Selected Papers Series
The Selected Papers series is published in grateful recognition of those
alumni and friends who support the Graduate School of Business. The
long-running series features current, notable research of note by Chicago faculty.
In March 2004, the Selected Papers series was combined with Capital
Ideas, a publication that features topical research in a chosen business
discipline. Please see the Capital
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86 "Are
CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones without Principals Are"
by Marianne Bertrand
85 "Home
Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios" by Tobias Moscowitz and Joshua D. Coval
84 "Value
Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to
Separate Winners from Losers" by Joseph D. Piotroski
83 "Syndication
Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Venture Capital Investments"
by Olav Sorenson and Toby E. Stuart
82 "Can Advertising
Copy Make FSI Coupons More Effective?" by France Leclerc
and John D.C. Little
81 "Interest Group Competition and the Organization of Congress" by Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann
80 "The Gender of Social Capital" by Ronald Burt
79 "What Happens
When You Tax the Rich?" by Austan Goolsbee
78 "Why Store
Brand Penetration Varies by Retailer" by Sanjay K.
Dhar and Stephen J. Hoch
77 "Risk Taking by
Mutual Funds as a Response to Incentives" by Judith
Chevalier and Glen Ellison
76 "New Findings
About Trends in Life Expectation and Chronic Diseases: The Implications
for Health costs and Pensions" by Robert W. Fogel
75 "Do We Really Need
More Regulation of Financial Derivatives?" By Merton
H. Miller
74 "Doing
Business in the Global Economy: Keynote Address at the 1993 Management
Conference " by Livio D. DeSimone
73 "Using
Personal Checklists to Facilitate Total Quality Management"
by Harry V. Roberts
72 "Rethinking
Management Education: A View from Chicago" By Harry
L. Davis and Robin M. Hogarth
71 "The
Quality Revolution and the Business School Response"
By Harry V. Roberts
70 "Freedom
and Leadership: Keynote Address at the 1990 Management Conference"
by William Simon
69 "The
Marketing Information Revolution: 1989 Towers/Cresap Lecture"
by Robert C. Blattberg
68 "Enhancing
Productivity through Compensation: 1988 Towers / Cresap Lecture"
by Edward P. Lazear
67 "A Most
Unusual Period in the Financial Services Industry: 1987 Towers Cresap
Lecture" by James H. Lorie
66 "Rules
of the Game Inside the Corporate Boardroom" by Thomas
L. Whisler
65 "Quality
and Productivity: Implications for Management" by
Harry V. Roberts
64 "Pride
and Prejudice: 1986 Towers/Cresap Lecture" by John
E. Jeuck
63 "Financial
Innovation: The Last Twenty Years and the Next" by
Merton H. Miller
62 "Backward
and Forward Thinking in Decision Making" by
61 "Deregulation:
The Expected and the Unexpected" by Sam Peltzman
60 "Will
the Dow Jones Get to 2,000 Before Gold gets to $1,000?"
by Robert Z. Aliber
59 "Business
Education in the United States" by Richard N. Rosett
58 "American
Capitalism at High Noon" by George J. Stigler
57 "Do Dividends
Really Matter?" by Merton H. Miller
56 "The
Disciplining of Corporate Managers" by Eugene F. Fama
55 "Can
Economics Contribute to Marketing Research?" by Henri
Theill
54 "Capitalism:
Two Aspects" by Henry Ford II
53 "Good
General Managers are not Professional" by H. Edward
Wrapp
52 "Statisticians
Can Matter" by Harry V. Roberts
51 "The
World Food Situation: Recent Developments and Prospects"
By D. Gale Johnson
50 "The Adam Smith Papers"
50a "Adam
Smith’s View of Man" by R.H Coase
50b "Adam
Smith’s Relevance for 1976" by Milton Friedman
50c "The
Successes and Failures of Professor Smith" by George
J. Stigler
49 "The
New International Economic Order" by Harry G. Johnson
48c "National
Economic Policy in the 1970’s" by John P. Gould
47 "Liberty,
Leadership, and License" by Walter B. Wriston
46c "Signals
and Confirmations of Economic Change" by Victor Zarnowitz
45 "Free
Markets for Free Men" by Milton Friedman
44 "Some
Constitutional Aspects of Watergate" by Philip B.
Kurland
43 "The
New Federalism at Work" by Donald T. Regan
42 "Health
Services in the USSR" by Odin Anderson
4 "Promise
and Performance in Economic Forecasting" by Victor
Zarnowitz
40 "Management
and the Stabilization Program" by Arnold R. Weber
39 "Modern
Man and His Corporation" by George J. Stigler
38 "Executive
Stress" by Dr. Robert S. Daniels
37 "The
Businessman’s Guide to Crime Control" by Norval R.
Morris
36 "The
Economics of Pollution" by Charles Upton
35 "The
Care and Feeding of Econometric Models" by Arnold
Zellner
34 "The
Euro-Dollar Market: Some First Principles" by Milton
Friedman
33 "Some
Reflections on the Securities Markets" by Marshall
D. Ketchum
32 "Competition,
Efficiency, and Antitrust" by Yale Brozen
31 "The
American Presence in Europe" by Jacques Dreze
30 "Race
and Unemployment: Some Issues and Ideas" by George
P. Shultz
29 "Are
People Really Important in Business" by L. Richard
Hoffman
28 "The
Long View and the Short" by Walter Fackler
27 "Government
and Advertising: The Heavy Hand of Benevolence" by
James H. Lorie
26 "Good
Managers Don’t Make Policy Decisions" by H. Edward
Wrapp
25 "The
New Economics: Stabilizing Tax Policy" by Norman B.
Ture
24 "The
Meaning of Business Income: An International Comparison"
By Sidney Davidson
23 "Mathematical
Models for Financial Management" by Merton H. Miller
and Daniel Orr
22 "Guidelines,
Informal Controls, and the Market Place" by George
P. Shultz and Robert Z. Aliber
21 "Labor
Lessons: Notes from Europe" by Arnold R. Weber
20 "Current
Controversies on the Stock Market" by James H. Lorie
19 "Marketing
Policy: Another View of the Forest" by John E. Jueck
18 "Automation
and Jobs" by Yale Brozen
17 "America
in the World Economy-The Decade Ahead" by Harry G.
Johnson
16 Random
Walks in Stock Market Prices" by Eugene F. Fama
15 "Forecasting
Business Conditions: A Critical View" by Victor Zarnowitz
14 "The
Innovative Organization" by Selwyn W. Becker
13 "The
Tactics of Economic Reform" by George J. Stigler
12 "Federal
Spending as an Economic Stabilizer" by Walter Fackler
11 "Education-Some
Neglected Opportunities" by Theodore O. Yntema
10 "The
Creative Organization" by Gary A. Steiner
9 "Executives
and Their Jobs: The Changing Organizational Structure"
by Thomas L. Whisler
8 "Strikes:
the Private Stake and the Public Interest" by George
Shultz
7 "The
Proper Economic Role of the State" by George J. Stigler
and Paul A. Samuelson
6 "The
Two Faces of the Common Market" by Arthur A. Shenfield
5 "Executive
Behavior" by Dr. C. Knight Aldrich, with an introduction
by John E. Jeuck
4 "Retraining
the Unemployed" by Arnold R. Weber
3 "The
Intellectual and the Market Place" by George J. Stigler
2 "The
Meaning of Depreciation" by Sidney Davidson
1 "Productivity,
Wages, and Prices" by Albert Rees
