Energy Management Systems (EMSs) are tools that monitor building energy consumption enabling more informed decisions towards rational usage of energy to be made. Current EMS applications provide high report diversity, allowing their users to gain significant insight to understand how their building is performing. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no literature available on the dif...

Recently, uncertainty has dominated global financial markets. Companies are struggling with their balance sheets while merges and acquisitions (M&A) happens on a more frequent basis. This calls for highly accurate corporate performance data, which serve as the ground truth for M&A decisions. Conventional financial reporting approach has drawn criticism from both investors and analysts, attribut...

Direct-to-consumer drug advertising has recently become an important and controversial component of drug marketing. In this paper we examine one of the claimed benefits of drug advertising: encouraging the undiagnosed to seek out medical treatment. Using detailed person-level panel data on more than 30,000 individuals from the Medical Care Expenditure Panel Survey, we measure how advertising af...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health appointed an Expert Panel to assess the problem of health care-associated infections (HAI) in the state and make recommendations regarding mandatory reporting. At the Expert Panel's request, a cost-of-illness study was conducted using available data sources. In Massachusetts, the excess hospital costs attributed to HAIs were estimated at approximate...