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Why information technology hasn't increased the optimal number of suppliers
(Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992., 2003-04-29)
Dynamic ground-holding policies for a network of airports
(Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992., 2003-04-29)
Interest-based Negotiations at Kaiser Permanente
(2003-06-27)
In 1997 Kaiser Permanente (KP) and a coalition of 26 local unions representing nearly
70,000 Kaiser employees created what is now the nation's largest and most ambitious
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Selfish Routing in Capacitated Networks
(2003-08-01)
According to Wardrop's first principle, agents in a congested network choose their
routes selfishly, a behavior that is captured by the Nash equilibrium of the underlying
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One Cost of the Chilean Capital Controls: Increased Financial Constraints for Smaller Traded Firms
(2003-05-09)
There is growing support for taxes on short-term capital inflows in emerging markets,
such as the encaje adopted by Chile from 1991-98. Previous empirical assessments of
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Accounting for Taste: Board Member Preferences and Corporate Policy Choices
(2003-05-23)
This paper explores whether firms that share common directors also pursue similar
corporate policies. Using a sample of 885 U.S. firms with common directors, we find
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Indirect Adjustment-Costs Under Alternative Coordination Regimes
(2003-09-25)
The paper is a study of barriers to communication in terms of agents' incentives to search for and communicate complementary information. In particular, I look at the value of commitment by comparing game forms in which a ...
The Organizational Demography of Racial Employment Segregation
(2003-05-02)
This article examines how workers respond to changes in the racial composition of
their workplaces. An analysis of the job histories of new hires into multiple
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Private Risk
(2003-06-27)
We extend the traditional decision analytic approach to calculation of the buying
(selling) price of a lottery by allowing a risk averse (risk prone) decision maker to
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Fast Polyhedral Adaptive Conjoint Estimation
(2003-02-03)
We propose and test new "polyhedral" question design and estimation methods that
use recent developments in mathematical programming. The methods are designed to
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