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Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
(American Economic Association, 2016)The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire ... -
CSR as Reputation Insurance: Primum Non Nocere
(2011)We provide a theoretical framework showing how CSR activities can insure a firm against lost reputation in the face of adverse events. We offer evidence for this linkage through a case study and a multi-year analysis of ... -
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-06-06)Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact ... -
Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics
(2014-01-13)Recent calls for greater openness in our private and public innovation systems have particularly urged for more open disclosure and granting of access to intermediate works–early results, algorithms, materials, data and ... -
Curbing adult student attrition: Evidence from a field experiment
(2015-04-06)Roughly 20% of adults in the OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges offer fully government subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting ... -
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
(INFORMS, 2013)Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that ... -
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Cybersecurity Features of Digital Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Product Summaries
(BMJ, 2019-06)Objectives: To more clearly define the landscape of digital medical devices subject to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, this analysis leverages publicly available regulatory documents to characterise the ... -
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
(Elsevier, 2013-11-25)Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls ... -
Cynicism in Negotiation: When Communication Increases Buyers’ Skepticism
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014-05)The economic literature on negotiation shows that strategic concerns can be a barrier to agreement, even when the buyer values the good more than the seller. Yet behavioral research demonstrates that human interaction can ... -
Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews
(SAGE Publications, 2013)Many professionals, from auditors and lawyers, to clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of ... -
The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote ... -
Deals in the Time of Pandemic
(2021-06)The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the period between signing and closing in M&A transactions. Transactional planners heavily negotiate the provisions that govern the behavior of the parties during this ... -
Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective
(2014-01-13)This working paper examines the evolution of concepts of the responsibility of business in a historical and global perspective. It shows that from the nineteenth century American, European, Japanese, Indian and other ... -
Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-06)In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves ... -
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
(2014-11-06)We explore how individuals make decisions in an operations management setting when there is information asymmetry between the firm and an outside investor. A common assumption in the signaling game literature is that beliefs ... -
Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 - 1974)
(2017-03-21)American Honda was founded in 1959 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company to facilitate sales and distribution in the United States. The details of American Honda’s early history have long served as evidence ... -
Decoding Inside Information
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading ... -
Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain
(2017-11-07)How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized ... -
Delayed-response strategies in repeated games with observation lags
(Elsevier BV, 2014)We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that ...