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Columbia Business School Research

At the Forefront of Their Fields

At Columbia Business School, our faculty members are at the forefront of research in their respective fields, offering innovative ideas that directly impact the practice of business today. A quick glance at our publication on faculty research, CBS Insights, will give you a sense of the breadth and immediacy of the insight our professors provide.

As a student at the School, this will greatly enrich your education. In Columbia classrooms, you are at the cutting-edge of industry, studying the practices that others will later adopt and teach. As any business leader will tell you, in a competitive environment, being first puts you at a distinct advantage over your peers. Learn economic development from Ray Fisman, the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and a rising star in the field, or real estate from Chris Mayer, the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, a renowned expert and frequent commentator on complex housing issues. This way, when you complete your degree, you'll be set up to succeed.

The Columbia Advantage

Columbia Business School in conjunction with the Office of the Dean provides its faculty, PhD students, and other research staff with resources and cutting edge tools and technology to help push the boundaries of business research.

Specifically, our goal is to seamlessly help faculty set up and execute their research programs. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Highly skilled staff of full-time predoctoral fellows, summer research interns, and part-time research assistants
  • Access to centralized funding from the Dean's office and external grants to support research activities
  • Providing a state-of-the-art high-performance grid computing environment
  • Acquisition of proprietary data sets and access to various databases
  • Leading library which provides faculty with latest tools and techniques to enable digital scholarship

All these activities help to facilitate and streamline faculty research, and that of the doctoral students working with them.

Featured Research

Be a better manager: Live abroad

Authors
W. Maddux, Adam Galinsky, and C. Tadmor
Date
January 1, 2010
Format
Journal Article
Journal
Harvard Business Review

The article offers the authors' views on expatriate management programs and the benefits from executives interacting with the people and institutions of the host country. The idea that international experience or interaction between foreign managers and local people will help managers become more creative, entrepreneurial, and successful is discussed. The concept of integrative complexity in bi-cultural managers which enhances job performance is mentioned.

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The Kidney Case

Authors
D. Austen-Smith, T. Feddersen, Adam Galinsky, and K. Liljenquist
Date
January 1, 2010
Format
Case Study
Publisher
Kellogg School of Management, Dispute Resolution Research Center

The Kidney Case is multi-person exercise that involves the allocation of a single kidney. Students read profiles of eight candidates for the kidney and make a first allocation decision. Each candidate was designed to be high on some allocation principles but low or unknown on others (e.g., best, match, time in cue, age, personal responsibility for disease, future benefits to society, etc.). Then, students are put into groups and assigned to advocate for one of the candidates. Each group will prepare and give a 3-minute presentation on why their candidate should receive the kidney.

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Mitigating Disaster Risks in The Age Of Climate Change

Authors
Harrison Hong, Jinqiang Yang, and Neng Wang
Date
Forthcoming
Format
Journal Article

Emissions abatement alone cannot address the consequences of global warming for weather disasters. We model how society adapts to manage disaster risks to capital stock. Optimal adaptation — a mix of firm-level efforts and public spending — varies as society learns about the adverse consequences of global warming for disaster arrivals. Taxes on capital are needed alongside those on carbon to achieve the first best.

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Returns to Education through Access to Higher-Paying Firms: Evidence from US Matched Employer-Employee Data

Authors
Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser
Date
May 1, 2017
Format
Journal Article
Journal
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings

What are the sources of the returns to education? We study the allocation of higher education graduates from public institutions in Ohio across firms. We present three results. First, we confirm findings in the earlier literature of large pay differences across degrees. Second, we show that up to one quarter of pay premiums for higher degrees are explained by between-firm pay differences. Third, higher education degrees are associated with greater representation at the best-paying firms.

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Putting on the pressure: How to make threats in negotiations

Authors
Adam Galinsky and K. Liljenquist
Date
January 1, 2004
Format
Journal Article
Journal
Negotiation

This article focuses on the role of threats in negotiations. Broadly speaking, a threat is a proposition that issues demands and warns of the costs of noncompliance. Even if neither party resorts to them, potential threats shadow most negotiations. Researchers have found that people actually evaluate their counterparts more favorably when they combine promises with threats rather than extend promises alone. Whereas promises encourage exploitation, the threat of punishment motivates cooperation.

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2014

Store Loyalty and Competitive Store- Brand Strategy

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Geylani, Tansev, Kinshuk Jerath, and Z. Zhang
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2014

Strategic Asset Allocation with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs

Author
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre, Kent Daniel, Ciamac Moallemi, and Mehmet Saglam

We propose a simple approach to dynamic multi-period portfolio choice with quadratic transaction costs. The approach is tractable in settings with a large number of securities, realistic return dynamics with multiple risk factors, many predictor variables, and stochastic volatility. We obtain a closed-form solution for a trading rule that is optimal if the problem is restricted to a broad class of strategies we define as "linearity generating strategies" (LGS).

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Suppressing thoughts of evaluation while being evaluated

Author
Slepian, Michael, M. Oikawa, and J.M. Smyth
Thought suppression can cause ironic increases in the occurrence of intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts of evaluation could be especially disruptive while undergoing evaluation. Such a context, however, could help suppression efforts as the context provides an external source for which to attribute suppression failures. When suppressing thoughts of evaluation in a non-evaluative context (a context-content mismatch), typical ironic effects of thought suppression occurred.
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Journal Article
Date
2014
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Management Science

Television Advertising and Online Search

Author
Cowgill, Bo, Mingyu Joo, Kenneth C. Wilbur, and Yi Zhu

Despite a 20-year trend toward integrated marketing communications, advertisers seldom coordinate television and search advertising campaigns. We find that television advertising for financial services brands increases both the number of related Google searches and searchers' tendency to use branded keywords in place of generic keywords. The elasticity of a brand's total searches with respect to its TV advertising is 0.17, an effect that peaks in the morning.

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2014

The Coexistence of Organized and Unorganized Retailing in Emerging Economies

Author
Jerath, Kinshuk, S Sajeesh, and Z. Zhang
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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Family and Economic Issues

The Cost of Not Knowing the Score: Self-Estimated Credit Scores and Financial Outcomes

Author
Meier, Stephan, Ben Levinger, and Marques Benton
This study analyzes consumers' knowledge of their own credit situation and tests whether a lack of knowledge affects financial outcomes. The unique dataset from survey and credit report data includes self-estimates of credit scores and actual scores from a low-to-moderate income sample. We argue and show empirically that many respondents don't know their credit score and generally underestimate their creditworthiness.
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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Psychological Science

The First-Mover Disadvantage: The Folly of Revealing Compatible Preferences

Author
Galinsky, Adam, David D. Loschelder, Roderick I. Swaab, and Roman Trötschel

The current research establishes a first-mover disadvantage in negotiation. We propose that making the first offer in a negotiation will backfire when the sender reveals private information that an astute recipient can leverage to his or her advantage. In two experiments, we manipulated whether the first offer was purely distributive or revealed that the sender's preferences were compatible with the recipient's preferences (i.e., the negotiators wanted the same outcome on an issue).

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Working Paper
Date
2014

The impact of retailer promotional activities on store traffic: A Video-based Technology

Author
Valizade, Shyda, Oliver Heil, and Kamel Jedidi
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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Marketing Letters

The Interrelationships between Brand and Channel Choice

Author
Neslin, Scott and Kinshuk Jerath

We propose a framework for the joint study of the consumer's decision of where to buy and what to buy. The framework is rooted in utility theory where the utility is for a particular channel/brand combination. The framework contains firm actions, the consumer search process, the choice process, and consumer learning. We develop research questions within each of these areas. We then discuss methodological issues pertaining to the use of experimentation and econometrics.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

The Lure of Larger Assortments in Feeling-based Decisions

Author
Aydinli, Aylin, Yangjie Gu, and Michel Tuan Pham
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Date
2014

The Revolving Door and the SEC's Enforcement Outcomes: Initial Evidence from Civil Litigation

Author
deHaan, Ed, Simi Kedia, Kevin Koh, and Shivaram Rajgopal

We investigate the consequences of the "revolving door" for trial lawyers at the SEC's enforcement division. If future job opportunities motivate SEC lawyers to develop and/or showcase their enforcement expertise, then the revolving door phenomenon will promote more aggressive regulatory activity (the "human capital" hypothesis). In contrast, SEC lawyers can relax enforcement efforts in order to develop networking skills and/or curry favor with prospective employers at private law firms (the "rent seeking" hypothesis).

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2014

To Platform-Sell or Resell: Channel Structures in Electronic Retailing

Author
Abhishek, Vibhanshu, Kinshuk Jerath, and Z. Zhang
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2014
Book
The social dynamics of organizational justice

Toward the fifth wave: Justice as a dependent variable

Author
Brockner, Joel and A. Carter
In this concluding chapter of The Social Dynamics of Organizational Justice, Brockner and Carter comment on the volume and propose extensions and alternative perspectives for consideration. This commentary chapter suggests that the volume surfs a fifth wave in the history of justice research as these chapters all examine justice as a dependent variable influenced by numerous factors.
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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
American Economic Review

Tracing Value-added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Author
Koopman, Robert, Zhi Wang, and Shang-Jin Wei

This paper proposes an accounting framework that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double-counted terms. Our parsimonious framework bridges a gap between official trade statistics (in gross value terms) and national accounts (in value-added terms), and integrates all previous measures of vertical specialization and value-added trade in the literature into a unified framework.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

Unbalanced Random Matching Markets

Author
Kanoria, Yash
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Chapter
Date
2014
Book
Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory

Valuation Models: An Issue of Accounting Theory

Author
Penman, Stephen

This paper lays out alternative valuation models and evaluates their features. Three themes underlie the discussion. First, we require that the models be consistent with the theory of finance. Second, valuation involves accounting, so accounting theory as well as finance theory comes into play. Third, valuation models are a tool for practical valuation, so the respective models are judged on how they perform or do not perform (as a practical matter), with the emphasis is on caveat emptor.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Values as the essence of culture: Foundation or fallacy?

Author
Morris, Michael

Recent findings of low societal consensus in cultural values suggest that our field’s dominant paradigm — culture as shared values — is a fallacy. The perennial persistence of this illusion may come from the fact that it appeals to the human brain’s hardwired capacity for essentialism. Evidence against value consensus, however, does not doom all shared-meaning models of culture (pace Schwartz, 2013).

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Economic Theory

Violation of the Law of Demand (lead article)

Author
Kannai, Yakar and Larry Selden

Following the classic work of Mitjuschin, Polterovich and Milleron, necessary and sufficient as well as sufficient conditions have been developed for when the multicommodity Law of Demand holds. However, far less attention has been focused on the nature and properties of violations. To address these questions, the existing sufficient conditions although simpler in form are of little value unless they are also necessary. We show when the widely cited Mitjuschin and Poterovich sufficient condition also becomes necessary.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Research in Organizational Behavior

When in Rome: Intercultural learning and implications for training

Author
Morris, Michael, Shira Mor, and J. Cho

Learning requires acquiring and using knowledge. How do individuals acquire knowledge of another culture? How do they use this knowledge in order to operate proficiently in a new cultural setting? What kinds of training would foster intercultural learning? These questions have been addressed in many literatures of applied and basic research, featuring disparate concepts, methods and measures. In this paper, we review the insights from these different literatures. We note parallels among findings of survey research on immigrants, expatriate managers, and exchange students.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

When Is a Risky Asset "Urgently Needed"?

Author
Kubler, Felix, Larry Selden, and Xiao Wei

Risk free asset demand in the classic portfolio problem is shown to decrease with income if and only if the consumer's uncertainty preferences over assets satisfy the preference condition that the risk free asset is more readily substituted for the risky asset as the quantity of the latter increases. In this case, the risky asset is said to be "urgently needed" following the terminology of the classic certainty analysis of Johnson (1913). The urgently needed property tends to be more readily satisfied in uncertainty versus certainty settings.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Public Conference Calls

Author
Heinrichs, Anne, Jihwon Park, and Eugene Soltes
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Working Paper
Date
2014

Who learns from whom? Asymmetric learning in Chinese cross-border investment syndicates, 1991-2011

Author
Wang, Dan
In emerging markets, foreign and domestic investors often co-invest to learn from one another. I use an original dataset that chronicles the syndication network of cross-border venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investment in China over 20 years to analyze the direction of learning between foreign and domestic VC/PE firms.
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Journal Article
Date
2014

Why MOOCs are Anti-Innovation

Author
Noam, Eli

The article describes the potential negative consequences of the courses about academia, and especially the danger of weakening research and the innovation system of research universities. The MOOC courses may disrupt the structure of higher education because their business model is effective in de-linking the three components of an active University: teaching, research, and approval of credit for degree-granting courses. In the end, the article offers universities several ways to deal with the negative consequences of these MOOC courses.

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Chapter
Date
2014
Book
The Psychology of Asian Consumers

Why the Asian consumer?

Author
Schmitt, Bernd
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Chapter
Date
2014
Book
Professionnell coachen: Das Methodenbuch

Wie Sie Probleme lösen statt sie zu fokussieren

Author
Behrendt, P. and Sandra Matz
Die Autoren beschreiben, warum Probleme im Coaching erlebt werden müssen, und erklären, dass Coaches dafür ganz anders vorgehen müssen, als sie intuitiv vermuten. Wissenscha liche Ergebnisse aus der Coachingprozessforschung belegen das scheinbare Paradoxon: Wenn Coaches Ressourcen aktivieren, erleben die Klienten ihre Probleme stärker und scha en es, diese zu verändern. Drei praktische Strategien werden aufgeführt, die Coaches dabei helfen, Probleme zur Chance zu machen.
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Chapter
Date
2013

Media Entertainment as Development Strategy

Author
Noam, Eli

Rarely need one justify a topic as much as online entertainment for Africa. There is a lot of headshaking and muttering that it is not really important for Africans to watch TV shows on the Internet and that in any event their basic networks are too far behind to make this a realistic issue.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
Management Science

Salesforce Compensation with Inventory Considerations

Author
Dai, Tinglong and Kinshuk Jerath

We study a scenario in which a firm designs the compensation contract for a salesperson who exerts unobservable effort to increase the level of uncertain demand and, jointly, the firm also decides the inventory level to be stocked. We use a newsvendor-type model in which actual sales depend on the realized demand but are limited by the inventory available, and unfulfilled demand cannot be observed. In this setup, under the optimal contract, the agent is paid a bonus for meeting a sales quota.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
China Journal of Accounting Research

A Fundamentalist Perspective on Accounting and Implications for Accounting Research

Author
Jiang, Guohua and Stephen Penman

This paper presents a framework for addressing normative accounting issues for reporting to shareholders. The framework is an alternative to the emerging Conceptual Framework of the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board. The framework can be broadly characterized as a utilitarian approach to accounting standard setting. It has two main features. First, accounting is linked to valuation models under which shareholders use accounting information to values their stakes.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
Review of Financial Studies

Asset Pricing in the Dark: The Cross Section of OTC Stocks

Author
Ang, Andrew, Assaf Shtauber, and Paul Tetlock

Over-the-counter (OTC) stocks are far less liquid, disclose less information, and exhibit lower institutional holdings than listed stocks. We exploit these different market conditions to test theories of cross-sectional return premiums. Compared to premiums in listed markets, the OTC illiquidity premium is several times higher, the size, value, and volatility premiums are similar, and the momentum premium is three times lower.

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Working Paper
Date
2013

Moral Hazard and Debt Maturity

Author
Huberman, Gur

We present a model of the maturity of a bank's uninsured debt. The bank borrows funds and chooses afterwards the riskiness of its assets. This moral hazard problem leads to an excessive level of risk. Short-term debt may have a disciplining effect on the bank's risk-shifting incentives, but it may lead to inefficient liquidation. We characterize the conditions under which short-term and long-term debt are feasible, and show circumstances under which only short-term debt is feasible and under which short-term debt dominates long-term debt when both are feasible.

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Journal Article
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2013
Journal
Review of Accounting Studies

Returns to Buying Earnings and Book Value: Accounting for Growth and Risk

Author
Penman, Stephen and Francesco Reggiani

Historical cost accounting deals with uncertainty by deferring the recognition of earnings until the uncertainty has largely been resolved. Such accounting affects both earnings and book value and produces expected earnings growth deemed to be at risk. This paper shows that the earnings-to-price and book-to-price ratios that are the product of this accounting forecast both earnings growth and the risk to that growth.

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Working Paper
Date
2013

The Good Banker

Author
Bolton, Patrick

What is a good banker? What is the economic value added of banks? The economics literature on financial intermediation focuses on the role of banks as deposit-taking institutions and as delegated monitors of borrowers. But this description barely begins to represent what banks do in a modern economy. Besides commercial lending, large banks are engaged in a number of other activities ranging from cash management, trade credit, swaps and derivatives trading and underwriting of securities.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
International Journal of Research in Marketing

The Influence of Ad-Evoked Feelings on Brand Evaluations: Empirical Generalizations from Consumer Responses to More Than 1,000 TV Commercials

Author
Pham, Michel Tuan, Maggie Geuens, and Patrick De Pelsmaker

It has been observed that ad-evoked feelings exert a positive influence on brand attitudes. To investigate the empirical generalizability of this phenomenon, we analyzed the responses of 1,576 consumers to 1,070 TV commercials from more than 150 different product categories. The findings suggest five empirical generalizations. First, ad-evoked feelings indeed have a substantial impact on brand evaluations, even under conditions that better approximate real marketplace settings than past studies did.

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Working Paper
Date
2013

The Political Economy of Mass Media

Author
Prat, Andrea and David Stromberg

We review the burgeoning political economy literature on the influence of mass media on politics and policy. This survey, which covers both theory and empirics, is organized along four main themes: transparency, capture, informative coverage, and ideological bias. We distill some general lessons and identify some open questions.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

From the ephemeral to the enduring: How approach-oriented mindsets lead to greater status

Author
Kilduff, G. and Adam Galinsky

We propose that the psychological states individuals bring into newly formed groups can produce meaningful differences in status attainment. Three experiments explored whether experimentally created approach-oriented mindsets affected status attainment in groups, both immediately and over time. We predicted that approach-oriented states would lead to greater status attainment by increasing proactive behavior.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
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Psychological Science

Nonverbal expressions of status and system legitimacy: An interactive influence on race bias

Author
Weisbuch, M., Michael Slepian, C.P. Eccleston, and N. Ambady
A voluminous literature has examined how primates respond to nonverbal expressions of status, such as taking the high ground, expanding one's posture, and tilting one's head. We extend this research to human intergroup processes in general and interracial processes in particular. Perceivers may be sensitive to whether racial group status is reflected in group members' nonverbal expressions of status.
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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
Psychological Science

Quality of professional players' poker hands is perceived accurately from arm motions

Author
Slepian, Michael, S.G. Young, A.M. Rutchick, and N. Ambady
In the card game of poker, players attempt to disguise cues to the quality of their hand, either by concealment (e.g., adopting the well-known, expressionless "poker face") or by deception. Recent work, however, demonstrates that motor actions can sometimes betray intentions. The same action can have different movement dynamics depending on the underlying intention (Becchio, Sartori, & Castiello, 2010), and these subtle differences can be decoded by observers (Becchio, Manera, Sartori, Cavallo, & Castiello, 2012; Sartori, Becchio, & Castiello, 2011).
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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
Theory and Society

Social stratification in transitional economies: property rights and the structure of markets

Author
Wang, Dan

In transitions from state socialism, property rights are re-allocated to organizations and groups, creating new markets and new forms of economic enterprise that reshape the stratification order. A generation of research has estimated individual-level outcomes with income equations and mobility models, relying on broad assumptions about economic change. We redirect attention to the process of economic change that structures emerging markets.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Stand tall, but don't put your feet up: Universal and culturally-specific effects of expansive postures on power

Author
Park, L., L. Streamer, L. Huang, and Adam Galinsky

Previous research suggests that there is a fundamental link between expansive body postures and feelings of power. The current research demonstrates that this link is not universal, but depends on people's cultural background (Western versus East Asian) and on the particular type of expansive posture enacted. Three types of expansive postures were examined in the present studies: the expansive-hands-spread-on-desk pose (Carney et al., 2010), the expansive-upright-sitting pose, and the expansive-feet-on-desk pose (Carney et al., 2010).

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes

Author
Pindyck, Robert and Neng Wang

How likely is a catastrophic event that would substantially reduce the capital stock, GDP, and wealth? How much should society be willing to pay to reduce the probability or impact of a catastrophe? We answer these questions and provide a framework for policy analysis using a general equilibrium model of production, capital accumulation, and household preferences.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
Journal
Journal of Financial Economics

The Economics of Hedge Funds

Author
Lan, Yingcong, Neng Wang, and Jinqiang Yang

Hedge fund managers trade o the benefits of leveraging on the alpha-generating strategy against the costs of inefficient fund liquidation. In contrast to the standard risk-seeking intuition, even with a constant-return-to-scale alpha-generating strategy, a risk-neutral manager becomes endogenously risk-averse and decreases leverage following poor performance to increase the fund's survival likelihood. Our calibration suggests that management fees are the majority of the total compensation.

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Chapter
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2013

The Brand Personality Component of Brand Goodwill: Some Antecedents and Consequences, in David A. Aaker and Alexander L. Biel eds.

Author
Batra, Rajeev, Donald Lehmann, and Dipinder Singh
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Journal Article
Date
2013

Information Spillovers from Protests against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target

Author
Yue, Lori, Hayagreeva Rao, and Paul Ingram

In this study of the impact of protests against Walmart (a first entrant) on Target (a second entrant) from 1998 to 2008 in U.S. geographic markets, we develop and test a theory of information spillovers from protests against corporations proposing to enter a new market. We argue that the number of protests directed against a first entrant is a noisy signal for the second entrant because such protests are likely to be dominated by protest-prone activists and so do not reflect the sentiments of the community.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
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Journal of Consumer Research

Conditioned Superstition: Desire for Control and Consumer Brand Preferences

Author
Hamerman, Eric and Gita Johar

If individuals buy a Snickers bar and subsequently see their favorite basketball team begin to play better, they might attribute this improved performance to their purchase decision. Even as consumers acknowledge that this type of control is irrational, we demonstrate that they are willing to superstitiously alter their purchase behavior (by choosing a less-preferred option) in hopes of helping their favorite team.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
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Psychological Science

From glue to gasoline: How competition turns perspective takers unethical

Author
Pierce, J., G. Kilduff, Adam Galinsky, and N. Sivanathan

Perspective taking is often the glue that binds people together. However, we propose that in competitive contexts, perspective taking is akin to adding gasoline to a fire: It inflames already-aroused competitive impulses and leads people to protect themselves from the potentially insidious actions of their competitors. Overall, we suggest that perspective taking functions as a relational amplifier.

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Book
Date
2013

The changing face of the Asian consumer: Insights and strategies for Asian markets

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Schmitt, Bernd
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Working Paper
Date
2013

The Impact of Biomedical Knowledge Accumulation on Mortality: A Bibliometric Analysis of Cancer Data

Author
Lichtenberg, Frank

I examine the relationship across diseases between the long-run growth in the number of publications about a disease and the change in the age-adjusted mortality rate from the disease. The diseases analyzed are almost all the different forms of cancer, i.e. cancer at different sites in the body (lung, colon, breast, etc.). Time-series data on the number of publications pertaining to each cancer site were obtained from PubMed. For articles published since 1975, it is possible to distinguish between publications indicating and not indicating any research funding support.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
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Psychological Science

The reappropriation of stigmatizing labels: The reciprocal relationship between power and self-labeling

Author
Galinsky, Adam, C.S. Wang, J. Whitson, Eric M. Anicich, K. Hugenberg, and G. Bodenhausen

We present a theoretical model of reappropriation — taking possession of a slur previously used exclusively by dominant groups to reinforce another group's lesser status. Ten experiments tested this model and established a reciprocal relationship between power and self-labeling with a derogatory group term. We first investigated precursors to self-labeling: Group, but not individual, power increased participants' willingness to label themselves with a derogatory term for their group. We then examined the consequences of such self-labeling for both the self and observers.

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Journal Article
Date
2013
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Journal of Consumer Psychology

The Seven Sins of Consumer Psychology

Author
Pham, Michel Tuan

Consumer psychology faces serious issues of internal and external relevance. Most of these issues originate in seven fundamental problems with the way consumer psychologists plan and conduct their research that could be called the seven sins of consumer psychology.

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Case Study
Date
2013

Pritzker Family Enterprise: A Family Governance Case Study

Author
Angus, Patricia

For generations, the Pritzkers, one of the wealthiest and most philanthropic families in the United States, primarily managed their assets in order to enrich the family as a whole, as opposed to generating wealth for individual family members. The Pritzkers were historically publicity shy, but their saga gained much media attention in the early 2000s when some family members questioned the asset distribution and leadership requests of their forefathers.

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