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Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-12)Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information. The FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) provides an opportunity to ... -
Regulatory Oversight, Causal Inference, and Safe and Effective Health Care Machine Learning
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-04)In recent years, the applications of Machine Learning (ML) in the health care delivery setting have grown to become both abundant and compelling. Regulators have taken notice of these developments and the U.S. Food and ... -
Regulatory, Legal, and Market Aspects of Smart Wearables for Cardiac Monitoring
(MDPI AG, 2021-07-20)In the area of cardiac monitoring, the use of digitally driven technologies is on the rise. While the development of medical products is advancing rapidly, allowing for new use-cases in cardiac monitoring and other areas, ... -
Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards
(2012-12-07)In response to pressure from various stakeholders, many transnational businesses have developed codes of conduct and monitoring systems to ensure that working conditions in their supply chain factories meet global labor ... -
Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture
(2017-05-11)This working paper examines the remarkable growth of wine consumption in the United States since the 1960s. The country is now the largest wine consumer in the world, exceeding the wine-producing European countries such ... -
Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle?
(2017-03-23)Relative TSR (rTSR) is increasingly used by market participants to judge and incentivize managerial performance. We evaluate the efficacy, reasons, and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although ... -
Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement
(2012-09-13)Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression “telling our own stories” is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, ... -
Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
(Elsevier, 2014-05-13)This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental ... -
Remote Patient Monitoring — Overdue or Overused?
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2021-04-15)As the use of remote patient monitoring services grows—driven by health care limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic—clinicians, payers, and patients face important questions regarding the volume, value, and appropriate ... -
Rents, Competition, and Corruption
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Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Price Knowledge and Gender on Auto Repair Price Quotes
(American Marketing Association (AMA), 2017)The authors investigate whether sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. They implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive ... -
Representative democracy and the implementation of majority-preferred alternatives
(Springer Nature, 2015)In this paper, we contrast direct and representative democracy. In a direct democracy, individuals have the opportunity to vote over the alternatives in every choice problem the population faces. In a representative ... -
Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research
(Now Publishers, 2020)We review the literature on corporate sustainability and provide directions for future research. Our review focuses on three actions: measuring, managing and communicating corporate sustainability performance. Measurement ... -
Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance
(2012)Using a sample of 4,278 listed UK firms, we construct a social network of directorship-interlocks that comprises 31,495 directors. We use social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure ... -
Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance
(2017-07-20)I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation ... -
Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants
(2016-05-19)I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant R&D locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D ... -
Return on political investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
(2015-01-20)Prior literature raises a "puzzle" of high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act’s passage ... -
The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams
(2012-07-13)Individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge sharing networks, due to inexperience, location, or lack of social capital, may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. An electronic knowledge repository (KR) ... -
The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure
(INFORMS, 2012)This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the ... -
Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians
(2016-01-06)When seeking new leaders, business and government organizations alike often need individuals that are less risk averse, or even risk-seeking, in order to improve performance. However, individuals amenable to increased ...