Resources
Access our collection of journal articles, case studies, guides, and books.
Journal Articles
Business Strategy and Firm Location Decisions: Testing Traditional and Modern Methods
January 2019 issue of the NABE's Business Economics journal - This paper earned Mr. Anderson his third Mennis award for the nationally-recognized accuracy of its analysis in handicapping location bids for Amazon's HQ2.
Persistent Unemployment & Policy Uncertainty: Numerical Evidence from a New Approach
January 2014 edition of Business Economics - Patrick Anderson used the Rapid Recursive® Toolbox for his paper on policy cost uncertainty hypothesis, winning the 2013 Edmund A. Mennis award.
The Value of a Controlling Interest in an Expropriated Oil & Gas Company: YPF SA
This technical paper values Repsol's controlling interest in YPF SA after Argentina's 2012 expropriation, comparing discounted cash flow and market multiples with the recursive (value functional) method—showing how real options and asymmetric risk challenge traditional models and how recursive estimates align more closely with market benchmarks.
Case Studies
Optimizing Promotional Strategy with Rapid Recursive®
This case study demonstrates our Marketing & Promotional Strategy solutions by applying them to a large dataset of charitable donors, showing how we predicted customer responses within 3% over 12 months.
Tutorials & Guides
Guide to Recursive Models
A comprehensive guide introducing the concepts of sequential decision problems and the recursive approach. It describes a step-by-step process to organize information for solving problems using the Rapid Recursive® toolbox.
Rapid Recursive Toolbox 2.0 User Guide
A comprehensive user manual for the Rapid Recursive Toolbox 2.0, providing step-by-step instructions, best practices, and troubleshooting guidance to help users effectively implement and operate the advanced recursive modeling system for optimal analytical results.
Books
The Economics of Business Valuation: Towards a Value Functional Approach
Written by Patrick Anderson, this book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles from economics, finance, accounting, taxation, and management. Examples in this book are from the Rapid Recursive® toolbox.
API Documentation
Comprehensive API documentation for integrating our Rapid Recursive® technology into your applications.