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Momentum and House Price Growth In the U.S.: Anatomy Of a "Bubble"
(2009-01)
This paper analyzes the bubble in property values in the U.S. in the period from 1999 through 2005. We define a bubble as a regime shift characterized by a change in the properties of house price deviations from underlying ...
Fiduciary Constraints: Correlating Obligation With Liability
(2007-05)
State law seems to be ratcheting up the scrutiny of corporate behavior including the behavior of officers and executives. In this article we consider the issues that are likely to arise as officer conduct is scrutinized ...
Climate Change as a Cultural and Behavioral Issue: Addressing Barriers and Implementing Solutions
(2010-07)
At the core, environmental issues like climate change are not primarily technological or economic, but behavioral and cultural. While technological and economic activity may be the direct cause of environmentally destructive ...
Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
(2011-02)
This paper analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change - the climate change "convinced" and climate change "skeptical" logics - are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that ...
Human Rights and a Corporation's Duty to Combat Corruption
(2013-10)
Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as ...
Bank Competition: Measurement, Decision-Making, and Risk Profiles
(2015-01)
This paper investigates how competition impacts the future operating decisions and risk profile of banks. We construct a comprehensive, time-varying, bank-specific measure of a bank’s competitive environment (BCE) using ...