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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 ... -
"I’ll Have One of Each": How Separating Rewards into (Meaningless) Categories Increases Motivation
(American Psychological Association, 2012-12-07)We propose that separating rewards into categories can increase motivation, even when those categories are meaningless. Across six experiments, people were more motivated to obtain one reward from one category and another ... -
J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)
(American Psychological Association, 2013-08-05)When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: ... -
Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Diversification in New Distant Knowledge Integration
(Wiley, 2019-10-15)We consider the role of individual‐level diversification as a mechanism through which skilled researchers engage in successful exploration—recognizing and integrating new knowledge external to one's domains of expertise. ... -
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
(American Economic Association, 2010)This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market ... -
Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions
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Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program
(2012-07-16)Service organizations frequently implement improvement programs to increase quality. These programs often rely on employees’ suggestions about improvement opportunities. Organizations face a trade-off with such ...