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Environmental Regulations, Efficiency Offsets And Organizations' Financial Performance
While some scholars have argued that regulatory pressures constrain organizations' financial opportunities, others maintain that regulations can spur innovation and lead to greater operational efficiencies. Advocates on both sides have evidence in support of their positions. However, when considering both perspectives in tandem and recognizing that other factors (which are...
Tags: Regulations, George Mason University, regulation, performance, financial
White papers 2007-04-30
Why Prices Of IPO Stocks Drop Upon Lockup Expiration?: Evidence From Intraday Data
The significant price drop for IPO Initial Public Offering stocks upon lockup expiration seems to contradict the market efficiency hypothesis. The author show that the price drop is unlikely due to selective insider selling induced by market demand or increased risk of information asymmetry after the unlock day. Using TAQ...
Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, George Mason University, expiration, price drop, IPO, stock
White papers 2006-01-01
Overview of Proposed Model Option to Expand Health Insurance Coverage Among Employed Virginians
In 2004, the state of Virginia was awarded a State Planning Grant SPG from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of Virginia's SPG calls for the development of a business plan for extending health insurance coverage to a defined...
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, George Mason University, health insurance, health care, Virginia, project development, Human Resources
White papers 2005-07-08
Developing a Coalition Battle Management Language to Facilitate Interoperability Between Operation CIS and Simulations in Support of Training and Mission Rehearsal
The Battle Management Language BML initiative started by the US Army Modeling and Simulation Office AMSO published a standard in 1999. It organised doctrinal terms into "5W's"; "Who, What, When, Where and Why", to faciliate interoperability between command and control systems and simulations. BML is an unambiguous language used to...
Tags: George Mason University, interoperability, robot, modeling, training
White papers 2005-03-17
Optimizing Lawful Responses to Cyber Intrusions
Cyber intrusions are rarely met with the most effective possible response, less for technical than legal reasons. Different rogue actors (terrorists, criminals, spies, etc.) are governed by overlapping but separate domestic and international legal regimes. Each of these regimes has unique limitations, but also offers unique opportunities for evidence collection,...
Tags: George Mason University, intrusion, decision-making
White papers 2005-03-15
Effects Based Operations for Transnational Terrorist Organizations: Assessing Alternative Courses of Action to Mitigate Terrorist Threats
The concept of effects based operations lends itself well to modeling and assessing approaches to destroying, degrading or disrupting terrorist acts. The George Mason University effects-based course of action planning and assessment research tool, called CAESAR II/EB, has been used to construct influence nets and courses of action to mitigate...
Tags: George Mason University, terrorist attack, modeling, tool
White papers 2004-03-24
The Policy Analysis Market: An Electronic Commerce Application of a Combinatorial Information Market
This report focuses on Policy Analysis Market PAM. PAM is a combinatorial information market: a market in futures, options, and derivatives that are based on eventualities rather than specific commerce. PAM trades contracts of one year maturity, issued quarterly, that span economic, civil, and military conditions in the countries of...
Tags: George Mason University, derivatives, trader
White papers 2003-09-30
New Effects-Based Operations Models in War Games
For more than a dozen years most components of the Department of Defense DoD have been exploring the means for incorporating effects based thinking into their planning, execution, and assessment activities of the command and control process. Over the same period of time effects based tools that support the development...
Tags: Research & Development, George Mason University, R&D, modeling, game, tool
White papers 2003-05-13
Entrepreneurship and Development: Cause or Consequence?
This paper discusses the inherent tension in the notion of entrepreneurship as developed by Ludwig von Mises and Israel Kirzner. Given that entrepreneurship is an omnipresent aspect of human action, it cannot also be the "cause" of economic development. Rather, for economic development to take place, certain institutions must be...
Tags: George Mason University, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial
White papers 2003-05-03
Bilateral Contracts Invading An Experimental Double Auction
This paper investigates the private incentives to trade bilaterally rather than using a centralized double auction. These incentives arise in many economic models. For example, if agents like to avoid price competition on quotes or are bargaining over many units with multiple counterparties then prices, quotes and quantities are sensitive....
Tags: Sales force management, George Mason University, auction, incentive, agent
White papers 2003-03-29
The Marketing Environment And Marketing Ethics
Organization function in external environments marked by dynamic changes. They have to carefully negotiate the upheavals involved therein to sustain competitive advantage. A large number of factors are involved in managing the market environment to withstand competition. The paper discusses the subtle processes and nuances involved in the same.
Tags: Marketing research, George Mason University, marketing, environment, competitive advantage
Presentations 2003-01-01
Strategic Planning For Competitive Advantage
This presentation focuses upon strategic planning for competitive advantage. The planning can be done with the help of various models or strategic matrices. Some of these are SWOT analysis, porter five-force model, and threat matrix. It is essential first to determine the target market based on several segments. Then these...
Tags: Competitive Advantage, George Mason University, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Swot analysis, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2003-01-01
Strategic Management : Assessing Change In The External Environment
It is crucial for an organization to constantly study its external and internal environment. This enables the organization to adapt itself proactively to any change and enhances its success chances. It also helps the organization to gain competitive advantage in the market. The paper addresses the issue of assessing change...
Tags: Strategy, George Mason University, strategic management, environment, competitive advantage, tool
Presentations 2002-10-01
Assessing Change In The External Environment
The external environment of an organization consists of the moves and counter moves operationalized by its competitors. In such a scenario, the organization has to carefully study and analyze its external environment. This study helps the organization to assess any change in its external environment. Having identified the change, the...
Tags: George Mason University, Porter five forces, environment, competitive advantage, strategy, tool
Presentations 2002-10-01
The Market for Intellectual Property: The Case of Complementary Oligopoly
This paper applies a model of complementary oligopoly and anticommons pricing to the market for intellectual property rights. The model evidences the interesting and often overlooked result that, in the market for complementary goods price coordination and monopolistic pricing do not necessarily represent inefficient equilibria, when compared to the alternative...
Tags: Pricing, George Mason University, oligopoly, intellectual property, intellectual property right, pricing strategy
White papers 2002-05-29
Modeling Support of Effects-Based Operations in War Games
The Effects Based Operations EBO concept is based on relating actions in a battle plan to overall effects. A prototype system called CAESAR II/EB has been developed to assist in analyzing Courses Of Action COAs for Effects-Based Operations and evaluating them in terms of the probability of achieving the desired...
Tags: Research & Development, George Mason University, modeling, game, tool
White papers 2002-04-24
Enterpreneurship : Opportunity Recognition And Evaluation
The business market is in a state of constant flux. Organizations need to carefully look for opportunities in an environment of change. This will ensure their long-term sustenance in the market. These opportunities also help organizations in planning their market strategy. The paper discusses three different tools for opportunity recognition...
Tags: George Mason University, Porter five forces, environment, strategy, tool
Presentations 2002-04-01
External Analysis: The Identification Of Industry Opportunities And Threats
The external environment of an organization consists of the moves and counter moves operationalized by its competitors. In such a scenario, the organization has to carefully study and analyze its external environment. The analysis of the external environment helps the organization to identify the prevailing opportunities and threats. This is...
Tags: George Mason University, analysis, environment, industry, tool
Presentations 2002-04-01
Debt, Money, and Public Finance
In this paper public debt is considered as an alternative to tax finance. But within existing monetary institutions, public debt creation often serves as a disguised form of money creation. The possibility of inflationary finance opens up, in turn, new avenues along which deficit finance may serve as a means...
Tags: Financial accounting, George Mason University, finance, banking, tax, analysis
White papers 2002-02-06
Spatial and Distance Statistics of the Trucking and Warehousing Industries Using GIS Tools
The aim of this paper is to look at the potential of Geographical Information Systems GIS in describing the nature of potential clustering effects. Statistical analyses of trucking terminals and warehousing located in Washington Consolidated Metropolitan Standard Area and Detroit Consolidated Metropolitan Standard Area is carried out using GIS and...
Tags: George Mason University, warehousing, clustering, tool
White papers 2001-07-09
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