... CHAPTER TWO The Sources ofthe Problem The spirit of capitalism is alive and well in Corporate America Darwinian economies, governed by the basic laws of supply and demand, vastly favor the strong ... creation of products and services and then selling and delivering them to the marketplace A talented CEO can rally the troops and march on to victory in the marketplace But the success of a CEO ... drives the United States more than other countries The second is the uniquely American cult ofthe deified CEO and his entourage, making them worthy of vast sums of money to attract and retain them...
... 41 The content of that right gives the content ofthe related duty: not to block us Andthe content ofthe right also identifies the duty-ower: all other agents The duty-ower can be read off the ... degradation ofthe discourse of rights We have to recover our sense ofthe power ofthe rest of our moral vocabulary – for example, the language of justice and fairness We have to feel again the power of ... perspective ofthe perpetrator rather than that ofthe victims, the difficulty of perceiving evil in one’s own time, the euphemisms of technical language, the dehumanising impact of collective action, and...
... both in the set of provisions covered and in the definitions of some ofthe covered provisions For example, only 18 ofthe 24 provisions in the G-Index are covered by the 2008 volume ofthe RiskMetrics ... in the understanding of investor behavior and whether the policy recommendations in Richardson, Sloan, Soliman, and Tuna (2005, 2006) and FASB to curtail the use of “less reliable” components of ... argument, the excitement of seeing a new way of looking at an issue, the satisfaction of drawing different matrices of knowledge together in a productive way Therein are the prizes, andthe sooner...
... applications ofthe Rudebusch-Wu model illustrate the range of issues that such a macrofinance model can address The first of these is an exploration ofthe source ofthe Great Moderation the period of reduced ... solved and responses given Quarters ofthe term premium andthe other variables ofthe model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions ofthe term premium and ... orthodoxy Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus of...
... signals the barrier, one ofthe waiting threads is allowed to proceed, andthe semaphore is incremented to -3 But then no one signals the semaphore again and none ofthe other threads can pass the ... to the wait, it will proceed immediately Either way, the order of a1 and b1 is guaranteed 12 Basic synchronization patterns This use of semaphores is the basis ofthe names signal and wait, and ... College I used the first edition ofThe Little Book of Semaphores along with one ofthe standard textbooks, and I taught Synchronization as a concurrent thread for the duration ofthe course Each...
... that the happy soul of Daybreak, the poet of Zarathustra who on the heights of Sils Maria dreamt himself ‘6,000 feet above man and time’, the melancholic ofThe Wanderer and His Shadow’ andthe ... piety andthe good should prove tinder for the incandescent spirits ofthe great warmongers, the zealots of a new order There is enough of blood, of domination, of mastery, will and cruelty, of ... redescribe their predecessors and place themselves at the culmination ofthe past andthe promise ofthe future, even to the extreme of turning the fragile pax Europa into a scene of voicing...
... the sequence ofthe exponentially distributed independent random variables with the parameter μn+1 (μn+1 > 0), and νμn+1 (ξn+1 ) is random variable defined by The Model of Stochastic Controland ... < ξ1,j a.s j=1 The values μ1 are called controlling parameter at the first step By induction, suppose that at the n-th step (n ≥ 1) if controlled process is at the state xn and controlling variables ... μn+1 is called controlling parameter at the (n + 1)-th step U = un = u(μn )|n = 1, 2, is called a controlling strategy 1.2 Definition ofthe Cost If at the n-th step, the state of elementary...
... and risks of usual care versus the expected benefits and risks ofthe trial after pooling all arms, and that the decision point always comes before randomization and hence is independent ofthe ... and not upon the value of any single arm The principle of ‘equal uncertainty between the arms ofthe RCT’ must be replaced with the principle of a reasonable ‘expected value’ for the participant ... amounts of data about the drug, and has eliminated the least promising agents before the design process for randomized controlled trials occurs Design bias Design bias, on the other hand, occurs...
... disorder Like the pervasive effects of culture, distortion of consciousness lies at the heart of both the individual experience of mental disorder andthe effect of it on the embedding ofthe individual ... or the other ofthe teams, or separate counts ofthe number of bounce and areal passes During the game, a figure in a full gorilla suit appears, faces the camera, beats its breast, and walks off ... [11] Invoking the spirit ofthe Shannon-McMillan Theorem, essentially the zero-error limit ofthe Rate Distortion Theorem discussed in the Mathematical Appendix, allows definition of an adiabatically,...
... growth ofthe standards The use of networking, information sharing, and stakeholder engagement is key to the promotion and diffusion ofthe standards Mr Buck described how the GRI has worked with the ... because ofthe diversity ofthe stakeholders involved TheThe institutional promotion, Page 13 Journal of Academic and Business Ethics regulatory mandates that have set the stage for the diffusion and ... Thousands of companies and organizations use the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards The name recognition and reputation ofthe ISO brand can play an instrumental role in its implementation The primary...
... Moreover, the magnitude ofthe negative effect depends on the competitive tension between the focal and rival political actors, which is driven by the similarity between andthe salience ofthe political ... specializing in the steel industry, and leading business news media in China These lists provide the names of acquirers and targets andthe year the acquisition was undertaken These lists were then combined ... representing another province in the national Congress, and zero otherwise Moderators andcontrol variables To measure the similarity between the focal and rival political actors, I compared the profiles...
... employees are observed andcontrol with strictness they become disloyal and they never think about the growth and reputation ofthe company They prefer to leave the company instead of working for its ... deviate from 48 their duties if they find it too much stressing and can re-schedule them They are given targets and then they are allowed to decide themselves how they can achieve their duties efficiently ... employer and tend to create a positive image ofthe organization in minds ofthe outside parties Loyal employee owns the company and tries to build the good reputation ofthe company by his word of...
... Under the classical tradeoff theory, the firm finds the optimal debt level at the point where the marginal tax benefit of another dollar of debt equals the mar- Preface: Empirical CorporateFinance ... studies arises from the fact that the magnitude of abnormal performance at the time of an event provides a measure ofthe (unanticipated) impact of this type of event on the wealth ofthe firms’ claimholders ... overview ofthe Handbooks in Finance Series, please refer to the listing at the end of this volume v This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS OFTHE HANDBOOK VOLUME Introduction to the Series...
... form reflect the rule -of- law value ofthe accessibility of law The norms that handle cases of failed law reflect both the rule -of- law value of accessibility andthe more substantive value of consistent ... as to ban the cute and gentle panda?”) A and B did not clarify whether pandas were within the rule before voting The results of this disagreement are these The rule “no bears” admits of two relevant ... the rule they enact In other words, over the range of real or hypothetical applications ofthe rule, felicitous and infelicitous, if asked how the rule was intended to apply, each member of the...
... discussion ofthe rise ofthe concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion ofthe social construction of maternity and paternity, I analyse the ... Studies of male reproductive health and toxicity have Between fathers and fetuses concentrated primarily on the eVects of occupational and environmental exposures of men and less on the eVects of ... fathers and fetuses ‘Crack babies’ and ‘pregnant addicts’ By now, the images ofthe crack baby and addicted mother are familiar to anyone who has read news reports of pregnancy and addiction In the...
... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities ofthe company They want to study the “pure” movement ofthe ... features ofthe growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth andthe stability ofthe growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these for thousands of companies ... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead ofthe earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together...