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Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn
(American Economic Association, 2020-08-01)Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture ... -
Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass
(Elsevier, 2012)In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who engages in selfish or dishonest behavior leads people to vicariously justify the actions ... -
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
(2014-01-27)We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of ... -
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case
(2014-01-27)We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and ... -
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case
(2015)In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with ... -
Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments
(American Accounting Association, 2019-11-01)Concerns about high rates of government corruption in resource rich countries have led transparency advocates to urge oil and gas firms to disclose payments to host governments for natural resources. Transparency, they ... -
Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-04-06)In a large-scale randomized experiment implemented with Kenya’s Electoral Commission, text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted electoral participation. However, the messages also decreased trust in electoral ... -
Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-08)A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. ... -
Vulnerable Banks
(Elsevier, 2014-11-25)We present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers ... -
Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation
(Elsevier, 2012)We study the framing effects of communication on payoffs in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference-revealing, it may ... -
Welfare Payments and Crime
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011)Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase reflects an increase in crimes that are likely to ... -
A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy
(2017-01-23)I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the ... -
What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition
(Elsevier BV, 2022-07)Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend ... -
What Do State-Owned Development Banks Do? Evidence from BNDES, 2002–09
(Elsevier, 2015)Defendants of state-owned development banks emphasize their role in reducing capital constraints and fostering productive investment; detractors point out that they may benefit politically connected capitalists or bail out ... -
What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda
(2014-01-13)During the past five decades, scholars have studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ) – the multidivisional firm’s central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature ... -
WHAT DRIVES CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE? THE ROLE OF NATION-LEVEL INSTITUTIONS
(2012-11-02)Based on Whitley's "National Business Systems" (NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance ... -
What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks?
(2011)We use proprietary data from a major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking ... -
What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?
(2011)A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm ... -
What Has Changed? The Impact of COVID Pandemic on the Technology and Innovation Management Research Agenda
(Wiley, 2020-12)Whereas the pandemic has tested the agility and resilience of organizations, it forces a deeper look at the assumptions underlying theoretical frameworks that guide managerial decisions and organizational practices. In ... -
What Is Privacy Worth?
(University of Chicago Press, 2013)Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision ...