Business Economics articles from April 1990

Business Economics archives from April 1990

Joseph A. Livingston. (In Memoriam) (obituary)
April 1, 1990... JOSEPH A. LIVINGSTON, a fellow and a longtime member of NABE, died in Philadelphia on December 25, 1989, at the age of 84. Livingston was one of the premier and pioneer economic journalists of our time. Anyone who surveys the business pages of...

Takeover and corporate restructuring: an overview.
April 1, 1990... *J. Fred Weston is Cordner Professor Emeritus of Money and Financial Markets at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and an Associate Editor of this journal. **Kwang S. Chung is a Professor...

Corporate leverage and the restructuring movement of the 1980s.
April 1, 1990... *Robert A. Taggart, Jr. is Professor of Finance, Boston College, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Chestnut Hill, MA. Many observers warn that corporate leverage has risen to dangerous levels. This paper surveys recent patterns in...

The effects of leveraged buyouts.
April 1, 1990... *Abbie Smith is Professor of Accounting, The Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago. [1] See footnotes and references at end of text. A spectacular rise in the number and size of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) has occurred within...

Public policy towards corporate restructuring.
April 1, 1990... *Kenneth Lehn is Chief Economist, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission or the author's colleagues on the staff of...

The value added tax: its impact on saving. (comparison of 23 countries who employ value added tax)
April 1, 1990... *Ken Militzer is Chief Economist of AT&T and Ilona Ontscherenki is District Manager-Financial and Policy Analysis at AT&-T, Morristown, NJ. The authors are indebted to Gerald DuGuay for research support and helpful comments. [1]See footnotes at...

Policy response to countertrade and the U.S. trade deficit: an appraisal.
April 1, 1990... *Jong H. Park is a faculty member in the School of Business Administration, Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA, 30061. He is indebted to Michael Curley of Kennesaw College for making useful comments on the previous drafts of the paper. An earlier...

Business demographics. (tabulation and analysis of Dun and Bradstreet's database compared to other business data)
April 1, 1990... *Douglas P. Handler is Manager, Econometric Analysis, Economic Analysis Department, The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, New York, N.Y. The author wishes to acknowledge the expert database management of Jeff Relkin, Manager of Special Databases,...

The business economist at work: change and evolution in Courtaulds. (company profile)
April 1, 1990... *Donald Anderson is Chief Economist and Head of External Relations of Courtaulds plc, London. The views expressed are the author's and do not necessarily represent those of Courtaulds plc. Many of the traditional economist's functions at...

The disintegration of the Iron Curtain. (International Perspective) (column)
April 1, 1990... *Kurt I. Kewin is the principal of Kurt I. Lewin Associates, Inc., New York, NY and a partner of V & F Associes, S.A., Geneva, Switzerland. Editor's Note: Jay Woodworth pointed out in his recent NABE Presidential Address (Business...

The statistics corner: issues in foreign trade data.
April 1, 1990... *Joseph W. Duncan is Corporate Economist and Chief Statistician, The Dun & Bradstreet Corp., New York, NY. IN THE JANUARY 1990 publication of the Coalition of Service Industries entitled The Service Economy, Courtenay Slater discusses A...

The PC corner. (personal computers) (buyers guide)
April 1, 1990... *John H. Qualls is a vice president, Hill and Knowlton Economics, St. Louis, MO. FOR THOSE OF YOU who haven't heard yet, my firm, Micro-Economics, Ltd. has joined forces with Hill and Knowlton Economics. I am now a vice president of that...

Gorbachev's New Thinking.
April 1, 1990... Gorbachev's New Thinking Edited by Ronald Liebowitz. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing, 1988, Pp. 215, $29.95. IT IS ALWAYS difficult to review a volume of collected papers. The task is much more difficult when current developments with...