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- December 1981 (Revised September 1986)
- Case
Marriott Corp.
By: Thomas R. Piper
Marriott is considering the repurchase of ten million shares. This is apparently at odds with the financial policies that the Board of Directors passed two years earlier. Students must discuss why the policies were passed and why changes are now necessary. Includes a... View Details
- November 1981
- Article
Effects of Nominal Contracting on Stock Returns
By: K. French, G. W. Schwert and R. S. Ruback
- May – June 1981
- Article
Is Your Stock Worth Its Market Price?
By: W. E. Fruhan Jr. and Thomas R. Piper
- 1980
- Working Paper
Taxation and the Ex-dividend Day Behavior of Common Stock Prices
By: Jerry R. Green
The behavior of stock prices around ex-dividend days has been suggested as evidence for tax-induced clientele effects and as a means to estimate the average effective tax rate faced by investors. In this paper these possibilities are examined theoretically and... View Details
- 1980
- Article
Consumer Impulse Purchase and Credit Card Usage: An Empirical Examination Using the Log Linear Model
By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan
Most of the work in impulse purchase behavior has investigated the association of socioeconomic variables and unplanned purchases with equivocal results. This paper examines the interrelationship between impulse purchases, credit card usage, cost of items bought, and... View Details
- April 1979
- Article
Statistical Models of Bond Ratings: A Methodological Inquiry
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Gabriel Urwitz
- February 1979
- Background Note
Note on the Theory of Optimal Capital Structure
Examines the interrelationship between the maximization of the share value of a firm's common stock and the minimization of the firm's weighted average cost of capital. Presents a revised version of a case by J.W. Mullins, Jr. View Details
- January 1978
- Article
Pooling vs. Purchase: The Effects of Accounting for Mergers on Stock Prices
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Hai Hong and Gershon Mandelker
- December 1977
- Article
Tender Offers and Stockholder Returns: An Empirical Analysis
By: P. Dodd and R. S. Ruback
- January–February 1976
- Article
Option Pricing When Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous
By: Robert C. Merton
- summer 1975
- Article
Simulation of Bond Portfolio Strategies: Laddered vs. Barbell Maturity Sturctures
By: D. B. Crane and Stephen P. Bradley
- spring 1974
- Article
The Optimality of a Competitive Stock Market
By: Robert C. Merton and Marti G. Subrahmanyam