Redeeming bad theories

Why Is “ Bad ” Parenting Criminogenic ? a Test of Rival Theories

Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices

The corporate scandals in the United States have stimulated a frenzy of activities in business schools around the world. Deans are extolling how much their curricula focus on business ethics. New courses are being developed on corporate social responsibility. Old, highly laudatory cases on Enron and Tyco are being hurriedly rewritten. “What more must we do?”, the faculty are asking themselves i...

Redeeming Valleys and Ridges for Line-Drawing

This paper presents a new method of line drawing based on the hypothesis that artists draw the lines that decompose the object into parts, and the lines that help convey the shapes of the parts. But they draw these lines differently depending on the viewpoint. Contours are the most obvious part-decomposing lines. Valley lines, which typically delimit convex parts, are also part-decomposing line...

Optimal Redeeming Strategy of Stock Loans

A stock loan is a loan, secured by a stock, which gives the borrower the right to redeem the stock at any time before or on the loan maturity. The way of dividends distribution has a significant effect on the pricing of the stock loan and the optimal redeeming strategy adopted by the borrower. We present the pricing models subject to various ways of dividend distribution. Since closed-form pric...

Redeeming The Aural: Amodal Resonance And Media History