A monthly effect in stock returns by Ariel, Robert A.

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Building a decision support system : the mythical man-month revisited by Keen, Peter G. W., Gambino, Thomas J.

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Progress on analysis of the world oil market by M.I.T. World Oil Project

“…A six-month report to the National Science Foundation on the project "Analysis of the world oil market", Contract no. …”
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Conversational Coherence in Instant Messaging and Getting Work Done by Woerner, Stephanie L., Yates, JoAnne, Orlikowski, Wanda J.

“…In studying the IM conversations of team members over the course of a month, a number of challenges to coherence emerged as they communicated with each other and worked together. …”
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Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics by Choucri, Nazli

“…For each region, we will deliver a detailed country model, including 3-5 futures predictions in the 6-12 month range along with an analysis of conditions and casual links between predicted futures plus corresponding mitigated options.…”
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Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics by Choucri, Nazli, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.

“…For each region, we will deliver a detailed country model, including 3-5 futures predictions in the 6-12 month range along with an analysis of conditions and casual links between predicted futures plus corresponding mitigated options.…”
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Air quality, infant mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970 by Chay, Kenneth Y., Greenstone, Michael

“…Most of these effects are driven by a reduction in deaths occurring within one month of birth, suggesting that fetal exposure is a potential biological pathway. …”
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From Metaphors to Mechanisms: Gender Sorting In(to) an Organizational Hierarchy by Fernandez, Roberto M., Abraham, Mabel Botelho

“…We construct queues consisting of both external and internal candidates—the set of candidates under consideration—for over 2,200 job openings during a 27-month period for a large retail bank. We find that women are more likely than men to be hired, and that this pattern holds for jobs up and down the organizational hierarchy. …”
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Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks by Aral, Sinan, Brynjolfsson, Erik, Van Alstyne, Marshall

“…To test our hypotheses, we characterize the social network of a medium sized executive recruiting firm using accounting data on project co-work relationships and ten months of email traffic observed over two five month periods. …”
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Why did British electricity prices fall after 1998? by Evans, Joanne, Green, Richard C.

“…Econometric analysis on monthly data from April 1996 to September 2002 implies support for two conflicting hypotheses. …”
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Social Norms and Energy Conservation by Allcott, Hunt

“…In a treatment arm receiving reports each quarter, the effects decay in the months between letters and again increase upon receipt of the next letter. …”
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The Effect of the 18-Year Old Drinking Age on Auto Accidents by Cucchiaro, Stephen, Ferreira, Joseph Jr., Sicherman, Alan

“…The effect of Massachusetts' reduced drinking age on auto accidents is examined by employing an interrupted time series analysis of monthly accident data covering the period January, 1969, through September 1973. …”
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Modelling the Effects of Nuclear Fuel Reservoir Operation in a Competitive Electricity Market by Lykidi, Maria, Glachant, Jean-Michel, Gourdel, Pascal

“…They also suggest that non-nuclear thermal could stay marginal during most of the year including the months of low demand.…”
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Banknorth: Designing IT Governance for a Growth-Oriented Business Evironment by Weill, Peter, Hoffmann, Francisco Gonzalez-Meza

“…Led by the CIO the new IT governance framework and implementation go well beyond the IT department to include; business processes, culture and strategies. Six months after implementation the CIO assess the effectiveness of the new IT governance framework and thinks about fine tuning.…”
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The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation by Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther, Glennester, Rachel, Kinnan, Cynthia

“…There was no effect on average monthly expenditure per capita. Expenditure on durable goods increased in treated areas, while expenditures on “temptation goods” declined. …”
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The Assq Chip and Its Progeny by Agre, Philip E.

“…Motivated by a desire to apply the design methodology implicit in Scheme-81, it was designed in about two months, has a very simple architecture and layout, and is primarily machine-generated. …”
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Lesson Study and Lesson Sharing: An Appealing Marriage by Hird, Mackenzie D., Larson, Richard Charles, Okubo, Yuko, Uchino, Kanji

“…Lesson Study is the joint production of lessons by a small team of teachers over the course of a few months. The resulting lesson plan is usually “on paper” and used only locally. …”
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California's electricity crisis by Joskow, Paul L.

“…Prices in California's competitive wholesale electricity market increased by 500% between the second half of 1999 and the second half of 2000. For the first four months of 2001, wholesale spot prices averaged over $300/Mwh, ten times what they were is 1998 and 1999. …”
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Factors affecting residential heating energy consumption by Donovan, John J., Fischer, Walter P.

“…The study is based on four data series: (1) actual monthly home heating oil consumption data on 8000 suburban homeowners in suburban Boston; (2) questionnaire responses from 2000 homeowners on their homes' physical and occupant characteristics, as well as changes in physical and occu- pant behavioral characteristics between 1972 and 1975; (3) monthly weather data; and (4) heating oil price data. …”
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Enhancing self-efficacy to enable entrepreneurship: The case of CMI’s Connections by Lucas, William A., Cooper, Sarah Y.

“…Measures of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and other outcomes are offered, followed by a report of the results found at the end of the event and then six months later. The programme is found to have created enduring improvements in entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and a related strengthening of pre-entrepreneurial awareness and exploration of ideas for starting companies. …”
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