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- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
improving resource efficiency, optimizing care over the complete care cycle, and planning and budgeting of resource capacity. It also mentions that TDABC enhances quality of care and clinical outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Participation, and Economic Incentives By: Zhou, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including legalization—adherence to a set of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
partisan politics and hot-button issues. Instead, such statements remind people that community matters—and that civility and constructive engagement are both possible and expected. Set rules of engagement and hold people accountable.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
plans are more likely to hire a consultant. Lastly, say-on-pay voting patterns suggest shareholders view positively the advice consultants provide but only when consultants do not provide other services. We also find suggestive evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
businesses cannot by themselves set the rules of the game. They face short-term economic pressures just like households, and their ability unilaterally to change their behavior is limited by dysfunctional governmental structures, and by... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
Republicans can make their case that this tax plan represents progress based not on unrealistic optimism but on sincere beliefs about the proper role of government. Democrats can challenge them not by issuing doomsday projections or... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
cast votes in public referenda. 13 By the early 1970s, with organizations like the RAND Corporation, The Brookings Institution, and the Sloan Commission all calling for more supportive regulation of cable, pressure for change was... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
gain equal to between 0.6% and 1.5% of aggregate annual consumption, and it captures more than 60% of the gain from reform to the dynamic optimal policy. The gains are due to substantial increases in both efficiency and equity. When age... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
extractive industries. In the U.S., for example, fewer than 20 percent of all jobs are in non-services. Other developed economies are approaching this. This raises several questions. For example, just what is the optimal amount of service... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor. Far from being a "neutral... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given complete information about auction payoff rules and in settings where they are given no information about auction payoff rules, subjects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating relevant laws and the legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
cities in the state abutted a municipality with a green procurement policy. To assess each city's intrinsic environmental pulse, they measured the proportion of the city's population that voted in favor of environmental initiatives on... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
take the next-to-last slot. In Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction 2 my coauthors and I develop this envy-free condition. In Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment 3 my coauthor and I demonstrate that... View Details