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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-04)In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. ... -
International Data on Measuring Management Practices
(American Economic Association, 2016-05)We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and organizational practices. We contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open-ended questions" (e.g., World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (e.g., ... -
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
(De Gruyter, 2013)The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international ... -
The Interrelationships Between Brand and Channel Choice
(Springer, 2014)We propose a framework for the joint study of the consumer's decision of where to buy and what to buy. The framework is rooted in utility theory where the utility is for a particular channel/brand combination. The framework ... -
Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions*
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020-07-15)This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on ... -
Introduction to Argentine Exceptionalism
(Springer Nature, 2018-12)This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in the world at the ... -
Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT
(American Economic Association, 2016-05)We document that the Bay Area rose from 4% of all successful US patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even ... -
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
(2017-06-28)Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile ... -
Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity
(Elsevier BV, 2022-01)Using previously unexplored custodial data, we examine alternative investment vehicles (AVs) in private equity (PE) funds over the last four decades. By 2017, AVs reached 40% of all PE commitments. Average AV performance ... -
Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-10-24)We study incentives to invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, ... -
Investors as Stewards of the Commons?
(Wiley, 2018-06)Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of ... -
IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property
(2012-08-07)Distributed value creation can boost the overall value created, but may create serious challenges for capturing value. In order to draw in external contributors, an innovator often waives legal exclusion rights or reveals ... -
iPosture: The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects our Behavior
(2013-05-21)We examined whether incidental body posture, prompted by working on electronic devices of different sizes, affects power-related behaviors. Grounded in research showing that adopting expansive body postures increases ... -
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice
(Elsevier BV, 2020-10)Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015, we show that mutual fund managers gather information on a very particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance ... -
Is a Nuclear Deal with Iran Possible? An Analytical Framework for the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
(2012)Varied diplomatic approaches by multiple negotiators over several years have failed to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran. Mutual hostility, misperception, and flawed diplomacy may be responsible. Yet, more fundamentally, ... -
Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance ... -
Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
(2015-04-14)A central prediction of information economics is that market forces can lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products, yet little voluntary disclosure is observed in the field. In ... -
Is the SEC captured? Evidence from comment-letter reviews
(2017-06-28)SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) ... -
Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)We show that the credit quality of corporate debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing ... -
It doesn’t hurt to ask: Question-asking increases liking.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2017)Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate ...