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    • Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation 

      Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco Emanuele (2018-08-01)
      We study whether economic integration fosters the process of democratization and the channels through which this might happen. Our analysis is based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument ...
    • Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management 

      Stein, Luke C.D.; Wang, Changyi Chang-Yi (2016-03-30)
      In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms report more ...
    • Economics Education and Greed 

      Wang, Long; Malhotra, Deepak; Murnighan, J. Keith (Academy of Management, 2011-12)
      The recent financial crisis, and repeated corporate scandals, raise serious questions about whether a business school education contributes to what some have described as a culture of greed. The dominance of economic-related ...
    • The Effect of Background Music in Shark Documentaries on Viewers' Perceptions of Sharks 

      Nosal, Andrew P.; Keenan, Elizabeth A.; Hastings, Philip A.; Gneezy, Ayelet (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Despite the ongoing need for shark conservation and management, prevailing negative sentiments marginalize these animals and legitimize permissive exploitation. These negative attitudes arise from an instinctive, yet ...
    • The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial 

      John, Leslie; Troxel, Andrea B.; Yancy, William S.; Friedman, Joelle; Zhu, Jingsan; Yang, Lin; Galvin, Robert; Miller-Kovach, Karen; Halpern, Scott D.; Loewenstein, George; Volpp, Kevin (SAGE Publications, 2018-01)
      Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally-available weight management program. Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: ...
    • The Effect of Dividends on Consumption 

      Nagel, Stefan; Wurgler, Jeffrey.; Baker, Malcolm (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
    • The Effect of Graphic Warnings on Sugary-Drink Purchasing 

      Donnelly, Grant E.; Zatz, Laura Y.; Svirsky, Dan; John, Leslie (SAGE Publications, 2018-06-18)
      Governments have proposed text warning labels to decrease consumption of sugary drinks – a contributor to chronic diseases like diabetes. However, they may be less effective than more evocative, graphic warning labels. We ...
    • The Effect of Price on Firm Reputation 

      Luca, Michael; Reshef, Oren (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-07)
      Although a business’s reputation can affect its pricing, prices can also affect its reputation. To explore the effect of prices on reputation, we investigate daily data on menu prices and online ratings from a large rating ...
    • The Effect of Prohibiting Deal Protection in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from the United Kingdom 

      Restrepo, Fernán; Subramanian, Guhan (University of Chicago Press, 2017-02)
      Since 2011, the UK has prohibited all deal protections—including termination fees—in M&A deals. Prior to 2011, the UK permitted termination fees up to 1% of deal value and there was no prohibition on other protection ...
    • The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions 

      Baker, Malcolm P.; Pan, Xin; Wurgler, Jeffrey (Elsevier, 2012)
      Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An offer's probability of acceptance ...
    • The Effect of Retaliation Costs on Employee Whistleblowing 

      Heese, Jonas; Pérez-Cavazos, Gerardo (Elsevier BV, 2021-04)
      We use large increases in unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to study the effects of expected retaliation costs on employee whistleblowing. Increases in UI benefits reduce the costs that arise from a job loss, one of the ...
    • The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around: A Randomized Field Study 

      Tucker, Anita Carson; Singer, Sara Jean (2014-07-18)
      Management-By-Walking-Around (MBWA) is a widely adopted technique in hospitals that involves senior managers directly observing frontline work. However, few studies have rigorously examined its impact on organizational ...
    • Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence 

      Dai, Weijia (Daisy); Luca, Michael (2017-01-23)
      Paid search has become an increasingly common form of advertising, comprising about half of all online advertising expenditures. To shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field ...
    • The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior 

      Baloria, Vishal P.; Heese, Jonas (Elsevier BV, 2018-07)
      The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the ...
    • The Effects of Quota Frequency on Sales Force Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment 

      Chung, Doug Jin; Narayandas, Das (2017-01-18)
      We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along with a control group that did ...
    • Eliminating Unintended Bias in Personalized Policies Using Bias-Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT) 

      Ascarza, Eva; Israeli, Ayelet (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022-03-08)
      <p>An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to ...
    • The Emergence of 'Us and Them' in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations 

      Gray, Kurt; Rand, David G.; Ert, Eyal; Lewis, Kevin; Hershman, Steve; Norton, Michael Irwin (SAGE Publications, 2014)
      Psychological explanations of group genesis often require population heterogeneity in identity or other characteristics, whether deep (e.g., religion) or superficial (e.g., eye color). We use game-theoretical agent-based ...
    • Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem 

      Quoidbach, Jordi; Gruber, June; Mikolajczak, Moira; Kogan, Alexsandr; Kotsou, Ilios; Norton, Michael Irwin (American Psychological Association, 2014-11-25)
      Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce—and demonstrate the benefits of—emodiversity: the variety and relative ...
    • Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm 

      Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard; Seegert, Nathan; Stanton, Christopher (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-12)
      What are the long-term consequences of compensation changes? Using data from an inbound sales call center, we study employee responses to a compensation change that ultimately reduced take-home pay by 7% for the average ...
    • Enabling Versus Controlling 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, Julian (2015-07-21)
      In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision of their services to clients. We study the tradeoffs that arise in choosing between a traditional mode (where ...