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作者：Chen, Guoli; Crossland, Craig; Huang, Sterling
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Notre Dame; Singapore Management University
摘要：Mortality salience-the awareness of the inevitability of death-is often traumatic. However, it can also be associated with a range of positive, self-transcendent cognitive responses, such as a greater desire to help others, contribute to society, and make a more meaningful contribution in one's life and career. In this study, we provide evidence of a link between chief executive officer (CEO) mortality salience-triggered by the death of a director at the same firm-and a subsequent increase in ...
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作者：Christensen, Hans B.; Floyd, Eric; Maffett, Mark
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：We examine the effect of charge-price-transparency regulation (PTR)-a common policy solution intended to curb rising healthcare costs-on hospitals' prices. We find that, although PTR does not affect payments or consumer search, it does cause hospitals to reduce charges by approximately 5%. The reputational costs of perceived overcharging appear to be one impetus for the reduction in charges, suggesting that certain stakeholders who are able to impose costs on hospitals are unaware that hospita...
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作者：Stein, Clifford; Van-Anh Truong; Wang, Xinshang
作者单位：Columbia University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：We study a fundamental model of resource allocation in which a finite number of resources must be assigned in an online manner to a heterogeneous stream of customers. The customers arrive randomly over time according to known stochastic processes. Each customer requires a specific amount of capacity and has a specific preference for each of the resources with some resources being feasible for the customer and some not. The system must find a feasible assignment of each customer to a resource o...
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作者：Xiao, Ping; Xiao, Ruli; Liang, Yitian (Sky); Chen, Xinlei (Jack); Lu, Wei
作者单位：Deakin University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Tsinghua University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS
摘要：Rural consumers may face not only the challenge of affordability but also the problem of limited accessibility. Can a government's subsidy program effectively address these issues? This paper examines the impact of a large-scale subsidy program, Household electrical appliances going to the countryside, offered by the Chinese government. The government regulation imposes a price subsidy combined with a price ceiling on products in the program. We consider two effects of the subsidy: the retail ...
