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January 31, 2006

The Wall Street Journal

I know that many students are assigned Wall Street Journal readings. For those students without subscriptions, here are the various ways to access it. The full-text online version of the Wall Street Journal is only available via the ProQuest databases ABI Inform Global or ProQuest Newspapers. It is not in Lexis Nexis. Online access is provided back to 1984. The Libraries do get a print edition of the WSJ--it is available for the current three months in the Newspaper Room in Bartle Library. Microfilm holdings go back to 1959.

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January 19, 2006

Publications by BU Faculty

New Faculty Publications--School of Management (selected)

Chatterjee Subimal, Kang Yong Soon, Mishra, Debi P. "Market Signals and Relative Preference: the Moderating Effects of Conflicting Information, Decision Focus, and Need for Cognition." Journal of Business Research 58 (2005): 1362-1370.

Dionne, Shelley D; Jaussi, Kimberly S, Sosik, John J; Jung, Don I; Berson, Yair "Making All the Right Connections: The Strategic Leadership of Top Executives in High-Tech Organizations." Organizational Dynamics 34 (2005): 47-61.

Krishnamurthy Srinivasan, Spindt P, Subramaniam V, et al. "Does Investor Identity Matter in Equity Issues? Evidence from Private Placements." Journal of Financial Intermediation 14 (2005): 210-238.

Krishnamurthy Srinivasan, Kadapakkam PR, , Tse Y "Stock Splits, Broker Promotion, and Decimalization." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 40 (2005): 873-895.

Ma, Tongshu and Jakob K. "Limit Order Adjustment Mechanisms and Ex-Dividend Day Stock Price Behavior." Financial Management 34 (2005):89-101.

Wellman, Jay, and Houge Todd. "Fallout from the Mutual Fund Trading Scandal." Journal of Business Ethics 62 (2005): 129-139.

Yammarino Francis, J., Dionne Shelley D., Chun JU, et al. "Leadership and Levels of Analysis: A State-of-the-Science Review." Leadership Quarterly 16 (2005): 879-919.

Zhang, Yan, Haiyang Li, , Tsang-Sing Chan "Entrepreneurial Strategy Making and Performance in China's New Technology Ventures - the Contingency Effect of Environments and Firm Competences."
Journal of High Technology Management Research. 16 (2005):37.

Zhou, Nan, Re-Jin Guo, Baruch Lev "The Valuation of Biotech IPOs."
Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. 20 (2005):423.

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Publications by BU Faculty

New Faculty Publications--Economics Department (selected)

Greene Kenneth V. "Explaining religion: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought." Public Choice 124 (2005): 485-487.

Henderson Daniel J., Russell RR "Human capital and convergence: A Production-Frontier Approach." International Economic Review 46 (2005): 1167-1205.

Henderson Daniel J., Ullah A. "A Nonparametric Random Effects Estimator." Economics Letters 88 (2005): 403-407.

Henderson Daniel J., Millimet DL
"Environmental Regulation and US State-level Production." Economics Letters 87 (2005): 47-53.

Jones Barry E., De Peretti P.
"A Comparison of Two Methods for Testing the Utility Maximization Hypothesis when Quantity data are Measured with Error." Macroeconomic Dynamics 9 (2005): 612-629.

Kokkelenberg Edward C. "Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers." Industrial & Labor Relations Review 59 (2005): 167-169.

Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Tsionas, Efthymios G. "The Joint Measurement of Technical and Allocative Inefficiencies: An Application of Bayesian Inference in Nonlinear Random-Effects Models." Journal of the American Statistical Association 100 (2005): 736-47.

Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Wang, Hung-Jen "Estimation of Growth Convergence Using a Stochastic Production Frontier Approach."
Economics Letters 88 (2005): 300-305.

Masters, Stanley, Lai, Yu-Cheng "The Effects of Mandatory Maternity and Pregnancy Benefits on Women's Wages and Employment in Taiwan, 1984-1996." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 58 (2005): 274-81.

Plassmann Florenz "The Advantage of Avoiding the Armington Assumption in Multi-region Models." Regional Science and Urban Economics 35 (2005): 777-794.

Plassmann, Florenz, Tideman, T. Nicolaus "Fair and Efficient Compensation for Taking Property under Uncertainty." Journal of Public Economic Theory 7 (2005): 471-95.

Polachek, Solomon; Turcotte, Leo; Robst, John "Medicaid Coverage and Medical Interventions during Pregnancy." International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5 (2005): 255-71.

Wolcott Susan "The Fibre that Changed the World the Cotton Industry in International Perspective 1600-1990s." Journal of Economic History 65 (2005): 604-606.

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January 18, 2006

New Books in Economics and Management

Looking for something interesting to read? Here are just a few examples of some Management/Economics materials recently purchased. If you would like to see more of our new books, check out the Bartle Library's New Book shelf, which is located to the left of the Circulation Desk.

A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom
Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham, with Tom Lloyd
Palgrave Macmillan
2005
HD 6054.3 T46 2005

The Battle for Social Security: from FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble
Nancy Altman
John Wiley
2005
HD 7125.A48 2005

Rethinking Marketing: Developing a New Understanding of Markets
Håkan Håkansson; Debbie Harrison; Alexandra Waluszewski
Wiley
2005
HF 5411.H35 2004

Evolutionary Finance
Bartholomew Dowling
Palgrave Macmillan
2005
HG 173.D65 2005

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