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The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
(2013-05-22)We conduct an empirical investigation on the impact of pooling tasks and resources on throughput times in a discretionary work setting. We use an Emergency Department’s (ED) patient-level data (N = 234,334) from 2007 to ... -
The Impact Of Price Regulation On The Availability Of New Drugs In Germany
(Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2019-07)The 2011 German Pharmaceutical Market Restructuring Act (“AMNOG”) subjected branded, non-rare disease drugs to price regulation based on an assessment of their clinical benefit. Assessment outcomes range from “major added ... -
The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe
(Springer Nature, 2018-04-25)Biologics represent a substantial and growing share of the U.S. drug market. Traditional “small molecule” generics quickly erode the price and share of the branded product upon entry; however, only a few biosimilars have ... -
Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings
(2015-04-14)This first of three papers in our series on materiality in credit ratings will examine the materiality of credit ratings from an “implied materiality” and governance disclosure perspective. In the second paper, we will ... -
In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity
(2017-09-08)Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses, and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of ... -
In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults’ Experience of a Dual Identity Organization
(2013-05-31)Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs ... -
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
(2013-02-19)A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why ... -
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
(2015-05-06)We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model salesforce ... -
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-07-18)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to ... -
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(2012-08-08)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to ... -
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
(Elsevier, 2014-07-18)In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). ... -
Incorporating Field Data into Archival Research
(Wiley, 2014-05-04)I explore the use of field data in conjunction with archival evidence by examining Iliev, Miller, and Roth's (2014) analysis of an amendment to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This regulatory amendment allowed depositary ... -
Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time
(2014-01-27)We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work setting increases wait times due to additional services ... -
Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-01)Improving the political participation of immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political ... -
Individual Experience of Positive and Negative Growth is Asymmetric: Global Evidence from Subjective Well-being Data
(2014-12-08)Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in macroeconomic growth? Using subjective well-being measures across three large data sets, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are ... -
Individuals’ Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii
(2012)Human cadavers are crucial to numerous aspects of health care, including initial and continuing training of medical doctors and advancement of medical research. Concerns have periodically been raised about the limited ... -
Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-03)When explaining others' behaviors, achievements, and failures, it is common for people to attribute too much influence to disposition and too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this ... -
Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
(Elsevier BV, 2015-11)OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively ... -
Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?
(Elsevier, 2013)Does providing information about a product affect the impact of price subsidies on purchases of new or unfamiliar products? This question is particularly relevant for the introduction of health products in developing ... -
Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits
(Elsevier, 2014)We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. ...