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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-07-18)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to ... -
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(2012-08-08)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to ... -
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
(Elsevier, 2014-07-18)In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). ... -
Incorporating Field Data into Archival Research
(Wiley, 2014-05-04)I explore the use of field data in conjunction with archival evidence by examining Iliev, Miller, and Roth's (2014) analysis of an amendment to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This regulatory amendment allowed depositary ... -
Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time
(2014-01-27)We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work setting increases wait times due to additional services ... -
Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-01)Improving the political participation of immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political ... -
Individual Experience of Positive and Negative Growth is Asymmetric: Global Evidence from Subjective Well-being Data
(2014-12-08)Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in macroeconomic growth? Using subjective well-being measures across three large data sets, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are ... -
Individuals’ Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii
(2012)Human cadavers are crucial to numerous aspects of health care, including initial and continuing training of medical doctors and advancement of medical research. Concerns have periodically been raised about the limited ... -
Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-03)When explaining others' behaviors, achievements, and failures, it is common for people to attribute too much influence to disposition and too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this ... -
Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
(Elsevier BV, 2015-11)OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively ... -
Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?
(Elsevier, 2013)Does providing information about a product affect the impact of price subsidies on purchases of new or unfamiliar products? This question is particularly relevant for the introduction of health products in developing ... -
Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits
(Elsevier, 2014)We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. ... -
Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations
(2014)This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions ... -
Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes
(2015-11-03)Building on recent research in social psychology, this paper analyzes the link between the precision of initial cash offers and M&A outcomes. About one-half of the offers are made at the precision of one or five dollars ... -
Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions
(2015-07-21)This paper discusses several challenges in designing field experiments to better understand how organizational and institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the ... -
Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources
(INFORMS, 2017-04-04)Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing ... -
Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology
(Elsevier BV, 2017-01)This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, ... -
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
(2013-05-21)We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative ... -
Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence
(2017-02-07)We provide new evidence on the agency theory of corporate tax avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in ... -
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets
(2014-11-06)We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of ...