Calculation method of gray correlation degree and the connotation are introduced. Based on the model of gray correlation degree, relationship between agricultural industrial structure and agricultural economic development is analyzed by using four analysis methods of correlation degree and...

Common wisdom suggests that, everything else being equal, seeing patients sooner rather than later is preferable. In particular, health outcomes improve with reduced delay and so does patient satisfaction. Meanwhile, if the delay in access to care is reduced, rescheduling becomes easier and thus...

Outpatient care providers usually allow patients to access service via scheduling appointments or direct walk-in. Patients with acute symptoms are likely to walk in and other patients strategically choose between these two access channels (and otherwise balking) based on the trade-off of...

Using a sample of dividend-paying firms, we show that much of the variation in accruals and real activities can be explained by firms' different performance trajectories. High (low) performance firms spend more (less) on SG&A and CAPEX and hold what appear to be abnormally low (high) levels of...

Despite the prevalence and significance of walk-ins in healthcare, we know relatively little about how to plan and manage the daily operations of a healthcare facility that accepts both scheduled and walk-in patients. In this paper, we take a data analytics approach and develop the first...

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Many firms, even those that are cash rich, routinely engage in costly borrowing and, more rarely, equity issuance in order to finance their payouts. A reported motive for this payout-financing behavior is the sheltering of corporate income tax. We present a model of a firm that maximizes its...

In 2006, the SEC amended the disclosure requirements for executive compensation and stock ownership. This paper examines the effects of these amendments on (1) the association between equity-based executive incentives and firm payout choice, and (2) the association between executive compensation...

In recent years, countries around the world have significantly increased their awareness of environmental protection. With the continuous expansion of the scale of economic development, many developing countries are also constantly raising their standards for industrial carbon emissions in FDI....

This paper studies how to schedule medical appointments with time-dependent patient no-show behavior and random service times. The problem is motivated by our studies of independent datasets from countries in two continents which unanimously identify a significant time-of-day effect on patient...