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The Smith
School's faculty research
interests encompass a broad,
dynamic mix of functional and
netcentric economy issues. The
Smith School has numerous
research projects ongoing, and
Research@Smith is the medium to
keep you informed about many of
these projects. |
IN THIS ISSUE
Modeling
the Dynamics of Online Auctions
Research by Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank
A New Look
At The Debate Over Sending Jobs Overseas
Research by Susan Feinberg, Gordon
Phillips
Strategic
Underwriting in Initial Public Offers
Research by Gerard Hoberg
WORKING PAPERS
Why Do People Suggest What They
Don’t Want? Using Context Effects to
Influence Others’ Choices, Rebecca
Hamilton (Marketing)
Bank Competition, Financing
Obstacles and Access To Credit,
Thorsten Beck, Asly Demirgüç-Kunt and
Vojislav Maksimovic (Finance)
Stochastic Volatility for Lévy
Processes, Peter Carr, Hélyette
Geman, Dilip B. Madan (Finance) and Marc
Yor
Optimal Pricing for Multiple
Services in Telecommunications Networks
Offering Quality of Service,
Guarantees, Neil J. Keon and G.
Anandalingam (Decision and Information
Technologies)
Ground Delay Programs: Optimizing
Over the Included Flight Set Based on
Distance, Michael O. Ball (Decision
and Information Technologies) and
Guglielmo Lulli
►Working Papers Online Database
KUDOS
Roland Rust, holder of the
David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing,
chair of the marketing department and
director of the Center for Excellence in
Service, was named a panelist for Fast
Company magazine’s inaugural
CustomerFirst Awards. He was also named
to the Nominating Committee of the
American Marketing Association.
Lawrence Gordon, Ernst & Young
Alumni Professor of Managerial
Accounting and Information Assurance,
and Martin Loeb, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Faculty Fellow, have received an
additional $170,000 in research funding
from the National Security Agency for
their research related to economic
aspects of information security. This
brings the total grant amount thus far,
for the five years beginning in 2000, to
$830,000.
Gilvan Souza, assistant
professor of management science, won the
Wickham Skinner Early Career Research
Accomplishments Award from the
Production and Operations Management
Society (POMS). It was announced at the
annual meeting of the society in Cancun,
Mexico. This award is given annually to
young faculty (graduated in the past
five years) with outstanding research in
operations management, measured in terms
of both quality and impact.
Research@Smith Fall 2004, Volume 5,
Number 2
DEAN
Howard Frank
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH
Michael Ball
EDITOR
Rebecca Winner
DESIGN
Cynthia Mitchel
We’d like to put Research@Smith
directly into the hands of those who are
interested in learning about the latest
research conducted by Smith School
faculty. To request a copy of this
publication or make an address
correction, contact Rebecca Winner via
e-mail,
editor@rhsmith.umd.edu, or phone,
(301) 405-9465.
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