We investigate how patient ability to pay through insurance influences the equity of care given by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) crews following 9-1-1 calls. EMS agencies are often underfunded and rely on self-generated revenues to carry out their health mission. Revenues depend on insurance...

In pricing extreme mortality risk, it is commonly assumed that the interest rate and mortality rate are independent. However, the recent COVID-19 outbreak calls this assumption into question. We propose a bivariate affine jump-diffusion structure to jointly model the interest rate and excess...

Organizations face unique challenges when simultaneously pursuing conflicting organization-level objectives. We study how frontline employees deal with competing financial and social objectives within the context of Emergency Medical Services. Using data from 31 US states, we find that even in...

Creative stars make disproportionately influential contributions to their fields. Yet we know little about how an innovator’s creative performance is affected by collaborating with stars. This paper studies the creative aspects of interpersonal collaboration from a new perspective: the quality...