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Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others' Altruism
(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
(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 ... -
Cooperative Strategic Games
(2017-03-21)We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the value provides an a-priori assessment of the monetary worth of a player's position in a strategic game, comprising not ... -
Core Earnings: New Data and Evidence
(Elsevier BV, 2021-12)Using a novel dataset, we show that components of firms' GAAP earnings stemming from ancillary business activities or transitory shocks are significant in frequency and magnitude. These components have grown over time and ... -
A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational
(2012)We build on the emerging literature of influence-based models to study how multinational firms can navigate host governments. Our "core-periphery" framework posits that the actions that an MNC takes with actors in what we ... -
Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets
(Elsevier BV, 2019-05)The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate leverage in emerging markets and a number of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a ... -
Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility
(2015-08-17)We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship between corporate governance ... -
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
(Elsevier, 2011)We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix ... -
The Corporate Headquarters in the Contemporary Corporation: Advancing a Multimarket Firm Perspective
(2015-09-29)The corporate headquarters (CHQ) is the central organizational unit in the contemporary corporation, and is critical for value creation in the overall firm. Since the early 1960s, a significant body of research on the CHQ ... -
Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-05)The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As ... -
Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
(2017-03-23)We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance
(2012-11-09)In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?
(INFORMS, 2014)This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a ... -
Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality
(2015-04-06)An increasing number of companies make sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date however, the prior academic ... -
Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making
(2015)Price is a key factor in most purchases, but it can be presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making ... -
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
(Elsevier BV, 2018-06)We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the ... -
Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-07)Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about ... -
Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency
(2014-12-09)We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, ... -
Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
(2016-09-20)Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper ... -
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
(University of Chicago Press, 2013)We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from electronic monitoring. Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, ...