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  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

but is difficult when demand history is unavailable such as for new products. One method that can be applied in such cases uses dispersion among forecasting experts as a measure of demand uncertainty. This paper provides a test for this method, and presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through longitudinal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Our logistic regression models indicate that (1) realized post-purchase price drops lead to a higher probability of return, and (2) anticipated price drops after purchase lead to a higher probability of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

inequality. This result is robust to using regression and matching approaches, and to controlling for a host of potential confounders. Contrary to the effects of tax cuts, we find no effects of tax increases on income inequality at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

multivariate time series model to investigate the interaction between paid search and display ads and calibrate the model using data from a large commercial bank that uses online ads to acquire new checking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

governance mode (make, ally, or buy) and also promotes substitution effects on governance mode choice while impacting exchange performance. We evaluate hypotheses using a novel three-stage switching regression View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

that occurred near the end of their time at university (2 or 3 years later). Linear regression models showed that students who made more friends in their first term reported better health and a healthier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

Gujarati-speaking Indians are 108 times more likely to manage motels. We develop a model of social interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies generate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

inadequate updating of the customer database. Also, the budgeting data in the case may be used to teach regression model selection and R-squared. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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