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    • The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension 

      Cole, Shawn; Fernando, Asanga Nilesh (2012-12-06)
      Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they might serve to limit ...
    • The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection 

      Minor, Dylan Blu (2015-08-31)
      We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is used by managers to protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We ...
    • The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers 

      Berman, Ron; Israeli, Ayelet (INFORMS, 2022-11)
      Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more ...
    • The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering 

      Hanson, Samuel; Sunderam, Adi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2012)
      Nonparametric estimators of treatment effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of nonparametric ...
    • Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis 

      Huang, Karen; Bernhard, Regan M.; Barak-Corren, Netta; Bazerman, Max; Greene, Joshua (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021-01)
      The COVID-19 crisis has forced healthcare professionals to make tragic decisions concerning which patients to save. Furthermore, The COVID-19 crisis has foregrounded the influence of self-serving bias in debates on how to ...
    • Venture Capital Booms and Start-Up Financing 

      Janeway, William H.; Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew (Annual Reviews, 2021-11-01)
      We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital (VC) booms and start-up financing, focusing on three broad areas. First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the VC asset class, ...
    • Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges 

      Kaplan, Steven N.; Lerner, Joshua (2016-08-22)
      This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better.
    • Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn 

      Lerner, Joshua; Nanda, Ramana (American Economic Association, 2020-08-01)
      Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture ...
    • Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass 

      Gino, Francesca; Galinsky, Adam D. (Elsevier, 2012)
      In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who engages in selfish or dishonest behavior leads people to vicariously justify the actions ...
    • Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case 

      Lagerstrom, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D.; Aier, Stephan (2014-01-27)
      We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of ...
    • Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case 

      Lagerstrom, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D.; Dreyfus, David (2014-01-27)
      We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and ...
    • Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case 

      Lagerström, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D. (2015)
      In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with ...
    • Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments 

      Healy, Paul; Serafeim, Georgios (American Accounting Association, 2019-11-01)
      Concerns about high rates of government corruption in resource rich countries have led transparency advocates to urge oil and gas firms to disclose payments to host governments for natural resources. Transparency, they ...
    • Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya 

      Marx, Benjamin; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-04-06)
      In a large-scale randomized experiment implemented with Kenya’s Electoral Commission, text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted electoral participation. However, the messages also decreased trust in electoral ...
    • Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France 

      BRACONNIER, CÉLINE; DORMAGEN, JEAN-YVES; Pons, Vincent (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-08)
      A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. ...
    • Vulnerable Banks 

      Greenwood, Robin Marc; Landier, Augustin; Thesmar, David (Elsevier, 2014-11-25)
      We present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers ...
    • Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation 

      McGinn, Kathleen L.; Milkman, Katherine L.; Noth, Markus (Elsevier, 2012)
      We study the framing effects of communication on payoffs in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference-revealing, it may ...
    • Welfare Payments and Crime 

      Foley, C. Fritz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2011)
      Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase reflects an increase in crimes that are likely to ...
    • A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy 

      Weinzierl, Matthew Charles (2017-01-23)
      I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the ...
    • What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition 

      Steiner, Jeffrey; Amabile, Teresa (Elsevier BV, 2022-07)
      Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend ...