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Building with bricks and mortar: the revenue impact of opening physical stores in a multichannel environment
(Elsevier, 2015-06)A crucial decision firms face today is which channels they should make available to customers for transactions. We assess the revenue impact of adding bricks-and-mortar stores to a firm's already existing repertoire of ... -
Marketing mix and brand sales in global markets: examining the contingent role of country-market characteristics
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-06)Marketing products globally is challenging due to the diverse nature of markets. We use market heterogeneity, unbranded competition, resource and infrastructure availability, and sociopolitical governance as country-market ... -
The case against active pension funds: evidence from the Turkish private pension system
(Elsevier, 2015-06)Using data on private Turkish pension funds we show that most active managers are not able to provide performance beyond what could be achieved by passive indexing. The average fund beats its benchmark by only 26 basis ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Communicating forecasts: the simplicity of simulated experience
(Elsevier, 2015-08)It is unclear whether decision makers who receive forecasts expressed as probability distributions over outcomes understand the implications of this form of communication. We suggest a solution based on the fact that people ... -
Providing information for decision making: Contrasting description and simulation
(Elsevier, 2015-09)Providing information for decision making should be like telling a story. You need to know, first, what you want to say; second, whom you are addressing; and third, how to match the message and audience. However, data ... -
The 39th international conference of the EURO working group on operational research applied to health services: ORAHS 2013 special issue
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2015-09)The healthcare sector is facing major challenges worldwide in terms of higher demands for efficiency, quality and equity. Operational Research (OR) techniques offer valuable tools for improving the design and delivery of ... -
Learning from experience in nonlinear environments: Evidence from a competition scenario
(Elsevier, 2015-09)We test people’s ability to learn to estimate a criterion (probability of success in a competition scenario) that requires aggregating information in a nonlinear manner. The learning environments faced by experimental ... -
The two settings of kind and wicked learning environments
(Association for Psychological Science, 2015-10)Inference involves two settings: In the first, information is acquired (learning); in the second, it is applied (predictions or choices). Kind learning environments involve close matches between the informational elements ... -
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, ... -
Emerging market economies and the world interest rate
(Elsevier, 2015-11)We use a Factor Augmented VAR model to estimate the dynamic responses of interest rates in emerging market economies to the ‘world’ interest rate, which we extract from a dynamic factor model of yields in industrialized ... -
An experiment on aspiration-based choice
(Elsevier, 2015-11)This paper experimentally studies the influence of aspirations on choice. Motivated by the theoretical model of Guney et al. (2015), we consider choice problems which may include unavailable alternatives. In a choice ... -
The reset inflation puzzle and the heterogeneity in price stickiness
(Elsevier, 2015-11)New Keynesian models have been criticised on the grounds that they require implausibly large price shocks to explain inflation. Bils et al. (2012) show that, while these shocks are needed to reduce the excessive inflation ... -
Client-server versus peer-to-peer
(Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, 2016)This study identifies optimal transmission mechanisms for a video streaming service in a peer-to-peer network structure under different payment mechanisms: pay as you watch and pay upfront. We calculate a uniform, feasible ... -
Dış borç iflas modellerinin tahmini için yarı-indirgenmiş bir karakterizasyon
(Okan Üniversitesi, 2016)Bu proje uygulamalı mikroekonometri literatüründe sıkça kullanılan Hotz-Miller tahmin tekniğinin (Hotz ve Miller 1993) dış borç iflas modellerine adapte edilebilirliği için gerekli teorik çıkarımları ortaya koymaktadır. ... -
Effective network formulations for lot sizing with backlogging in two-level serial supply chains
(Informa Group, 2016)This study considers the serial lot sizing problem with backlogging in two-level supply chains to determine when and how much to order at a warehouse and ship to a retailer over a T-period planning horizon so that the ... -
Composing offer sets to maximize expected payoffs
(Digital Commons, 2016)Firms are increasingly using clickstream and transactional data to tailor product offerings to visitors at their site. Ecommerce websites have the opportunity, at each interaction, to offer multiple items (referred to as ... -
Resource flexibility, early internationalization and performance
(2016)This study examines the effect of resource flexibility on the early internationalization and performance of international new ventures. We test our hypotheses using data from the Kauffman Firm Survey on 2424 newly founded ...
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