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CIBER 2008-2009 Working Papers

Samuel Barkin, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

• "Illicit Economic Activity and the Interstices of Sovereignty"

Sanford Berg, Distinguished Service Professor and PURC Director of Water Studies, Department of Economics

• "Water Utility Performance in Central America: The Political Economy of Coverage, Quality and Cost"
• "Bolivian Utility Regulation: Lessons for a Water Sector Agency"
• "Evaluating Pro-Poor Water Service Technologies in Developing Countries: The Case of Uganda's Urban Poor Project"

Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, Professor, Department of Telecommunication

• "Predictors of the Adoption of Entertainment, Information, Communication, and Transaction Services on Mobile Phones"

Elias Dinopoulos, Professor, Department of Economics

• "Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Economic Growth"
• "Country of Origin Labeling"
• "Immiserizing Schumpeterian Growth"
• "Intra-Industry Trade and Wage Income Inequality"

Franz Futterknecht, Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

• "An Immersive Learning Simulation Environment for Chinese Culture"

Jonathan Hamilton, Chair and R. Perry Frankland Professor, Department of Economics

• "Commodity Tax Competition and Industry Location under the Destination and Origin Principles"

Mark Jamison, Director, Public Utilities Research Center

• "Providing Stability While Leading Change"

Robert W. Knechel, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, Fisher School of Accounting

• "The Demand for Audits and the Impact of Regulation on Audit Fees"
• "Earnings Management: The Impact on Auditors' Effort Levels and Realization Rates"
• "The Use of Performance Measures in a Strategic Systems Audit: Evidence Reliability and Relevance Judgments and Risk Assessment Effects"
• "Strategic Information and Going Concern Opinions"
• "Strategic Performance and Auditors' Going-Concern Judgment: Memory for Audit Evidence"
• "A Stakeholder Model of the Demand for Control"
• "Auditor Consultation and the Assessment of Fraud Risk"

Gwen Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Management

• "New Venture Growth and the Context of Resource Decisions"
• "Directions of Search for New Knowledge: Empirical Evidence on Antecedents and Moderators"
• "Structure and Performance of an Inter-organizational System: A Social-Network Perspective on Interface Standardization"
• "Corporate Coherence and Firm Value Creation"
• "Value Creation, Value Appropriation, and Network Resources"
• "Capability Platform and Market Survival"
• "Autonomy vs. Embeddedness: Estimating the Effects of Local and Global Networks on the Speed of Developing Internet Standards"
• "Network Structure and Enculturation: 'The Influence of Social Networks on Cultural Transmission and Enculturation: An Empirical Investigation'"

Ana Margheritis, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

• "Promoting Democracy in the Inter-American System: Why and When to Engage in Regional Crusades"

Juan-Carlos Molleda, Associate Professor, Department of Public Relations

• "Building Multisector Partnerships for Progress with Strategic, Participatory Communication"
• "Authenticity in a Global Communication Campaign: Branding the New Juan Valdez"
• "National Factors Influencing Dialogic, Virtual Public Diplomacy: A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Governments' Websites"
• "Public Relations Legislation in Panama: A Longitudinal Study"

Andy Naranjo, William A. Emerson / Merrill Lynch Professor of Finance and Associate Director, CIBER, Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

• "Public and Non-Public Information in Credit Ratings"
• "Borrowing Beyond Borders: The Geography and Pricing of Syndicated Bank Loans"
• "Derivative Usage and Firm Value: The Influence of Agency Costs and Market Imperfections"
• "Investor Sentiment and Asset Returns: Evidence from Real Estate Markets"
• "The Determinants and Time-Variation of Price Discovery: S&P 500 SPDRs, Futures, and Options"
• "Implied Volatility and Expected Market Returns"
• "Where's the Liquidity? Information and Trading Costs in Asset Pricing"
• "Exchange Rates, Information Arrival, and Official Intervention: The Case of the DM/$, 1980 - 1998"

Jay Ritter, Joe B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair of Corporate Development and Strategy, Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

• "Big IPO Run-ups of 1975-2006"
• "Money Left on the Table in IPOs"
• "Some Factoids About the 2007 IPO Market"
• "Testing Theories of Capital Structure and Estimating the Speed of Adjustment"
• "The Marketing of Seasoned Equity Offerings"
• "Corporate Executive Bribery: An Empirical Analysis"
• "Multiple Bookrunners in IPOs"

Ben Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

• "How Corrupt Do You Think This Country Is? Growth, Governance, and the Perception of Corruption"
• "Miracles and Developmental States in Proper Perspective: Corruption and Economic Growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America"
• "Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? Contrary Evidence from Southeast Asia and Beyond"
• "States, Separatists, and Social Change: The Origins of Durable Self-Determination Conflicts"

Asoo Vakharia, Beall Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Director, Center for Supply Chain Management, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

• "Designing Fusion Products"