作者:Chen, Yi-Chun; Misic, Velibor V.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:Customer behavior is often assumed to follow weak rationality, which implies that adding a product to an assortment will not increase the choice probability of another product in that assortment. However, an increasing amount of research has revealed that customers are not necessarily rational when making decisions. In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric choice model that relaxes this assumption and can model a wider range of customer behavior, such as decoy effects between products. In...
作者:Griffin, John M.; Liu, Clark; Shu, Tao
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Tsinghua University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要:This paper examines whether the massive Chinese anticorruption campaign ensnares corrupt firms, contains a political component, and reduces corporate corruption. Consistent with the campaign's stated objectives, investigated executives are more likely to come from Chinese firms with characteristics commonly associated with measures of poor governance, self-dealing, and inefficiencies. However, affiliations with prominent investigated political leaders increase investigation likelihood, while u...