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Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-03)We consider the product-ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers.” They form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial ... -
Legislating Stock Prices
(Elsevier, 2013-10-03)We demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on stock prices. Exploiting the voting record of legislators whose constituents are the affected industries, we show that the votes of these ... -
Legislating Stock Prices
(2012-08-07)In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is understood that the government and firms have an important relationship, it remains difficult ... -
Lessons from the Impact of Price Regulation on the Pricing of Anticancer Drugs in Germany
(Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2020-07-01)Worldwide spending on prescription drugs has increased dramatically in recent years. Although this increase has been particularly pronounced in the U.S., it remains largely unaddressed there. In Europe, however, different ... -
Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets
(2017-06-28)This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in emerging markets since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators ... -
Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ”Behind the Table” Challenges
(2012-07-25)A long analytic tradition explores the challenge of productively synchronizing "internal" with "external" negotiations, especially focusing on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at ... -
Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance
(2012-07-13)In this paper we document the extent and reach of state capitalism around the world and explore its economic implications. We focus on governmental provision of capital to corporations – either equity or debt – as a defining ... -
Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(2012-09-04)Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has witnessed dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of its success has been attributed to overcoming the challenges of ... -
License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior
(INFORMS, 2013-09-03)While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness ... -
License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior
(2012-09-10)While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness ... -
Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency
(2014-11-07)A firm’s costs are typically tightly-guarded secrets. However, across a field study and six laboratory experiments we identify when and why firms benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field ... -
Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran
(2014)While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary ... -
The Limits of Inconspicuous Incentives
(Elsevier BV, 2022-09)Managers and policymakers regularly rely on incentives to encourage valued behaviors. While incentives are often successful, there are also notable and surprising examples of their ineffectiveness. Why? We propose a ... -
Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules
(2014-12-08)We examine the lobbying behavior of state governments in the development of recently issued public pension accounting standards GASB 67 and 68. Consistent with opportunistic motivations, we find that states’ opposition to ... -
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
(2013-05-31)We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent ... -
Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms
(2016-08-22)Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ... -
The Logic of Agglomeration
(2015-11-04)This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework ... -
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals
(INFORMS, 2012-08-02)We investigate the role of workgroup sex and race composition on the career mobility of professionals in "up-or-out" organizations. We develop a nuanced perspective on the potential career mobility effects of workgroup ... -
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity Among Professionals
(2012-07-13)We investigate the role of workgroup sex and race composition on the career mobility of professionals in ―up-or-out‖ organizations. We develop a nuanced perspective on the potential career mobility effects of workgroup ... -
Lords of the Harvest: Third-party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms
(Academy of Management, 2013)Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally ...