Publications

June 2002 (Revised November 2004)
Compilation

John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings

By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel

Discusses the life, times, and writings of John Maynard Keynes. Consists of three parts. First, it summarizes Keynes' life by reproducing his 1946 obituary from The Times of London. Second, it recalls the dramatic economic events of the times in which he lived by... View Details

Keywords: History; Personal Development and Career; Economics; Theory; Macroeconomics

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16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

leveraged to test and improve the quality of corporate accountability reporting. Ramanna thinks accounting theory has a lot to contribute, in three particular ways: (1) by giving stakeholders the ability to verify what the corporation... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

2006
Working Paper

Too Motivated?

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives

SSRN

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

point that exploration is stifled and inertia sets in. We suggest that mature organizations can sustain exploration by deliberately inducing perturbations in their own processes. Our theory yields testable hypotheses about the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance

Keywords: by Celia Moore, S. Wiley Wakeman & Francesca Gino

13 Aug 2009
Working Paper Summaries

In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Joshua D. Greene

Article

Wealth Making in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century: The Rubinstein Hypothesis Revisited

By: Tom Nicholas

Keywords: Wealth; Theory

13 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino & Maryam Kouchaki; Legal Services

15 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Legislating Stock Prices

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

December 1985
Article

An Empirical Analysis of the Interfirm Equity Investment Process

By: W. Mikkelson and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Theory; Equity; Investment

June 1986
Article

A Supergame Theoretic Model of Price Wars During Booms

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Game Theory; Price

June 2005 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Accounting at MacCloud Winery

By: David F. Hawkins, Robert S. Kaplan and Gregory S. Miller

Uses a fictional new winery to introduce accounting concepts and practices such as assets, liabilities, expenses, the matching principle, and contingent activities. Designed to approach the subject at a conceptual level, allowing class discussion to focus on the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Theory; Accounting

Educators

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February 2006
Article

Globalization and Similarities in Corporate Governance: A Cross-country Analysis

By: Tarun Khanna, Joe Kogan and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Globalization; Corporate Governance; Theory

SSRN

2023
Working Paper

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein

We develop a framework for assessing when somebody will eventually notice that she has a misspecified model of the world, premised on the idea that she neglects information that she deems—through the lens of her misconceptions—to be irrelevant. In doing so, we... View Details

Keywords: Attentional Stability; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Information; Theory

2008
Working Paper

Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples

By: Claus-Jochen Haake and Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus

We consider two-sided matching markets with couples. First, we extend a result by Klaus and Klijn (2005, Theorem 3.3) and show that for any weakly responsive couples market there always exists a "double stable" matching, i.e., a matching that is stable for the couples... View Details

Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability; Game Theory