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作者：Markovich, Sarit; Yehezkel, Yaron
作者单位：Northwestern University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：We consider platform competition when platforms can (1) commercialize users' data and in return offer their services for free (data-based business model); (2) protect users' privacy and charge users for participation (subscription-based model); or (3) offer both options (the hybrid model). We find that competition does not always motivate the incumbent platform to protect users' privacy. When network effects are intermediate, competition can motivate the incumbent to shift from the subscriptio...
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作者：Besbes, Omar; Ma, Will; Mouchtaki, Omar
作者单位：Columbia University; New York University
摘要：How should one leverage historical data when past observations are not perfectly indicative of the future, for example, because of the presence of unobserved confounders which one cannot correct for? Motivated by this question, we study a data-driven decision-making framework in which historical samples are generated from unknown and different distributions assumed to lie in a heterogeneity ball with known radius and centered around the (also) unknown future (out-of-sample) distribution on whi...
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作者：Hardt, David; Mayer, Lea; Rincke, Johannes
作者单位：University of Erlangen Nuremberg
摘要：We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams of four. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a team task that is gender-neutral in terms of individual productivity. By design, effects on team performance can only work through communication. We find that all-male teams communicate more than all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative gender ...
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作者：Glover, Jonathan; Kim, Eunhee
作者单位：Columbia University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：We study optimal workforce and contract design for a firm that employs a team of two agents. The agents have possibly diverse demographic characteristics captured by their discount factors. When both agents have relatively low discount factors (impatient agents), the optimal contract is designed to foster cooperation, whereas when both agents have relatively high discount factors (patient agents), the optimal contract is designed to both foster cooperation and prevent collusion. In preventing ...
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作者：Dimitriadis, Stefan; Koning, Rembrand
作者单位：University of Toronto; Harvard University
摘要：Relationships with peers help entrepreneurs learn and improve firm performance. Recent scholarship confirms that events-social gatherings such as mixers, conferences, or training programs-can help entrepreneurs build valuable social connections. Yet, for entrepreneurs in developing economies, networking frictions may make connecting with peers challenging and undermine the benefits of events. We argue that when networking frictions are high, the value of events will lie more in connecting neig...
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作者：Guan, Xu; Li, Krista; Wu, Hao
作者单位：Huazhong University of Science & Technology; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Teletriage is a telehealth service that uses telecommunication technologies to remotely assess patients' conditions and determine their needs for medical treatment. This paper examines how teletriage affects patients' decisions to seek treatment and when healthcare providers (e.g., medical businesses, hospitals, or clinics) should launch teletriage services. Our findings reveal that teletriage can encourage more mild patients to seek treatment, discouraging more severe patients. This occurs wh...
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作者：Chen, Yingtu; Gallego, Guillermo; Gao, Pin; Li, Yang
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Live-streaming advertising in e-commerce is soaring. Both Amazon and Alibaba have employed this novel marketing model to engage consumers by sequentially exhibiting different products through live-streaming videos. In this paper, we adopt a mechanism design framework to model live-streaming e-commerce as a position auction with endogenous provision of product information. We prove that finding the mechanism that simultaneously optimizes position allocation and information provision is NP-hard....
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作者：Loch, Christoph; Ladas, Konstantinos; Kavadias, Stylianos
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKU Shenzhen); Peking University; University of Cambridge
摘要：We develop a dynamic evolutionary model of innovation culture and its organizational effects at three levels. At the frontline level, informal bottom-up innovation ideas are driven by unplanned interactions governed by cultural norms, as frontline employees sort themselves into idea generator or implementor behaviors. Management cannot directly control innovation interactions and thus culture, but it can imperfectly nudge it by influencing a sharing norm at the second level. At the third level...
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作者：Cao, Jing; Liu, Tracy Xiao; Ma, Rong; Sun, Ang
作者单位：Tsinghua University; China Agricultural University; Renmin University of China; Renmin University of China
摘要：Policies geared toward environmental and economic improvement could unexpectedly lead to negative consequences in other dimensions. Such cases raise a red flag to economists and policymakers who aim to deliver comprehensive and sensible policy evaluations. This article investigates antisocial behaviors in response to the Clean Winter Heating Policy (CWHP), which seeks to improve outdoor air quality. Our results show that participating villagers are more likely to violate laws to burn agricultu...
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作者：Cen, Ling; Hertzel, Michael; Schiller, Christoph
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We develop a measure of the speed of firm-level information diffusion, study how it is affected by limited attention, and examine its effect on real corporate decisions. Using local flu epidemics as exogenous attention shocks, we show that inattention from dual-covering analysts and cross-holding institutions reduces the speed of information diffusion from customer to supplier stock prices. We find that the speed of information diffusion along the supply chain affects the price feedback effect...
