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- 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16
adapt to the behavioral biases of employees to "sort in" ("sort away") attractive (unattractive) employees; such schemes may also reduce a firm's wage bill. Consequence-Cause Matching: Looking to the Consequences of Events to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
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Overview
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
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 methods,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
consistent with our theorizing. However, while significant, perspective-taking does not mediate these relationships in the expected direction, because it has a negative effect on sales. In Studies 2a and 2b, both experimental studies, we strengthen 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
will hopefully engender future (cross-disciplinary) research. The paper considers the challenges of distinguishing actual causal social interactions from other phenomena that may lead to a false inference of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
inductively shows that consumers deem information flows acceptable (or not) based on whether their personal information was: 1) obtained within versus outside of the website on which the ad appears and 2) stated by the consumer versus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to... View Details