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Fanning the flames? How media coverage of a price war affects retailers, consumers, and investors
(American Marketing Association, 2015-10)This article explores how media coverage of a price war affects customer, retailer, and investor reactions over time. Using data covering a Dutch supermarket price war (2003–2005), the authors find that price reductions, ... -
FASStR: A framework for ensuring high-quality operational metrics in health care
(Managed Care & Healthcare Communications, LLC, 2020-06)OBJECTIVES: Poorly defined measurement impairs interinstitutional comparison, interpretation of results, and process improvement in health care operations. We sought to develop a unifying framework that could be used by ... -
Financial development convergence
(Elsevier, 2015-07)We show that credit levels relative to GDP and other measures for financial development tend to converge across countries over time. The results are obtained using a broad sample of countries over many years and controlling ... -
Firm boundaries, incentives, and fund performance: Evidence from a private pension fund system
(Elsevier, 2020-06)The private pension fund system in Turkey presents a unique institutional structure where bank holding companies can own both private pension companies and asset management firms. More often than not, pension companies ... -
Fit among business strategy, strategy formality, and dynamic capability development in new product development
(Wiley, 2016-02)Taking new product development (NPD) as the unit of analysis, this study, based on strategic fit approach, investigates the effects of NPD strategy formality and dynamic capabilities (sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring) ... -
Flight-to-quality, economic fundamentals, and stock returns
(Elsevier, 2017)We find that the order flow differential (OFD), a flight-to-quality measure constructed as the difference between large- and small-cap stock order flows, strongly and negatively forecasts output growth and interest rates ... -
Fooled by experience
(Harvard Business Publishing, 2015-05)We interpret the past—what we’ve experienced and what we’ve been told—to chart a course for the future. It seems like a reasonable approach, but it could be a mistake. The problem is that we view the past through filters ... -
Forecasting natural gas consumption in Istanbul using neural networks and multivariate time series methods
(TÜBİTAK, 2012)The fast changes and developments in the world's economy have substantially increased energy consumption. Consequently, energy planning has become more critical and important. Forecasting is one of the main tools utilized ... -
The formation, evolution and replacement of price-quality relationships
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2016-01)This paper develops a theoretical framework to address how dynamic competitive interactions and customer preferences change the observed relationship between market price and quality, and it offers an empirical framework ... -
Gender-specific preferences in global performance management - an empirical study of male and female leaders in a multinational context
(Wiley, 2015-01)This study investigates gender-specific preferences in one important human resource management (HRM) practice—namely, global performance management (GPM). GPM has major consequences for the career advancement of women and ... -
The geography of funding markets and limits to arbitrage
(Society for Financial Studies, 2015-04)We use the relative pricing of pairs of emerging market (EM) sovereign bonds issued in both dollars and euros to study capital markets frictions during periods of financial distress. During the 2007–2008 crisis, we find ... -
The golden rule of forecasting: objections, refinements, and enhancements
(Elsevier, 2015-08)In providing a “golden rule” for forecasting, Armstrong, Green, and Graefe (this issue) raise aspirations that reliable forecasting is possible. They advocate a conservative approach that mainly involves extrapolating from ... -
Governance implications of modularity in sourcing relationships
(Springer Nature, 2020)Modularization, an important trend in innovation markets, allows for recombination of product components into multiple end-product configurations. Although modularization has consequences for how firms manage their ... -
Grey market e-shopping and trust building practices in China
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2008)In the last decade, the wide use of the Internet, particularly through the proliferation of broadband, has dramatically changed the behaviour and lifestyle of many people. China, as a fast-growing emerging economy with a ... -
Group identity in markets
(Elsevier, 2011-01)We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of group identity—one's perceived membership in social groups—on market transactions in an oligopoly market with a few sellers and buyers. We artificially induce ... -
The hare and the tortoise: do earlier adopters of online channels purchase more?
(Elsevier, 2015-06)Earlier adopters of a product or service tend to be more valuable than later adopters. Does this empirical generalization equally apply to earlier adopters of a multichannel retailer's new online channel too? This study ... -
Heuristic methods for the capacitated stochastic lot-sizing problem under the static-dynamic uncertainty strategy
(Elsevier, 2019-09)We consider a lot-sizing problem in a single-item single-stage production system facing non-stationary stochastic demand in a finite planning horizon. Motivated by common practice, the set-up times need to be determined ... -
Hierarchical modeling of choice concentration of US households
(Wiley, 2014)This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Data Description Measures of Choice Concentration Methodology Results Interpreting θ Decomposing the Effects of Time, Number of Decisions and Concentration Preference Conclusion. -
Housing market dynamics with delays in the construction sector
(Elsevier, 2014-12)Housing supply is subject to several types of delays. On average, it takes 6 months to get approved for a residential building permit and another 2–4 quarters to complete a construction project. We present a simple two-sector ... -
How can recessions be brought to an end? Effects of macroeconomic policy actions on durations of recession
(Elsevier, 2014-05)This paper analyzes how effective macroeconomic policy actions are in ending recessions. We also investigate which structural factors help the country to experience shorter recessions. We implement survival regression ...
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