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Sources of profit change for Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications firm, are examined. A new method allows for changes, in a firm’s profits to be broken down into separate effects due to productivity change, price changes, and growth in the firm’s size. This in turn allows us to calculate the distribution of the benefits of productivity improvements between consumers, labor, and shareholders. The results show that around half the benefits from Telstra’s productivity improvements from 1984 to 1994 were passed on to consumers in the form of real price reductions.
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Kevin J. FoxEmail: |
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Subhash C. Ray 《Journal of Productivity Analysis》2007,27(3):231-236
Determining the profit maximizing input–output bundle of a firm requires data on prices. This paper shows how endogenously
determined shadow prices can be used in place of actual prices to obtain the optimal input–output bundle where the firm’s
shadow profit is maximized. This approach amounts to an application of the Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization (WAPM) formulated
by Varian [(1984) The Non-parametric approach to production analysis. Econometrica 52:3 (May) 579–597] based on shadow prices rather than actual
prices. At these shadow prices, the shadow profit of a firm is zero. The maximum shadow profit that could have been attained
at some other input–output bundle is shown to be a measure of the inefficiency of the firm. Because the benchmark input–output
bundle is always an observed bundle from the data, it can be determined without having to solve any elaborate programming
problem.
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Subhash C. RayEmail: |
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Richard W. Hurd 《Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal》2006,18(3):207-214
The 1981 PATCO strike stands out as a symbol of union decline. The penchant to stigmatize PATCO detracts from important aspects of the union’s unorthodox strategy. Preparations for 1981 negotiations were coordinated by rank-and-file activists who referred to themselves as ‘choir boys’. An extensive mobilization network cultivated by the ‘choir boys’ contributed to cohesiveness and in effect democratized PATCO. The union’s effectiveness in building internal solidarity was its most notable accomplishment. Twenty-first-century labor-movement revitalization will require not only strong, creative leadership but also rank-and-file mobilization in the mold of PATCO’s ‘choir boy’ system. It is this type of grassroots activism that has the potential to promote an internal culture of militant action which can serve as the foundation for union growth.
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Richard W. HurdEmail: Phone: +1-607-2552765 |
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The joint hypotheses of informationally efficient markets, transparent financial statements, and adequate accounting disclosure
suggest that announcements of changes in the accounting treatment of employee stock options from footnote disclosure to expense
recognition should not trigger stock price reactions because free-cash-flows will not change. Event study results from a sample
of 241 firms that announce such changes reveal statistically significant negative price changes followed by positive price
changes about equal in magnitude. We propose the learning, sophisticated investor, neglected firm, and firm size hypotheses
to explain the observed announcement-period stock price reaction.
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Ting-Heng ChuEmail: |
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This paper investigates Black–Scholes call and put option thetas, and derives upper and lower bounds for thetas as a function
of underlying asset value. It is well known that the maximum time premium of an option occurs when the underlying asset value
equals the exercise price. However, we show that the maximum option theta does not occur at that point, but instead occurs
when the asset value is somewhat above the exercise price. We also show that option theta is not monotonic in any of the parameters in the Black–Scholes option-pricing model, including time to maturity. We further explain
why the implications of these findings are important for trading and hedging strategies that are affected by the decay in
an option’s time premium.
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Tie Su (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Deborah Erdos Knapp 《Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal》2008,20(4):227-247
The U.S. military argues that homosexuals are unfit for service because their presence compromises military readiness and
unit cohesion. Based on this assumption, it continues to discharge homosexuals at an average rate of approximately 925 per
year. On the other hand, the extant research suggests that homosexuals are no more disruptive to military life than their
heterosexual counterparts. By integrating the legal and scientific literature, this paper examines the soundness of the military’s
assumptions and aims to improve our understanding of the issues involved. Within this context, the efficacy of the military’s
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and whether it is in the best interest of the military and its soldiers and sailors
is discussed.
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Deborah Erdos KnappEmail: |
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The impact of desirability and feasibility on entrepreneurial intentions: A structural equation model 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Maribel Guerrero Josep Rialp David Urbano 《The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal》2008,4(1):35-50
There is general agreement that attitudes towards entrepreneurship are determinant factors to decide to be an entrepreneur.
In this context, this research is focused on analyzing the relationship between desirability and feasibility on university
student’s intentions to create a new firm in Catalonia. A structural equation model supported by Krueger & Brazeal’s Model
was tested with different groups of students. The main results reveal most of university students consider desirable to create
a new firm, although the perception of feasibility is not positive. Also, there is a statistical significant and positively
relationship between credibility and the intention to create a new firm.
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David Urbano (Corresponding author)Email: |
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The Relationship Among Union Membership, Facets of Satisfaction and Intent to Leave: Further Evidence on the Voice Face of Unions 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Steven E. Abraham Barry A. Friedman Randall K. Thomas 《Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal》2008,20(1):1-11
This study examined the impact of union membership on employees’ intent to leave their jobs across a number of facets of satisfaction,
as a further test of unions’ voice face. Among the findings were that there were significant relationships between job, compensation,
benefits, working conditions, and immediate supervisor satisfaction and intent to leave one’s job for nonunion employees.
In contrast, only the relationship between job satisfaction and intent to leave was significant for union employees. Finally,
over the facets of satisfaction where one would expect unions to have the most influence, the relationship between intent
to leave one’s job and satisfaction was greater for nonunion employees than for union employees. These results provide a great
deal of support for the effect of unions’ voice face.
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Randall K. ThomasEmail: |
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This paper analyzes self-control problems in intertemporal consumption of a sin good where current consumption imposes a negative
externality on one’s future selves due to the existence of present-biased preferences. We introduce the negative externality
dubbed ‘internality’, which is augmented by the cumulative distribution function of the sum of previous consumption. We show
that the shot-run self with self-control problem over consumes the sin good compared to that of the long-run self without
present-biased preferences. Further, we investigate the effectiveness of self-bargaining with the presence of an external
control devise as possible punishment. The short-run self faces three possible options: do nothing, accept the long-run self’s
offer, or reject the offer. In the latter case an external control devices is implemented. It is shown that successful self-bargaining
depends on the efficiency of the control device.
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Attiat F. Ott (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Jeffrey P. Cohen 《Journal of Productivity Analysis》2006,26(2):181-190
The effects of court-ordered education finance reform on property values and residential choice have received increasing attention
in recent years (Fischel 2001). However, little attention has been focused on the effects of education finance reform on manufacturing
sector property values within an optimizing framework. This is pursued here by modeling education expenditures and education
finance reform as “free” variables to manufacturing firms in a cost function model together with input demand equations. This
framework is applied to panel data on manufacturers’ capital (building and structures) stocks for the 48 continental US for
1982–1996 to estimate implicit (shadow) values to the manufacturing sector of education spending and school finance reform.
On average, school finance reform lowers the implicit value of manufacturing firms’ stock of buildings and structures capital,
while greater education spending lowers manufacturing variable costs.
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Jeffrey P. CohenEmail: |
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Leonard L. Lundstrum 《Journal of Economics and Finance》2009,33(2):161-175
The relationship between managerial share ownership and the firm’s change in leverage around a security issuance is examined.
We find that entrenched managers are not more likely to issue equity, however they do affect lower leverage by choosing debt
issuances which are smaller and equity issuances that are larger than those chosen by managers that are not entrenched. The
magnitude of the decline in leverage that occurs from before the issuance to after the issuance is positively related to managerial
share ownership. In addition, this relationship is confined to only the “entrenchment” range of managerial share ownership.
The market reacts negatively to an issuance announcement when managerial share ownership is high.
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Leonard L. LundstrumEmail: |
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A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) cost minimization model is employed to estimate the cost to thrift institutions of achieving a rating of ‘outstanding’ under the anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act, which is viewed as an act of voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). There is no difference in overall cost efficiency between ‘outstanding’ and minimally compliant ‘satisfactory’ thrifts. However, the sources of cost inefficiency do differ, and an ‘outstanding’ rating involves annual extra cost of $6.547 million or, 1.2% of total costs. This added cost is the shadow price of CSR since it is not an explicit output or input in the DEA cost model. Before and after-tax rates of return are the same for the ‘outstanding’ and ‘satisfactory’ thrifts, which implies a recoupment of the extra cost. The findings are consistent with CSR as a management choice based on balancing marginal cost and marginal revenue. An incidental finding is that larger thrifts are less efficient.
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Donald F. VitalianoEmail: Phone: +1-518- 276-8093 |
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Robert G. Chambers 《Journal of Productivity Analysis》2008,30(2):107-120
Stochastic productivity indicators are defined, and superlative measures of these indicators are derived. It is shown that,
in the presence of complete markets or a common-expectations equilibrium, differences in the market values of firms are superlative
indicators of cross-sectional productivity differences. Exactness results are used to decompose nonstochastic productivity
indicators into a measure of true productivity change and a measure of ‘luck’. The decomposition is illustrated empirically.
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Robert G. ChambersEmail: |
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This paper proposes a flexible time-varying stochastic frontier model. Similarly to Lee and Schmidt [1993, In: Fried H, Lovell
CAK, Schmidt S (eds) The measurement of productive efficiency: techniques and applications. Oxford University Press, Oxford],
we assume that individual firms’ technical inefficiencies vary over time. However, the model, which we call the “multiple
time-varying individual effects” model, is more general in that it allows multiple factors determining firm-specific time-varying
technical inefficiencies. This allows the temporal pattern of inefficiency to vary over firms. The number of such factors
can be consistently estimated. The model is applied to data on Indonesian rice farms, and the changes in the efficiency rankings
of farms over time demonstrate the model’s flexibility.
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Young H. LeeEmail: |
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Decompositions of total factor productivity (TFP) shed light on the driving factors behind productivity change. We develop
the first exact decomposition of the Fisher ideal TFP index which contains no debatable mixed-period components or residuals.
We systematically isolate five effects of (1) technical change, (2) technical efficiency, (3) scale efficiency, (4) allocative
efficiency, and (5) price effect. The three efficiency components (2–4) represent the efficiency of achieving a given target
point. Components (1) and (5) capture the changes of the target point. While the technical change component is well-established,
changes in the relative input–output prices can have real effects on the scale and scope of the target. Such changes are captured
by the new price effect component (5). The new decomposition is compared with existing decompositions both in theory and by
means of an empirical application to a panel data of 459 Finnish farms in years 1992–2000.
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Timo KuosmanenEmail: |
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Isabel M. Correia Orlando Petiz 《The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal》2007,3(2):145-157
This paper aims to assess if geographic proximity from universities enhances small firms’ performance, by means of knowledge
spillovers. A sample of micro data is used on 390 manufacturing firms and 11 public universities in Portugal. Performance
is measured by labour productivity. The estimation was made using OLS as well as Quantile Regression. Results seem to confirm
that both domains of knowledge do produce distinct effects, but there is no evidence that a firm’s performance improves with
the proximity to a university. Likewise, the quality of universities does not seem to influence the labour productivity of
firms.
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Orlando PetizEmail: |
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This paper considers the measurement of performance in public service provision in an international context by examining outcome-based
measures for the education sector. It first sets out the measurement issues in general terms. The paper then applies these
methods to comparing the UK experience with that in the US over the period 1979–2002. The results show higher labour productivity
growth in the UK education sector than in the US over this time period, so that the UK eliminated the productivity gap with
the US by the end of the Century.
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Mary O’MahonyEmail: |
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In this paper we argue that the standard approach for measuring output and productivity in the trade sector has become obsolete.
The key problem is that changes in prices of goods purchased for resale are not accounted for. We outline a consistent accounting
framework for measuring trade productivity and provide new estimates, taking into account purchase prices of goods sold in
a double deflation procedure. We find strong productivity improvements in the UK and US compared to France, Germany and The
Netherlands since the mid-1990s. This finding is robust for various productivity measurement models.
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Marcel P. TimmerEmail: |
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Julie A. B. Cagle Amit Sen James E. Pawlukiewicz 《Journal of Economics and Finance》2009,33(1):100-110
This study expands the examination of workforce layoffs by banks to include non-bank financial institutions and explores inter-industry
differences in market reactions to layoff announcements. In examining inter-industry differences, we control for variables
that influence the market’s reaction to a layoff announcement, such as firm size, the size of the layoff, the reason given
for the layoff, and the governance structure of the firm. We provide evidence of inter-industry differences in market reaction
to layoff announcements by financial institutions, with banks experiencing more favorable stock-price reactions than other
types of regulated firms. These results provide evidence that bank regulation reduces asymmetric information surrounding managerial
announcements to a greater degree than the regulation of other types of financial institutions.
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James E. PawlukiewiczEmail: |
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Gokhan H. Akay 《Journal of Productivity Analysis》2009,31(1):47-55
This study analyzes the impact of trade on wages in the context of the specific factors model by focusing on the link between
trade and the average real wage. A recent paper by Jones and Ruffin (Rev Int Econ, 16:234–249, 2008) shows how one can use
the specific factors model to predict how labor should fare from an improvement in the terms of trade. For this purpose, I
use annual firm-level data on the manufacturing sector in Ghana during the period 1991–1997. I find that a ceteris paribus increase in the price of exportables in the wood industry would help labor but labor would be hurt by price increases in
the food-baker, furniture, textile-garment, and metal-machinery industries.
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Gokhan H. AkayEmail: |