| The
Contracting and
Organizations Research Institute is an interdisciplinary research
institute dedicated to the study of the organization and structure of
economic enterprise and of the effects of legal, political, social, and
economic institutions on the structure and performance of economic
organizations. CORI was founded to encourage and enable empirical
research on contracting and organizational structure, drawing on such
fields as economics, law, business, and related social sciences. |
| CORI NEWS &
RESEARCH UPDATES |
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| CORI Web Outage August 4th and beyond |
The CORI Web System was moved to it's new home in the University of Missouri data center on August 4th. Unfortunately, there were some changes
hidden inour code that slipped through our testing that kept the system off line much longer than expected. Please accept our apologies.
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| 600,000! |
| The CORI
K-Base now offers full-text search and retrieval for over 600,000
contract documents! |
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| CORI welcomes Dr.
Fabio Chaddad |
| CORI is
pleased to welcome Dr. Fabio Chaddad,
formerly with the IMBEC Business School in Sȁo
Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Chaddad has published research on supply
chains and networks in the agrifood sector, with particular emphasis on
the role and governance of cooperative organizations. He
joins the MU agribusiness faculty, adding yet another
dimension to
its emphasis on organizational economics. |
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| Access Options for Academic Users! |
| Academic research often requires large samples
of contracts for
thorough analysis. Downloading all the individual contracts of interest
can take a great deal of time. Academic users with a well-defined
search query may request a free batch download of their search results.
Email
for information on batch download opportunities. |
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| NEW
PUBLICATIONS |
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| A Face Can Launch a Thousand Shares (And a
0.08% Abnormal Return) |
Matteo
Arena and John S. Howe
Journal of Behavioral
Financial, forthcoming
In this
paper, CORI Senior Fellow John Howe and co-author Matteo
Arena (Marquette) examine the market
reaction - price and volume - to the appearance of a firm in the Who's
News column of the Wall Street Journal. They differentiate between
those
firms whose articles are accompanied by a picture of an executive and a
control set of firms whose articles on the same day are not accompanied
by a picture. The results show a more pronounced market reaction to the
“cum picture” articles, consistent with the
incomplete information
theory of Merton (1987) and the heuristic-based familiarity hypothesis.
There is no evidence of significant long-run abnormal performance for
the sample firms. Read
the abstract. |
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| NEW
WORKING PAPERS |
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| Markets, Contracts or Integration? A
Complementarity Perspective |
| How are
we to explain the diverse nature of contractual and organizational
forms in an industry across regions and time? What do existing economic
theories of organization offer? CORI Fellows Harvey James, Peter Klein
and Michael Sykuta address this issue in the context of changes in the
agri-food sector. The authors draw on the literature of adoption and
diffusion of new technologies to suggest a new perspective and research
approach to examine geographic and intertemporal patterns of
contracting and integration in agriculture. Read
the complete study. |
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| Last Updated August 13, 2008 |
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