QSB: Scholarly Works

Applying behavioral insights to tax compliance: experimental evidence from Latvia

Jamison, Julian; Mazar, Nina; Sen, Iman (2020)

In recent years, tax authorities around the world have started using behavioral insights to encourage taxpayers to fulfill their obligations. We review and discuss some of the recent empirical literature on tax compliance. ...

Supply chain network structure and environmental information disclosure

Bellamy, Marcus; Suvrat, Dhanorkar; Ravi, Subramanian (2019-07-18)

Recognizing that supply network structure has implications for a focal firm’s ability to access environmental information embedded in its supply network, this paper draws on structural, environmental, and financial data ...

Gender and promotion in economics academia

Kahn, Shulamit; Ginther, Donna K. (Vox EU CEPR, 2020-03-05)

Economics remains a field where cutting-edge research is primarily carried out by tenured or tenure-track academics. Academics in the United States must be promoted to tenure by their departments within six to eight years ...

Evidence on social and financial performance: mapping the empirical garden of forking paths

Berchicci, Luca; King, Andrew (Academy of Management, 2020-08)

Worldwide, almost 30% of professionally managed assets are invested in funds that use social performance as a screening or selection criteria. Scholars have encouraged such investment by contending that social and financial ...

Use of imputation and decision modeling to improve diagnosis and management of patients at risk for new-onset diabetes after transplantation

Munshi, Vidit; Saghafian, Soroush; Cook, Curtiss; Aradhyula, Sumhith; Chakkera, Harini (International Scientific Information, Inc., 2021-03)

BACKGROUND New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is a complication of solid organ transplantation. We sought to determine the extent to which NODAT goes undiagnosed over the course of 1 year following transplantation, ...

Power law versus exponential state transition dynamics: application to sleep-wake architecture

Chu-Shore, Jesse; Westover, M. Brandon; Bianchi, Matt T. (2010-12-02)

BACKGROUND: Despite the common experience that interrupted sleep has a negative impact on waking function, the features of human sleep-wake architecture that best distinguish sleep continuity versus fragmentation remain ...

Justifying contingent information technology investments: balancing the need for speed of action with certainty before action

Clemons, Eric K.; Gu, Bin (Informa UK Limited, 2003-10)

Executives need to master different mechanisms for analyzing their firms' investment opportunities in uncertain, difficult times. Rapidly changing business conditions require firms to move quickly, with total commitment ...