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Stock Price Manipulation Through Takeover Bids
(1989-11)
The possibility that a takeover bid is designed solely to allow the bidder to drive up the stock price, sell his holdings at the higher price and drop the bid has not been studied nor incorporated into analyses of takeovers. ...
Common Knowledge and Game Theory
(1988-07)
Perhaps the most important area in which common knowledge problems arise is in the study of rational expectations equilibria in the trading of risky securities. How can there be trade if everybody's willingness to trade ...
The temporal structure of motivation: III. Identification and ecological significance of ultradian rhythms of intracranial reinforcement
(Elsevier, 1980-10)
Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were stereotactically implanted with intracranial electrodes aimed at the anterior medial forebrain bundle, and trained to self-administer intracranial stimulation. Following 3 weeks of ...
Review of management information systems research: A management support emphasis
(Elsevier, 1988)
This article organizes, describes, and evaluates MIS research from 1981 through 1985 in order to provide an understanding of what constitutes MIS research and to indicate potentially rich areas for future research. The ...
Micro-Based Estimates of Demand Functions for Local School Expenditures
(1980-10)
We devise and apply a new method for local public goods from survey data. Individuals' responses to questions about whether they want more or less of various public goods are combined with observations of their incomes, ...
Young children's comprehension of modal expressions
(Elsevier, 1989-10)
The present study assessed children's knowledge of how speakers use modal auxiliaries such as might and have to to indicate their degree of belief in the truth of their statements (epistemic modality), and to socially ...
A multidimensional stochastic theory of similarity
(Elsevier, 1988-12)
A multidimensional theory of similarity in which the mental representations of stimulus objects are assumed to be drawn from multivariate normal distributions is described. A distance-based similarity function is defined ...
Natural selection and the origin and maintenance of standard genetic marker systems
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1980)
Natural selection has always been assumed to be the major force of evolution, but its presence has been difficult to demonstrate. A review of the evidence for selective differences among genotypes for most human genetic ...