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作者：Staats, Bradley R.; Dai, Hengchen; Hofmann, David; Milkman, Katherine L.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Washington University (WUSTL); University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The design and use of standard processes are foundational recommendations in many operations practices. Yet, given the demonstrated performance benefits of standardized processes, it is surprising that they are often not followed consistently. One way to ensure greater compliance is by electronically monitoring the activities of individuals, although such aggressive monitoring poses the risk of inducing backlash. In the setting of hand hygiene in healthcare, a context where compliance with sta...
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作者：Papanastasiou, Yiangos; Savva, Nicos
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of London; London Business School
摘要：When a product of uncertain quality is first introduced, consumers may choose to strategically delay their purchasing decisions in anticipation of the product reviews of their peers. This paper investigates how the presence of social learning affects the strategic interaction between a dynamic-pricing monopolist and a forward-looking consumer population, within a simple two-period model. Our analysis yields three main insights. First, we find that the presence of social learning has significan...
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作者：Yonker, Scott E.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：I examine the role of geography in the market for CEOs and find that firms hire locally five times more often than expected if geography were irrelevant to the matching process. This local matching bias is widespread and exists even among the largest U.S. firms. Tests reveal that both labor supply and demand influence local matching. Compensation and unforced turnover are lower for local than for nonlocal CEOs, and the compensation of local CEOs depends on local labor market factors, unlike th...
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作者：Mochon, Daniel; Schwartz, Janet; Maroba, Josiase; Patel, Deepak; Ariely, Dan
作者单位：Tulane University; Duke University
摘要：We examine the extended effects of an incentive-based behavioral health intervention designed to improve nutrition behavior. Although the intervention successfully improved the target behavior, less is known about any spillovers, positive or negative, that impacted the program's net benefit. This novel examination presents an opportunity to advance our knowledge of this important question, particularly because many theories predict that balancing behaviors in other domains (e.g., reduced exerc...
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作者：Koch, Andrew
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：I develop fund-level measures of the similarity in trading of mutual fund managers, resulting in the identification of leaders, contemporaneously herding managers, and followers. I find evidence of a persistent group of funds whose trades lead the aggregate trades of the mutual fund industry; these leader funds exhibit strong subsequent performance, consistent with informed trading. By contrast, there is no evidence that managers that trade together, either contemporaneously or with a lag, out...
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作者：Coffman, Katherine B.; Coffman, Lucas C.; Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We demonstrate that widely used measures of antigay sentiment and the size of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but nonrepresentative sample, we compare estimates from the standard methodology of asking sensitive questions to measures from a veiled methodology that precludes inference about an individual but provides population estimates. The veiled method increased s...
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作者：Pondorfer, Andreas; Barsbai, Toman; Schmidt, Ulrich
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW); University of Kiel; University of Johannesburg
摘要：We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women across two distinct island societies in the Pacific: the patrilineal Palawan in the Philippines and the matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but we find evidence for culture-specific stereotypes. Like men in Western societies, Palawan men overestimate women's actual risk aversion. By contrast, Teop men underestimate women...
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作者：Shah, Rachna; Ball, George P.; Netessine, Serguei
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; INSEAD Business School
摘要：While there is overwhelming support for the negative consequences of product recalls, empirical evidence of operational drivers of recalls is almost nonexistent. In this study, we identify product variety (measured as the number of factory installed options), plant variety (measured as the number of models per assembly line in a plant), and capacity utilization as drivers of subsequent manufacturing-related recalls. We examine their individual and joint effects using a unique data set compiled...
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作者：Van den Steena, Eric
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper formally studies these questions, starting from a (functional) definition of strategy as the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices. The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a strategy formulation game, in which such strategy endogenously creates a hierarchy among decisions. With respect to what makes a decision strategic and what makes strategy valuab...
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作者：Krupka, Erin L.; Leider, Stephen; Jiang, Ming
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Using coordination games, we elicit social norms directly for two different games where either an agreement to take the first best action has been reached or where no such agreement exists. We combine the norms data with separately measured choice data to predict changes in behavior. We demonstrate that including social norms as a utility component significantly improves predictive performance. Then we compare social norms to guilt aversion and lying aversion. We estimate that honoring an agre...
