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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 ... -
The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity
(Elsevier, 2015-02-19)We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. ... -
Disruption and Credit Markets
(Wiley, 2022-11-26)We show that over the past half‐century, innovative disruptions were central to understanding corporate defaults. In a given year, industries experiencing abnormally high venture capital or initial public offering activity ... -
Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research
(Wiley, 2018-08-29)The concept of disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent ... -
The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization
(INFORMS, 2014)Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information ... -
Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory
(2016-10-27)This chapter examines the historical origins, evolutionary paths and long-term resilience of diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It aims to come ... -
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-05-06)We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall ... -
Do All Your Detailing Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited
(2017-06-28)We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives’ detailing visits to physicians of different types. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls ... -
Do analysts add value when they most can? Evidence from corporate spin-offs
(Wiley, 2013-07-19)This paper investigates how securities analysts help investors understand the value of diversification. By studying the research that analysts produce about companies that have announced corporate spinoffs, we gain unique ... -
Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets
(2014)We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that ... -
Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans
(2013-02-19)We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find ...