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Tales of Two Motives: Disclosure and Concealment
(Elsevier BV, 2020-02)We posit that the desire to disclose personal information, and the desire to conceal it, are related yet distinct psychological motives. People often wish to conceal information, such as embarrassing aspects of the self. ... -
Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance
(2017-06-28)How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can increase their service ... -
Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investmant Abroad
(University of Chicago Press, 2011-12)Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes ... -
Taxation, Corruption, and Growth
(Elsevier, 2016)We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire ... -
Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in Information and Communication Technology Equipment
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-04)Using patent data from 1976 to 2010 as indicators of inventive activity, we determine the concentration level of where inventive ideas originate and then examine how and why those concentrations change over time. The ... -
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation
(2016)We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected ... -
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
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Theory of Machine: When Do People Rely on Algorithms?
(2017-03-28)Algorithms--scripts for mathematical calculations--are powerful. Even though algorithms often outperform human judgment, people resist allowing a numerical formula to make decisions for them (Dawes, 1979). Nevertheless, ... -
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
(2013-01-23)In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico’s largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has ... -
Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks
(2015-02-13)People experience a threat to their moral self-concept in the face of discrepancies between their moral values and their unethical behavior. We theorize that people’s need to restore their view of themselves as moral ... -
Thin Political Markets: The Soft Underbelly of Capitalism
(2015)"Thin political markets" are the processes through which some of the most complex and critical institutions of our capitalist system are determined—e.g., our accounting-standards infrastructure. In thin political markets, ... -
Think global, act local: Preserving the global commons
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Preserving global public goods, such as the planet’s ecosystem, depends on large-scale cooperation, which is difficult to achieve because the standard reciprocity mechanisms weaken in large groups. Here we demonstrate a ... -
Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One’s Influence and Appeal
(2013-07-22)Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals make decisions more or less ... -
Three-Dimensional Blood-Brain Barrier Model for in vitro Studies of Neurovascular Pathology
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Blood–brain barrier (BBB) pathology leads to neurovascular disorders and is an important target for therapies. However, the study of BBB pathology is difficult in the absence of models that are simple and relevant. In vivo ... -
The Ties that Bind: Railroad Gauge Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S.
(2017-01-17)Technology standards are pervasive in the modern economy, and a target for public and private investments, yet evidence on their economic importance is scarce. I study the conversion of 13,000 miles of railroad track in ... -
Time, Money, and Morality
(SAGE Publications, 2013-11-14)Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious ... -
Tommy Koh and the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multi-Front "Negotiation Campaign"
(2015-01-09)Complex, multiparty negotiations are often analyzed as principals negotiating through agents, as two-level games (Putnam 1988), or in coalitional terms. The relatively new concept of a "multi-front negotiation campaign" ... -
Toward a Theory of Extended Contact: The Incentives and Opportunities for Bridging Across Network Communities
(INFORMS, 2012)This study investigates the determinants of bridging ties within networks of interconnected firms. Bridging ties are defined as nonredundant connections between firms located in different network communities. We highlight ... -
Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation
(Society of American Archivists, 2019-06)Digital preservation relies on technological infrastructure (information and communication technology, ICT) that has considerable negative environmental impacts, which in turn threaten the very organizations tasked with ...