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Evolution of land distribution in West Bengal 1967–2004: Role of land reform and demographic changes
(Elsevier BV, 2014)This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. ... -
Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)Decisions involving charitable giving often occur under the shadow of risk. A common finding is that potential donors give less when there is greater risk that their donation will have less impact. While this behavior could ... -
Executive Compensation and Misconduct: Environmental Harm
(2016-02-23)We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and misconduct using the setting of environmental harm. We find that high powered executive compensation can increase the odds of environmental law-breaking by ... -
Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)We analyze time series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with ... -
Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach
(American Accounting Association, 2021-04-08)This study provides the first large-scale study of the performance of expected-return proxies (ERPs) internationally. Analyst-forecast-based ICCs are sparsely populated and not robustly associated with future returns. ... -
Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry
(2017-03-21)This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th Century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer ... -
Exploring the duality between product and organizational architectures: A test of the “mirroring” hypothesis
(Elsevier BV, 2012)A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case
(2017-03-21)Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity, for predicting defects has been given a lot of attention over the years and proven very useful. However, the few studies looking at software architecture and ... -
Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation
(Academy of Management, 2015-10)This study investigates the impact of early relationships on innovation at entrepreneurial firms. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms ... -
Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence From Runoffs With Two or Three Candidates
(The Econometric Society, 2018)In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by more than 12.5 percent ... -
Extending the role of headquarters beyond the firm boundary: entrepreneurial alliance innovation
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-08-14)Prior research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) characteristics identifies the impact of CHQ location and composition on the innovation outcomes of internal subsidiaries. However, given that external strategic alliances ... -
Extrapolation and bubbles
(Elsevier BV, 2018-08)We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. ... -
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
(2014-04-24)Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the network structure of 16-person organizations, we investigate how an organization’s network structure shapes performance in ... -
Fairness and Redistribution: Comment
(American Economic Association, 2013)In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)—henceforth, AA—argued that a preference for fairness could lead two identical societies to choose different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: ... -
Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud
(INFORMS, 2015-09-29)Consumer reviews are now part of everyday decision making. Yet, the credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. ... -
Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts
(2012)We use an important legal event to examine the effect of managerial fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 legal ruling changed corporate directors’ fiduciary duties in Delaware firms, limiting managers’ incentives ... -
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
(2012-09-04)Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads to declining performance. Empirical research demonstrates that individuals in tournament-type contests perform less well on average ... -
FIN around the world: the contribution of financing activity to profitability
(2012-09-10)We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm’s return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing ... -
Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions
(2014-11-06)We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small ... -
Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street
(2016-01-06)In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services (“finance patents”), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners ...