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作者：Del Carpio, Lucia; Guadalupe, Maria
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：We study the impact of using informational messaging aimed at encouraging women to seek a career in technology and the resulting trade-offs for organizations pursuing recruitment strategies of this kind. Our treatment, implemented through two field experiments among potential applicants to a five-month software-coding program targeted at low-income women in Peru and Mexico, counterbalances the strong male stereotype associated with a career in tech. Although our informational messages substant...
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作者：Menegatti, Mario; Peter, Richard
作者单位：University of Parma; University of Iowa
摘要：We organize and extend findings on the comparative static effects of risk changes on optimal behavior in a unifying expected utility model. We determine restrictions on preferences for clear-cut results. Risk increases of a benefit are compensated by lowering exposure to risk. For risk increases of a cost, the response depends on the order of the risk change. This discrepancy arises because even-order risk increases of a cost raise the riskiness of the payoff distribution, whereas odd-order ri...
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作者：Pattabhiramaiah, Adithya; Overby, Eric; Xu, Lizhen
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Newspapers are increasingly reliant on subscription revenue as advertising spend shifts to online platforms. Many newspapers have implemented paywalls in an attempt to boost subscription revenue. We study whether and how paywalls can help newspapers boost subscription revenue by retaining existing subscribers. Most major newspapers offer free access to paywalled content to subscribers to the print edition, which may help the newspaper retain subscribers by making their subscriptions more valua...
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作者：de Matos, Miguel Godinho; Adjerid, Idris
作者单位：Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：The general data protection regulation (GDPR) represents a dramatic shift in global privacy regulation. We focus on GDPR???s enhanced consumer consent requirements that aim to provide transparent and active elicitation of data allowances. We evaluate the effect of enhanced consent on consumer opt-in behavior and on firm behavior and outcomes after consent is solicited. Utilizing an experiment at a large telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, we find that opt-in for different da...
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作者：Dutta, Haimonti
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：In the era of big data, an important weapon in a machine learning researcher's arsenal is a scalable support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. Traditional algorithms for learning SVMs scale superlinearly with the training set size, which becomes infeasible quickly for large data sets. In recent years, scalable algorithms have been designed which study the primal or dual formulations of the problem. These often suggest a way to decompose the problem and facilitate development of distributed algor...
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作者：Moon, Ken; Loyalka, Prashant; Bergemann, Patrick; Cohen, Joshua
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Apple Inc
摘要：Product reliability is a key concern for manufacturers. We examine worker turnover as a significant but underrecognized determinant of product reliability. Our study collects and integrates (1) data reporting factory worker staffing and turnover from within a major consumer electronics producer's supply chain and (2) traceable data reporting the component quality and field failures-that is, replacements and repairs-of nearly 50 million consumer mobile devices over four years of customer usage....
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作者：Mundt, Philipp; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael
作者单位：Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; Universitat Jaume I
摘要：The cross-sectional variation in corporate profitability has occupied research across fields as diverse as strategic management, industrial organization, finance, and accounting. Prior work suggests that corporate idiosyncrasies are important determinants of profitability, but it disagrees on the quantitative importance of particular effects. This paper shows that corporate specificities become irrelevant in the long run because profitability is ergodic conditional on survival, leading to a un...
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作者：Cole, Shawn; Iverson, Benjamin; Tufano, Peter
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Brigham Young University; University of Oxford
摘要：This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of individuals, with financially constrained individuals and those with no other deposit accounts particularly likely to participate. Individuals who choose to use PLS increase their total savings on average by 1% of annual income. ...
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作者：Greminger, Rafael P.
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：This paper studies a search problem in which a consumer is initially aware of only a few products. At every point in time, the consumer then decides between searching among alternatives of which he is already aware and discovering more products. I show that the optimal policy for this search and discovery problem is fully characterized by tractable reservation values. Moreover, I prove that a predetermined index fully specifies the purchase decision of a consumer following the optimal search p...
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作者：Garg, Nikhil; Nazerzadeh, Hamid
作者单位：University of Southern California; Uber Technologies, Inc.
摘要：Ride-hailing marketplaces like Uber and Lyft use dynamic pricing, often called surge, to balance the supply of available drivers with the demand for rides. We study driverside payment mechanisms for such marketplaces, presenting the theoretical foundation that has informed the design of Uber's new additive driver surge mechanism. We present a dynamic stochastic model to capture the impact of surge pricing on driver earnings and their strategies to maximize such earnings. In this setting, some ...
