Questionable care: avoiding ineffective treatment [PDF]
Overview In some hospitals, far too many people get a treatment they should not get, even when the evidence is clear that it is unnecessary or doesn’t work. Australia urgently needs a system to identify these outlier hospitals and make sure they are not
Peter Breadon, Stephen Duckett
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Does Examination Hell Pay Off? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of "Ronin" and College Education in Japan [PDF]
College-bound students in Japan undergo a process of intense preparation known as examination hell. An extreme manifestation of examination hell is the ronin phenomenon.
Ono, Hiroshi
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Overcoming Resistance to Diversity in the Executive Suite: Grease, Grit, and the Corporate Tournament [PDF]
, 2004 Once we open the corporate governance/human resources nexus to deeper inquiry, mutual scholarly interest in diversity and discrimination follows naturally.
Langevoort, Donald C.
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Keillor and r lvaag: and the art of telling the truth [PDF]
, 1989 Michelson, Bruce
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VERIFICATION IN CONTRACTS WITH RANDOM CHANGES IN QUALITY [PDF]
Many goods and services are subject to random changes in quality during the time between sale and delivery, resulting in markets characterized by lemons-market equilibria.
Dimitri, Carolyn, Lichtenberg, Erik
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The Incoherence of American Corporate Governance and the Need For Federal Standards [PDF]
, 2007 This Comment suggests that the U.S. Congress should expand the SEC’s mandate so that it has clear authority to implement corporate governance standards.
De Lizza, Timothy
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Keeping Up with CEO Jones: Benchmarking and Executive Compensation [PDF]
, 2010 This paper seeks to understand the role that peer comparisons play in the determination of executive compensation. I exploit a recent change in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s regulations that requires firms to disclose the peer companies used ...
Laschever, Ron
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Presenteeism and absenteeism in the manufacturing sector: A multilevel approach identifying underlying factors and relations to health. [PDF]
Curr Psychol, 2022 Nowak J +4 more
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Optimistic versus Pessimistic--Optimal Judgemental Bias with Reference Point [PDF]
, 2012 This paper develops a model of reference-dependent assessment of subjective beliefs in which loss-averse people optimally choose the expectation as the reference point to balance the current felicity from the optimistic anticipation and the future ...
Chen, Si
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Entrepreneurial success and failure: Confidence and fallible judgement [PDF]
Excess entry – or the high failure rate of market-entry decisions – is often attributed to overconfidence exhibited by entreprene urs. We show analytically that whereas excess entry is an inevitable consequence of imperfect assessments of entrepreneurial
Natalia Karelaia, Robin Hogarth
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