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The Equity Premium Puzzle reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that the equity premium -- the return earned by a...

The Experimental Study of Asset Pricing Theory is the first review of experimentation in asset pricing, which is both rare and novel. The goal of experimentation is twofold. First, experimentation is...

Provenance, i.e., the origin or source of something, is becoming an important concern, since it offers the means to verify data products, to infer their quality, and to decide whether they can be...

Three major international research projects that track data on global institutions in most countries do not track the firm formation process and do not correlate with measures of the firm formation...

If information theory and estimation theory are thought of as two scientific languages, then their key vocabularies are information measures and estimation measures, respectively. The basic...

The Law and Economics of Public Health synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public's health that are found scattered in different literature ranging...

The Micofoundations of Entrepreneurial Cognition Research is divided into three sections. The first section reviews the precursor field of social cognition and its historical development to explore...

The Organization of the Oil Industry, Past and Present explains the various shifts in the balance of power between a group of large international vertically integrated firms (the Seven Sisters), and...

The Political Economy of the Natural Resources Curse focuses on political economy theories of the resource curse and scrutinizes how well, or poorly, these theories have been integrated with...

The Role of Management Controls in Transforming Firm Boundaries and Sustaining Hybrid Organizational Forms aims to demonstrate how controls have been used to mitigate risk and to facilitate...

In pursuit of sustainable operations, this book analyses the past, present, and future of operations. Written for practitioners, scientists, and students of operations management and researchAuthor:...

The U.S. Information Economy: Value, Employment, Industry Structure, and Trade explores the confluence of two events -- large economies in the world being dominated by services and a change from a...

The field of entrepreneurship has yet to develop a single, modern theory of entrepreneurship. Current theories of entrepreneurship have centered on either opportunity recognition or the individual...

Theory and Use of the EM Algorithm introduces the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and provides an intuitive and mathematically rigorous understanding of this method. It describes in detail...

Active learning is a protocol for supervised machine learning in which a learning algorithm sequentially requests the labels of selected data points from a large pool of unlabeled data. This...

Three Branches of Theories of Financial Crises presents basic frameworks linked to the broad topic of financial crises and describes some of the directions in which they influenced the literature and...

Three Essential Analytical Techniques for the Behavioral Marketing Researcher: Median Splits, Mean-Centering, and Mediation Analysis reviews several topics that are essential complementary analytics...

Multi-core architectures have recently gained in popularity due to their high-performance and low-power characteristics. Most modern desktop systems are now equipped with multi-core processors...

Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A review derives in a tutorial manner the fundamental theorems on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues, inverses, and products of banded Toeplitz matrices and...

Topics in Multi-User Information Theory presents a review of eleven of the fundamental issues in multi-user information theory. Each chapter is devoted to one particular issue and follows the same...

This monograph focuses on changing electric energy systems and shows how today's operating and planning practices can be enhanced by relying on data-enabled predictions and decision-making software...

This monograph presents the emerging field of second-generation quantum sensing, which leverages phenomena such as superposition and entanglement, thereby offering measurement sensitivities far...

Transmission and Reception with Multiple Antennas: Theoretical Foundations presents a comprehensive, yet compact, survey, emphasizing the mathematical aspects of single-user multiple-antenna theory...

Transmission Capacity of Wireless Networks presents a framework for computing the outage probability (OP) and transmission capacity (TC) in a wireless network. Transmission capacity is a performance...

Data quality is one of the most important problems in data management, since dirty data often leads to inaccurate data analytics results and wrong business decisions. According to a report by...

Trust and Reciprocity explores the contributions of behavioral economics, laboratory experiments, and field experiments to our understanding of the economics of trust, trustworthiness, and reciprocal...

The astonishing growth of generative tools in recent years has empowered many exciting applications in text-to-image generation and text-to-video generation. The underlying principle behind these...

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) was introduced into 5G networks to facilitate machine to machine communication for such applications as the Internet of Things. But designing URLLC...

Uncertainty-Embedded Financial Data and Stock Returns investigates the role of conservative accounting in capturing various types of uncertainty in a firm's operations and assesses how the resulting...

Understanding Scarcity: From Marketing to Policy, Management, and Beyond explores the intricate relationship between scarcity and consumer behavior, drawing on decades of research across marketing,...