Institution: | The authors are respectively from Illinois State University at Normal;and Hofstra University. They are grateful to Professor Arthur Keown of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, for providing the underlying database. They would like to thank Professors Ike Mathus, Jerry Stevens, and Manuel Jose of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Professor Michael Gombola of Drexel University, and Dr Ralph Amayo of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &Co. in Chicago for their advice and helpful comments. |