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    • Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings 

      Luca, Michael; Smith, Jonathan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      How do rankings affect demand? This paper investigates the impact of college rankings, and the visibility of those rankings, on students' application decisions. Using natural experiments from U.S. News and World Report ...
    • A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying 

      Donnelly, Grant E.; Guge, Paige M.; Howell, Ryan T.; John, Leslie (SAGE Publications, 2021-10-29)
      Many governments have introduced sugary-drink excise taxes to reduce purchasing and consumption of such drinks; however, they do not typically stipulate how such taxes should be communicated at the point of purchase. ...
    • Saving More to Borrow Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile 

      Kast, Felipe; Pomeranz, Dina Deborah (2014-01-13)
      Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that the inability to save contributes to this indebtedness. Access to free savings accounts substantially decreases ...
    • Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador 

      Ashraf, Nava; Aycinena, Diego; Martinez A., Claudia; Yang, Dean (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-11-03)
      While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance ...
    • Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology 

      Gross, Daniel Pincus (2016-03-24)
      Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that lags in technology diffusion arise along two distinct margins: scale and scope. Though tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the ...
    • Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms 

      Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Haas, Martine R. (Wiley, 2018-04-01)
      How does the organization of patenting activity affect a firm’s patenting outcomes? We investigate how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent ...
    • Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing 

      Marquis, Christopher; Toffel, Michael Wayne; Zhou, Yanhua (INFORMS, 2016)
      Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and ...
    • Search Diversion and Platform Competition 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Jullien, Bruno (Elsevier, 2014)
      Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads ...
    • The Search for Benchmarks: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom? 

      Lee, Charles M.C.; Ma, Paul; Wang, Changyi Chang-Yi (2014-11-06)
      We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes used in economic benchmarking. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices ...
    • Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches 

      Lee., Charles M.C.; Ma, Paul; Wang, Changyi Chang-Yi (Elsevier, 2015)
      Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that ...
    • Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S. 

      Cheng, Beiting; Srinivasan, Suraj; Yu, Gwen (2013-01-24)
      We study securities litigation risk faced by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar ...
    • Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs 

      Benmelech, Effi; Dlugosz, Jennifer; Ivashina, Victoria (Elsevier, 2013-11-25)
      In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that ...
    • Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics 

      Åstebro, Thomas; Herz, Holger; Nanda, Ramana; Weber, Roberto A. (American Economic Association, 2014-08)
      There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard ...
    • Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance 

      Green, Paul Isaac; Gino, Francesca; Staats, Bradley R. (2017-03-21)
      In this paper, we examine how connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance, and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleague) can serve as an important source of ...
    • Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing 

      Weinzierl, Matthew Charles (2014-12-08)
      The price indexation of Social Security bene.t payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees ...
    • Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments 

      Brown, Jennifer; Minor, Dylan Blu (2014)
      We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the stronger player wins. We present a two-stage model that yields the following main results: (1) a shadow ...
    • Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production 

      Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie X. (American Economic Association, 2018-05-01)
      Assessing productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research and policy debate. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to productivity spillovers; however, an alternative, ...
    • Selective Regulator Decoupling and Organizations’ Strategic Responses 

      Heese, Jonas; Krishnan, Ranjani; Moers, Frank (Academy of Management, 2016-12)
      Organizations often respond to institutional pressures by symbolically adopting policies and procedures but decoupling them from actual practice. Literature has examined why organizations decouple from regulatory pressures. ...
    • Self-Interest: The Economist’s Straitjacket 

      Simons, Robert L. (2015-11-04)
      This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists ...
    • The Self-presentational Consequences of Upholding One’s Stance in Spite of the Evidence 

      John, Leslie; Jeong, Martha; Gino, Francesca; Huang, Laura (Elsevier BV, 2019-09)
      Five studies explore the self-presentational consequences of refusing to “back down” – that is, upholding a stance despite evidence of its inaccuracy. Using data from an entrepreneurial pitch competition, Study 1 shows ...