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The Impact of Health Information Technology on Hospital Productivity 卫生信息技术对医院生产力的影响

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2012-04-01 DOI: 10.1111/1756-2171.12030

Jinhyung Lee, J. McCullough, R. Town

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引用次数: 160

Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality 你会买美国制造的本田吗?生产区位对制造质量的影响

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2012-04-01 DOI: 10.3386/W18005

N. Lacetera, Justin R. Sydnor

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引用次数: 5

Plant-Level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data 工厂级生产率和美国人口普查制造业数据中缺失数据的代入

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2012-02-01 DOI: 10.3386/w17816

Kirk White, Jerome P. Reiter, Amil Petrin

引用次数: 31

Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity 私募股权的周期性、绩效衡量和现金流流动性

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1731603

D. Robinson, Berk A. Sensoy

引用次数: 205

Geography and Financial Contracts 地理与金融合同

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2010-03-14 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1570614

Ola Bengtsson, S. Ravid

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引用次数: 6

Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences 激励与创造力:来自学术生命科学的证据

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2009-10-01 DOI: 10.1111/J.1756-2171.2011.00140.X

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin, Gustavo Manso

引用次数: 527

Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship 融资约束与创业

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2009-08-11 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1447503

W. Kerr, Ramana Nanda

引用次数: 242

Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-Diversifiable Risk 创业融资与不可分散风险

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2009-04-01 DOI: 10.1093/RFS/HHQ122

Hui Chen, Jianjun Miao, Neng Wang

引用次数: 105

Realization Utility 实现效用

Kauffman: Large Research Projects - NBER (Topic) Pub Date : 2008-10-01 DOI: 10.3386/w14440

N. Barberis, Wei Xiong

引用次数: 338