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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 ... -
Foreign acquisition and credit risk: Evidence from the U.S. CDS market
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-17)This article empirically analyzes the effect of foreign block acquisitions on U.S. target firms' credit risk as measured by their credit default swap (CDS) spreads. Foreign block purchases lead to a greater increase in the ... -
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 ... -
Fragile transitions from education to employment Youth, gender and migrant status in the EU
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From grassroots to international markets: A qualitative study of marginalized entrepreneurs in India
(Elsevier, 2023-10)Much of the growing literature on international entrepreneurship focuses on how positive circumstances, such as having prior international experience, business networks, or formal institutions lead to international ... -
A game theoretical approach for improving the operational efficiencies of less-than-truckload carriers through load exchanges
(Springer, 2021-09)Less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation offers fast, flexible and relatively low-cost transportation services to shippers. In order to cope with the effects of economic recessions, the LTL industry implemented ideas such ... -
Games with switching costs and endogenous references
(Wiley, 2022-05-25)We introduce a game-theoretic model with switching costs and endogenous references. An agent endogenizes his reference strategy, and then taking switching costs into account, he selects a strategy from which there is no ... -
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 ... -
Global trends in liquidity creation: The role of the off-balance sheet
(Peter Lang AG, 2019-03-28)Banks create liquidity by transforming liquid liabilities into illiquid assets and this is one of their main functions. Yet excessive liquidity creation, especially via off-balance sheet activities, might have contributed ... -
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 ... -
Gracefully yours: Would snap judgments of one's subtle graceful movements lead to inferences about their emotional intelligence?
(Elsevier, 2023-11)Subtle bodily movements such as gracefulness (defined as smoothness, control and elegance in movements) are readily legible by others and these movements might serve as important cues to other people's personal characteristics. ... -
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 ...
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