The paper investigates the agency argument that sales growth in firms with free cash flow (and without strong governance) is less profitable than sales growth for firms without free cash flow. It also tests whether strong governance conditions improve the performance of firms with free cash flow...

Recent studies of the relative size of corporate and industry effects have used ANOVA, Variance Components Analysis and Simultaneous Equations (Roquebert, Philips and Westfall 1996; McGahan and Porter, 1997a; 1997b, Brush, Bromiley and Hendrikx, forthcoming). This paper provides a comprehensive...

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When we take seriously Smiths's oft-expressed admiration for the "beauty of a systematical arrangement of different observations connected by a few common principles" (WN, V.i.f.25) and seek those"connecting principles" within his own system of thought, his "positive index of welfare" loses its...

While there can be no disputing Smith's clear intent to employ his labor-commanded unit as a medium of value measure, we are still left with the problem of reconciling the multiple forms and characteristics taken on by this measure and the various applications to which it is put.That is the task...

The role of open market operations - exchanges of different classes of government liabilities between the government and private sector - are considered in an oft-studied dynamic equilibrium model with money. Open market operation-financed changes in the money supply may have different...

Growth mechanisms can significantly affect short run properties of monetary models. An equilibrium model with human capital accumulation through a learning-by-doing mechanism possesses both sustained inflation rigidity and persistent real responses in the presence of unexpected monetary shocks....

To a greater extent than is often stressed in extant literature, preference assumptions affect responses to monetary shocks in representative agents models. Temporary money shocks can have persistent real effects in cash in advance models if the marginal utility of leaisure is a decreasing...

In this article and in related research, we argue the both family and income structure matter for a variety of labor market behaviors and outcomes for both women and men and that it is important to take these variables into account.

Nominal output targeting is sometimes advocated as a guide for monetary policy on the grounds of simplicity and favorable macroeconomic performance. This study casts doubt on the second of these justification.