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Why are gasoline prices sticky? A test of alternative models of price adjustment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-09)
Macroeconomic models of business cycles rely on the assumption that firms adjust prices infrequently to generate the short-run non-neutrality of money documented by the monetary transmission literature. They posit different ...
Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose ( 1959 ), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale free capabilities ...
A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
Insider Trading after Repurchase Tender Offer Announcements: Timing versus Informed Trading
(Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2010-03)
Abnormally high net insider selling is commonly observed after repurchase tender offer (RTO) announcements although, on average, firms experience positive abnormal returns in the years after the repurchases. We explore two ...
Career Concerns, Inaction and Market Inefficiency: Evidence From Utility Regulation
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-06)
Children's brand symbolism understanding: Links to theory of mind and executive functioning
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Against a background of research suggesting that brand symbolism understanding does not develop until 7 to 11 years of age, two studies investigate various aspects of preschool children's brand knowledge. While children's ...
Practice note: Responding to civic conflict: Developing intergroup dialogue co‐facilitators
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-06)
A large U.S. city (called here, Coastal City), with a liberal milieu and a history of racial and ethnic conflict, was elected several years ago to increase its ability to deal with racial conflict. The city chose the ...
Making—or Picking—Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies
(Blackwell Publishing IncWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-06)
Corporate Capital Budgeting Decisions and Information Sharing
(Blackwell Publishing IncWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-12)
Solving the Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle With Financial Frictions
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010-03)
Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly correlated across countries—a puzzle first identified by Feldstein and Horioka (1980). We quantitatively ...