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Explaining U.S. Commercial Bank Births, Deaths, And Marriages: The last twenty years of the twentieth century witnessed regulatory change not seen since the Great Depression. That regulatory change, culminating with the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, produced a significant consolidation within the banking industry, resulting from mergers and failures, that accelerated near the end of...; Tags: Bank, Merger, Failure, University Of Connecticut, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Financial Services, Investment, Finance; White papers 2002-02-01
The Future of Drug Development: The Economics of Pharmacogenomics: This paper models how the evolving field of PharmacoGenomics PG, which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to Research and Development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance of uncertainty around how PG...; Tags: R&D, University Of Connecticut, Research & Development, Business Operations; White papers 2005-12-01
Intent Driven Adversarial Modeling: Modeling and Simulation: Modern elements of military intelligence and decision making require predictions of adversary force actions and reactions to provide a complete and realistic viewpoint. Current methods for providing realistic adversary force simulation are largely manual processes. Adversarial simulation requires continual assessment of friendly courses of action and is currently "Human assessment...; Tags: Adversary, Modeling, University Of Connecticut, Emergent Adversarial Modeling System, Research & Development, Business Operations; White papers 2005-05-16
Using Leading Indicators to Forecast US Home Sales in a Bayesian VAR Framework: This paper uses Bayesian vector autoregressive models to examine the usefulness of leading indicators in predicting US home sales. The benchmark Bayesian model includes home sales, the price of homes, the mortgage rate, real personal disposable income, and the unemployment rate. This paper evaluates the forecasting performance of six alternative...; Tags: Indicator, Bayesian, University Of Connecticut, Sales Strategy, Sales; White papers 2002-01-31
One to One Marketing Services: Optimal Customer and Product Strategy: One to one (1:1) marketing services (e.g., customized advertisements, promotions and direct mail) are a growth industry. Extant research in this area tends to have an engineering emphasis; they focus on developing techniques to use individual-level data to optimize 1:1 services. In contrast, this paper focuses on marketing strategy issues...; Tags: Strategy, Marketing Strategy, University Of Connecticut, Marketing Research, Marketing; White papers 2006-06-01

Benchmarking the Right to Work: Support for the right to work as it is in document like the universal declaration of human right has eroded during the last several decades, even on the part of organizations that advocate on behalf of workers right such as the International Labour Organization ILO. This paper explains the task...; Tags: Dimension, Benchmarking, University Of Connecticut; White papers 2005-10-27
Strategic Dynamic Sourcing From Competing Suppliers: Building a long-term relationship by committing to source from a single supplier over time may place a buyer at a disadvantage. With commitment, the buyer foregoes the option of switching to a new supplier, which is beneficial if the efficiency improvement is greater than the associated costs of switching. On...; Tags: Sourcing, Supplier, Buyer, University Of Connecticut, Channel Management, Marketing; White papers 2006-06-25
Second Sourcing Vs. Sole Sourcing: The Impact Of Demand Uncertainty: We study the decision of a manufacturer buyer, expecting new sourcing opportunities in the future, to select between a sole and a second sourcing mechanism for a non-commodity component. In a sole sourcing mechanism, the buyer commits to source from the current supplier. In a second sourcing mechanism, the buyer...; Tags: Sourcing, University Of Connecticut, Sourcing Mechanism, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2006-06-25
Needs-Based Approach To Social And Economic Rights: This paper deals with the relationship between social and economic rights and civil liberties and political rights. It looks at historical and contextual differences between the three categories of rights and a diversified ways in which all of them are indispensable for the protection of human dignity. The context of...; Tags: Protection, University Of Connecticut; White papers 2005-09-26
Evaluating Product Development Task Interactions Using Network Analysis: This paper proposes the integration of two useful systems engineering analysis tools, the Design Structure Matrix DSM and Network Analysis NA to study task interactions in a Product Development Process PDP using a small engineering company as a case study. The DSM is a matrix-based systems engineering tool that enables...; Tags: Network, Product Development Process, Systems Engineering, University Of Connecticut, Design Structure Matrix, Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management; White papers 2007-03-14
Agent-Based Decision Support System for the Third Generation Distributed Dynamic Decision-Making (DDD-III) Simulator: This paper discusses the design and application of a decision support system DSS based on the third-generation distributed dynamic decision-making (DDD-III) simulator and contingency theory to increase the organizational cognitive capacity and to facilitate the processes of adaptation. The role of the DSS is to provide mission-monitoring and re-planning information...; Tags: Agent, Decision-making, Decision Support System, University Of Connecticut, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2004-04-29
Traffic Jam on the Music Highway: Is It a Reproduction or a Performance?: The consequences of copyright fragmentation are now quite disturbing, as digital technology produces a breakdown and conflation of legal categories that were meaningful in the analog era; the same act of digital transmission can be viewed under U.S. law as reproduction and distribution of copies on the one hand and...; Tags: Performance, Reproduction, Music, University Of Connecticut, Performance Management, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations; White papers 2003-03-01
Air Cargo Operations Evaluation and Analysis Through Simulation: This paper illustrates the use of simulation for evaluating and analyzing air cargo operations. The establishment of a facility equipped with some of the latest in modern material handling systems available today and a computerized-based inventory control system that interfaces with all aspects of its cargo operations has driven the...; Tags: Inventory Control, Analysis, University Of Connecticut, Cargo Operation, Strategic Planning, Productivity, Research & Development, Strategy, Management, Business Operations; White papers 2004-11-11
Risk Management And Corporate Governance: The Case Of Enron: A risk is an unforeseen and unstable situation having the potential of dangerous consequences for an organization. It is essential for the organization's management to proactively assess the risk and work towards its mitigation. Herein lies the critical role of corporate governance in managing the risk. Right from the Board...; Tags: Risk, Enron Corp., Risk Management, University Of Connecticut, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Strategy, Security, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2003-11-12
Supermarket Prices Need to Come Down: Food Marketing Policy Issue Papers address particular policy or marketing issues in a non-technical manner. They summarize research results and provide insights for users outside the research community. Antitrust enforcement has not adequately protected farmers and consumers in New England. When faced with similar nasty pricing, New York State passed...; Tags: Supermarket, Antitrust, Milk, University Of Connecticut, Antitrust Enforcement, Corporate Law, Food & Beverage, Marketing Research, Security, Business Operations, Manufacturing, Marketing; White papers 2002-11-01
The Choice Between Mandatory Convertibles and Other Securities: A Risk Management Perspective: The objective of this study is to examine the firm's corporate financing choices with particular focus on recent innovations in mandatory convertible securities. Specifically, the paper examines under what conditions firms issue straight debt, convertible bonds, mandatory convertibles and straight equity. The paper analyzes the firm's decision from a risk...; Tags: Risk Management, Convertibles, University Of Connecticut, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management; White papers 2004-04-01
Title Systems and Land Values: This paper develops a theoretical model of how expected title risk and transactions costs affect land value across the two systems and ultimately concludes that the Torrens system leads to higher property values, ceteris paribus. It also suggests that empirical studies of the title system-land value nexus need to control...; Tags: University Of Connecticut; White papers 2002-05-24
Incorporating Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment in Strategic Planning: This study makes an assessment for the sensitivity of the traditional four-step planning process to the likely impacts of ITS deployment. Second, the study explores how these anticipated impacts should be best incorporated in the planning process; a novel approach based on combining case-based reasoning CBR, an emerging artificial intelligence...; Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Planning, University Of Connecticut, Transportation; White papers 2002-07-15
The Past, Present and Future of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): A Historical Perspective: This paper takes a historical approach to understand the evolution of one of the most controversial banking regulations in recent history, the Community Reinvestment Act CRA of 1978 and its effects on access to credit and banking services to community borrowers. The paper lays out the historical milieu of credit...; Tags: University Of Connecticut, Banking, Regulations, Financial Services, Government; White papers 2004-10-01
Pricing Effects of Seasoned Debt Issues of Equity REITs: Real estate investment trusts REITs have been one of the most active sectors in the capital market over the last few years. This study examines the equity valuation effects of seasoned debt offers by REITs during the 1991-1997 periods. REITs raised more than $35 billion through debt issues during this...; Tags: REIT, Equity, Pricing Strategy, University Of Connecticut, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2002-03-11