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Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
- February 2007
- Module Note
Trifles Summary: Reasoning from Moral Theory
By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the fifth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
- February 2007
- Article
The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf
- January 2007
- Article
Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business
By: G. Jones and Peter Miskell
This article provides a longitudinal case study of the use of acquisitions by the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever to build the world's largest ice cream and tea businesses. The study supports recent resource-based theory which argues that complementary rather than... View Details
- 2007
- Article
Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization
By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
- January 2007
- Article
Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory and Evidence
- 2007
- Article
Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process
By: Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kate Roloff
The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together... View Details
- December 2006
- Article
How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and a Case Study
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #4: Contracting and Strategic Alliances
By: Dennis A. Yao
Provides a game theory-based interpretation of contracting and strategic alliances and introduces the problem of moral hazard. View Details
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #5: Private Information and Signaling Models
By: Dennis A. Yao
Discusses private information and signaling. View Details
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #6: Multiple-Round Games and Reputations
By: Dennis A. Yao
Provides a game theory-based interpretation of reputations and reputation building. View Details
- November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #3: The Relationship Between Bimatrix and Extensive-Form Games and the Meaning of "Strategy"
By: Dennis A. Yao
Discusses extensive-form games and relates them to bimatrix games. View Details
- November 2006
- Case
Introducing Frequent Flyer Programs
By: Dennis A. Yao
Allows students to explore the value to American Airlines of introducing a frequent flyer program in 1981. View Details
- November 2006 (Revised November 2009)
- Course Overview Note
Introduction to Competitive Dynamics: Strategy and Tactics
By: Dennis A. Yao
Provides an overview of the course Competitive Dynamics: Strategy and Tactics and discusses challenges facing those who wish to use game theory to assist in strategic and tactical decision making. View Details
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #1: Solving Bi-matrix Games
By: Dennis A. Yao
Explains how to solve bi-matrix games and introduces the Nash Equilibrium concept. View Details
- August 2006
- Article
Investor Sentiment and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
- 2006
- Chapter
A Decision Perspective on Organizations: Social Cognition, Behavioral Decision Theory and the Psychological Links to Micro and Macro Organizational Behaviour
By: M. A. Neale, A. E. Tenbrunsel, T. Galvin and M. H. Bazerman
- 2006
- Working Paper
Information Technology and the Growth of the Firm: A Process Theory Perspective
By: David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Marco Iansiti and George Favaloro
- May 2006
- Article
Late and Multiple Bidding in Second-Price Internet Auctions: Theory and Evidence Concerning Different Rules for Ending an Auction
By: Axel Ockenfels and Alvin E. Roth