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- Determinants and effects on property values of participation in voluntary cleanup programs: the case of Colorado
- I. INTRODUCTION Environmental regulation and enforcement-based environmental programs sometimes result in unintended consequences that defeat the purpose of the programs themselves. Many observers argue that the U.S. Superfund program is one such program. Over the last 25 yr, Superfund has identified contaminated sites needing environmental remediation, tracked down the...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Consumer sentiment improving in Germany: poll
- NUREMBERG, Germany AFP — Consumer sentiment in Germany is improving, as households become more confident about the outlook for the eurozone's biggest economy, a new poll showed. "There is a noticeable rise in the number of people expressing confidence in relation to overall economic development, as well as their...
- Research articles 2005-10-27
- Public R & D and industrial innovations at the project levels: an exploration of Taiwan's public research projects
- I. INTRODUCTION Economic development policies in Taiwan in the late 1950s and 1960s favored the exportoriented manufacturing sector that mostly produced labor-intensive products such as garments, toys, and furniture. Though the value of export to the United States contributed roughly 40% of Taiwan's total exports in the 1970s, no...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Road Test | Mustang GT
- I parked my fire-red Mustang GT next to a $75,000 Jaguar, and the Jag's elegant owner raved: "Is that the new Mustang? It's absolutely gorgeous!" And so it is. From its shark nose to its fastback, the '05 Mustang is a study in full-throttle car design. Its 300-horsepower V-8 engine...
- Research articles 2005-02-21
- Lack of background check leads to liability
- Blair v. Defender Services Inc., 4th Cir., No. 03-1280, Oct. 25, 2004. A college student was allowed to pursue her claims for negligent hiring and retention against a janitorial staffing service after allegedly being attacked by an employee of that service, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- APPLICATION OF RESEARCH ON CONSUMER COMPLAINT RATES TO THE ESTIMATION OF THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF PROSPECTIVE PRODUCT DEFECTS
- ABSTRACT The complaint rate, which is defined as the proportion of consumers that complain after experiencing a dissatisfying experience, is an important input for determining the financial impact of prospective product defects. A defective product is one that suffers from a specific, significant design or manufacturing defect. We describe an...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Psychology, risk & safety
- Understanding how personality & perception can influence risk takingSH&E PROFESSIONALS STRIVE to eliminate risks in the workplace so that accidents do not occur. Risk refers to "the possibility of harm or loss" presented by the existence of perceived threats within a particular situation. However, people's perceptions of risk are determined...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Effects of red light camera installation on driver behaviour at a signalised cross-junction in Singapore
- Abstract This paper focused on a before-and-after study to evaluate the impacts of red light camera RLC implementation on the stopping propensity of drivers at a cross-junction. Rather than using video cameras, a custom-modified data logger (M660) working in conjunction with loop sensors was used to gather traffic parameters, vehicle...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Do the Traficant Rant
- It's often said that the partisan infighting in Washington keeps anything from getting done. Well, last week Congress showed the cynics, voting 420-1 to expel Ohio Democrat James Traficant from the House. (The lone dissenter was Gary Condit, who knows from being shunned by co-workers.) Traficant, who was convicted in...
- Research articles 2002-08-05
- technological performance of Europe in a global setting, The
- Daniele Archibugi and Alberto Coco: Europe, as any other region of the world, is increasingly affected by the accelerating pace of the generation and transmission of knowledge across national borders. This article presents an attempt to identify and map the various components of the globalization of technology. A new categorization...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach.(Review) (book review)
- Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach. By Steven A. Shull and Thomas C. Shaw. Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 1999. 200 pp. Imagine, for a moment, a graduate student preparing for a comprehensive examination in the field of presidential-congressional ...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Political Action Committee Contributions and U.S. Congressional voting on sugar legislation
- Economists and political scientists have devoted increasing attention to the role that campaign contributions play in the policy process. The dominant reasons for this focus are that political expenditures are the most measurable of all lobbying activities, while their rising scale suggests that they are assuming increasing importance.(1) Attempts to...
- Research articles 1998-08-01
- Upholding "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." (gays and lesbians in the military)
- The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's ruling in Thomasson v. Perry regarding the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gays and lesbians in the military suggests that the policy will not be overturned by the courts until the US Supreme Court adopted a higher standard for sexual...
- Research articles 1996-11-01
- Comcast Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question will come from the line of Ingrid Chung with Goldman Sachs. Ingrid Chung - Goldman Sachs So my first question is about how operating conditions trended monthly, so I was wondering if you could talk about how operating conditions in...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-29
- Why Do Households Concentrate Their Wealth in Housing?
- An apparent paradox in U.S. household wealth accumulation is the relatively small holding of financial assets and the large holding of housing wealth. To explain the high concentration of household wealth in housing, this paper estimates the marginal propensity to consume) from housing and from financial assets. A higher marginal...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Did Dividends Increase Immediately After the 2003 Reduction in Tax Rates?
- This article documents a close link between fluctuations in the propensity to pay dividends and catering incentives. First, it uses the methodology of Fama and French (2001) to identify a total of four distinct trends in the propensity to pay dividends between 1963 and 2000. Second, it shows that each...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Appearing and Disappearing Dividends: The Link to Catering Incentives
- This paper documents a close link between fluctuations in the propensity to pay dividends and catering incentives. First, it uses the methodology of Fama and French (2001) to identify a total of four distinct trends in the propensity to pay dividends between 1963 and 2000. Second, it shows that each...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Is Cash Negative Debt? A Hedging Perspective on Corporate Financial Policies
- The paper presents a model that interplay between cash and debt policies in the presence of financial constraints. While saving cash allows financially constrained firms to hedge against future income shortfalls, reducing debt - "saving borrowing capacity" - is a more effective way of securing future investment in high cash...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- What Drives Micro-Angel Investments?: A Large Sample Study of the Factors Explaining Micro-Angel Investments
- Despite of the significant role of informal venture capital in the financing of new entrepreneurial ventures, there is little research explaining the factors determining the propensity of individuals to make micro-angel investments. Building on a social psychological theory of planned behavior and economic theory on the determinants of demand for...
- White papers 2003-06-10
- Peer Effects And Entrepreneurship
- Several studies in entrepreneurship have shown that the propensity for individuals to become entrepreneurs seems to vary considerably by the type of firm for which they work. Many of these studies have hypothesized that this may result from 'Knowledge spillovers' within the firm or due to 'Entrepreneurial exposure' to employees'...
- White papers 2006-03-01
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