This paper compares sticky-price and sticky-information Phillips curves empirically considering inflation dynamics in eleven countries (the G7 and Scandinavia). We evaluate the models‘ abilities to match empirical second moments of inflation. Although overall model performance is similar, there is a strong systematic pattern in model performance by moment type. Sticky prices match unconditional...

Several of the auction-driven exchanges that facilitate programmatic buying of internet display advertising have recently introduced “soft floors” in addition to standard reserve prices (called “hard floors” in the industry). A soft floor is a bid level below which a winning bidder in the auction pays his own bid instead of paying the second-highest bid as in a standard second-price auction the...

Hospital floors are frequently contaminated with pathogens, but it is not known whether floors are a potential source of transmission. We demonstrated that a nonpathogenic virus inoculated onto floors in hospital rooms disseminated rapidly to the hands of patients and to high-touch surfaces inside and outside the room. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;1-4.

Fire fighters are at risk of falling through fire-damaged floors. Fire burning underneath floors can significantly degrade the floor system with little indication to fire fighters working above. Floors can fail within minutes of fire exposure, and new construction technology such as engineered wood floor joists may fail sooner than traditional construction methods. NIOSH recommends that fire fi...