Vol. XLIII (August 2006), 345–354 345 © 2006, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Judith A. Chevalier is William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics (e-mail: [email protected]), and Dina Mayzlin is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Yale School of Management. The authors thank the two anonymous JMR rev...

Since the latter counts are only complete down to K=14.5, the amount of extrapolation to the magnitudes of interest at K>19 is considerable – especially since one does expect to run out of stars at some point at high latitudes. Fortunately, since the total counts at the faint magnitudes of interest are dominated by galaxies, this uncertainty does not appreciably affect the conclusions. Nonethel...

Over the last decade, the retail industry has had a phenomenal growth. All figures show their success and efficiency and many studies have shown the role of customer reviews in encouraging ambivalent purchasers to buy items online. There have been numerous studies on why people read and trust these comments and taking for granted the important role of customer reviews in determining buying deci...

Decisions about expenditure on health, education and other publicly-provided services require choices regarding how much of our collective income we should allocate to these services and which services should be given priority. The attempt to answer this question has stimulated many developments in economic theory and practice, from human capital theory to systems of extended national accounts....

The practice of cardiovascular surgery demands daily interface with sophisticated technologies including most commonly the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) machine. Although other industries have recognized the importance of considering human factors in the design of machines to reduce operator error, the evolution of the CPB machine over the past half-century has been characterized by incremental ...

With the growth in sociality and interaction around touching national and international topics, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address issues spurred by news articles. Proponents of cyberspace promise that online discourse will increase political participation and pave the road for a democratic utopia (Papacharissi, 2004). Comment writers, according t...

Abstract The present study aims to improve the knowledge of Simaroubaceae in Reserva Ducke, Manaus, Amazonas. It is based on morphological analysis herbaria collections and field expeditions. family represented that area by six species belonging four genera: Homalolepis (1 sp.), Picrolemma Simaba (3 spp., including a new one described herein), Simarouba sp.). Identification keys, descriptions, ...

This paper examines the incentives of acquirers and targets in the merger market. Using data on acquisitions among mutual fund management companies from 1991 through 2004, I estimate a two-sided matching model of the merger market jointly with equations representing merger outcomes. According to the empirical investigation, although the desire to achieve a su¢ cient scale to attract investors i...