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- Make Customers Happy: Charge Them More
- Okay, I'm being puckish -- anyone in business knows that customers constantly argue for a better deal. But in at least some contexts, like buying wine, people feel better about what they buy if it costs more. That's the gist of what's called the price-placebo effect, reported...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect and What to Do about It
- One of the most stressful aspects of being promoted to management can be the responsibility of determining others' compensation. Why is that? You might call it inflated egos. Psychologists call it the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Business Pundit has a great post on the phenomenon this week. First, a definition of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Mastering the Fundamentals of Drug-Induced Arrhythmias
- Assessing for adverse drug effects is a crucial aspect of responsible prescribing. When those effects can include changes in cardiac rhythm, it is a step one cannot afford to overlook. Adverse drug effects range from mild to fatal, and at the life-threatening end of that spectrum are cardiac arrhythmias, which...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- New Effects-Based Operations Models in War Games
- For more than a dozen years most components of the Department of Defense DoD have been exploring the means for incorporating effects based thinking into their planning, execution, and assessment activities of the command and control process. Over the same period of time effects based tools that support the development...
- White papers 2003-05-13
- The Effect of Health Events and Health Insurance on Couples' Labor Supply Decisions
- Health events such as heart attacks or new diagnoses of chronic illnesses have a large effect on labor supply decisions for both men and women, particularly when accompanied by large changes in functioning. The onset of a heart attack or stroke accompanied by new difficulty in performing 4 ADLs is...
- White papers 2002-05-31
- Impact of U.S. Tariffs on Democratic Vote Share
- This paper provides evidence on an amended Mayer-Heckscher-Ohlin model with parties by studying the effects of U.S. tariffs on the Democratic vote share. The effects are estimated with fixed effects and Two-Stage Least Squares based on data from the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 2000. Weighted trade...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Transformational Leadership and Work-Related Attitudes: The Moderating Effects of Collective and Self-Efficacy Across Cultures
- Efficacy beliefs have been a focus of organizational research for nearly three decades. Over this time period, efficacy beliefs have been related to a number of important individual, group and organizational outcomes. Although the independent effects of leadership and efficacy on important organizational outcomes are each well established, there has...
- White papers
- The Zen of PM: Expect Resistance to Change and Manage It
- Resistance to change is a fact of life. People often prefer an unpleasant but known situation to one that promises relief from suffering at the cost of changing the status quo. This resistance is based on fear of the unknown, grasping onto things like perceived security, power, etc. and attempting...
- White papers 2004-09-27
- Analysis Of The Bullwhip Effect In Supply Chains
- An important phenomenon in supply chain management, known as the bullwhip effect, suggests that demand variability increases as one moves up a supply chain. This paper examines the influence of different replenishment policies on the occurrence of the bullwhip effect. The paper demonstrates that certain replenishment policies can in themselves...
- White papers 2006-02-20
- Adding Bricks To Clicks: The Effects Of Store Openings On Sales Through Direct Channels
- We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our data come from a leading U.S. retailer which opened four new stores; two openings occurred in retail trading areas which had been previously served by direct channels alone and two openings occurred in retail trading areas...
- White papers 2007-03-29
- The Effects Of Trade Liberalization On R&D, Industry Productivity And Welfare When Firms Are Heterogeneous
- This paper develops an oligopolistic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms to examine how trade liberalization affects R&D (Research & Development) investment, industry productivity and social welfare. Three effects of trade liberalization on industry productivity are identified: A direct effect through changes in R&D; A scale effect due to...
- White papers 2007-03-20
- Evaluating The Causal Effects Of Foreign Acquisition On Domestic Skilled And Unskilled Wages
- This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target's development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined with a difference-in-differences estimator, and differences in...
- White papers 2003-10-26
- Positive Effects Of Prohibition On Our Food Industry
- When Prohibition went into effect in America, many years back, it did, what it was supposed to, which was it stopped the illegal sale of alcohol, but it also has this wonderful effect on the economy. In addition, some of these effects from Prohibition are still there. Because there was...
- White papers 2008-03-31
- The Chemistry Of Special Effects In The Film Industry
- When talking of special effects in films, certain blockbusters come to mind. Films like Titanic, and The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and Spider-Man trilogies have been lauded for their effects. Although some of these effects are traditional, when looking at science fiction and action films released in the past...
- White papers 2007-05-09
- None Of Us Is An Island: Why Small Business Owners Like Me Want A Credit Rescue Plan
- Our financial system and our markets and our businesses are interrelated. No man or woman is an island. We need the economy as a whole operating well, if we expect our businesses to do well. Markets and economies are funny things. We may not feel the effects right now, but...
- White papers 2008-10-01
- The Effects of Competition on Variation in the Quality and Cost of Medical Care
- The paper estimates the effects of hospital competition on the level of and the variation in quality of care and hospital expenditures for elderly Medicare beneficiaries with heart attack. It compares competition's effects on more-severely ill patients, whom we assume value quality more highly, to the effects on less-severely ill,...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- International Strategic Alliances: Stock Market Responses From Dutch Firms Partnering With EU, US and Japanese Firms
- This paper examines the effect on the market valuation of large Dutch firms following the announcement of forming international strategic alliances ISAs. These stock market effects are distinguished by type of alliance and country of origin of the partnering firms during the period 1985-1992. While ISAs are generally found to...
- White papers 2003-02-21
- The Reaction Of Multifamily Capitalization Rates To Natural Disasters
- Paper contains the study to analyze the effect of the Northridge Earthquake on capitalization rates in the multifamily building market in Los Angeles, California. The results indicate that the Northridge Earthquake had a negative impact and overall capitalization rates rose. This negative effect, however, was not uniform over the entire...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Effect of the Northeast Dairy Compact on Producers and Consumers, With Implications of Compact Contagion
- This paper lays out in an explicit and consistent framework the quantitative market-level effects of the Northeast Compact on producers and consumers in New England. Unlike previous studies, this model milk supply and demand to which FMMO and Compact regulations are applied, and simulate counter-factual scenarios against which we measure...
- White papers 2003-04-30
- First Sun Case Study: Polhemus' Handheld 3D Laser Scanner Is Used to Create Digital Images for Character Animation in Movies
- First Sun is an associated company of The Gibson Group, which is recognized as one of New Zealand's leading independent film and television production companies. The challenge for First Sun when working on Demons was the daunting task of developing special effects on a budget that was considered very limited...
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