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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Different Types of Workers in Honduras
(2007-09-12)
Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in ...
Book-Tax Conformity and the Information Content of Earnings
(2006)
We examine whether the information content of earnings is inversely related to the degree of conformity between financial accounting income and taxable income. Our inquiry exploits a natural experiment first examined by ...
Cultural Variation in Response to Strategic Display of Emotions During Negotiations
(2007-01)
This research employed two studies to examine how cultural values and norms influence the effectiveness of the strategic displays of emotions during negotiations. In cross-cultural settings, we evaluated whether the strategic ...
China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
(2007-01)
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable ...
Hedging Uncertainty: Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization Problems
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005-12-30)
We study two-stage, finite-scenario stochastic versions of several combinatorial optimization problems, and provide nearly tight approximation algorithms for them. Our problems range from the graph-theoretic (shortest path, ...
An Empirical Examination of Corporate Tax Noncompliance
(n/a, 2005)
This paper offers some exploratory analysis of an extraordinarily rich data set of audit and appeals records, matched with tax returns and financial statements, of several thousand corporations. We find that corporate tax ...
Productivity Consequences of Product Market Liberalization: Micro-evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector Reforms
(2006-10)
We use a new plant-level dataset to study the effect of two reforms aimed at increasing product market competition in India -- liberalization of foreign direct investment (FDI) and reduction in tariff rates. First, we ...
Integrated maintenance and production control of a deteriorating production system
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-05)
We consider a make-to-stock production/inventory system consisting of a single deteriorating machine which produces a single item. We formulate the integrated decisions of maintenance and production using a Markov Decision ...
Learning about leadership and firm growth through monthly data collection and dialogue with entrepreneurs
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006-03)
Academics often are criticized for doing research that is irrelevant and esoteric. Additionally, the review cycle is lengthy, and even when high quality research is produced, results are unlikely to reach the practitioner ...