Kidney exchange enables incompatible pairs to exchange kidneys so each recipient can receive a transplant. Compatible pairs have not yet been incorporated in any kidney exchange program. The present study incorporates ...
I relate the numbers of university licenses and options to both university research characteristics and research expenditures from federal government or the industry. I use the polynomial distributed lag model for unbalanced ...
Policies surrounding government expenditures and revenues are often concerned with the size of the national public debt and whether it is sustainable or not. In this paper, the recent fiscal trends of 14 OECD nations are ...
This project estimates the first sub-national model of foreign aid allocation and impact. Newly geocoded aid project data from Malawi is used in combination with multiple rounds of living standards data to predict the ...
This paper explores the relationship between precisely timed macroeconomic “news” (or “surprises”) and the immediate currency price fluctuations that surround them. Using data from 2005-2011, I find significant movements ...
This paper examines the e ect of macroeconomic variable volatility on
implied and realized asset price level volatilities in the U.S. using monthly data from
1986 - 2008. Two approaches are taken: An autoregressive ...
I examine how automobile manufacturers change their advertising strategies when gasoline prices rise. In particular, I use a robust OLS regression to estimate how gasoline prices affect advertising expenditures on vehicles ...
The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how spatial models can be integrated into purchasing decisions for real-time bidding on advertising exchanges to improve ad selection and performance. Historical data makes ...
This study explores the effect of benefit designs and demographic factors on health care utilization and health status of elderly rural enrollees in the New Cooperative Medical Scheme, a rural health insurance program ...
This paper explores a previously overlooked unintended consequence of a private bank accepting Central Bank loans as a lender of last resort. Applying the basic Markowitz Security Model, I explore the potential effect of ...
I examine the differences between Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans with respect to parental beliefs, parenting behaviors, and college academic achievement. The results suggest that 1) there is a strong causal effect ...
After the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010, the effectiveness of global financial regulation, as
promoted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has been questioned. Conventional
minimum capital requirements ...
This paper presents a theoretical model of decision-making by professionals within the same field. The decision-makers consider reputation effects that result both from their relative actions and from the absolute outcomes. ...
This paper examines the impact of various macroeconomic and real estate specific surprises on M&A transactions involving Real Estate Investment Trusts. The 2008 financial crisis drastically affected merger & acquisition ...
This paper analyzes the impact of increasing fuel prices on public transit ridership in
the United States. Using regional gasoline prices and transit ridership and supply figures
from 218 US cities from 2002 to 2008, I ...
This paper explores the metrics used by FCC and others for evaluating competition between wireless telecom carriers. It focuses on the impact of wireless spectrum quality on the results of FCC spectrum auctions and the ...
This study uses the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2006-2010) and Health Tracking Physician Survey (2008) to study the incentives and characteristics that explain physician generic prescribing habits. The findings ...
This paper analyzes the incentives of professional tennis players in a tournament setting, as a proxy for workers in a firm. Previous studies have asserted that workers exert more effort when monetary incentives are ...
Critics and their reviews provide crucial information for consumers in many “experience goods” markets, and the movie market is one such market. Through their impact on the consumer’s film selection, critics’ reviews ...
This paper examines the role of Managed Care in reducing inefficiencies in the provision of healthcare for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible patients, and more generally, for elderly Medicare-only beneficiaries. The dataset ...