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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 ... -
Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?
(INFORMS, 2014)We study how corporate governance affects firm value through the decision of whether to fire or retain the CEO. We present a model in which weak governance—which prevents shareholders from controlling the board—protects ... -
Governance through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior in Japan
(2017-09-08)We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400 ... -
Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals
(American Economic Association, 2011)We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation ... -
Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California
(Elsevier, 2014)We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on ... -
Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement
(2015-01-09)I examine whether political influence by the government as a response to voters’ interest in employment conditions is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large ... -
Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of ... -
The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-10-07)We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short interest, we document ... -
The Growth of Finance
(American Economic Association, 2013)The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the ... -
Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
(University of Chicago Press, 2018-08)We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product ... -
Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments
(American Psychological Association, 2014-10-28)The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism ... -
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
(Elsevier, 2015)The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption ... -
Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing
(2017-09-21)Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. ... -
Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017)Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly ...