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Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Disclosure Practices of Foreign Companies Interacting with U.S. Markets
(2004)We analyze the disclosure practices of companies as a function of their interaction with the U.S. markets for a group of 794 firms from 24 countries in Asia-Pacific and Europe. Our analysis uses the Transparency and ... -
Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee–Customer Interactions
(Academy of Management, 2017-12)Across multiple studies, we examine how identity conflict and enhancement within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic ... -
The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
(2014-01-27)We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of two different queue management systems on throughput times. Using an Emergency Department’s (ED) patient-level data (N = 231,081) from 2007 to 2010, we find that ...