Corporate and Personal Bankruptcy Law -- by Michelle J. White
Bankruptcy is the legal process by which the debts of firms, individuals, and occasionally governments in financial distress are resolved. Bankruptcy law always includes three components. First, it...
View ArticleHas the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from...
From 1991 to 2003, the fraction of Medicaid recipients enrolled in HMOs and other forms of Medicaid managed care (MMC) increased from 11 percent to 58 percent. This increase was largely driven by state...
View ArticleHuman Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their...
I develop a model in which a child's acquisition of a given form of human capital incentivizes adults in his household to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of...
View Article"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications --...
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those...
View ArticleHow Do Firm Financial Conditions Affect Product Quality and Pricing? -- by...
We analyze the interaction of firm product quality and pricing decisions with financial distress and bankruptcy in the airline industry. We consider an airline's choices of quality and price as dynamic...
View ArticleGauging the Generosity of Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Differences Between...
We develop an empirical method to assess the generosity of employer-sponsored insurance across groups within the U.S. population. A key feature of this method is its simplicity - it only requires data...
View ArticleThe Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition...
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor...
View ArticlePublic Consumption Over the Business Cycle -- by Ruediger Bachmann, Jinhui Bai
What fraction of the business cycle volatility of government purchases is accounted for as endogenous reactions to overall macroeconomic conditions? We answer this question in the framework of a...
View ArticleCross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs....
This paper examines the role of regulation and competition in generic markets. Generics offer large potential savings to payers and consumers of pharmaceuticals. Whether the potential savings are...
View Articlemoneyscience: arXiv: Quantization of long memory processes....
moneyscience: arXiv: Quantization of long memory processes. (arXiv:1107.4476v1 [q-fin.ST]) http://bit.ly/noUxx3
View ArticleMetals USA Reports Second Quarter 2011 Sales Growth of 51% on 33% Volume Growth
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Metals USA Holdings Corp. (NYSE: MUSA) today reported its results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011. Net sales for the second quarter...
View ArticleA Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns? - CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog):...
A Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns? - CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog): CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)A Hedge Fund... http://bit.ly/qLlBiH
View Article@NaijaToast then again, if you can raise your own capital, you can become a...
@NaijaToast then again, if you can raise your own capital, you can become a hedge fund manager... You need at least 100 million though
View Articlehttp://bit.ly/qAuNvj A Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns?
http://bit.ly/qAuNvj A Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns?
View ArticleA Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns?: By Larry Swedroe | Jul 25,...
A Hedge Fund Guaranteeing 12 Percent Returns?: By Larry Swedroe | Jul 25, 2011 | In 2008, three Louisiana public... http://bit.ly/nOJRny
View ArticleHedge fund AQR to launch $250mn reinsurance arm: US investment firm AQR...
Hedge fund AQR to launch $250mn reinsurance arm: US investment firm AQR Capital Management has confirmed that it... http://bit.ly/oq21fF
View ArticleHedge fund AQR to launch $250mn reinsurance arm http://bit.ly/qWfNFX
Hedge fund AQR to launch $250mn reinsurance arm http://bit.ly/qWfNFX
View ArticleAnother Mobile Innovation from CIBC - Stock Trading Goes Mobile as CIBC...
A first from a Canadian bank - CIBC clients can now execute trades on the go using an App on their iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android device To view the Social Media Release, click here:...
View ArticleA New Audio Interview with Bill Grand, Product Consultant for YesDTC...
AUSTIN, Texas, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SmallCapVoice.com, Inc. announced today that a new audio interview with YesDTC Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:YESD) a direct-to-consumer marketer and global...
View ArticleSierra Bancorp Reports Second Quarter Earnings
PORTERVILLE, Calif., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Bancorp (Nasdaq: BSRR), parent of Bank of the Sierra, today announced its financial results for the quarter and the six months ended June 30,...
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