Wharton-SMU Research Center The Political Spectrum

Wharton-SMU Research Center The Psychology of Dynamic Product Maintenance

Wharton-SMU Research Center Incorporating Satisfaction into Customer Value Analysis: Optimal Investment in Life-Time Value

Wharton-SMU Research Center Corporate Transparency and Political Connections

In this paper, we study the corporate transparency choices of firms operating in a weak institutional environment. We argue that in relationship-based systems, high levels of corporate transparency and strong political connections are alternative means to create firm value. Firms can try to commit to more transparency by issuing securities abroad. However, the expanded disclosures and additiona...

A Learning-Based Model for Imputing Missing Levels in Partial Conjoint Profiles

Vol. XLI (November 2004), 369–381 369 *Eric T. Bradlow is Associate Professor of Marketing and Statistics and Academic Director of the Wharton Small Business Development Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (e-mail: ebradlow@ wharton.upenn.edu). Ye Hu is a visiting assistant professor, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University (e-mail: [email protected]). Teck-Hua Ho is W...

Challenges in Designing Grid Marketplaces

Recent years have seen several proposals for the use of economic mechanisms to allocate grid resources with a special emphasis on scheduling. While this is an important operational issue, the focus of this literature has assumed that capacity (of CPU, bandwidth, storage and software licenses) on the grid exists and that resource requirements for jobs being submitted can be estimated quite accur...