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作者：Gee, Laura K.
作者单位：Tufts University
摘要：This paper presents the results from a 2.3-million-person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job-posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by 3.5%. Women have a larger increase in their likelihood of finishing an application than men. Overall, adding this information to a job posting may offer a light-touch way to both increase application rates ...
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作者：Dey, Debabrata; Kim, Antino; Lahiri, Atanu
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Controlling digital piracy has remained a top priority for manufacturers of information goods, as well as for many governments around the world. Among the many forms taken by digital piracy, we focus on an increasingly common one-namely, online piracy-that is facilitated by torrent sites and cyberlockers who bring together consumers of pirated content and its suppliers. Motivated by recent empirical literature that makes a clear distinction between antipiracy efforts that restrict supply of pi...
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作者：Kamali, Michael F.; Tezcan, Tolga; Yildiz, Ozlem
作者单位：University of Rochester; University of London; London Business School; University of Virginia
摘要：We study triage decisions in emergency departments (EDs) and provide a general procedure for determining when to apply provider triage (PT) based on operational and financial considerations using a steady-state, many-server fluid approximation. We then apply the proposed method in the setting of a teaching hospital's ED and obtain closed-form expressions for the range of arrival rates for which PT outperforms the traditional nurse triage economically. We show that the proposed solution methodo...
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作者：Wu, Chenguang (Allen); Bassamboo, Achal; Perry, Ohad
作者单位：Northwestern University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Northwestern University
摘要：Motivated by recent empirical evidence, we consider a large service system in which the patience time of each customer depends on his service requirement. Our goal is to study the impact of such dependence on key performance measures, such as expected waiting times and average queue length, as well as on optimal capacity decisions. Since the dependence structure renders exact analysis intractable, we employ a stationary fluid approximation that is based on the entire joint distribution of the ...
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作者：Cassar, Lea
作者单位：University of Cologne
摘要：Many jobs are connected to a prosocial mission-namely, to a social purpose beyond profit maximization. I use three laboratory experiments to investigate if employers can use the mission to economize on monetary incentives. In my first experiment, I exogenously vary whether the agents' effort generates a donation to a charity of their choice (matched mission), generates a donation to a charity chosen by another subject (random mission), or generates no donation (no mission). I find that the mis...
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作者：Gill, David; Kissova, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, Victoria
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Tongji University
摘要：Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion, symbolic awards, and educational achievement depend on the rank of individuals in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever organizations use rank-order relative-performance evaluation, people receive feedback about their rank. Using a real-effort experiment, we aim to discover whether people respond to the specific rank that they achieve. In particular, we leverage random variation in the allocation of rank am...
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作者：Bandi, Chaithanya; Trichakis, Nikolaos; Vayanos, Phebe
作者单位：Northwestern University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Southern California; University of Southern California; University of Southern California
摘要：In this paper, we study systems that allocate different types of scarce resources to heterogeneous allocatees based on predetermined priority rules-the U.S. deceased-donor kidney allocation system or the public housing program. We tackle the problem of estimating the wait time of an allocatee who possesses incomplete system information with regard, for example, to his relative priority, other allocatees' preferences, and resource availability. We model such systems as multiclass, multiserver q...
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作者：Merrill, Craig B.; Nadauld, Taylor D.; Strahan, Philip E.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Brigham Young University; Boston College; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Structured finance boomed during the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Highly rated, structured securities offered higher yield than other similarly rated bonds because of their concentration of systematic risk, but regulatory capital requirements did not account for this risk. As a result, regulated entities facing capital constraints had an incentive to invest in them. We show that life insurance companies exposed to unrealized losses from low interest rates in the early 2000s increased t...
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作者：Wang, Teng
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA
摘要：Exploiting the heterogeneity in legal constraints on local bank employees' mobility, I show that access to local information influences banks' modes of expansion. As restrictions on interbank labor mobility are relaxed, banks entering a new market establish branches directly instead of acquiring incumbent branches, resulting in a shift of composition of entrants. The treatment effect is strengthened when information asymmetries between local banks and entrants are severe. Furthermore, I find a...
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作者：Kim, Tami; John, Leslie K.; Rogers, Todd; Norton, Michael, I
作者单位：University of Virginia; Harvard University; Harvard University
摘要：Firms are increasingly giving consumers the vote. Eight studies show that, when firms empower consumers to vote, consumers infer a series of implicit promises-even in the absence of explicit promises. We identify three implicit promises to which consumers react negatively when violated: representation (Experiments 1A-1C), consistency (Experiment 2), and nonsuppression (Experiment 3). However, when firms honor these implicit promises, voting can mitigate the disappointment that arises from rece...
