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    • Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement 

      Heese, Jonas (2015-01-09)
      I examine whether political influence by the government as a response to voters’ interest in employment conditions is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large ...
    • Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies 

      Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Inkpen, Andrew; Musacchio, Aldo; Ramaswamy, Kannan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
      The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of ...
    • The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest 

      Hanson, Samuel Gregory; Sunderam, Aditya Vikram (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-10-07)
      We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short interest, we document ...
    • The Growth of Finance 

      Greenwood, Robin; Scharfstein, David (American Economic Association, 2013)
      The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the ...
    • Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations 

      Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William (University of Chicago Press, 2018-08)
      We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product ...
    • Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments 

      Kouchaki, M.; Oveis, C.; Gino, Francesca (American Psychological Association, 2014-10-28)
      The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism ...
    • De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution 

      Lockwood, Benjamin B; Weinzierl, Matthew Charles (Elsevier, 2015)
      The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption ...
    • Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing 

      Hussam, Reshmaan Nahar; Rabbani, Atonu; Reggiani, Giovanni; Rigol, Natalia (2017-09-21)
      Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. ...
    • Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths 

      Luca, Michael; Malhotra, Deepak; Poliquin, Christopher William (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017)
      Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly ...
    • Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking 

      Schroeder, Juliana; Risen, Jane; Gino, Francesca; Norton, Michael Irwin (2014-12-09)
      Humans use subtle sources of information—like nonverbal behavior—to determine whether to act cooperatively or antagonistically when they negotiate. Handshakes are particularly consequential nonverbal gestures in negotiations ...
    • Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility 

      Carlana, Michela; Tabellini, Marco Emanuele (2018-08-01)
      In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic ...
    • Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco 

      Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Parienté, William; Pons, Vincent (American Economic Association, 2012-11-01)
      Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not ...
    • Health App Policy: International Comparison of Nine Countries’ Approaches 

      Essén, Anna; Stern, Ariel; Haase, Christoffer Bjerre; Car, Josip; Greaves, Felix; Paparova, Dragana; Vandeput, Steven; Wehrens, Rik; Bates, David W. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-03-18)
      An abundant and growing supply of digital health applications (apps) exists in the commercial tech-sector, which can be bewildering for clinicians, patients, and payers. A growing challenge for the health care system is ...
    • Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences 

      Alfaro, Laura; Faia, Ester; Lamersdorf, Nora; Saidi, Farzad (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-09)
      Social preferences facilitate the internalization of health externalities, for example, by reducing mobility during a pandemic. We test this hypothesis using mobility data from 258 cities worldwide alongside experimentally ...
    • Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care 

      Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John (MIT Press - Journals, 2020-07)
      We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals closer to universities ...
    • Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations 

      Fisher, Colin M.; Pillemer, Julianna; Amabile, Teresa M. (2014-01-13)
      Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in project work and how that process affects the success of a helping episode, as perceived by help-givers and/or ...
    • Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments 

      Sebenius, James Kimble; Green, Laurence Alexander (2014-12-08)
      Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing ...
    • Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War 

      Sebenius, James Kimble; Kogan, Eugene B (2017-01-20)
      President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. ...
    • Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa 

      Sebenius, James Kimble; Burns, R. Nicholas; Mnookin, Robert H.; Green, Laurence Alexander (2017-01-20)
      In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to accede to black majority rule. Conducted ...
    • Here's a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to Corruption 

      Torfason, Magnus Thor; Flynn, Francis J.; Kupor, Daniella (2012-08-31)
      We investigated the link between tipping, an altruistic act, and bribery, an immoral act. We found a positive relationship between these two seemingly unrelated behaviors, using archival cross-national data for 32 countries, ...