Browsing Washburn Faculty Research by Title
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U.S. Equities' Heartbreaking Performance is Nothing New
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2009-11-1)US equities have delivered poor long-term returns with surprising regularity: in the 1910s, the 1930s, the 1970s, and the 2000s. Following bear markets of the 1930s and the 1970s, stock valuations languished for a considerable ... -
U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Constructive Discharge under Title VII: Responsibilities and Opportunities for Human Resources Practitioners
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-08-1)In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court established a defense for employers to minimize liability against a Title VII claim of hostile work environment due to a supervisor's harassment unless the employee suffered a tangible ... -
Uncovering the Underdog Phenomenon
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-06-1)Through qualitative analysis we explore some of the different meanings of underdog, examine motives for underdog support, and provide outcomes of underdog support. We also examine perceptions of underdog and topdog supporter ... -
Underpricing, Tie-Ins, and the IPO Bubble: Some Empirical Evidence
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-01-1)We analyze underpricing in the United States surrounding the time of the collapse of the IPO market in the last quarter of 2000. During this quarter, the press gave insider accounts about how profits (from extreme underpricing) ... -
Understanding and Influencing Attackers' Decisions: Implications for Security Investment Strategies
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-04-1)We consider a model of economic behavior of attackers for the case when they are able to obtain complete information about the security characteristics of each target and the case when such information is unavailable. We ... -
Uninsured Deposits and Excess Share Insurance at U.S. Credit Unions : The Impact on Risk and Returns to Members
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2016-09-1)Using NCUA credit union call report data, I find that uninsured depositors and excess share insurers provide valuable monitoring benefits for credit unions for the years following the 2008 financial crisis. I find that ... -
Using Dimensional Analysis to Teach Production/Operations/Supply Chain Management
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2010-09-1)Scientists and engineers have been using the concept of dimensional homogeneity since it was introduced by Fourier (1822) "...every undetermined magnitude or constant has one dimension proper to itself, and the terms of ... -
USLO Assessment -- Instrument Determination / Timeline
The Assessment Insturment Committee has been working since 2012 to determine which assessment tools / instruments should be used to assess Washburn's University Student Learning Outcomes. This poster esttablishes a timeline ... -
Valuing the Hospital Industry from a Financing Efficiency Standpoint
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2017-01-1)We investigate the valuation of the non-government hospital industry focusing on two of its ownershiup structures: nonprofit hospitals (NPHs) and for-profit hospitals (FPHs). We find both structures are inefficient from ... -
Voluntary Audits of Nonfinancial Disclosure and Earnings Quality: The Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility Reports
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2019-09-1)We investigate the association between voluntary assurance of a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) report and earnings management. CSR reporting is believed to benefit a firm by increasing understanding of risks ... -
Warranty Provision for Repeatedly Purchased Goods in a Competitive Environment
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-10-1)The abundance of different forms of warranties in today's consumer products retail market underscores the importance of studying the factors affecting the choice of a warranty contract made by a firm. In this paper, we ... -
Web Services And Web Services Security
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-02-1)Web services are self-contained modular applications that provide a computation upon request. These services can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network, generally the Internet but intranets, extranets, ... -
What is Accuracy?: Problematizing a Basic Accounting Construct
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2014-12-1)Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) requires financial officers to sign a statement certifying that financial reports are accurate. Similarly, American defense contractors must affirm that cost accounting disclosures ... -
Why Do You Ask?: A Measure of Self-Evaluative Feedback Seeking Motive
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-02-1)Research in feedback seeking behavior (FSB) has generally assumed that such behavior is activated by the need to self-assess and reduce one's certainty. FSB literature has paid little attention to self-enhancement and ... -
Why Firms Begin Paying Dividends: Value, Growth and Life Cycle Effects
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-08-1)We investigate the signaling, agency and risk explanations for dividends within the context of the life cycle hypothesis, which proposes dividend initiation conveys information about firms' transition to a slower growth, ... -
Why Invest in Bonds!
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-06-1)Typically financial planners advise investors to diversify, invest some of your money in bonds and some of our money in common stock. Is this sound advice? This paper examines thirty-five different holding periods and ... -
Why the Average Hourly Earnings Reported in the Economic Report of the President Changed
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-03-1)Some economists use the Economic Report of the President as a source for determining the average hourly earnings paid in the private nonagricultural sector of the economy. The Economic Reports of the President have a table ... -
Will The Market P/E Ratio Revert Back to Average?
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2006-01-1)We show that the way investors use the "Fed Model" to benchmark the earnings yield on stocks to the 10-year T-note yield has resulted in these two series becoming cointegrated over time. The market earnings yield and its ... -
Wind Power: It's the Right Thing to Do
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2003-11-1)This paper examines a number of considerations, problems, solutions and costs associated with wind power. The legal, social and environmental positives outweigh the negatives that result in the conclusion of "why would ... -
Wireless Threats and Attacks
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-02-1)This article is under review as a contribution to "The Handbook of Information Security" -- a three-volume reference source providing state-of-the-art information concerning the information, computer and network security ...