We investigate the impact of measures of uncertainty on firms’ capital investment behavior using a panel of U.S. firms. Increases in firmspecific and CAPM -based measures have a significant negative effect on investment spending, while market-based uncertainty has a positive impact.

This survey reviews a dynamic multi-asset framework in which heterogeneous agents with multi-period planning horizons interact. This framework distinguishes between temporary equilibrium maps describing the basic market mechanism of an asset market, forecasting rules which model the way in which expectations are formed, and a model for exogenous random perturbations. Perfect forecasting rules w...

Engineering enterprises utilize a variety of technologies to manage the lifecycle of their critical assets. These technologies consist of operational as well as information technologies that aim to provide control of individual asset management processes as well as to create overall information enabled integrated view of the asset lifecycle management regime. However, implementation and adoptio...

I model a scenario in which investors do not know the payoff distributions of relatively newer firms and use the payoff distribution of similar well-established firms as starting points. The starting distributions are then adjusted for size, volatility, and other differences. Anchoring bias (Tversky and Kahneman (1974)) implies that such adjustments typically fall short. I show that adjusting c...

A measure of social support, the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ), is described, and four empirical studies employing it are presented. The SSQ yields scores for (a) perceived number of social supports and (b) satisfaction with social support that is available. Three of the studies deal with the SSQ's psychometric properties, its correlations with measures of personality and adjustment, and t...

Many states are implementing asset development strategies to promote postsecondary education for lowto moderateincome families, realizing that limited education is a powerful predictor of poverty, and poverty mediates the likelihood of obtaining postsecondary education. Using demographic and qualitative data collected from two groups of lowto moderate-income parents (N = 24), this article highl...

We examine the relation between US stock market returns and the US business cycle for the period 1960 2003. We identify two channels in the transmission mechanism. One is through the mean of stock returns via the equity risk premium, and the other is through the volatility of returns. We find that the relation is asymmetric with downturns in the business cycle having a greater negative impact o...

introduction: nowadays human capital is the main asset in organizations. thus, the employees’ intellectual involvement is a key factor in the success of organizations. hence organizations should seek for factors that affect and boost the employees’ intellectual involvement. therefore, the present research aimed at discovering the relationship between organizational commitment and social capital...

Asset managing organizations utilize a variety of information and operational technologies to execute and mange asset management processes. The term ‘asset’ in engineering organizations is defined as the physical component of a manufacturing, production or service facility, which has value, enables services to be provided, and has an economic life greater than twelve months, such as manufacturi...