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    • Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation 

      Cox Pahnke, Emily; Wang, Dan; Hallen, Benjamin; McDonald, Rory (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 

      Pons, Vincent; Tricaud, Clémence (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 

      Kim, Jaeho; Wu, Andy (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 

      Barberis, Nicholas; Greenwood, Robin; Jin, Lawrence; Shleifer, Andrei (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 

      Shore, Jesse; Bernstein, Ethan S; Lazer, David (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 

      Di Tella, Rafael M.; Dubra, Juan (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 

      Luca, Michael; Zervas, Georgios (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 

      Becker, Bo; Stromberg, Per (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 

      Boudreau, Kevin; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R; Menietti, Michael E (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 

      Lundholm, Russell; Serafeim, Georgios; Yu, Gwen (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 

      Liang, Hao; Marquis, Christopher G; Sun, Sunny Li (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 

      Lerner, Joshua; Speen, Andrew; Baker, Mark; Leamon, Ann (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 ...
    • Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System 

      Begenau, Juliane Maria; Landvoigt, Tim (2016-08-24)
      How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended ...
    • Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis 

      Becker, Bo; Ivashina, Victoria (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-02)
      By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector ...
    • Financing Innovation 

      Kerr, William Robert; Nanda, Ramana (2014-12-08)
      We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important new findings, questioning ...
    • Financing Risk and Innovation 

      Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017)
      We provide a model of investment into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk―a ...
    • Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery 

      Serafeim, Georgios (2014-01-13)
      Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm’s competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that the most significant impact was on employee morale, followed ...
    • Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes 

      Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Khanna, Tarun; Sevcenko, Victoria (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2023-01)
      Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their ...
    • Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental Innovations in Incumbent Firms 

      Raffaelli, Ryan Leo; Glynn, Mary Ann; Tushman, Michael L. (2017-06-28)
      Why do incumbent firms so frequently reject non-incremental innovations? One reason is due to the firm’s top management team’s (TMT) lack of frame flexibility, i.e., an inability to expand the organization’s categorical ...
    • Food and Drug Administration Guidance Documents and New Medical Devices: The Case of Breast Prostheses 

      Weitzman, Rachel E.; Stern, Ariel; Kramer, Daniel B. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021-01)
      As pressure mounts on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed its review process for novel devices, and budgetary pressures further strain its resources, the critical role of guidance documents in assuring consistent, ...