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Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors
(2014-04-24)
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. ...
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
(2014-01-27)
We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of ...
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case
(2014-01-27)
We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and ...
Mortgage Convexity
(Elsevier, 2014-05-13)
Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to heightened refinancing expectations. ...
Bolstering and Restoring Feelings of Competence via the IKEA Effect
(2012)
We examine the underlying process behind the IKEA effect, which is defined as consumers' willingness to pay more for self-created products than for identical products made by others, and explore the factors that influence ...
Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending
(Elsevier, 2013)
When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the
emotional benefits of spending money on others (prosocial spending) are unleashed when
givers are aware of their positive impact. ...
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 ...
Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-07-18)
Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth and financial stability. Yet, our understanding of the determinants of financial decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation ...
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures
(University of Chicago Press, 2014-05-13)
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level ...
Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment
(American Economic Association, 2014)
This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated experiences with a novel financial product, rainfall index insurance, affect subsequent insurance demand. Using a seven-year panel, we develop three main findings. First, ...