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    • Decoding Inside Information 

      Cohen, Lauren Harry; Malloy, Christopher James; Pomorski, Lukasz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading ...

    • Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain 

      Fisher, Colin M.; Pillemer, Julianna; Amabile, Teresa M. (2017-11-07)
      How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized ...

    • Delayed-response strategies in repeated games with observation lags 

      Fudenberg, Drew; Ishii, Yuhta; Kominers, Scott Duke (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that ...

    • Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation 

      Barnhart, Cynthia; Fearing, Douglas Stephen; Odoni, Amedeo; Vaze, Vikrant (Springer, 2012)
      This paper summarizes research trends and opportunities in the area of managing air transportation demand and capacity. Capacity constraints and resulting congestion and low schedule reliability currently impose large costs ...

    • Demand Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments 

      Ferreira, Kristine; Mower, Emily (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2023-07)
      Problem definition: We consider the problem of demand learning and pricing for retailers who offer assortments of substitutable products that change frequently, for example, due to limited inventory, perishable or ...

    • The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement: Drivers and Consequences 

      Heese, Jonas; Krishnan, Ranjani; Ramasubramanian, Hari (Elsevier BV, 2021-02)
      We examine drivers and consequences of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight of whistleblower cases of corporate fraud against the government. We find that the DOJ is more likely to intervene in and conduct longer ...

    • ‘Deprival Value’ vs. ‘Fair Value’ Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the ‘Revenue Recognition’ Conundrum? 

      Horton, Joanne; Macve, Richard; Serafeim, Georgios (Informa UK Limited, 2011-12)
      Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when ...

    • Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India 

      Alfaro, Laura; Chari, Anusha (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
      This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, ...

    • Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals 

      Tucker, Anita Carson; Heisler, W. Scott; Janisse, Laura D. (2014-05-13)
      Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, ...

    • Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance 

      Maccormack, Alan D.; Lagerstrom, Robert; Mocker, Martin; Baldwin, Carliss Young (2017-06-28)
      The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of ...

    • Designing Online Marketplaces: Trust and Reputation Mechanisms 

      Luca, Michael (2017-01-23)
      Online marketplaces have proliferated over the past decade, creating new markets where none existed. By reducing transaction costs, online marketplaces facilitate transactions that otherwise would not have occurred and ...

    • Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices 

      Cutler, David M.; Dafny, Leemore (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2011)

    • Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted 

      Balla-Elliott, Dylan; Cullen, Zoe; Glaeser, Edward; Luca, Michael; Stanton, Christopher (Wiley, 2022-01)
      The COVID‐19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government‐imposed restrictions that temporarily shuttered millions of American businesses. We use a nationwide survey of thousands of small business ...

    • Development of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Periapical Disease Detection in Dental Radiographs 

      Endres, Michael G.; Hillen, Florian; Salloumis, Marios; Sedaghat, Ahmad R.; Niehues, Stefan M.; Quatela, Olivia; Hanken, Henning; Smeets, Ralf; Beck-Broichsitter, Benedicta; Rendenbach, Carsten; Lakhani, Karim; Heiland, Max; Gaudin, Robert A. (MDPI AG, 2020-06-24)
      Periapical radiolucencies, which can be detected on panoramic radiographs, are one of the most common radiographic findings in dentistry and have a differential diagnosis including infections, granuloma, cysts and tumors. ...

    • Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India 

      Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William Robert; Stanton, Christopher Thomas (INFORMS, 2013-10-07)
      This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in ...

    • Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation during the Great Depression? 

      Nanda, Ramana; Nicholas, Thomas (Elsevier BV, 2014-11)
      We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. ...

    • Digital Health Reimbursement Strategies of 8 European Countries and Israel: Scoping Review and Policy Mapping 

      van Kessel, Robin; Srivastava, Divya; Kyriopoulos, Ilias; Monti, Giovanni; Novillo-Ortiz, David; Milman, Ran; Zhang-Czabanowski, Wojciech Wilhelm; Nasi, Greta; Stern, Ariel; Wharton, George; Mossialos, Elias (JMIR Publications Inc., 2023-09-29)
      Background: The adoption of digital health care within health systems is determined by various factors, including pricing and reimbursement. The reimbursement landscape for digital health in Europe remains underresearched. ...

    • Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows 

      Horton, John; Kerr, William Robert; Stanton, Christopher Thomas (2017-06-28)
      Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, ...

    • Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-Term Consequences 

      Iyer, Lakshmi (MIT Press - Journals, 2010)
      This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India that were under direct British colonial rule with areas that were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, ...

    • Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency 

      Paharia, Neeru; Kassam, Karim Sadik; Greene, Joshua D.; Bazerman, Max H. (Elsevier, 2009)
      When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine ...