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The importance of population growth and regulation in human life history evolution. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Baldini R.
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Leader‐Follower Dynamics in Shareholder Activism
The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a theory of coordination and influence among blockholders. Privately informed activists time their trades in sequence to lower acquisition costs, prompting a strategic use of order flows: leader activists create trading gains for their followers, ultimately influencing their willingness to bear greater value‐enhancing intervention ...
DORUK CETEMEN +3 more
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The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We develop a unified theory of blockholder governance and the voting premium in a setting without takeovers or controlling shareholders. A voting premium emerges when a minority blockholder can influence shareholder composition by accumulating votes and buying shares from dissenting shareholders.
DORON LEVIT, NADYA MALENKO, ERNST MAUG
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Modeling the evolution space of breakage fusion bridge cycles with a stochastic folding process. [PDF]
J Math Biol, 2016 Greenman CD +4 more
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The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study optimal simple rating systems that partition sellers into a finite number of tiers. We show that optimal ratings must be threshold partitions, and that for linear supply and Cournot competition with constant marginal cost, optimal thresholds solve a k‐means clustering problem requiring only the quality distribution.
Hugo Hopenhayn, Maryam Saeedi
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Pointwise nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of stochastically ordered survivor functions. [PDF]
Biometrika, 2012 Park Y, Taylor JM, Kalbfleisch JD.
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how geographical distance between adult children of immigrants and their parents changes in response to partnership formation and partnership dissolution. Background Geographical distance between generations is a key factor in intergenerational support.
Alon Pertzikovitz +3 more
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Analytic results on the bias due to nondifferential misclassification of a binary mediator. [PDF]
Am J Epidemiol, 2012 Ogburn EL, VanderWeele TJ.
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