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News or Noise?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-06)
This study investigates the quality of the U.S. News annual ranking of national universities and liberal arts colleges. The main finding is that current rankings changes have a strong tendency to revert over the following ...
Direct regression, reverse regression, and covariance structure analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
This paper discusses the issues in estimating the effects of marketing variables with linear models. When the variables are not directly observable, it is well known that direct regression yields biased estimates. Several ...
Novel applications of information retrieval to the storage and management of computer models
(Elsevier, 1989)
Decision-making is often supported by computer-based models. To become a truly valuable corporate resource, such models must be easy to locate, share, and reuse. We describe a technical approach to model management aimed ...
The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm
(2007-03-19)
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain ...