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Disclosure Practices of Foreign Companies Interacting with U.S. Markets
(2004)
We analyze the disclosure practices of companies as a function of their interaction with the U.S. markets for a group of 794 firms from 24 countries in Asia-Pacific and Europe. Our analysis uses the Transparency and ...
Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings
(2008)
In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of ...
Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members
(2005)
I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. ...
Marginality and Problem Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2009)
We examine who the winners are in science problem solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large
R&D intensive ...
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
(Elsevier, 2009)
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine ...
Market Culture: How Rules Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance
(American Economic Association, 2009)
Many markets encounter difficulty maintaining a thick marketplace because they experience transactions made at dispersed times. To address such problems, many markets try to establish norms concerning when offers can be ...
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
(2007)
Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This paper shows that the standard Utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis answers this question in the ...
Dynamic Scoring: A Back-of-the-Envelope Guide
(2005)
This paper uses the neoclassical growth model to examine the extent to which a tax cut pays for itself through higher economic growth. The model yields simple expressions for the steady-state feedback effect of a tax cut. ...
How to Tie Everyday Work to Strategy
(World Scientific Publishing, 2009)
The paper describes how Harvard Business School's Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) leveraged collective knowledge of its employees in formulating, implementing, and evaluating strategy. The organization was faced with ...
"Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations."
(Academy of Management, 2008)
Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature ...