Alfred P. Levin, 1908–1984

Alfred P . Sloan School of Management

Alfred P . Sloan School of Management

Introduction The purpose of this appendix is to present a more detailed view of the medical technology simulation model discussed in the body of the paper. This is not intended to be a comprehensive description of the computer model, MEDTECH, which contains approximately 100 active equations. Instead, the discussion will focus on only the most important relationships in the model, occasionally ...

Alfred P . Sloan School of Management

Alfred P . Sloan School of Management

This paper investigates the use of individual cross section data to describe macro functions. Necessary and sufficient conditions (denoted AS) are found for OLS slope coefficients from a cross section to consistently estimate the first derivatives of the macro function. AS embodies both sets of aggregation assumptions known; linear aggregation and sufficient statistics , and thus represents gen...

ALFRED P . SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Trust ,

The interpersonal trust of 296 Brazilian development bankers was related to indicators of cultural modernism, satisfaction with supervisory behaviors, and individual reactions to different organizational climates. Contrary to theories which associate trust with national "culture" or "modernism", the Brazilian bankers scored higher on a four-item trust scale than Peruvian white-collar workers, a...