Do mistakes matter?

Why Do Borrowers Make Mortgage Refinancing Mistakes?

Refinancing a mortgage is often one of the biggest and most important financial decisions that people make. Borrowers need to choose the interest rate differential at which to refinance and, when that differential is reached, they need to take the steps to refinance before rates change again. The optimal differential is where the interest saved by refinancing equals the sum of refinancing costs...

Do house officers learn from their mistakes?

Mistakes are inevitable in medicine. To learn how medical mistakes relate to subsequent changes in practice, we surveyed 254 internal medicine house officers. One hundred fourteen house officers (45%) completed an anonymous questionnaire describing their most significant mistake and their response to it. Mistakes included errors in diagnosis (33%), prescribing (29%), evaluation (21%), and commu...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Do Workers\' Remittances Matter for the Egyptian Economy?

Workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. Although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, Egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. Empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ ...

Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures

A fter a brief lull in the early 1990s, the market for corporate control became increasingly active toward the end of the decade. Both 1996 and 1997 set new records for the number of U.S. merger filings, and 1998, 1999, and 2000 brought high-profile “mega-mergers” in financial services, energy, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and automobiles. In banking alone, for example, a wave of merger...