ive structures that shape such facts. The positivist conformism to facts, then, is viewed as a sort of dogma or truth, expressed “under the distortion of making it

This paper studies global social interactions in a stylized model of marriage and divorce with complementarities across agents. The key point of departure from traditional models of social interactions is that actions are interrelated and sequential. We establish existence and uniqueness results akin to those in traditional models. In contrast to these models, however, we show that the presence...

I designed and implemented a multicriteria group decision-making model based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process to select the best candidates to send overseas for graduate studies, eventually becoming teachers at the newly created Dar Al-Hekma women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The paper highlights the model together with the challenges involved in making a scientific application of an OR ...

Fear of CEO retaliation is one of the important reasons for pressure for conformity in the boardroom. In this section, I analyze two extensions that incorporate fear of the CEO into directors’preferences. I show that in both extensions, similarly to the basic model, pressure for conformity at the decision-making stage can have an overall positive e¤ect on …rm value because it encourages more co...