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    • Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks 

      Baker, Malcolm P.; Wurgler, Jeffrey (2012)
      Government bonds comove more strongly with bond-like stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve ...
    • A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity 

      Greenwood, Robin Marc; Hanson, Samuel Gregory; Stein, Jeremy C. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-02-19)
      We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it ...
    • Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis 

      Hossain, Tanjim; Minor, Dylan Blu; Morgan, John (INFORMS, 2011)
      Platform competition is ubiquitous, yet platform market structure is little understood. Theory models typically suffer from equilibrium multiplicity—platforms might coexist or the market might tip to either platform. We ...
    • Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com 

      Zhu, Feng; Liu, Qihong (Wiley, 2018-08-28)
      Research Summary: Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces and compete against them. Using data from Amazon.com to study Amazon's entry pattern into third‐party sellers' product spaces, we find that ...
    • Competing with Privacy 

      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Hervas-Drane, Andres (INFORMS, 2014-10-24)
      We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding ...
    • Complex Disclosure 

      Jin, Ginger Zhe; Luca, Michael; Martin, Daniel (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-05)
      We present evidence that unnecessarily complex disclosure can result from strategic incentives to shroud information. In our laboratory experiment, senders are required to report their private information truthfully but ...
    • The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training 

      Chung, Doug; Kim, Byungyeon; Park, Byoung G. (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-11)
      This study provides a comprehensive model of an agent’s behavior in response to multiple sales management instruments, including compensation, recruiting/termination, and training. The model takes into account many of the ...
    • Concealable Stigma and Occupational Segregation 

      Tilcsik, András; Anteby, Michel; Knight, Carly (SAGE Publications, 2015-03-10)
    • Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk 

      Siriwardane, Emil Nuwan (2015-07-21)
      Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data from 2010 to 2014, I show that capital fluctuations for sellers of CDS protection are an important determinant of CDS spread movements. I first establish that markets are ...
    • Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk - Online Appendix 

      Siriwardane, Emil Nuwan (2015-07-21)
      This is the online appendix to "Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk". In this appendix, I provide additional stylized facts about the CDS market regarding: (i) the size of the market, (ii) ...
    • Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities 

      Egan, Mark; Ge, Shan; Tang, Johnny (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-08-24)
      We examine the variable annuity market to study conflicts of interest and the effect of fiduciary duty in brokerage markets. Insurers typically pay brokers higher commissions for selling more expensive annuities. Our results ...
    • Consequences of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning 

      Perez Cavazos, Gerardo (Wiley, 2019-02-20)
      I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt forgiveness to borrowers. I provide evidence consistent with borrowers communicating their ...
    • Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members 

      Srinivasan, Suraj (2005)
      I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. ...
    • Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism 

      Gow, Ian D; Shin, Sa-Pyung Sean; Srinivasan, Suraj (2014)
      We examine how shareholder activist campaigns affect the careers of directors of the targeted firms. Using a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as ...
    • Constraints and triggers: Situational mechanics of gender in negotiation. 

      Bowles, Hannah Riley; Babcock, Linda C.; McGinn, Kathleen (American Psychological Association (APA), 2005)
      The authors propose two categories of situational moderators of gender in negotiation: situational ambiguity and gender triggers. Reducing the degree of situational ambiguity constrains the influence of gender on negotiation. ...
    • Consumer Disclosure 

      Kim, Tami; Barasz, Kate; John, Leslie (Wiley, 2020-12-12)
      As technological advances enable consumers to share more information in unprecedented ways, today’s disclosure takes on a variety of new forms, triggering a paradigm shift in what “disclosure” entails. This review introduces ...
    • The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty 

      Casciaro, Tiziana; Gino, Francesca; Kouchaki, Maryam (Cornell University, The Johnson School, 2014-10-28)
      To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended ...
    • Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations 

      Anik, Lalin; Norton, Michael Irwin; Ariely, Dan (2014-07-23)
      We propose a new means by which non-profits can induce donors to give today and commit to giving in the future: contingent match incentives, in which matching is made contingent on the percentage of others who give (e.g., ...
    • Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others' Altruism 

      Di Tella, Rafael; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Babino, Andres; Sigman, Mariano (American Economic Association, 2015)
      We present results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that recipients can take a side payment in exchange for accepting a reduction in the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to be ...
    • The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games 

      Kohlberg, Elon; Neyman, Abraham (2015-04-06)
      Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the ...