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 ArticleFinancial Transaction Services of WPA Achieves 'Approved Vendor' Designation...
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Transaction Services of Western PA (FTSWPA), electronic transaction processing service provider for BtoB and BtoG, announced it has achieved a...
View ArticleURDANG Recommends Investors Consider Holding Both REITS and Private Real Estate
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. and LONDON, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Institutional real estate investors should consider including both real estate investment trusts (REITS) and private real estate in their...
View ArticleFrom Nasdaq's First Electronic Network to Dark Pools, High-Frequency Trading...
From Nasdaq's First Electronic Network to Dark Pools, High-Frequency Trading History and Recent Deve
View ArticleSono Resources Receives Final Ministry Approval and Closes the Acquisition of...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sono Resources Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SRCI); the "Company" or "Sono") has received final regulatory approval by the Ministry of Minerals,...
View ArticleSono Resources Receives Final Ministry Approval and Closes the Acquisition of...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sono Resources Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SRCI); the "Company" or "Sono") has received final regulatory approval by the Ministry of Minerals,...
View ArticlePuda Coal Submits Plan to Regain Compliance with NYSE Listing Standards
TAIYUAN, Shanxi Province, China, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Puda Coal, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PUDA) (the Company), today announced that on July 15, 2011, the Company submitted to the NYSE...
View ArticleAdvent International to Invest in Bojangles'
BOSTON, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Advent International, the global private equity firm, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to invest in Bojangles', a leading quick service...
View ArticleWebcast Alert: Lancashire Holdings Q2 2011
HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lancashire Insurance Company Limited (LCSHF.PK) announces the following Webcast: What: Lancashire Holdings Q2 2011 When: July 27, 2011 @ 8:00 AM Eastern...
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