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William W. Cooper
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 254
Citations - 82692
William W. Cooper is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data envelopment analysis & Linear programming. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 254 publications receiving 76641 citations. Previous affiliations of William W. Cooper include Harvard University & Carnegie Mellon University.
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Financial Intermediary Versus Production Approach to Efficiency of Marketing Distribution Systems and Organizational Structure of Insurance Companies
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination of the efficiency of the marketing distribution channel and organizational structure for insurance companies is presented from a framework that views the insurer as a financial intermediary rather than as a "production entity" which produces "value added" through loss payments.
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A Study Of Evaluations Of Mutual Fund Investment Strategies
TL;DR: In this article, the Bowman paradox was investigated in the context of mutual fund performance analysis and it was shown that the source of the negative relations between risk and return evaluations is in the return rather than the risk evaluations.
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Commentary on “a review of research on the negative accounting relationship between risk and return: Bowman's paradox by M.N. Nickel and M.C. Rodriguez”
TL;DR: Nickel and Rodriguez as discussed by the authors extended the Bowman Paradox to mutual fund reports based on market data and resolved the outstanding problems noted by Nickel and Rodriguez as needing further research, which is referred to as the "Bowman Paradox".
An Algorithm for Multi-Attribute Assignment Models and Spectral Analyses for Dynamic Organization Designs
TL;DR: A new algorithm for multi-attribute assignment models is presented, built around the concept of a biased quadratic objective, which proceeds via a sequence of related assignments.