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  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has become an aspirational status symbol. A series of studies shows that the positive inferences of status in response to busyness and lack of leisure are driven by the perceptions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Rucker Abstract—Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals make decisions more or less... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

that this seemingly suboptimal behavior may in fact confer benefits when factoring in the social context of consumption. Our studies demonstrate that choosing products with more capabilities (i.e., feature-rich products) provides social utility over and above View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

also results in the production of higher quality products. In a competitive setting, by adopting buyer-initiated information revelation, firms are able to attain positive profits. This is due to the fact that customers infer the product's... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

average, consistent with the Bayesian intuition that the market inferred their work was mediocre all along. We then investigate whether the eminence of the retracted author and the cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

interference when identifying an object from others' spatial perspectives, and relied more heavily on privileged knowledge when inferring others' beliefs. Using both experimental-causal-chain and measurement-of-mediation approaches, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

to conflict, and the issues related to making causal inferences from observed correlations. We illustrate how some of these issues can be overcome in a study of mental health in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mental health is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2003
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Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

should manage their corporate brands. The idea is that a significant part of the value of MNC brands comes from the inferences that consumers draw from their global reach. This idea makes intuitive sense to managers but has never been... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

all-stock deal that is certain to go through, the note defines accouchement effects and describes the fundamental arbitrage relationship between Target and Buyer stock prices. It shows how post-announcement prices may be used to infer the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

about the random coefficients logit can be attributed to the lack of cross-level inference in previous research. To overcome this deficiency, we design several Monte Carlo experiments to show what the model predicts at both the individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

intermediate results or, alternatively, one of closed secrecy around intermediate solutions. We observe the cumulative innovation process in each regime with fine-grained measures and are able to derive inferences with a series of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

complex reports. Stated beliefs suggest that receivers correctly infer the strategic implications of complexity but are overconfident about their ability to assess complex reports. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement actions, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

players. With this information, TrustSphere could help customers infer where relationships existed and the strength of those relationships, information that could be leveraged to address a number of business challenges and opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

reality is driven by a fundamental failure in consumer inferences when sellers withhold information. Using a series of laboratory experiments, we implement a simple disclosure game in which senders can verifiably report quality to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for their own organization. We elaborate the theory by predicting that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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