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- Supporting Inter-Business Collaboration Via Contract Negotiation And Enactment
- The increasing complexity of products and services encourages more and more companies to form collaborative networks. As these companies are independent organizations there is often an issue of governance. The author suggests architecture for such a business network that proposes contract as the principal means of coordination and describes how...
- White papers 2007-03-29
- International Macroeconomics Dynamics, Endogenous Tradability And Foreign Direct Investment With Heterogeneous Firms
- The author studies the aggregate implications of the entry of MultiNational Firms MNFs in a two country Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model in which firms have heterogenous productivity in the sense of Melitz (2003). Unlike the extant open economy macroeconomics literature, this model endogenizes both Foreign Direct Investment and exports...
- White papers 2006-11-15
- What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate: How Traditional Financial Reporting Contributes to Misunderstanding of Title Insurance Loss Activity
- This paper focuses on a specific financial reporting practice that has contributed to the Title insurance industry's failure to communicate the unique characteristics associated with its loss containment activities. The author believes that communication can be enhanced if both parties, the Title industry and its regulators, address and acknowledge the...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Information Risk And Long-Run Performance Of Initial Public Offerings
- While the asset pricing literature has provided empirical evidence for broad samples of firms that information risk is priced of information risk in a newly public firm has not been explored. The author argues that it is hard for investors to assess the information risk of newly public firms due...
- White papers 2006-10-29
- Quantifying The Contribution Of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks To Business Cycles
- This paper revisits the baseline structural VAR model which generates the result that investment-specific technology shocks (I-shocks) account for about 50% of the business cycles. The author analyzes whether the estimated I-shocks based on this baseline model represent true I-shocks. It turns out to be that the estimated I-shock based...
- White papers 2006-10-22
- Industrial Complex: Sources Of Cross-Industry Variation In Foreign Direct Investment Restrictions
- Amid a growing interest in the political economy of Foreign Direct Investment FDI an important fact has been overlooked: countries restrict FDI inflows. Countries have long placed limits on the entry and operation of foreign-owned firms yet we lack explanations for why these restrictions exist. This paper develops a political...
- White papers 2006-04-16
- A Fully-Rational Liquidity-Based Theory Of IPO Underpricing And Underperformance
- The author presents a fully-rational symmetric-information model of an IPO Initial Public Offering, and a dynamic imperfectly competitive model of trading in the IPO aftermarket. The model helps to explain IPO underpricing, underperformance, and why share allocations favor large institutional investors. In the model, underwriters need to sell a fixed...
- White papers 2006-02-21
- Tax Competition, Location, And Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment
- The author has developed a model of capital tax/subsidy competition in which imperfectly competitive firms choose both the number and the location of the plants they operate. The endogenous presence of horizontal multinationals is shown to attenuate the "Race to the bottom" and yields some results that are opposite to...
- White papers 2006-02-21
- Price Level Convergence and Inflation in Europe
- Price level convergence has been put forth by prominent policymakers as a potential explanation for inflation divergence in the euro area. The authors' research provides evidence of an ongoing process of price level convergence in the euro area. Price convergence has contributed to observed inflation differences, but other forces explain...
- White papers 2006-01-09
- Foreign Firms And Host-Country Productivity: Does The Mode Of Entry Matter?
- Foreign direct investment is often considered an important source of knowledge spillovers. However, results from the empirical literature relating overall foreign presence to host country productivity are ambiguous. The author argues that this may be because different modes of entry may have different effects on productivity. Using 24 years of...
- White papers 2006-01-06
- Pension Accounting and Corporate Earnings: The World According to GAAP
- The underlying premise of the study presented in this paper is that current pension plan accounting has two important negative effects. First, it distorts the measurement of earnings and net worth in the short run, as well as the pattern of earnings over future periods. Second, this distortion can send...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Why Change Is an Affair of the Heart
- Everyone wants to know why so many IT projects fail to produce the business transformation they're expected to. The reason the authors' found after years of studying large-scale change may surprise one. The authors' research, based on interviews with hundreds of executives in Fortune 1000 - type companies around the...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Social Security And Equity Investment In An Economy With Financial Intermediaries And Costly Monitoring
- This paper aims at extending the analysis of the efficiency of equilibria in an OLG framework with asymmetric information. The author studies the stationary states of an economy where consumers, firms and financial intermediaries are at work. The economy is affected by ex post moral hazard due to costly state...
- White papers 2005-10-06
- Managers in the Familiar and Their Divestment Decisions
- In this paper, the author argues that CEOs' sense of familiarity with segments has an impact on their divestiture decisions. CEOs may be more confident on segments they are familiar with and thus may overestimate the future returns and underestimate the risk of these segments. Based on these characteristics of...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Impact Of Core Labour Standards On Foreign Direct Investment In East Asia
- This paper contributes to the evolving body of literature examining the effects of CLS Core Labour Standards on FDI Foreign Direct Investment. The author investigates whether the relatively weak CLS in East Asia played any role in attracting FDI through regression analysis. The author uses the same model specification and...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Pricing Internet Access With Three-Part Tariffs
- The authors have developed a model of consumer tariff choice and demand for Internet access under three-part tariff pricing. With three-part tariffs, the provider charges an access fee that includes a usage allowance and a per-unit price for usage in excess of the allowance. Such pricing is commonly found in...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Ex Post Versus Ex Ante Measures Of The User Cost Of Capital
- When doing growth accounting, should we use ex post or ex ante measures of user costs to calculate the contribution of capital? The answer, based on a simple model of temporary equilibrium, is that ex post is better in theory. In practice researchers usually calculate ex post user costs by...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Private Debt And Income Inequality: A Business Cycle Analysis
- The author studies a heterogeneous agent's economy which is calibrated to mimic the business cycle behavior of the US income distribution. Agents face aggregate and idiosyncratic risk, issue collateralized and uncollateralized debt, work and accumulate assets over time. He investigates whether the model can replicate two empirical facts: the large...
- White papers 2005-05-23
- Specificity, Productivity, And Tradability: Towards A Theory Of Individual FDI Preferences
- Despite the common assertion that countries are locked in a "Race to the bottom" to attract Foreign Direct Investment FDI, there is considerable variation in countries' restrictions on FDI inflows. The author begins the work of explaining this variation in FDI restrictions by developing a theory of individual preferences for...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence From Colombia
- Colombian payroll taxes rose sharply in the 1980s and 1990s, a development that has been blamed for increasing unemployment in policy circles in this country. As a theoretical matter, the employment consequences of payroll taxes depend on the extent to which they can be passed on to workers in the...
- White papers 2005-03-01
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