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作者：Feng, Qi; Li, Lei; Shanthikumar, J. George
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Making decisions with limited data and incomplete statistical characterization is challenging. The typical statistical-machine-learning approaches would call for migrating the experience of a related system with ample data through transfer learning or leveraging the similarity of multiple systems with limited data through data pooling. We, instead, develop new solution concepts to learn across related systems by adapting the parametric Operational Data Analytics (ODA) framework, which is known...
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作者：Fan, Ziying; Weng, Xi; Zhou, Li-An; Zhou, Yiyi
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Peking University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要：We develop and estimate a structural model of buyers' observational learning, search, and bidding, using unique data on in-person home viewings and transactions. We use the estimated model to quantify the welfare impact of different information disclosure rules. Our findings indicate that prohibiting the disclosure of home viewing information while permitting only the disclosure of time-on-market would extend the sale time and raise the transaction price, benefiting sellers but harming buyers ...
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作者：Derrlen, Francols; Mesonnler, Jean-Stephane; Vulllemey, Guillaume
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; European Central Bank; Bank of France; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Firm births are key drivers of employment growth, productivity gains, and creative destruction. We show that setup costs create sizable financial constraints for new firms. When firms face high setup costs, they can only be established by leveraging up and lengthening debt maturity. We empirically confirm these predictions in a large sample of young French firms. Leverage is higher and debt maturity is longer in industries with high setup costs. Last, we show that following an exogenous shock ...
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作者：Kaiser, Ulrich; Kesler, Reinhold; Reisinger, Markus
作者单位：University of Zurich; Copenhagen Business School; Frankfurt School Finance & Management
摘要：The optimal number of products to offer consumers is one of the core strategic problems that firms face. This is increasingly so in digital markets where many firms offer a large product variety. In these markets, consumers purchase products repeatedly, making customer retention an important aspect for firm performance. In this paper, we study the interplay between these two variables, product variety and customer retention. First, we provide a novel game-theoretic model to analyze this interp...
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作者：Du, Tinzhao; Ning, Z. Eddie
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of British Columbia
摘要：We study competition between two firms that personalize product offerings to consumers. Firms have private, imperfect signals of each consumer's ideal location and offer each consumer a different product without observing the competitor's product offering. We characterize the equilibrium personalization strategy and examine how the accuracies of firms' signals affect equilibrium strategy, profits, and consumer welfare. A firm generally charges a higher price for a more niche product and profit...
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作者：Naess, Ole-Andreas Elvik
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：This paper examines the preferences of 10,000 capital owners worldwide, including nearly 3,000 from the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, regarding green shareholder voting and divestment. Findings indicate substantial support (53%-72%) for shareholder engagement and green voting, which is more popular and less politically divisive than divestment. Preferences for green voting increase with the likelihood of green outcomes being implemented though 63% of the payoff is attributed to expres...
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作者：Wang, Quanmeng; Lyu, Guodong; He, Long; Teo, Chung Piaw
作者单位：Tongji University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; George Washington University; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore
摘要：The Locker Alliance Network (LAN), a cutting-edge initiative under Singapore's Smart Nation vision, aims to revolutionize parcel pickup processes. This government-led project seeks to implement two major changes in Singapore's urban logistics: (i) establishing an open-access facility for all logistic service providers (LSPs) and (ii) enhancing the last mile delivery efficiency of each LSP, thereby reducing its operational footprint. This research investigates the impact of locker network desig...
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作者：Marx, Matt; Wang, Qian; Yimfor, Emmanuel
作者单位：Cornell University; Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：How do venture capital investors react to social movements, including those that relate to historical underrepresentation in funding? We use image and name algorithms combined with clerical review to classify race for 150,000 founders and 30,000 investors. These data allow us to assess the impact of George Floyd's murder on VC funding of Black entrepreneurs and identify which VCs were most responsive. Although VCs responded swiftly, investment in Black-founded startups reverted to prior levels...
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作者：Wowak, Kaitlin D.; Busenbark, John R.; Ball, George P.; V. Natarajan, Karthik
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：There is growing research exploring the influence of executives' political ideologies on firm strategy, but little is known about how these ideologies influence product quality. Leveraging research that suggests liberal firm leaders prioritize customer safety, whereas conservative firm leaders emphasize firm financial returns, we theorize that a firm's top management team's (TMT's) political ideology influences the number of serious medical product recalls that a firm initiates and how quickly...
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作者：Peng, Xuefeng; Zhong, Zemin (Zachary)
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Toronto
摘要：Left-digit bias in price perception has been widely documented. We study how it affects firms' joint pricing and quality choices. The bias increases quality at interior prices but decreases quality at 99-ending prices. At 99-ending price points, the bias discourages price adjustment, leading firms to absorb cost shocks through quality changes and thereby, contributing to shrinkflation (quality reductions with nominal prices held fixed). In channels, the bias can either exacerbate double margin...
