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The Determinants of Credit Spread Changes.
- Journal of Finance
, 2001
"... ABSTRACT Using dealer's quotes and transactions prices on straight industrial bonds, we investigate the determinants of credit spread changes. Variables that should in theory determine credit spread changes have rather limited explanatory power. Further, the residuals from this regression are ..."
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like Treasury bonds, and (2) low-grade bonds are more sensitive to stock returns. The implications of these studies may be limited in many situations of interest, however. For example, hedge funds often take highly levered positions in corporate bonds while hedging away interest rate risk by shorting
Mental Accounting Matters
- JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING J. BEHAV. DEC. MAKING, 12: 183~206 (1999)
, 1999
"... Mental accounting is the set of cognitive operations used by individuals and households to organize, evaluate, and keep track of financial activities. Making use of research on this topic over the past decade, this paper summarizes the current state of our knowledge about how people engage in mental ..."
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Mental accounting is the set of cognitive operations used by individuals and households to organize, evaluate, and keep track of financial activities. Making use of research on this topic over the past decade, this paper summarizes the current state of our knowledge about how people engage
Does fund size erode mutual fund performance? The role of liquidity and organization
, 2003
"... We investigate the effect of scale on performance in the active money management industry. We first document that fund returns, both before and after fees and expenses, decline with lagged fund size, even after adjusting these returns by various performance benchmarks. We then explore a number of p ..."
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with the asset base of the other funds in the family that the fund belongs to. This suggests that scale need not be bad for fund returns depending on how the fund is organized. Finally, we explore the idea that scale erodes fund performance because of the interaction of liquidity and organizational diseconomies.
The strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies.
- PLoS Med
, 2007
"... A B S T R A C T Much biomedical research is observational. The reporting of such research is often inadequate, which hampers the assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and of a study's generalisability. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Initi ..."
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Development of the STROBE Statement We established the STROBE Initiative in 2004, obtained funding for a workshop and set up a Web site (http://www. strobe-statement.org/). We searched textbooks, bibliographic databases, reference lists, and personal files for relevant material, including previous
Do Networks Really Work? A Framework for Evaluating Public-Sector Organizational Networks.
- Public Administration Review,
, 2001
"... Although cooperative, interorganizational networks have become a common mechanism for delivery of public services, evaluating their effectiveness is extremely complex and has generally been neglected. To help resolve this problem, we discuss the evaluation of networks of community-based, mostly pub ..."
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publicly funded health, human service, and public welfare organizations. Consistent with pressures to perform effectively from a broad range of key stakeholders, we argue that networks must be evaluated at three levels of analysis: community, network, and organization/participant levels. While the three
Toward a Theory of Charitable Fund-Raising
- Journal of Political Economy
, 1998
"... Private providers of public goods, such as charities, invariably enlist fund-raisers to organize and collect contributions. Common in charitable fund-raising is seed money, either from a government grant or from a group of ‘‘leadership givers,’ ’ that launches the fund drive and generates additional ..."
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Private providers of public goods, such as charities, invariably enlist fund-raisers to organize and collect contributions. Common in charitable fund-raising is seed money, either from a government grant or from a group of ‘‘leadership givers,’ ’ that launches the fund drive and generates
Trends in college binge drinking during a period of increased prevention efforts: Erratum
- Journal of American College Health
, 2002
"... Abuse (NIAAA) formed a special task force to make rec-ommendations to address the problem.7 Binge drinking has even received global attention from the World Health Orga-nization, which convened a conference to address the topic.8 Several prominent organizations and key leaders have accepted this cal ..."
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Abuse (NIAAA) formed a special task force to make rec-ommendations to address the problem.7 Binge drinking has even received global attention from the World Health Orga-nization, which convened a conference to address the topic.8 Several prominent organizations and key leaders have accepted
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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investments, using a comprehensive sample of U.S. based VCs over the period 1980 to 2003. VC funds whose parent firms enjoy more influential network positions have significantly better performance, as measured by the proportion of portfolio company investments that are successfully exited through an initial
Network ties, reputation, and the financing of new ventures
- Management Science
, 2002
"... Explaining how entrepreneurs overcome information asymmetry between themselves and potential investors to obtain financing is an important issue for entrepreneurship research. Our premise is that economic explanations for venture finance, which do not consider how social ties influence this process, ..."
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, are undersocialized and incomplete. However, we also argue that organization theoretic arguments, which draw on the concept of social obligation, are oversocialized. Drawing on the organizational theory literature, and in-depth fieldwork with 50 high-technology ventures, we examine the effects of direct and indirect
The nonspread of innovations: the mediating role of professionals.
- Acad Manage
, 2005
"... Two qualitative studies in the U.K. health care sector trace eight purposefully selected innovations. Complex, contested, and nonlinear innovation careers emerged. Developing the nonlinear perspective on innovation spread further, we theorize that multiprofessionalization shapes "nonspread.&qu ..."
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;nonspread." Social and cognitive boundaries between different professions retard spread, as individual professionals operate within unidisciplinary communities of practice. This new theory helps explain barriers to the spread of innovation in multiprofessional organizations in both health care and other settings. I
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