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Working Papers

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298 Working Papers found.

2008-30

"The Glass Ceiling for Asian Americans: How Perceptions of Competence and Social Skills Explain Hiring Differentials"
Lei Lai
Category: ORG
Lei will defend her thesis on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in Room 1111, Hamburg Hall starting at 1:00.

Aug 2008

2008-28

"Three Essays on Information Security Policies"
Yubao Yang
Category: IS
Yubao will be present his thesis proposal on Thursday, July 17 in room 2503 starting at 10:30 am

Jul 2008

2008-27

"Securing Their Future? The Role of Markets for Technology, Organization Capabilities and Opportunity Costs on business Model and Performance in the Information Security Market"
Anand Nandkumar
Category: IS ORG

Jul 2008

2008-25

"Modeling Measurement Error When Using Cognitive Test Scores in Social Science Research"
Lynne S. Schofield
Category: OR
Defense will take place on July 17, 2008 in room 1003 Hamburg Hall at noon.

Jul 2008

2008-24

"Human Capital and Economic Development in India"
Surendrakumar Bagde
Category: TECH
Defense scheduled July 10, 2008 in room 2503 starting at 12:00

Jul 2008

2008-23

"Drug Policy Research"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Category: CR H
Draft prepared for an edited volume on Addiction Research Methods

Jun 2008

2008-22

"Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis to Evaluate Exceptions Forecast Accuracy: Reanalysis of M3-Competition Data on Micro Monthly Time Series"
Wilpen L. Gorr, Matthew J. Schneider
Category: IS OR

Jun 2008

2008-21

"Labor Strife in Public Schools: Does it Affect Education Production?"
Abigail J. Turner
Category: JDM L NEG
The presentation will be on Monday, June 9, 2008 in room 2503, Hamburg Hall at noon.

Jun 2008

2008-20

"Three Essays on Health Outcomes"
Andrew J. Cook
Category: H
Proposal is in room 2503, June 4, 2008 at noon

Jun 2008

2008-19

""Cues and Heuristics on Capitol Hill: Network-Based Shortcuts in Legislative Decision Making" "
Justin H. Gross
Category: JDM OR
Justin's proposal is scheduled for Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in room 1002, Hamburg Hall, starting at 12:00. Justin is in the Statistics and Public Policy Program and his proposal presentation will be held jointly for the Dept of Statistics and Heinz School

May 2008

2008-17

"Does Part-time Work during High School Affect Academic Outcomes?"
Dou-Yan Yang
Category: JDM

May 2008

2008-16

"A Search Theoretic Model of Person-to-Person Lending"
Samuel R. Garman
Category: JDM

May 2008

2008-15

"The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Chage in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999"
Matej Drev
Category: TECH

May 2008

2008-14

"No Such Thing As A Free Lunch: Invenstment, Technnological Upgrading, and Exports in Indian Pharmaceuticals"
Chirantan Chatterjee
Category: H

May 2008

2008-13

"Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?"
Sasha Romanosky
Category: CR URB

May 2008

2008-12

"Student Achievement, the Racial Achievement Gap, and Teacher Fixed Effects A Study Using Data from the Pittsburgh Public Schools"
Haijing Hao
Category: TECH

May 2008

2008-11

"A Collaborative Filtering Approach to Medication Reconciliation"
Sharique Hasan
Category: H

May 2008

2008-10

"The Impact of Web-Based Risk Calculators on Health Risk Perceptions and Information Processing"
Christopher A. Harle
Category: H IS JDM
Paper will be presented in room 1003 Hamburg Hall from 9:00 to 10:20 pm.

May 2008

2008-9

"Race, Trust and Social Capital"
John R. Gardner
Category: HOU

May 2008

2008-8

"Initial conditions and Post-entry Performance: the Case of Indian Software Industry"
Ashish Arora, Surendrakumar Bagde
Category: IS

May 2008

2008-7

"U.S. Consumers' Response to FACTA"
Bin Zhang
Category: TECH

Apr 2008

2008-6

"A Dynamic Firm Location Choice Model with Agglomeration Externalities"
Jeffrey C. Brinkman
Category: TECH

Apr 2008

2008-5

"Redemption in the Presence of Widespread Criminal Background Checks"
Kiminori Nakamura
Category: CR

Jun 2008

2008-4

"Product Customization and Customer Service Cost: An Empirical Analysis"
Anuj Kumar
Category: IS

Apr 2008

2008-3

"Optimal Timing of Use vs. Harm Reduction in an SA Model of Drug Epidemics"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gernot Tragler, Dagmar Wallner
Category: CR

Mar 2008

2008-2

"Do Spreadsheet Errors Lead to Bad Decisions: Perspectives of Executives and Senior Managers"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Erica Layne Morrison, Timothy J. Weidemann
Category: IS OR

Jan 2008

2008-1

"Understanding Inertia: Inherent Limitations on Evaluating ¿Upstream¿ Prevention Interventions"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Irmgard Zeiler
Category: CR H OR

Jan 2008

2007-35

"Might Randomization in Queue Discipline Be Useful When Waiting Cost is a Concave Function of Waiting Time?"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: H OR

Oct 2007

2007-34

"Implications of Inertia for Assessing Drug Control Policy: Why Upstream Interventions May Not Receive Due Credit"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: CR H OR

Dec 2007

2007-33

"Credit Reports, Identity Theft and Financial Privacy: US Consumers' Response to FACTA"
Alessandro Acquisti, Melvin Stephens, Rahul Telang, Bin Zhang
Category: PUB

Dec 2007

2007-32

"Is Objective Risk All That Matters When It Comes to Drugs?"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Ryan M. Menefee
Category: CR H JDM

Dec 2007

2007-27

"Forecast Accuracy Measures for Exception Reporting Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves"
Wilpen L. Gorr
Category: CR IS OR
Second revision, 7/20/08. First revision, 9/22/07. First version, 9/1/2007.

Sep 2007

2007-26

"Essays on IT-Mediated Phenomena: IT Knowledge Management, Mobile Telecommunication, and E-Commerce""
Young Soo Kim
Category: JDM

Aug 2007

2007-25

"Three Essays on the Modeling of Development in Criminology and Psychopathology "
Thomas A. Loughran
Category: CR

Aug 2007

2007-23

"Three Essays on Prescription Drug Insurance Benefit Design: The Effects of Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing on Health Spending, Compliance, and Health Outcome"
Jian Li
Category: H

Jul 2007

2007-22

"Using Cognitive Test Scores in Social Science Research"
Lynne S. Schofield
Category: L OR

Jun 2007

2007-21

"Three Essays in Industrial Organization of Health Care: Exploring Entry, Exit and Ownership Effects"
Sujoy Chakravarty
Category: H

May 2007

2007-20

"Analysis of Hospital Production: An Output Index Approach"
Samuel A. Kleiner
Category: H

May 2007

2007-19

"Three Essays on the Modeling of Development"
Thomas A. Loughran
Category: CR OR

May 2007

2007-16

"Three Essays in Industrial Organization of Health Care: Exploring Entry, Exit and Ownership Effects"
Sujoy Chakravarty
Category: H

May 2007

2007-15

"An Information Visualization Approach to Classification and Assessment of Diabetes Risk in Primary Care"
Christopher A. Harle, Daniel B. Neill, Rema Padman
Category: H IS OR

May 2007

2007-14

"Factors and Characteristics Associated with Transitions Between Marijuana Use and Non-Use: A time-varying and individual heterogeneous first-order Markov chain model of marijuana use in the United States, 1990-1998"
Haijing Hao
Category: CR

May 2007

2007-13

"Factors and Characteristics Associated with Transitions Between Marijuana Use and Non-Use: A time-varying and individual heterogeneous first-order Markov chain model of marijuana use in the United States, 1990-1998"
Haijing Hao
Category: CR

Apr 2007

2007-12

"All Reviews Are Not Created Equal: The Dissagregate Impact of Reviews and Reviewers at Amazon.com"
Pei-yu Chen, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith
Category: IS

Apr 2007

2007-11

"Economic and Statistical Models for Affordable Housing Policy Design"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: HOU OR URB
Uploaded 4/27/2007

Apr 2007

2007-10

"Mathematical Models for Reconstruction Planning in Urban Areas"
Michael P. Johnson, Changmi Jung, Michael Trick, Justin Williams
Category: ENV OR URB
Revised May 1, 2007

Apr 2007

2007-9

"Three Essays on Local Labor Markets"
Natalia Kolesnikova
Category: L

Apr 2007

2007-8

"Cosponsorship in the U.S. Senate: A Multilevel Approach to Detecting the Subtle Influence of Social Relational Factors on Legislative Behavior"
Justin H. Gross, Cosma Shalizi
Category: OR ORG

Apr 2007

2007-7

"Gang Violence in the "Balance:" A Triadic Analysis of Rivalries and Allies"
Kiminori Nakamura
Category: CR

Apr 2007

2007-6

"Fundamental Patent Reform and the Private Returns to R&D - The Case of Indian Pharmaceuticals"
Chirantan Chatterjee
Category: TECH

Apr 2007

2007-5

"An Information Visualization Approach to Classification and Assessment of Diabetes Risk in Primary Care"
Christopher A. Harle, Daniel B. Neill, Rema Padman
Category: H IS OR

Mar 2007

2007-4

"On Data Quality and Risk in Guideline Based Clinical Decision Support "
George T. Duncan, Sharique Hasan, Linda Hogan, Rema Padman, Shelby Stewman
Category: H IS OR

Mar 2007

2006-23

"The Indian Software Industry and Its Prospects"
Ashish Arora
Category: IS TECH

Oct 2006

2006-18

"The Davao City Health System: An Approach to Optimally Locating Community Health Facilities"
Michael P. Johnson, Myra E. Silva
Category: H OR URB
Presented by Myra Silva at INFORMS Fall National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5, 2005.

Dec 2006

2006-17

"Empirical Calibration of Time Series Monitoring Methods Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves "
Jacqueline Cohen, Samuel R. Garman, Wilpen L. Gorr
Category: CR IS OR
Final Revision, 9/1/2008

Dec 2006

2006-14

"Practitioner Perspectives on Affordable Housing Policy Design: What Role for Prescriptive Models?"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: HOU OR URB
Presented at Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning national conference, November 10, 2006, Ft. Worth, TX and (in revised form) at 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 16, 2006.

Nov 2006

2006-13

"Public Participation and Decision Support Systems: Theory, Requirements, and Applications"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: IS OR URB
Presented at Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Madison, WI, November 3, 2006.

Nov 2006

2006-12

"Decision Models for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community Development"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: HOU OR URB

Nov 2006

2006-10

"On Risk Management in Business Process Design"
Xue Bai, Ramayya Krishnan, Rema Padman
Category: IS OR TECH

Aug 2006

2006-9

"Heroin and Methamphetamine Seizures in Victoria, Australia: Purity Changes Associated with the Heroin ¿Drought¿"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Paul Dietze, Stuart Gilmour, Caroline J. Godkin
Category: CR

Jan 2006

2006-7

"Incentive Stackelberg Strategies for a Dynamic Game on Terrorism"
Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Gernot Tragler
Category: CR OR

Feb 2006

2006-6

"Using Integer Programming to Optimize Investments in Security Countermeasures: A Practical Tool for Fixed Budgets"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Eric Hough, Nancy Mead, Hassan A. Osman
Category: IS OR

Aug 2006

2006-5

"Optimizing Counter-Terror Operations: Should One Fight Fire with "Fire" or "Water"?"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Gernot Tragler
Category: CR OR

Aug 2006

2006-4

"Cost-Benefit Analyses of Investments to Control Illicit Substance Abuse and Addiction"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: CR H
This paper was prepared for the project, "Net Benefits of Public Investment in Individuals: What Do, and Could, We Know?" (David Weimer and Aidan Vining, co-investigators) sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.

Aug 2006

2006-3

"The Need for Dynamic Drug Policy"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: CR H

Aug 2006

2006-2

"What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?"
Martin S. Gaynor
Category: H

Jul 2006

2006-1

"Exploring Differences in Estimates of Visists to Emergency Rooms for Injuries from Assaults Using the NCVS and NHAMCS"
Jacqueline Cohen, James P. Lynch
Category: CR

Jan 2006

2005-36

"Bifurcating DNS Thresholds in a Model of Organizational Bridge Building"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Gernot Tragler
Category: OR

Dec 2005

2005-35

"Brand Image and Brand Dilution in the Fashion Industry"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Richard F. Hartl, Peter M. Kort
Category: OR

Aug 2005

2005-34

"Distortion of Outcome and Probability Information in Risky Decisions"
Michael L. DeKay, Paul S. Fischbeck, Dalia Patino-Echeverri
Category: JDM
The correct order of authorship is DeKay, Patino-Echeverri, and Fischbeck. All of Mike DeKay's papers are now available from the Center for Behavioral Decision Research at http://cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/

Dec 2005

2005-33

"Can Housing Mobility Programs Make a Long-Term Impact on the Lives of Poor Families and the Health of Middle-Class Communities: A Policy Simulation"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Michael P. Johnson
Category: HOU OR URB
Presented at Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, November 5, 2005, Washington, D.C. For presentation at Regional Science Association International Fall conference, November 16, 2006. Updated October 13, 2006; under review, Housing Policy Debate

Nov 2005

2005-32

"Can a Spatial Decision Support System Improve Low-Income Service Delivery? Analysis of Tools and Requirements for a Computer-Assisted Mobility Counseling System"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: HOU IS OR
Presented at HUD Urban Scholars Fellowship Symposium, November 6, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Nov 2005

2005-31

"In Search of a Unified Theory for Early Predictive Design Evaluation for Software"
Ashish Arora, Shawn A. Butler, Vahe Poladian, Chris Scaffidi, Mary Shaw
Category: IS

May 2005

2005-29

"Digital Demand: Demand for Digital Cameras on eBay "
Adams Christopher, William B. Vogt, Hao Xu
Category: IS

Jan 2005

2005-28

"Impact of Software Vulnerability Announcements on the Market Value of Software Vendors - An Empirical Investigation "
Rahul Telang, Sunil Wattal
Category: IS

Feb 2005

2005-27

"Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact "
Anindya Ghose, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Sep 2005

2005-25

"Does In-house R&D Increase Bargaining Power? Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Ashish Arora, William B. Vogt, J. Yoon
Category: IS

Jan 2005

2005-24

"Sell First, Fix Later: Impact of Patching on Software Quality"
Ashish Arora, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Jan 2005

2005-23

"Does the Profit Motive Make Jack Nimble? Ownership Form and the Evolution of the U.S. Hospital Industry"
Sujoy Chakravarty, Martin S. Gaynor, Steven Klepper, William B. Vogt
Category: H

Oct 2005

2005-22

"Service Adoption and Pricing of Content Delivery Network (CDN) Services "
Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith
Category: IS

Jan 2005

2005-21

"How studies of the cost-of-illness of substance abuse can be made more useful for policy analysis"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Timothy J. Moore
Category: CR H

Sep 2005

2005-20

"Modelling the spread of hepatitis C via commercial tattoo parlours: Implications for public health interventions"
Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Marion Rauner
Category: H OR

Sep 2005

2005-19

"Spreadsheet Errors and Decision Making:"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Erica L. Morrison, Timothy J. Weidemann
Category: IS OR

Sep 2005

2005-17

"An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerability Disclosure"
Ashish Arora, Ramayya Krishnan, Rahul Telang, Yubao Yang
Category: IS

Jan 2005

2005-16

"Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility through the R-U Confidentiality Map in Multivariate Settings"
George T. Duncan, Sallie Keller-McNulty, S. Lynne Stokes
Category: IS OR

Sep 2005

2005-15

"A Genetic Algorithm for the Home-Delivered Meals Location-Routing Problem"
Michael P. Johnson, Stephen F. Roehrig, Hakan Yildiz
Category: OR URB
Presented at IFORS Conference, July 2005, Hawaii. Under review at European Journal of Operational Research.

Jul 2005

2005-14

"Evaluating a Deliberative Method for Ranking Environmental Risks in China"
Michael L. DeKay, H. Keith Florig, Jianhua Xu
Category: ENV H JDM
The correct order of authorship is Xu, Florig, and DeKay. All of Mike DeKay's papers are now available at http://cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/

Jul 2005

2005-13

"Explaining Fashion Cycles: Imitators Chasing Innovators in Product Space"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Richard F. Hartl, Peter M. Kort
Category: OR

Jul 2005

2005-12

"Better Safe than Sorry: Precautionary Reasoning and Implied Dominance in Risky Decisions"
Michael L. DeKay, Paul S. Fischbeck, Dalia Patino-Echeverri
Category: ENV H JDM
The correct order of authorship is DeKay, Patino-Echeverri, and Fischbeck. All of Mike DeKay's papers are now available from the Center for Behavioral Decision Research at http://cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/

Jun 2005

2005-11

"Marijuana Markets: Inferences from Reports by the Household Population"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Category: CR

Jun 2005

2005-10

"Flexible Affordable Housing Policy Design using Facility Location Models"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: HOU OR URB
Presented at Tenth meeting of the International Society of Locational Decisions (ISOLDE X), Seville, Spain, June 2, 2005 and and INFORMS Fall National Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 16, 2005. For presentation at the 2006 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 19 - 20, 2006.

Aug 2005

2005-9

"Quality Cycles and the Strategic Manipulation of Value"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Josef Haunschmied, Gernot Tragler
Category: CR OR

Jan 2005

2005-8

"Long-Run Trends in Incarceration of Drug Offenders in the US"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Sara A. Chandler
Category: CR

May 2005

2005-7

"Illicit Drug Markets and Economic Irregularities"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter
Category: CR

Jan 2005

2005-6

"Price and Purity Analysis for Illicit Drug: Data and Conceptual Issues"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: CR OR

Jan 2005

2005-5

"High and Low Frequency Oscillations in Drug Epidemics"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Alessandra Gragnani, Gernot Tragler
Category: CR OR

May 2005

2005-4

"Operations Research & Public Policy for Africa: Harnessing the Revolution in Management Science Instruction"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Emily M. Eelman, Minoli S. Ratnatunga, David K. Schaarsmith
Category: OR TECH

Apr 2005

2005-3

"Sensitivity of MRQAP Tests to Collinearity and Autocorrelation"
David Dekker, David M. Krackhardt, Tom Snijders
Category: OR ORG

Jan 2005

2005-2

"Optimal Policy for Software Vulnerability Disclosure"
Ashish Arora, Rahul Telang, Hao Xu
Category: IS

Jan 2005

2004-22

"Decision Support Technology for Public Safety Resource Allocation: Location of Fire Stations in a Fiscally Constrained Environment"
Michael P. Johnson, Amy Jo Wendholt
Category: IS

Jun 2004

2004-21

"Static and Dynamic Pricing in Online Markets "
Karen B. Clay, Michael D. Smith, Eric Wolff
Category: IS

Aug 2004

2004-20

"An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data Services "
Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Oct 2004

2004-19

"The Virtual Commons: Why Free-Riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks "
Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith, Zhulei Tang, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Nov 2004

2004-18

"Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach "
Atip Asvanund, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Oct 2004

2004-17

"Patent Protection, Complementary Assets, and Firms' Incentives for Technology Licensing"
Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli
Category: IS

Dec 2004

2004-16

"The Globalization of the Software Industry: Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries"
Ashish Arora, Alfonso Gambardella
Category: IS TECH

Apr 2004

2004-15

"Does in-house R&D increase bargaining power? Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry"
Ashish Arora, William B. Vogt, Ji Woong Yoon
Category: H NEG TECH

Feb 2004

2004-14

"patent protection, complementary assets and firms' incentive for technology licensing"
Ashish Arora, marco ceccagnoli
Category: TECH

Dec 2004

2004-13

"NCOVR Web-Based Data Resources¿Introduction to Data Cubes"
Jacqueline Cohen, Patricia S. Edgar, Jerone A. Porter
Category: CR IS

Nov 2004

2004-12

"When Things Don¿t Add Up: The Role of Perceived Fungibility in Repeated-Play Decisions"
Michael L. DeKay, Tai Gyu Kim
Category: H JDM
This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Psychological Science, © 2005 American Psychological Society. All of Mike DeKay's papers are now available from the Center for Behavioral Decision Research at http://cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/ An earlier version that includes an additional background study is available from the first author.

Jul 2004

2004-11

"Are Medical Treatments for Individuals and Groups Like Single-Play and Multiple-Play Gambles?"
David A. Asch, Michael L. DeKay, John C. Hershey, Mark D. Spranca, Peter A. Ubel
Category: H JDM
The correct order of authorship is DeKay, Hershey, Spranca, Ubel, and Asch. Paper updated 8/28/2006. All of Mike DeKay's papers are now available from the Center for Behavioral Decision Research at http://cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/

Jan 2004

2004-10

"Improving Public Education through Strengthened Local Control"
Roger Severino, Robert P. Strauss
Category: ORG PUB URB

Jan 2004

2004-9

"Hidden Strategic Challenges Posed by Housing Mobility Policy: An Application of Dynamic Policy Modeling"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Michael P. Johnson, Gernot Tragler, Yuri Yegorov
Category: HOU OR URB
Presented at Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 28, 2004.

Nov 2004

2004-8

"Policy Systems: The Integration of Information Technology into Policy Analysis, Planning, and Program Analysis"
Wilpen L. Gorr, Michael P. Johnson, Stephen F. Roehrig
Category: IS

Oct 2004

2004-7

"Leading Indicators and Spatial Interactions: A Crime Forecasting Model for Proactive Police Deployment"
Jacqueline Cohen, Wilpen L. Gorr, Andreas M. Olligschlaeger
Category: CR

Aug 2004

2004-6

"Framework for Validating Geographic Profiling"
Wilpen L. Gorr
Category: CR IS

Jul 2004

2004-5

"Tabu Search Enhanced Markov Blanket Classifier for High Dimensional Data Sets"
Xue Bai, Rema Padman
Category: IS OR

Jul 2004

2004-4

"Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush"
Karen B. Clay, Gavin Wright
Category: PUB TECH

May 2004

2004-3

"Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics and Economic Performance: Evidence from the American States"
Daniel Berkowitz, Karen B. Clay
Category: PUB TECH

Mar 2004

2004-2

"The Effect of Judicial Independence on Courts"
Daniel Berkowitz, Karen B. Clay
Category: PUB TECH

Jun 2004

2004-1

"Neighborhood Selection of Public Housing Residents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: Quasi-Experimental Results from Chicago"
Michael P. Johnson, Gaurav Kataria
Category: HOU URB
Gaurav Kataria's First Paper requirement, successfully approved April 2004. Revised version of "Locational Outcome and Neighborhood Selection of Chicago Public Housing Movers through the Section 8 Voucher Program", presented at ASSA San Diego, January 2004, and "Locational Outcomes and Housing Consumption Effects of the Section 8 Program in Chicago", previously available in Heinz School Working Papers Series and available from the authors upon request.

May 2004

2003-27

"Search and Product Differentiation at an Internet Shopbot "
Erik Brynjolfsson, Astrid A. Dick, Michael D. Smith
Category: IS

Oct 2003

2003-26

"Taxation of Producer and Consumer Purchases: What Can CGE Tell Us about the Real World of Sales and Use Taxes?"
Sami Dakhlia, Robert P. Strauss
Category: IS PUB

Nov 2003

2003-25

"Residential Real Estate Assessment Fairness in Four Urban Areas"
David A. Strauss, Robert P. Strauss
Category: HOU PUB URB
(Revised 11-30-2003)

Nov 2003

2003-24

"An Integrated Approach to Developing Human Services Web Portals"
Danny F. Fernandes, Wilpen L. Gorr
Category: IS

Nov 2003

2003-23

"Enhancing Aviation Security with The SWIFT System (Short Wait Integrated Flight Travel)"
Alfred Blumstein, Catharine B. Foster, David M. Hamond, Michael A. Kaufman, Timothy C. Lo, Don R. Ojoko-Adams, Matthew J. Ragan, Jordan B. Schreck, David Stopp, Philip R. Wilson
Category: OR

May 2003

2003-21

"Application of Tracking Signals to Detect Time Series Pattern Changes in Crime Mapping Systems"
Wilpen L. Gorr, Shannon A. McKay
Category: CR
Paper was revised January 22, 2004

Sep 2003

2003-19

"A Computational Approach to Compare Information Revelation Policies"
Amy Greenwald, Karthik N. Kannan, Ramayya Krishnan
Category: IS

Jan 2003

2003-18

"Estimation of Crime Seasonality: A Cross-Sectional Extension to Time Series Classical Decomposition"
Jacqueline Cohen, Christopher K. Durso, Wilpen L. Gorr
Category: CR

Aug 2003

2003-16

"Sell First Fix Later: Impact of Patching on Software Quality"
Ashish Arora, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Jan 2003

2003-15

"Effect of Information Revelation Policies under Cost uncertainty"
Karthik N. Kannan
Category: IS

Jan 2003

2003-14

"User Acceptance and Adoption of a Clinical Reminder System in Ambulatory Care: A Developmental Trajectory Approach"
Herbert Diamond, John B. Engberg, Michael P. Johnson, Rema Padman, Kai Zheng
Category: IS OR
Submitted in different form to Fall 2003 conference of the American Medical Informatics Association (March 2003) and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (June 2003)

Jun 2003

2003-12

"Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets"
Jean M. Abraham, Martin S. Gaynor, William B. Vogt
Category: H

May 2003

2003-11

"Effect of Information Revelation Policies: A Game Theoretic Analysis"
Amy Greenwald, Karthik N. Kannan, Ramayya Krishnan
Category: IS

May 2003

2003-10

"Effect of Information Revelation Policies on Cost Structure Uncertainty"
Karthik N. Kannan, Ramayya Krishnan
Category: IS

May 2003

2003-9

"Scalable Payments Netting in Electronic Commerce"
Anindya Datta, Ulrich Derigs, Helen Thomas
Category: IS

Feb 2003

2003-8

"Supplier Selection Problem in an e-Marketplace Context"
Ashish Arora, Karthik N. Kannan, Ramayya Krishnan, Rema Padman, Choudhary Vidyanand
Category: IS

Jan 2003

2003-7

"Effect of Information Revelation Policies Under Market Structure Uncertainty"
Ashish Arora, Karthik N. Kannan, Ramayya Krishnan
Category: IS

Jan 2003

2003-6

"Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility: The R-U Confidentiality Map"
George T. Duncan, Sallie Keller-McNulty, S. Lynne Stokes
Category: IS OR
Revision

Jan 2003

2003-4

"Optimal Bidding in Sequential Online Auctions"
Ashish Arora, Rema Padman, William B. Vogt, Hao Xu
Category: IS

Jan 2003

2003-3

"The software industry and India's economic development "
Ashish Arora, Suma Athreye
Category: IS TECH

Jan 2003

2003-2

"Research Tool Patenting and Licensing and Biomedical Innovation"
Ashish Arora, Wesley Cohen, John Walsh
Category: IS TECH

Jan 2003

2003-1

"Pricing Advice: The market for diagnostic information"
Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri
Category: IS TECH
forthcoming: Management Science

Jan 2003

2002-47

"Optimizing Caching in Object-Oriented Applications"
Anindya Datta, Kaushik Dutta, Pinar Keskinocak, Helen Thomas
Category: IS

Nov 2002

2002-46

"Guns and Youth Violence: An Examination of Crime Guns in One City"
Jacqueline Cohen, Wilpen L. Gorr, Piyusha Singh
Category: CR
Revised December 2002

Dec 2002

2002-45

"A Model of Moderation: Finding Skiba Points on a Slippery Slope"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Gernot Tragler
Category: NEG OR

Dec 2002

2002-43

"Site Selection for Location of Community Corrections Centers"
Michael P. Johnson
Category: CR OR
Presented at International Community Corrections Association Fall Conference, Boston, MA, November 5, 2003 and American Society of Criminology Fall Conference, Chicago, IL, November 13, 2003. Revised June 6, 2003 and submitted to Justice Quarterly.

Nov 2002

2002-42

"Evaluating Local Studies of Barriers to Fair Housing"
Michael P. Johnson, Clarence A. Martin, Angela M. Williams Foster
Category: HOU ORG URB
Presented at Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2002 Annual Research Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 9, 2002. Under review at Housing Studies. Replaces version dated November 2002, available from authors upon request

Nov 2002

2002-40

"Competition Among Hospitals"
Martin S. Gaynor, William B. Vogt
Category: H

Nov 2002

2002-39

"Competition Between Internet Search Engines"
Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Uday Rajan, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Jan 2002

2002-37

"An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in P2P Music-Sharing Networks"
Atip Asvanund, Karen B. Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith
Category: IS

Jan 2002

2002-36

"The Virtual Commons: Why Free-riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks"
Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith, Zhulei Tang, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Jan 2002

2002-35

"The Law of One Price? The Impact of IT-Enabled Markets on Consumer Search and Retailer Pricing"
Michael D. Smith
Category: IS

Jan 2002

2002-34

"The Economics of Peer-To-Peer Networks"
Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang
Category: IS

Jan 2002

2002-33

"Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety"
Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Hu, Michael D. Smith
Category: IS

Jan 2002

2002-32

"Designing a Better Shopbot"
Karen B. Clay, Kartik Hosanagar, Ramayya Krishnan, Alan L. Montgomery
Category: IS TECH

May 2002

2002-31

"Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry"
Karen B. Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Wolff
Category: IS TECH
Journal of Industrial Economics, December 2001

Jun 2002

2002-30

"The Impact of Shopbots on Electronic Markets"
Michael D. Smith
Category: IS
Smith, Michael. 2002. The Impact of Shopbots on Electronic Markets. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 30(4) 442-450.

Sep 2002

2002-29

"Retail Strategies on the Web: Price and Non-Price Competition in the Online Book Industry "
Karen B. Clay, Danny F. Fernandes, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Wolff
Category: IS
Forthcoming 2002, Journal of Industrial Economics

Jun 2002

2002-28

"Institutional Barriers to Electronic Commerce: An Historical Perspective"
Karen B. Clay, Robert P. Strauss
Category: IS TECH
Forthcoming 2002, Advances in Strategic Management

Oct 2002

2002-25

"A Field Study of Internet Behavior: Usage Levels and Task Preferences "
Akhilesh Bajaj, Beth Osborne Daponte, John B. Engberg, Kai Zheng
Category: IS
working paper.

Jan 2002

2002-23

"Impact of Police Raids at Nuisance Bars on Illegal Drug Dealing: Estimating Intervention Effects in Varying Risk Settings"
Jacqueline Cohen, Wilpen L. Gorr, Piyusha Singh
Category: CR

Jan 2002

2002-22

"Mediating the Tension Between Information Privacy and Information Access: The Role of Digital Government"
George T. Duncan, Stephen F. Roehrig
Category: IS OR

Jun 2002

2002-21

"Innovative solutions in providing access to micro-data"
George T. Duncan
Category: IS OR

Aug 2002

2002-20

"Statistical Data Stewardship in the 21st Century: An Academic Perspective"
George T. Duncan
Category: IS OR

Aug 2002

2002-19

"Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets"
Martin S. Gaynor, Deborah Haas-Wilson
Category: H

Jan 2002

2002-18

"Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the 2nd Best in Health Care Markets"
Martin S. Gaynor, Deborah Haas-Wilson, William B. Vogt
Category: H

Jan 2002

2002-17

"Incentives in HMOs"
Martin S. Gaynor, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor
Category: H L

Mar 2002

2002-16

"Household Demand for Employer-Based Health Insurance"
Jean M. Abraham, Martin S. Gaynor, William B. Vogt
Category: H

Aug 2002

2002-15

"Counterterror and Counterdrug policies: Comparisons and Contrasts"
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Mark A. R. Kleiman, Peter Reuter
Category: CR

Mar 2002

2002-14

"Using Models that Incorporate Uncertainty"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: OR

Jan 2002

2002-13

"The Dynamic Character of Drug Problems"
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: CR OR

Jan 2002

2002-11

"Drug Policy: Insights from Mathematical Analysis "
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Category: CR H OR

Jul 2002

2002-10

"Cycles of Violence: A Dynamic Control Model "
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Gernot Tragler, Vladimir Veliov
Category: CR OR

Jul 2002

2002-9

"Estimating the Relative Efficiency of Various Forms of Prevention at Different Stages of a Drug Epidemic"
Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gernot Tragler, Doris Winkler
Category: CR H OR

Jul 2002

2002-8

"A Model of Chaotic Drug Markets and Their Control"
Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger
Category: CR OR

Jul 2002

2002-7

"An Age-Structured Single-State Initiation Model -- Cycles of Drug Epidemics and Optimal Prevention Programs"
Christian Almeder, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Gernot Tragler
Category: CR OR

Jan 2002

2002-5

"To What Degree Does Food Assistance Help Poor Households Acquire Enough Food?"
Beth Osborne Daponte, Amelia M. Haviland
Category: H

Jan 2002

2002-4

"The Effect of Pension Incentives and Working Conditions on Retirement Decisions"
Joshua R. Furgeson, Robert P. Strauss, William B. Vogt
Category: PUB

Mar 2002

2002-2

"ReAssessment 2001/2: Keystone Comedy or Greek Tragedy"
Robert P. Strauss
Category: PUB

Jan 2002

2002-1

"What Can State Income Tax Returns Tell Us About Migration, Household Composition, and Income?"
Robert P. Strauss
Category: L
Forthcoming, Proceedings of the National Tax Association

Jan 2002

2001-13

"Corporate Restructuring and R&D: A Panel Data Analysis for the Chemical Industry"
Ashish Arora, Marco DaRin, marco ceccagnoli
Category: TECH

Dec 2001