Risk arbitrage involves the purchase of a target firm's shares on the announcement of a merger or tender offer. These transactions provide a risky profit opportunity when the price of the target is below the risk-adjusted expected value of the final takeover price. This article explores the role...

It is traditional in the theory of the firm to define the production opportunity set available to the firm in terms of its boundary the maximum attainable set of output quantities for various input quantities, given the state of technology and knowledge. This boundary is the production function...

The right to bring an action in court is an important right which many argue should be granted liberally. The United States Supreme Court, for example, has held that under certain situations access to court is a citizen's fundamental right. This paper discusses one facet of access to the courts,...

An Actionable Pathway To Dramatic Increases In Individual And Organizational Performance. Full Day Workshop taught at Olin School, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Workshop Objectives: To provide you and your organization(s) an unambiguous and actionable access to the causal link...

My congratulations and admiration to the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research and the scholars who have evidenced the courage to tackle a subject as difficult and opaque as the Gruter Institute Project on Values and Free Enterprise. With the support of the John Templeton Foundation,...

Slide-Deck Textbook and course materials (1290 pages) for the Leadership Course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, August/September 2021.This leadership course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression –...