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Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS
(American Accounting Association, 2014-05-13)If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered ... -
Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-09)Digital technologies have led to the emergence of many platforms in our economy today. In certain platform networks, buyers in one market purchase services from providers in many other markets, whereas in others, buyers ... -
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration
(2015-07-21)The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a powerful driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and ... -
New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange
(American Economic Association, 2012-05)The growth of kidney exchange presents new challenges for the design of kidney exchange clearinghouses. The players now include directors of transplant centers, who see sets of patient-donor pairs, and can choose to reveal ... -
The New Empirical Economics of Management
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP ... -
The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators
(American Economic Association, 2013)The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent ... -
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery
(Elsevier, 2014-11-03)A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with ... -
No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax
(2013-01-23)Tax evasion generates billions of dollars of losses in government revenue and creates large distortions, especially in developing countries. A growing, mostly theoretical literature argues that information flows are central ... -
Non-audit services and financial reporting quality: evidence from 1978 to 1980
(2013)We provide evidence for the long-standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978 to 1980. Using this earlier setting, ... -
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
(2013-05-21)Many organisations, including corporations and governments, wish to encourage charitable giving, and offer incentives for their employees, customers and citizens to do so. The most common of these incentives is a match ... -
Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
(University of Chicago Press, 2023-02-01)Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive U.S. nonprofit data drawn from ... -
Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney-Paired Donation-Revisited
(Wiley, 2011-04-26)Since 2008, kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of nondirected donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed ... -
A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition
(2015-11-04)The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back ... -
The Not-So-Common-Wealth of Australia: Evidence for a Cross-Cultural Desire for a More Equal Distribution of Wealth
(2014)Recent evidence suggests that Americans underestimate wealth inequality in the United States and favor a more equal wealth distribution (Norton & Ariely, 2011). Does this pattern reflect ideological dynamics unique to the ... -
The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations
(2012-12-06)Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and allocation of resources. We investigate whether novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a ... -
Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017)Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment ... -
Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior
(INFORMS, 2014)In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation ... -
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
(Elsevier BV, 2021-03)We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate ... -
Online MAP Enforcement: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2018-09)This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in dealer agreements. MAP is a ... -
Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2018-11)We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory over a finite selling season. As common in practice, we assume the demand ...