Explaining patterns of asset ownership is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and 1997 in uenced whether shippers use their own trucks for hauls or contract with for-hire carriers. We Ž nd that OBC...

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Title of dissertation: SELECTION OF STAR CEOS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE AND CEO COMPENSATION Minwen Li, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Vojislav Maksimovic, Dean's Chair Professor of Finance, Department of Finance My dissertation examines a board’s decision to hire a star CEO and the implication of such decision on the new CEO compensation and firm ...

[1] In this case, an artist and the organization that hired him to produce a sculpture contest the ownership of the copyright in that work. To resolve this dispute, we must construe the "work made for hire" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Act or 1976 Act), 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 201(b), and in particular, the provision in § 101, which defines as a "work made for hire" a "work prepared by...

The effect of motor carrier deregulation on the employment and earnings of truck drivers is examined, using data for the period 1973-95. The use of a quasi-experimental design is made possible through the comparison of wages before and after deregulation among drivers in the previously regulated for-hire sector, drivers in unregulated private carriage, and an economy-wide group of male non-driv...