The US department store industry has undergone a recent round of strategic acquisition-based portfolio restructuring. This paper analyses one such acquisition, studying how its geography is restructured in the premerger stage to conform to the Federal Trade Commission's 'fix-it-first' policy and to improve the strategic fit of the transaction. The article then investigates evidence, and analyse...

This paper suggests that there should be a realignment of the current Eurozone. There has been research to argue that the Eurozone does not fit the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) criteria. This might be a contributing factor to the current economic crisis in Europe. I propose, based on results from k-means data clustering, that the Eurozone be divided into three separate regions under the European...

Participants learned to classify seemingly arbitrary words into categories that also corresponded to ad hoc categories (see, e.g., Barsalou, 1983). By adapting experimental mechanisms previously used to study knowledge restructuring in perceptual categorization, we provide a novel account of how experimental and preexperimental knowledge interact. Participants were told of the existence of the ...

To present an empirical test of the effectiveness of electricity restructuring in improving the electricity generation efficiency, I analyze the variation in productivity of 73 investor-owned nuclear power plants in the United States from 1992-1998. I find consistent evidence that high-cost plants are more likely to be restructured. Accounting for this policy endogeneity, survival analysis and ...

The voting arrangements used by creditors during debt restructuring are prespecified, often by statute. For example, U.S. law stipulates the use of a unanimous vote outside bankruptcy, but a supermajority vote in Chapter 11 bankrupcty. We analyze the effect of voting rules on the welfare of debtors and their creditors in restructuring negotiations. When creditors are close to rational and marke...

Almost exactly fifty years before the Notre Dame conference, the world’s largest centenary commemoration of Darwin’s legacy was held at nearby University of Chicago. This event, organized by a committee spearheaded by University of Chicago anthropologist Sol Tax, drew nearly 2,500 registrants. In attendance were the primary leaders of evolutionary biology, paleontology, anthropology, and geneti...

As Henry Kissinger used to say in our White House staff meetings, when discussing economics, "It is with an unaccustomed sense of humility that I address you on this subject." This distinguished group of scholars and practitioners, all pros on the subject of financial restructuring, requires me to approach the subject in the same way. While my background gave me a certain familiarity with the w...

Schema restructuring is part of both database design and database reorganization, which are expressions of the specification and evolution of an information system. Entity-Relationship(ER) consistency expresses the capability of relational databases to model information oriented systems. A relational schema consistmg of relation schemes, together with key and inclusion dependencies, is said to ...

When data requirements change and the existing database structure no longer reflects the current state of the Universe of Discourse, transformation of the information system is inevitable. Although required changes usually involve the addition or deletion of Information, part of the process can be considered rule-changing but information-preserving. This part of the transformation process, i.e....

Requirements engineering necessitates the analysis of relationships among the requirements of system stakeholders. Poor analysis of these relationships has led to numerous failures. To improve such analysis, researchers have created models and methods for recording, analyzing, and modifying stakeholder requirements. However, the critical aspect of representing and reasoning about stakeholder in...