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- Errors in Estimating Accruals: Implications for Empirical Research
- This paper examines the impact of measuring accruals as the change in successive balance sheet accounts, as opposed to measuring accruals directly from the statement of cash flows. The primary finding is that studies using a balance sheet approach to test for earnings management are potentially contaminated. In particular, if...
- White papers 2000-07-14
- What Is Time Management And Why Should I Care About It?
- A strategic approach analysis describes how your firm and your key accounts formulate strategies. This analysis can be an early-indicator of how and when important decisions will be made. This early knowledge may give you a leg up on your competition and help improve your forecasting accuracy. Many businesses use...
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Innovation: The Living Laboratory Perspective
- Innovation research is highly interdisciplinary and has attracted numerous science and practice communities. Though innovation results are broadly applicable, this paper focuses on engineering and service domains. The two are tightly interrelated, as the benefits of product innovation are realized through the business activities, and certain business undertakings may impact...
- White papers 2007-04-19
- Innovation In A Requirement Life-Cycle Framework
- In this paper, a requirements-based framework of innovation is discussed. Both customer and expert defined requirements are considered. The proposed framework treats requirements as evolving entities and is implemented using a data-driven approach. It provides a new perspective in support of the innovative product development process.
- White papers 2006-06-10
- Prediction Markets As Decision Support Systems
- Valuations from "Prediction markets" reveal expectations about the likelihood of events. "Conditional prediction markets" reveal expectations conditional on other events occurring. For example, in 1996, the Iowa Electronic Markets IEM ran markets to predict the chances that different candidates would become the Republican Presidential nominee. Other concurrent IEM markets predicted...
- White papers 2003-01-22
- Application Of Ecological Interface Design To Driver Support Systems
- This paper presents the results of two experiments to assess the benefits of using Cognitive Work Analysis CWA and Ecological Interface Design EID to guide the development of driver support systems. EID suggests novel interface alternatives that have substantial theoretical promise. However, it is not possible to anticipate how drivers...
- White papers 2006-03-28
- Barriers To FDI Under Political Risk
- Azzimonti, Sarte and Soares (2006b) document those countries with low political turnover exhibit larger in flows of foreign direct investment. This paper uses a simplified version of their model to illustrate the basic mechanism driving their result. In their paper, the correlation is rationalized with a model of redistribution, where...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And Militarized Interstate Conflict
- Liberal peace theorists identify that increased Foreign Direct Investment FDI promotes peace by dissipating private information, increasing opportunity costs of conflicts, and providing alternative form of extracting wealth. Unfortunately, few studies have explained how FDI solves the 'Externality' problem between countries and what significant roles it plays in domestic politics...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- R&D Tax Policy And Firm Dynamics
- Empirical studies have documented the cost effectiveness of the R&D (Research & Development) tax credit policy implemented in the US since 1981. However those studies fail to take into account the effect of R&D decisions on firms' evolution over time. A dynamic general equilibrium model of R&D is constructed with...
- White papers 2007-02-12
- Accuracy and Forecast Standard Error of Prediction Markets
- "Prediction markets" are designed specifically to forecast events. Though such markets have been conduced for more than a decade, to date there is no analysis of their long-run predictive properties. This paper provides the first systematic evidence on the long-run predictive power of these markets by studying ex post accuracy...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Meeting the Needs of Dual-Career Couples in Academia
- This paper discusses dual-career programs implemented at academic institutions within the Unites States and Canada. Various institutions across the United States and Canada were surveyed regarding their policies and practices pertaining to dual-career couples. A comparative analysis of the survey results provides comprehensive benchmarks of existing practices. A critical issue...
- White papers 2003-04-25
- Remembering Copyright in a Digital Age
- Copyright protects authors, publishers and producers as well as the public. There is a good deal of tension between these groups. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMAC 1998 is an amendment that attempts to update copyright law for the digital environment. It is controversial and flawed. On the positive side,...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Executive Stock and Option Valuation in a Two State-Variable Framework: Allowing Optimal Investment of Outside Wealth in the Risk Free Asset and the Market Portfolio
- This paper provides a two state-variable discrete-time executive option valuation model that allows optimal investment of executive's outside wealth in the risk free asset and the market portfolio. The model adopts outside investment only in the risk free asset. The model is consistent with portfolio theory and the capital asset...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Risk Aversion Versus Intertemporal Substitution: A Case Study of Identification Failure in the Intertemporal Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model
- The white paper deals with the disparate estimates of the fundamental parameter not to failures of instrument admissibility as do Hall (1988) and Hansen-Singleton (1996), but rather to failures of instrument relevance. That is, the disparate estimates reflect near non-identification due to the unpredictability of asset returns and consumption growth....
- White papers 2000-03-07
- Community Leadership In Times Of Crisis
- An unstable situation consisting of dangerous and uncertain circumstances is called crisis. Sometimes, in a community crisis, there is loss of life or personal injuries. The mission of public health, set up in individual communities, is to anticipate potential emergency or crisis situations and prevent the occurrence of injuries to...
- Presentations 2002-09-26
- Decision Making, Recipe For Disaster
- Decision-making is a critical activity in an organization. It is the process of evaluating alternative solutions to a given problem and choosing the most suitable solution from amongst them. Making a bad decision can significantly affect the organizational performance. The paper examines decision-making and discusses different decision-making models. ...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Investment Recommendation: Sell
- The paper presents market and industry analysis of a consumer durable goods company. Through the analysis, reasons for the company's downgradation by the banking sector, is explored. Based on the same certain factors are outlined for the present position of the company.
- White papers 2002-11-22
- Team Building Skills
- Interest in team-building has grown from being looked upon as a "Nice-to-have" quality of a work group where employees get along with their coworkers, to an essential ingredient of highly productive organizations. Yet saying team building is important does not guarantee a positive outcome. One of the hardest skills for...
- White papers 2009-01-01
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- University of Iowa Study Examines Anonymity of Insider Trading.
- Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, Dec. 2 AScribe Newswire -- Recent research by Jon A. Garfinkel, assistant professor of finance at the University of Iowa's Henry B. Tippie College of Business, suggests that trades by registered "insiders" of a corporation are less...
- Research articles 2003-12-02
- University of Iowa College of Law student receives Lane Powell
- Lane Powell has announced that Reuben J. Ortega has received the 2008 Lane Powell George V. Powell Diversity Scholarship Award. Ortega currently attends the University of Iowa College of Law and expects to earn his Juris Doctor in May 2009. He is vice president of the Iowa chapter...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
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