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Friends or Foes? Examining Platform Owners’ Entry into Complementors’ Spaces
(Wiley, 2018-12-29)As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their ... -
From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management
(Elsevier BV, 2011-05)For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; ... -
From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort & Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers
(2014-04-24)Online collaborative platforms have emerged as a complementary approach to traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive ... -
From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival
(Oxford, 2012-11-30)We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied ... -
Games of Threats
(Elsevier BV, 2018-03)A game of threats on a finite set of players, N, is a function d that assigns a real number to any coalition, S ⊆ N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy ... -
Gender Differences in COVID-19 Attitudes and Behavior: Panel Evidence from Eight Countries
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10-15)The initial public health response to the breakout of COVID-19 required fundamental changes in individual behavior, such as isolation at home or wearing masks. The effectiveness of these policies hinges on generalized ... -
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
(Wiley, 2008-10)We propose taking a two-level-game (Putnam 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with household members. In order to ... -
Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-03)Problem definition: We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academic research productivity in social science. Academic/practical relevance: The lockdown ... -
Gendered Races: Implications for Interracial Marriage, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation
(2012-11-09)Six studies explored the overlap between racial and gender stereotypes and the consequences of this overlap for interracial dating, leadership selection, and athletic participation. Two initial studies, utilizing explicit ... -
Germany’s Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-07-10)Reimbursement is a key challenge for many new digital health solutions, whose importance and value have been highlighted and expanded by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s new Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale–Verso ... -
Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness
(Elsevier, 2014-07-18)Across six field and laboratory experiments, participants assigned a more concretely-framed prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness ... -
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration
(2018-08-01)In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to US cities ... -
The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo
(Sage, 2012)Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that the original givers would be more offended than ... -
GitLab: Work Where You Want, When You Want
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-16)GitLab is a software company that works “all remote” at the scale of more than 1000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step ... -
Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics
(Public Library of Science, 2014)The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused on the spread of prosocial ... -
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
(Elsevier, 2014)The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What ... -
Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment
(Elsevier, 2015-06-16)We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of ... -
The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries
(2016-01-06)This paper examines investments made by 13 angel groups across 21 countries. We compare applicants just above and below the funding cut-off and find that these angel investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, ... -
Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders
(2014)Golden parachutes (GPs) have attracted substantial attention from investors and public officials for more than two decades. We find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association ...