' focus on the wireless communications industry...
The Muddles Over Outsourcing
If we examine carefully the public policy pronouncements, indeed even the interventions by reputed economists, it is clear that the question of outsourcing is handicapped by serious muddles over two questions: first, what precisely is the phenomenon we are addressing; and second, what types of effects are we contemplating? This...
Global Services Sourcing: Issues of Cost and Quality
Services sourcing is all about outsourcing and offshoring, in line with time-tested corporate philosophy of "Produce where it is cheapest and sell where it fetches the best price". While Global Services Sourcing GSS is more than a decade old phenomenon, over the last couple of years in particular, global corporations...
Tax-Motivated German Financing of the U.S. Film Industry
The paper mentions that film production companies have long looked for creative ways to finance their projects. Most recently, international tax policies have emerged as a significant consideration in U.S. film financing. Nowhere has this trend been clearer than in Germany. The paper also states that Twenty-two large German film...
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