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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 ...
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 ...
Predictability of emerging market local currency bond risk premia
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
This article investigates the source of predictability of emerging market (EM) local currency bond risk premia by using a dynamic factor approach based on a large panel of economic and financial time series. We find strong ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Interlocks and firm performance: The role of uncertainty in the directorate interlock-performance relationship
(Wiley, 2015-02)
We examine how uncertainty influences the performance effects of directorate interlocks. Our study offers a new perspective of directorate interlocks as mechanisms that enable firms to improve performance when confronted ...
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 ...
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