PUBLIC PURPOSE TRUSTS

Public Purpose Recreation Marketing: A Focus on the Relationships Between the Public and Public Lands

Marketing has long had a place in the planning and management of public sector recreation. In particular, the use of market segmentation has allowed leisure providers to better understand their clients’ needs and to tailor their services to the diversity of those needs. However, the use of marketing approaches is not without controversy and is sometimes perceived to be at odds with the public s...

Who Trusts Others?

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: (i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; (ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and, to a lesse...

Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach

Scalable Policy Driven and General Purpose Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

This paper describes a flexible and general purpose PKI platform providing an easily interoperable security infrastructure. Developed at AT&T Labs, the architecture is part of the UCAID/Internet2 efforts in PKI and scalable security. The architecture can host multiple certificate authorities (CAs) from different vendors in a uniform and scalable manner. This facilitates scalable operation with ...

The Role of Corporate Governance in Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts

This study analyzes the impact of corporate governance structures at the initial public offering (IPO) date. We test hypotheses that firms with more shareholder-oriented governance structures receive higher valuations at the IPO stage and have better long-term performance. Our sample is a set of 107 IPOs of real estate investment trusts (REITs) between 1991 and 1998. Using a single industry and...