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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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Date
2015
Journal
IESE Insight

The ups and downs of managing hierarchies

Author
Galinsky, Adam and M. Schweitzer

Having a well-defined hierarchy can contribute to organizational effectiveness: it helps people know who does what, when and how, and promotes efficient interactions by setting clear expectations for the behaviors of people of different ranks. This is especially true when people feel under threat, helping to restore a sense of order and control. However, sometimes hierarchy can hurt as much as it helps. In complex, dynamic situations, leaders need access to the most complete and varied information to make the best decisions.

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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Behavioral Science and Policy

Time to Retire: Why Americans Claim Benefits Early and How to Encourage Them to Delay

Author
Appelt, Kirstin, Melissa Knoll, Eric Johnson, and Jonathan Westfall
Many Americans are financially underprepared for retirement, yet they claim Social Security retirement benefits at the earliest opportunity, which substantially reduces the size of their monthly benefit. This problem has not been studied in the consumer literature, and most previous research on the claiming decision and possible interventions to encourage delaying claiming has focused on economic factors. We model the claiming decision as an intertemporal choice and apply a Query Theory process model to develop and test four choice architecture interventions.
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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Tortured beliefs: How and when prior support for torture skews the perceived value of coerced information

Author
Ames, Daniel and Alice J. Lee

In the wake of recent revelations about US involvement in torture, and widespread and seemingly-growing support of torture in the US, we consider how people judge the value of information gained from informants under coercion. Drawing on past work on confirmation biases and moral judgments, we predicted, and found, that American torture supporters are more likely than opposers to see coerced information as relatively valuable and necessary in a scenario describing the foiling of an al-Qaeda terrorist attack.

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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Trust in decision-making authorities dictates the form of the interactive relationship between outcome fairness and procedural fairness

Author
Bianchi, Emily, Joel Brockner, Kees Van den Bos, Matthias Seifert, Henry Moon, Marius van Dijke, and David De Cremer
Reactions to decisions are shaped by both outcome and procedural fairness. Moreover, outcome and procedural fairness interact to influence beliefs and behaviors. However, different types of “process/outcome” interaction effects have emerged. Many studies have shown that people react particularly negatively when they receive unfair or unfavorable outcomes accompanied by unfair procedures (the “low-low” interactive pattern).
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Journal Article
Date
2015

Using Future Information to Reduce Waiting Times in the Emergency Department via Diversion

Author
Xu, Kuang and Carri Chan

The development of predictive models in healthcare settings has been growing; one such area is the prediction of patient arrivals to the Emergency Department (ED). The general premise behind these works is that such models may be used to help manage an ED which consistently faces high congestion. In this work, we propose a class of proactive policies which utilizes future information of potential patient arrivals to effectively manage admissions into an ED while reducing waiting times for patients who are eventually treated.

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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Journal of Marketing Research

Using Single-Neuron Recording in Marketing: Opportunities, Challenges, and an Application to Fear Enhancement in Communications

Author
Cerf, Moran, Eric Greenleaf, Tom Meyvis, and Vicki Morwitz

This article introduces the method of single-neuron recording in humans to marketing and consumer researchers. First, the authors provide a general description of this methodology, discuss its advantages and disadvantages, and describe findings from previous single-neuron human research. Second, they discuss the relevance of this method for marketing and consumer behavior and, more specifically, how it can be used to gain insights into the areas of categorization, sensory discrimination, reactions to novel versus familiar stimuli, and recall of experiences.

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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Vagal flexibility: A physiological predictor of social sensitivity

Author
Muhtadie, L., Katrina Koslov, Modupe Akinola, and Wendy Berry Mendes

This research explores vagal flexibility — dynamic modulation of cardiac vagal control — as an individual-level physiological index of social sensitivity. In 4 studies, we test the hypothesis that individuals with greater cardiac vagal flexibility, operationalized as higher cardiac vagal tone at rest and greater cardiac vagal withdrawal (indexed by a decrease in respiratory sinus arrhythmia) during cognitive or attentional demand, perceive social-emotional information more accurately and show greater sensitivity to their social context.

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Chapter
Date
2015
Book
Legends in Consumer Behavior: Jacob Jacoby

Volume Introduction: Legal Factors Applying to Consumer Decision Making and Purchase Behavior: Part 2

Author
Johar, Gita
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Working Paper
Date
2015

Were Information Intermediaries Sensitive to the Financial Statement-based Leading Indicators of Bank Distress prior to the Financial Crisis?

Author
Desai, Hemang, Shivaram Rajgopal, and Jeff Yu

In this paper we address two questions that emerged in the aftermath of the 2008 financial/banking crisis. First, did the financial statements of bank holding companies provide an early warning of their impending distress? Second, were the actions of four key financial intermediaries (short sellers, equity analysts, Standard and Poor's credit ratings and auditors) sensitive to the information in the banks' financial statements about their increased risk and potential distress?

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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Journal of Applied Psychology

What happens before? A field experiment exploring how pay and representation differentially shape bias on the pathway into organizations

Author
Milkman, Katherine, Modupe Akinola, and Dolly Chugh

Little is known about how discrimination manifests before individuals formally apply to organizations or how it varies within and between organizations. We address this knowledge gap through an audit study in academia of over 6,500 professors at top U.S. universities drawn from 89 disciplines and 259 institutions. In our experiment, professors were contacted by fictional prospective students seeking to discuss research opportunities prior to applying to a doctoral program.

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Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

When two anchors are better than one: How and why range offers shape negotiation outcomes

Author
Ames, Daniel and Malia Mason
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Type
Journal Article
Date
2015
Journal
Science

Where Is Silicon Valley?

Author
Guzman, Jorge and Scott Stern

Although economists, politicians, and business leaders have long emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship, defining and characterizing entrepreneurship has been elusive. Researchers have been unable to systematically connect the type of high-impact entrepreneurship found in regions such as Silicon Valley with the overall incidence of entrepreneurship in the population.

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Type
Chapter
Date
2015

Why the Internet Economy Raises Inequality – Implications for Media Managers

Author
Noam, Eli

In countries undergoing de-industrialization — and which isn’t, among developed economies—an internet-based economic growth has been widely recommended as a way to create economic activity and thereby reduce the inequality of post-industrial society. In particular, the opportunities that the internet affords to the ‘creative workforce’ are believed to be an engine for employment, at a time when industrial jobs are being automated.

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Journal Article
Date
2014

Discussion of the American Statistical Association's Statement (2014) on using value-added models for educational assessment

Author
Chetty, Raj, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff

In a recent statement, the American Statistical Association (ASA) discusses the use of value-added measurement to evaluate teacher quality. We present our views on the issues raised by the ASA, in light of research we and others have done on this subject. We highlight areas of agreement with the ASA statement, clarify which issues raised by the ASA have been largely resolved, and point to those issues which should be a priority for future research.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

Liquidity and Return Reversals

Author
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre and Kent Daniel

We estimate a short term reversal process for daily US equity returns. Over our primary sample period of 1972-2014, and for our sample of the 100 largest traded firms, on average approximately 90% of idiosyncratic price shocks are permanent. The remaining 10% is temporary, and decays exponentially toward zero, with a half life of about 2.5 days. While the rate of decay (the half life) is relatively constant over time, the magnitude decay varies considerably over the sample. Our findings are consistent with the slow movement of capital (Duffie 2010).

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Journal Article
Date
2014

Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Marketing

Author
Dekimpe, M.G. and Donald Lehmann
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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Brand Management

The current state and future of brand experience

Author
Brakus, J. Josko, Bernd Schmitt, and Lia Zarantonello

The authors discuss the current state and future scenarios of brand experience — a new concept that they contributed to the brand management literature. Specifically, they present three research and practical trends, and marketing challenges: (i) the proliferation of settings and media that evoke brand experiences; (ii) the role of brands in consumption experiences; and (iii) the need of brand experiences to reach positive psychological outcomes.

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Type
Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

The role of subsidies in coordination games with interconnected risk

Author
Gong, Min, Geoffrey Heal, David Krantz, Howard Kunreuther, and Elke Weber

Can subsidies promote Pareto-optimum coordination? We found that partially subsidizing the cooperative actions for two out of six players in a laboratory coordination game usually produced better coordination and higher total social welfare with both deterministic and stochastic payoffs. Not only were the subsidized players more likely to cooperate (choose the Pareto-optimum action), but the unsubsidized players increased their expectations on how likely others would cooperate, and they cooperated more frequently themselves.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Econometrics

The VIX, the Variance Premium and Stock Market Volatility

Author
Bekaert, Geert and Marie Hoerova

We decompose the squared VIX index, derived from US S&P500 options prices, into the conditional variance of stock returns and the equity variance premium. We evaluate a plethora of state-of-the-art volatility forecasting models to produce an accurate measure of the conditional variance. We then examine the predictive power of the VIX and its two components for stock market returns, economic activity and financial instability.

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Type
Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of International Business Studies

Values, schemas and norms in the culture-behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework

Author
Leung, K. and Michael Morris

International business (IB) research has predominantly relied on value constructs to account for the influence of societal culture, notably Hofstede's cultural dimensions. While parsimonious, the value approach's assumptions about the consensus of values within nations, and the generality and stability of cultural patterns of behavior are increasingly challenged.

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Type
Journal Article
Date
2014

ICU Admission Control: An Empirical Study of Capacity Allocation and its Implication on Patient Outcomes, Management Science 2015.

Author
Kim, Song-Hee, Carri Chan, Marcelo Olivares, and Gabriel J. Escobar

This work examines the process of admission to a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). ICUs currently lack systematic admission criteria, largely because the impact of ICU admission on patient outcomes has not been well quantified. This makes evaluating the performance of candidate admission strategies difficult. Using a large patient-level data set of more than 190,000 hospitalizations across 15 hospitals, we first quantify the cost of denied ICU admission for a number of patient outcomes.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Management & Governance

Comparing Corporate Governance Practices and Exit Decisions between US and Japanese Firms

Author
Harrigan, Kathryn
<p>This study examines how widespread the similarities between U.S. and Japanese corporate governance practices have become. Results suggest that, in spite of convergence in many areas of business practices, Japanese board structures and governance practices still differ greatly from those in the United States – particularly in SEC-mandated reforms such as independent audit and compensation committees. Our results suggest that findings concerning corporate governance differences between Japanese and U.S.
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Journal Article
Date
2014

Consumers’ Purchase Intentions and Their Behavior

Author
Morwitz, Vicki

Purchase intentions are frequently measured and used by marketing managers as an input for decisions about new and existing products and services. Purchase intentions are correlated and predict future sales, but do so imperfectly. I review and summarize research on the relationship between purchase intentions and sales that has been conducted over the past 60 years. This review offers insights into how best to measure purchase intentions, how to forecast sales from purchase intentions measures, and why purchase intentions do not always translate into sales.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

The exploration-exploitation tradeoff in the newsvendor problem

Author
Besbes, Omar, Juan Manuel Chaneton, and Ciamac Moallemi
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Working Paper
Date
2014

Asset-based contagion models for systemic risk

Author
Chen, Chen, Garud Iyengar, and Ciamac Moallemi

We develop a structural model for the analysis of systemic risk in financial markets based on asset price contagion. Specifically, we describe a mechanism of contagion where exogenous random shocks to individual agents in an economy force portfolio rebalancing and endogenously impact asset prices. This, in turn, creates a chain reaction as downstream agents trade in reaction to price changes.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Consumer Psychology

Insights from the Animal Kingdom

Author
Morwitz, Vicki

Just as we have learned a great deal in consumer psychology by focusing on understanding how different sub-groups of humans think, this paper suggests that we can also learn from examining how different types of animals think. To that end, this manuscript offers a review of literature on topics in animal cognition that have also been investigated by consumer researchers.

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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2014
Publication
NYTimes.com

Real Progress on Emissions Can Lead to a Global Pact

Author
Usher, Bruce
Don’t give up on a global climate treaty, but don’t count on it any time soon. I have seen these negotiations up close. Every country trots out its list of reasons why it needs more time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the negotiations become a race to the bottom. But once countries feel confident in their ability to simultaneously reduce emissions and grow their economies, they will begin to negotiate with the objective of reaching an agreement rather than negotiating to delay.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2014
Publication
Huffington Post

The U.S. as a Climate Change Leader?

Author
Usher, Bruce

I was thrilled to see thousands of activists and celebrities marching through Manhattan Sunday calling on the United Nations and government leaders to do more on climate change. Inaction by U.S. politicians is always at the epicenter of these calls, given Washington's lack of consensus on the issue. But this overlooks the track record of this country when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

Accounting Anomalies, Risk and Return

Author
Penman, Stephen and Julie Zhu

This paper investigates whether so-called anomalous returns predicted by accounting numbers reflect normal returns for risk or abnormal returns. It does so via a model showing how accounting numbers inform about normal returns if pricing were rational. The model equates expected returns to expectations of earnings and earnings growth, so that any variable that forecasts earnings and earnings growth also indicates the required return if the market prices those outcomes as risky.

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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2014
Publication
Critical Finance Review

Another Look at Market Responses to Tangible and Intangible Information

Author
Daniel, Kent and Sheridan Titman

As Gerakos and Linnainmaa (2014) point out, the Daniel and Titman (2006) decomposition of returns into tangible and intangible components can potentially be ambiguous. In particular DT's book return, the adjusted growth rate in book value per share which DT use as a tangible measure of long term performance, can be affected by a firm's issuance and repurchase choices as well as by its profitability.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Econometrica

Fiscal Rules and Discretion Under Persistent Shocks

Author
Yared, Pierre

This paper studies the optimal level of discretion in policymaking. We consider afiscal policy model where the government has time-inconsistent preferences with a present bias towards public spending. The government chooses a fiscal rule to trade off its desire to commit to not overspend against its desire to have flexibility to react to privately observed shocks to the value of spending. We analyze the optimal fiscal rule when the shocks are persistent.

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Case Study
Date
2014

Generating Perceptual Maps from Social Media Data

Author
Netzer, Oded

Companies have long struggled to get a handle on how consumers feel about brands and products in real time. Perceptual maps are often used to help visualize a product’s relationship to other products in the competitive arena, but the data referenced to build perceptual maps is often expensive to obtain or incomplete. This case introduces students to a new tool that mines and aggregates social media to support the development of more meaningful perceptual maps.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

Hedging Climate Risk

Author
Andersson, Mats, Patrick Bolton, and Frederic Samama

We develop a simple dynamic investment strategy that allows long‐term passive investors to hedge climate risk without sacrificing financial returns. Our proposed hedging strategy goes beyond a simple divestment of high carbon footprint or stranded assets stocks. This is just the first step. The second step is to optimize the composition of the low carbon portfolio so as to minimize the tracking error with the reference benchmark index. We show that tracking error can be almost eliminated even for a low carbon index that has 50% less carbon footprint.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
American Economic Review

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

Author
Mayer, Christopher, Edward Morrison, Tomasz Piskorski, and Arpit Gupta

We investigate whether homeowners respond strategically to news of mortgage modification programs by defaulting on their mortgages. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in modification policy induced by U.S. state government lawsuits against Countrywide Financial Corporation, which agreed to offer modifications to seriously delinquent borrowers with subprime mortgages throughout the country. Using a difference-in-difference framework, we find that Countrywide's relative delinquency rate increased more than ten percent per month immediately after the program's announcement.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy

Author
Keys, Ben, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru, and Vincent Yao

This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes during the housing crisis. We use proprietary loan-level panel data matched to consumer credit records using borrowers' Social Security numbers, which allows for accurate measurement of the effects. Our main focus is on borrowers with agency loans, which constitute the vast majority of U.S. mortgage borrowers.

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Journal Article
Date
2014

Prior test scores do not provide valid placebo tests of teacher switching research designs

Author
Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff

Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014)[CFR] evaluate the degree of bias in teacher value-added (VA) estimates using a “teacher switching” research design, regressing changes in mean test scores across cohorts on changes in mean teacher VA. Recent studies (Kane, Staiger, and Bacher-Hicks 2014, Rothstein 2014) have found that regressing changes in mean scores in the prior grade on changes in mean VA also yields a positive coefficient, a result we confirm in our data.

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Case Study
Date
2014

Starbucks in the New Millennium

Author
Netzer, Oded

After a backward slide during the 2008-09 recession, Starbucks appeared to be back on track in 2014. That said, the complexities of globalization—particularly expansion into China—as well as increased competition on a number of fronts continued to challenge the coffee house giant. This case asks students to consider how the brand should fuel growth as it markets to the increasingly diverse tastes of its customers.

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Working Paper
Date
2014

The Value Trap: Value Buys Risky Growth

Author
Penman, Stephen and Francesco Reggiani

Value stocks earn higher returns than growth stocks on average, but it is well documented that those returns come with risk. This paper supplies an understanding of that risk in terms of fundamentals. The fundamental analysis informs that, in buying value stocks, the investor may be trapped into buying firms where prospective earnings growth is quite risky. However, the trap can be avoided by recognizing how earnings and book value are accounted for in financial statements. Specifically, the application of conservative accounting informs the investor ex ante of the risk involved.

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Lecture
Date
2014

Assessing the Influence of Influential Papers

Author
Eisend, Martin and Donald Lehmann
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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Journal of Consumer Research

Brand Tourists: How Core Users Enhance the Brand Image by Eliciting Pride

Author
Bellezza, Silvia and Anat Keinan

This research examines how core consumers of selective brands react when core users obtain access to the brand. Contrary to the view that non-core users and downward brand extensions pose a threat to the brand, this work investigates the conditions under which these non-core users enhance rather than dilute the brand image.

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Chapter
Date
2014
Book
Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations

Intuition in Strategic Thinking

Author
Duggan, William
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Journal Article
Date
2014
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Journal of Consumer Research

Something to Chew On: The Effects of Oral Haptics on Mastication, Orosensory Association, and Calorie Estimation

Author
Biswas, Dipayan, Courtney Szocs, Aradhna Krishna, and Donald Lehmann

This research examines how oral haptics (due to hardness/softness or roughness/smoothness) related to foods influence mastication (i.e., degree of chewing) and orosensory perception (i.e., orally perceived fattiness), which in turn influence calorie estimation, subsequent food choices, and overall consumption volume. The results of five experimental studies show that, consistent with theories related to mastication and orosensory perception, oral haptics related to soft (vs. hard) and smooth (vs. rough) foods lead to higher calorie estimations.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
Annual Review of Economics

Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies

Author
Jackson, C. Kirabo, Jonah Rockoff, and Douglas Staiger

The emergence of large longitudinal datasets linking students to teachers has led to an explosion in the study of teacher effects on student outcomes by economists over the last decade. One large literature has documented wide variation in teacher effectiveness that is not well explained by observable student or teacher characteristics. A second literature has investigated how educational outcomes might be improved by leveraging teacher effectiveness, through processes of recruitment, assignment, compensation, evaluation, promotion, and retention.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
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Journal of Consumer Research

The experience versus the expectations of power: A recipe for altering the effects of power on behavior

Author
Rucker, Derek D., M. Hu, and Adam Galinsky

Power transforms consumer behavior. This research introduces a critical theoretical moderator of power's effects by promoting the idea that power is accompanied by both an experience (how it feels to have or lack power) and expectations (schemas and scripts as to how those with or without power behave). In some cases, the psychological experience of power predisposes people to behave one way, whereas attention to the expectations of power suggests behaving in another way. As a consequence, power's effects for consumer behavior can hinge on consumers' focus.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
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Psychological Science

The Too-Much-Talent Effect: Team Interdependence Determines When More Talent Is Too Much or Not Enough

Author
Swaab, Roderick I., Michael Schaerer, Eric M. Anicich, and Adam Galinsky

Five studies examined the relationship between talent and team performance. Two survey studies found that people believe there is a linear and nearly monotonic relationship between talent and performance: Participants expected that more talent improves performance and that this relationship never turns negative. However, building off research on status conflicts, we predicted that talent facilitates performance — but only up to a point, after which the benefits of more talent decrease and eventually become detrimental as intrateam coordination suffers.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
Journal
The Journal of Finance

Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill

Author
Kacperczyk, Marcin, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Laura Veldkamp

We propose a new definition of skill as a general cognitive ability to either pick stocks or time the market at different times. We find evidence for stock picking in booms and for market timing in recessions. Moreover, the same fund managers that pick stocks well in expansions also time the market well in recessions. These fund managers significantly outperform other funds and passive benchmarks. Our results suggest a new measure of managerial ability that gives more weight to a fund's market timing in recessions and to a fund's stock picking in booms.

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Journal Article
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2014
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under No Child Left Behind

Author
Reback, Randall, Jonah Rockoff, and Heather Schwartz

We conduct the first nationwide study of incentives under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which requires states to punish schools failing to meet target passing rates on students' standardized exams. States' idiosyncratic policies created variation in the risk of failure among very similar schools in different states, which we use to identify effects of accountability pressure.

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Journal Article
Date
2014
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Journal of Public Economics

What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?

Author
Choi, James, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, John Beshears, and Stephen Zeldes

We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing" decision. Very few respondents choose declining real payout streams over flat or increasing real payout streams of equivalent expected present value. Highlighting the effects of inflation increases demand for cost of living adjustments. Frames that highlight flexibility, control, and investment significantly reduce annuitization.

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2014

Modeling Non-Consumer Behavior: Consumption-as-Restriction and Corporate Social Responsibility

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Rapp, Justine M., Ronald Paul Hill, and Donald Lehmann
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Date
2014
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Ideas at Work

Savvy Risks, Sustainable Rewards

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Usher, Bruce
Impact investing — investing for both a social and financial return — is a popular concept these days. I do it primarily through investments in renewable energy companies, for two reasons. First, I passionately believe that renewable energy offers one of several critical solutions to the real threats posed by climate change. Second, I believe I can make a financial return.
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