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- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
reality is driven by a fundamental failure in consumer inferences when sellers withhold information. Using a series of laboratory experiments, we implement a simple disclosure game in which senders can verifiably report quality to...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for their own organization. We elaborate the theory by predicting that...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to literature streams on artificial...
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- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:David A. Moss, Jonathan B. Lackow Abstract In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
Ramanna Abstract—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) negatively predict enforcement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
librarians. Using journal impact factors to infer the quality of a faculty members’ publications incurs a high incidence of both Type 1 errors, when we conclude incorrectly that a paper published in a top-5 journal is a high-impact paper,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Rucker Abstract—Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals make decisions more or less...
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Anna Secino
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
age, gender, height, and race. The most provocative, however, is for genetics. Once we know and understand genetic information better, we could, in principle, do a very good job of inferring individuals' innate abilities from the genetic...
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- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
will hopefully engender future (cross-disciplinary) research. The paper considers the challenges of distinguishing actual causal social interactions from other phenomena that may lead to a false inference of causality. Further, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
lags are highly correlated across technologies. The productivity differentials between the state-of-the-art technologies that we consider and the ones they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
important factors in the tax practices of portfolio firms. We infer that PE firms view tax planning as an additional source of economic value in their portfolio firms, where the benefits outweigh any potential reputational costs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
correlation has implications for managerial actions regarding targeting and optimal discounting. We find that retailers can make misleading inferences about the impact of targeted discounts when they ignore cross-category effects in...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
inferences from the mere availability of add-ons, which in turn lead to significant changes in the perceived utility of the base good itself. Specifically, we propose that the improvements supplied by add-ons can be classified as either...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
all-stock deal that is certain to go through, the note defines accouchement effects and describes the fundamental arbitrage relationship between Target and Buyer stock prices. It shows how post-announcement prices may be used to infer the...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
intermediate results or, alternatively, one of closed secrecy around intermediate solutions. We observe the cumulative innovation process in each regime with fine-grained measures and are able to derive inferences with a series of...
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Anna Secino
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
about the history of bioethanol producers. Our findings show that plants founded during the industrial policy program tend to be, in the long run, more productive than those founded before the program was in place. Based on additional analyses and complementary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
that this seemingly suboptimal behavior may in fact confer benefits when factoring in the social context of consumption. Our studies demonstrate that choosing products with more capabilities (i.e., feature-rich products) provides social utility over and above View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short...
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Sean Silverthorne