Using monthly data on temporary trade barriers (TTBs), we estimate the dynamic employment effects of protectionism through vertical production linkages. First, exploiting procedural details of TTBs and high-frequency data, we identify movements in protectionism exogenous to economic...

The healthcare system is no stranger to resource challenges in the face of unlimited demand to fulfill healthcare objectives of satisfying patients, maintaining service quality, and maximizing profit. Healthcare decision-makers are responsible for devising effective methods for allocating scarce...

With the need of more responsive and resilient manufacturing processes for high value, customised products, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) remain a very relevant manufacturing approach. Due to their complexity, quality monitoring in these types of systems can be very difficult,...

Responding to natural disasters requires a large and rapid deployment of resources to relieve the immediate needs of the victims. This includes immediate access to food, shelter, and medical assistance. These services are supported by, and eventually fully transitioned to, local infrastructure,...

Every organization's response to environmental challenges is to improve quality by adopting modern concepts and a new approach to quality. This includes, of course, the developed and implemented quality management systems. Ensuring quality and managing it today is an inevitability, so a great...

Majority of recent empirical papers in the Operations Management (OM) use observational data to investigate the effects of a adopting a program or policy. However, observational data does not offer random assignment of these program or policies; therefore, estimating the causal effects is...