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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
2008
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Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Perspective-taking from a social neuroscience standpoint

Author
Mason, Malia and C. Neil Macrae
A primary focus of research undertaken by social psychologists is to establish why perceivers fail to accurately adopt or understand other people's perspectives. From overestimating the dispositional bases of behavior to misinterpreting the motivations of out-group members, the message that emerges from this work is that social perception is frequently imperfect. In contrast, researchers from disciplines outside social psychology seek to identify the strategies and skill sets required to successfully understand other people’s perspectives.
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Case Study
Date
2008

Preemptive Renegotiation of the Graybar Ground Lease: Documenting the Strategy

Author
Sagalyn, Lynne
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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Marketing Science

A Hidden Markov Model of Customer Relationship Dynamics

Author
Netzer, Oded, James Lattin, and V. Srinivasan

This research models the dynamics of customer relationships using typical transaction data. Our proposed model permits not only capturing the dynamics of customer relationships but also incorporating the effect of the sequence of customer-firm encounters on the dynamics of customer relationships and the subsequent buying behavior. Our approach to modeling relationship dynamics is structurally different from existing approaches.

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2008
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Journal of International Money and Finance

In Search of a Euro Effect: Big Lessons from a Big Mac Meal?

Author
Parsley, David and Shang-Jin Wei

Was the adoption of the euro accompanied by an increase in prices? Did it promote goods market arbitrage in the form of faster convergence to a common price? By comparing the experience of eurozone countries to non-euro European countries in a "difference-in-differences" specification, we net out effects on prices unrelated to the euro. We find neither evidence of significant price increases associated with the euro, nor evidence of a significant improvement in market integration.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Toward an understanding of when executives see crisis as opportunity

Author
Brockner, Joel and E. Hayes James
Whereas it has long been noted that crises may be sources of opportunity for organizations and their constituents, relatively little is known about the conditions under which executives come to perceive crises as opportunity. The authors delineate some factors that affect the tendency of executives to adopt a "crisis as opportunity" mindset as well as the behavioral concomitants of their having done so. The analysis also includes a future research agenda, a consideration of some of the challenges in enacting that agenda, and a few suggested ways to overcome those challenges.
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Journal Article
Date
2008
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American Economic Review

When Does Coordination Require Centralization?

Author
Alonso, Ricardo, Wouter Dessein, and Niko Matouschek

This paper compares centralized and decentralized coordination when managers are privately informed and communicate strategically. We consider a multi-divisional organization in which decisions must be adapted to local conditions but also coordinated with each other. Information about local conditions is dispersed and held by self-interested division managers who communicate via cheap talk. The only available formal mechanism is the allocation of decision rights. We show that a higher need for coordination improves horizontal communication but worsens vertical communication.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

When does high procedural fairness reduce self-evaluations following unfavorable outcomes?: The moderating effect of prevention focus

Author
Brockner, Joel, David De Cremer, Ariel Fishman, and Scott Spiegel
The present studies were designed to delineate when procedural fairness would be more versus less likely to be inversely related to people's self-evaluations in response to unfavorable outcomes. Prior theory and research have shown that: (1) the more that people assign psychological significance to unfavorable outcomes, the more likely are their self-evaluations to be adversely affected by such outcomes, and (2) people who are more prevention focused in their self-regulatory orientation assign greater psychological significance to unfavorable outcomes.
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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Experimental Economics

Do people behave in experiments as in the field?—evidence from donations

Author
Benz, Matthias and Stephan Meier

Laboratory experiments are an important methodology in economics, especially in the field of behavioral economics. However, it is still debated to what extent results from laboratory experiments are informative about behavior in field settings. One highly important question about the external validity of experiments is whether the same individuals act in experiments as they would in the field. This paper presents evidence on how individuals behave in donation experiments and how the same individuals behave in a naturally occurring decision situation on charitable giving.

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Working Paper
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2008

Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

Author
Rockoff, Jonah

A growing body of research has demonstrated an important relationship between work experience and teacher productivity. This implies that educational quality can be improved through reduction in turnover or acceleration of the return to experience. Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy to achieve these goals, but little is known about its general impact on teachers. I study the impact of mentoring on new teachers in New York City, which adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Eliciting Consumer Preferences using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires

Author
Abernethy, Jacob, Theodoros Evgeniou, Olivier Toubia, and Jean-Philippe Vert

We propose a framework for designing adaptive choice-based conjoint questionnaires that are robust to response error. It is developed based on a combination of experimental design and statistical learning theory principles. We implement and test a specific case of this framework using Regularization Networks. We also formalize within this framework the polyhedral methods recently proposed in marketing.

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Book
Date
2008

Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

Author
Kogut, Bruce

Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues, such as technology transfer and licensing, joint ventures as options, and the diffusion of ideas and best practices in the world economy.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Mathematics of Operations Research

Uniformly efficient importance sampling for the tail distribution of sums of random variables

Author
Glasserman, Paul and Sandeep Juneja

Successful efficient rare-event simulation typically involves using importance sampling tailored to a specific rare event. However, in applications one may be interested in simultaneous estimation of many probabilities or even an entire distribution. In this paper, we address this issue in a simple but fundamental setting.

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Journal Article
Date
2008

25 Years of IJRM: Reflections on the Past and Future

Author
Stremersch , Stefan J. and Donald Lehmann
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Working Paper
Date
2008

A New Approach to Modeling the Adoption of New Products: Aggregated Diffusion Models

Author
Toubia, Olivier, Jacob Goldenberg, and Rosanna Garcia

Companies need tools and models that accurately describe and forecast the diffusion process of new products. Most tools for predicting the diffusion of an innovation, given early data, use aggregate models (such as the Bass model) that capture the impact of advertising and word-of-mouth on adoption. Because of their aggregate nature, however, (i.e., these models treat each month or each year as one observation), they are often unable to produce reliable predictions early in the diffusion process, when such predictions would be most helpful (e.g., in order to adjust the launch campaign).

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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Accounting Horizons

A Perspective on the SEC's Proposal to Accept Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) without Reconciliation to U.S. GAAP

Author
Jamal, Karim, George Benston, Douglas Carmichael, Theodore Christensen, Robert Colson, Stephen Moehrle, Shivaram Rajgopal, Thomas Stober, Shyam Sunder, and Ross Watts

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued a call for comment on a proposal to accept financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) without reconciliation to U.S. GAAP. Accounting researchers have attempted to assess the quality of IFRS using different methods and criteria. While we are skeptical of drawing direct conclusions about the SEC’s proposal based on this research, there is adequate evidence that both IFRS and U.S. GAAP provide useful information to investors and other users of financial statements.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Journal of Finance

Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing

Author
Wang, Neng and Rui Albuquerque

The separation of ownership and control allows controlling shareholders to pursue private benefits. We develop an analytically tractable dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to study asset pricing and welfare implications of imperfect investor protection. Consistent with empirical evidence, the model predicts that countries with weaker investor protection have more incentives to overinvest, lower Tobin's q, higher return volatility, larger risk premia, and higher interest rate.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Assertiveness expectancies: How hard people push depends on the consequences they predict

Author
Ames, Daniel

The present paper seeks to explain varying levels of assertiveness in interpersonal conflict and negotiations with assertiveness expectancies, idiosyncratic predictions people make about the social and instrumental consequences of assertive behavior. This account complements motivation-based models of assertiveness and competitiveness, suggesting that individuals may possess the same social values (e.g., concern for relationships) but show dramatically different assertiveness due to different assumptions about behavioral consequences.

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Chapter
Date
2008
Book
Science and Golf V: Proceedings of the 2008 World Scientific Congress of Golf

Assessing Golfer Performance Using Golfmetrics

Author
Broadie, Mark

The software application Golfmetrics was created to capture and store golfer shot data and to quantify differences in shot patterns between players of different skill levels. Across golfers it is shown, somewhat surprisingly, that longer hitters tend to be straighter than shorter hitters. Individual golfers can be measured relative to a benchmark to assess relative accuracy and to suggest whether to focus on increasing distance or decreasing directional errors. For amateur golfers, distance errors on short game and sand shots are shown to be about three times larger than direction errors.

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Case Study
Date
2008

Beer Game: A Supply Chain Simulation

Author
Chen, Fangruo and Marcelo Olivares
In this note students will be taken through the steps of an exercise which simulates how to manage a supply chain for a company that produces and distributes beer.
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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Marketing Letters

Beyond Conjoint Analysis: Advances in Preference Measurement

Author
Netzer, Oded, Olivier Toubia, Eric Bradlow, Ely Dahan, Theodoros Evgeniou, Fred Feinberg, Eleanor Feit, Sam Hui, Joseph Johnson, John Liechty, James Orlin, and Vithala Rao

We identify gaps and propose several directions for future research in preference measurement. We structure our argument around a framework that views preference measurement as comprising three interrelated components: (1) the problem that the study is ultimately intended to address; (2) the design of the preference measurement task and the data collection approach; (3) the specification and estimation of a preference model, and the conversion into action. Conjoint analysis is only one special case within this framework.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
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IMS Collections

Bounding stationary expectations of Markov processes

Author
Glynn, Peter and Assaf Zeevi

This paper develops a simple and systematic approach for obtaining bounds on stationary expectations of Markov processes. Given a function f which one is interested in evaluating, the main idea is to find a function g that satisfies a certain "mean drift" inequality with respect to f, which in turn leads to bounds on the stationary expectation of the latter.

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Case Study
Date
2008

Brand Recovery: Communication in the Face of Crisis

Author
Johar, Gita and Sabine Einwiller
In 2007, JetBlue faced enormous criticism from its customers and the media after a Valentine's Day storm led to delays and cancellations. How did the airliner navigate the crisis? In this note students study communication strategies developed from scientific research on the process of persuasion that can help brands recover from adverse publicity and regain their customers' trust. Six examples illustrate a range of actions — such as the "come clean" response and "polish the halo" response — and teach students how to apply various communication frameworks.
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Book
Date
2008

Branding 101: How to Build the Most Valuable Asset of Any Business

Author
Sexton, Don

Whether a business is large or small, its brand is probably its most important and valuable asset. How a brand is managed has tremendous impact on an organization's ability to attract and hold customers, achieve high revenue and profits, and ensure future success. The most powerful brands are worth billions of dollars, but to build a powerful brand at any level requires time, effort, discipline, and understanding the way brands work.

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Chapter
Date
2008

Breaking Behavior Repetition: New Insights on the Role of Habits and Intentions

Author
Chandon, Pierre and Vicki Morwitz
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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Research in Organizational Behavior

Business friendships

Author
Ingram, Paul and Xi Zou

Business friendships are increasingly common. Research in organizational behavior has identified a number of benefits to career and organizational performance of these relationships. These instrumental benefits derive from the affective qualities of these relationships, through the mechanisms of trust, empathy and sympathy. Yet the combination of instrumentality and affect produces a number of difficulties for business friends.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Journal of the European Economic Association

Centralization versus Decentralization: An Application to Price Setting by a Multi-Market Firm

Author
Alonso, Ricardo, Wouter Dessein, and Niko Matouschek

This paper compares centralized and decentralized price setting by a firm that sells a single product in two markets, but is constrained to set one price (e.g., due to arbitrage). Each market is characterized by a different linear demand function, and demand conditions are privately observed by a local manager. This manager only cares about profits in his own market and, as a result, communicates his information strategically. Our main results link organizational design to market demand.

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Journal Article
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2008
Journal
Contemporary Accounting Research

CEO Reputation and Earnings Quality

Author
Francis, Jennifer, Allen Huang, Shivaram Rajgopal, and Amy Zang

We examine the association between CEO reputation (proxied by the extent of press coverage) and the quality of the firm's earnings (proxied by two accruals-based measures). We test three explanations for an association between these constructs: the efficient contracting hypothesis suggests that reputed CEOs are associated with good earnings quality, while the rent extraction and matching explanations argue that reputed CEOs are associated with poor earnings quality.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Chameleons bake bigger pies and take bigger pieces: Strategic behavioral mimicry facilitates negotiation outcomes

Author
Maddux, W., E. Mullen, and Adam Galinsky

Two experiments investigated the hypothesis that strategic behavioral mimicry can facilitate negotiation outcomes. Study 1 used an employment negotiation with multiple issues, and demonstrated that strategic behavioral mimicry facilitated outcomes at both the individual and dyadic levels: Negotiators who mimicked the mannerisms of their opponents both secured better individual outcomes, and their dyads as a whole also performed better when mimicking occurred compared to when it did not.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques

Change-point estimation from indirect observations. 1. Minimax complexity

Author
Goldenshluger, Alexander, A. Juditsky, A. Tsybakov, and Assaf Zeevi

We consider the problem of nonparametric estimation of signal singularities from indirect and noisy observations. Here by singularity, we mean a discontinuity (change-point) of the signal or of its derivative. The model of indirect observations we consider is that of a linear transform of the signal, observed in white noise. The estimation problem is analyzed in a minimax framework. We provide lower bounds for minimax risks and propose rate-optimal estimation procedures.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques

Change-point estimation from indirect observations. 2. Adaptation

Author
Goldenshluger, Alexander, A. Juditsky, A. Tsybakov, and Assaf Zeevi

We focus on the problem of adaptive estimation of signal singularities from indirect and noisy observations. A typical example of such a singularity is a discontinuity (change-point) of the signal or of its derivative. We develop a change-point estimator which adapts to the unknown smoothness of a nuisance deterministic component and to an unknown jump amplitude. We show that the proposed estimator attains optimal adaptive rates of convergence. A simulation study demonstrates reasonable practical behavior of the proposed adaptive estimates.

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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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2008
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The Chazen Web Journal of International Business

China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads

Author
Calomiris, Charles
Editor Charles Calomiris and contributing authors examine China's staggering growth and its ability to maintain this surge with current policies in the newly published <em>China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads.</em>
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Working Paper
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2008

Choice-Motivated Source Attribution: Encoding and Retrieval Biases

Author
Ansari, Asim and Gita Johar
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Journal Article
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2008
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Journal of Consumer Research

Choosing Outcomes Versus Choosing Products: Consumer-Focused Retirement Investment Advice

Author
Goldstein, Daniel, Eric Johnson, and William Sharpe
Investing for retirement is one of the most consequential yet daunting decisions consumers face. We present a way to both aid and understand consumers as they construct preferences for retirement income. The method enables consumers to build desired probability distributions of wealth constrained by market forces and the amount invested.
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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Computing virtual nesting controls for network revenue management under customer choice behavior

Author
van Ryzin, Garrett and Gustavo Vulcano

We consider a revenue management, network capacity control problem in a setting where heterogeneous customers choose among the various products offered by a firm (e.g., different flight times, fare classes, and/or routings). Customers may therefore substitute if their preferred products are not offered. These individual customer choice decisions are modeled as a very general stochastic sequence of customers, each of whom has an ordered list of preferences. Minimal assumptions are made about the statistical properties of this demand sequence.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Journal of Finance

Correlated Trading and Returns

Author
Huberman, Gur, Daniel Dorn, and Paul Sengmueller

A German broker's clients place similar speculative trades and therefore tend to be on the same side of the market in a given stock during a given day, week, month, and quarter. Aggregate liquidity effects, short sale constraints, the systematic execution of limit orders (coordinated through price movements) or the correlated trading of other investors who pick off retail limit orders, do not fully explain why retail investors trade similarly. Correlated market orders lead returns, presumably due to persistent speculative price pressure.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Journal of Creative Behavior

Creativity as a Matter of Choice: Prior Experience and Task Instruction as Boundary Conditions for the Positive Effect of Choice on Creativity

Author
Chua, Yong Joo Roy and Sheena Iyengar

This study investigates the effects of prior experience, task instruction, and choice on creative performance. Although extant research suggests that giving people choice in how they approach a task could enhance creative performance, we propose that this view needs to be circumscribed.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Organization Science

Culture and coworker relations: Interpersonal patterns in American, Chinese, German, and Spanish divisions of a global retail bank

Author
Morris, Michael, Joel Podolny, and B. Sullivan

This paper examines coworker networks in the American, Chinese, German, and Spanish divisions of a global retail bank. Because the bank has standardized structure and policies across countries, it is possible to examine how norms rooted in national culture impact on various features of informal ties. We propose that cultures vary in the models on which coworker interaction norms are based, with market, family, law, and friendship relations serving as alternative templates.

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Chapter
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2008
Book
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain

Decisions under Uncertainty: Psychological, Economic, and Neuroeconomic Explanations of Risk Preference

Author
Weber, Elke and Eric Johnson
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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Journal of Product and Brand Management

Derivative beliefs and evaluations

Author
Sheinin, D., L. Dube, and Bernd Schmitt

Purpose — The purpose of this research is to examine how consumers form beliefs and evaluate derivatives (e.g. handheld computers) and branded derivatives (e.g. Palm handheld computers). The aim is to study how consumers combine two categories (e.g. ?handheld products? and ?computers?) to form beliefs, how the similarity between the categories influences beliefs, how the addition of a brand changes beliefs, and how the presence of brand associations impacts on evaluations.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Journal of Public Policy and Marketing

Designing Effective Health Communications: A Meta-Analysis

Author
Keller, Punam and Donald Lehmann

The massive costs of health care ($1.7 trillion and counting) and the problems posed by various diseases (e.g., AIDS, obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mental illness) are well known and documented. People worry more about their personal health care costs than losing their jobs, being a victim of a violent crime, or terrorist attacks. As a consequence, massive efforts to improve knowledge about detection, prevention, and treatment have been undertaken. In addition, there is growing realization that health communication strategies need to be tailored to specific segments.

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Working Paper
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2008

Dimensions of Product Creativity

Author
Goldenberg, Jacob, Lilach Sagiv, Gita Johar, and Amitava Chattopadhyay
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Chapter
Date
2008
Book
Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation

Distinguishing levels of approach and avoidance: An analysis using regulatory focus theory

Author
Scholer, Abigail and E. Tory Higgins
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Working Paper
Date
2008

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

Author
Prescott, J. J. and Jonah Rockoff

In recent decades, sex offenders have been the targets of some of the most far reaching and novel crime legislation in the U.S. Two key innovations have been registration and notification laws which, respectively, require that convicted sex offenders provide valid contact information to law enforcement authorities, and that information on sex offenders be made public.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Emotional intelligence and the ease of recall judgment bias: The mediating effect of private self-focused attention

Author
Buontempo, G. and Joel Brockner
The present study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and people's tendency to exhibit the ease of recall bias (emanating from the availability heuristic). Results showed that ability to understand emotions, a central element of emotional intelligence, was inversely related to the ease of recall bias, and that this relationship was mediated by participants' private self-focused attention. Implications for theory and practice, as well as limitations, are discussed.
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Journal Article
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2008
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American Economic Review

Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws

Author
Rockoff, Jonah and Leigh Linden

We combine data from the housing market with data from the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry to estimate how individuals value living in close proximity to a convicted criminal. We use the exact location of sex offenders to exploit variation in the threat of crime within small homogeneous groupings of homes, and we use the timing of sex offenders' arrivals to control for baseline property values in the area. We find statistically and economically significant negative effects of sex offenders' locations that are extremely localized.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Review of Financial Studies

Estimating the dynamics of mutual fund alphas and betas

Author
Mamaysky, Harry, Matthew Spiegel, and Hong Zhang

Consider an economy in which the underlying security returns follow a linear factor model with constant coeffcients. While portfolios that invest in these securities will, in general, have a linear factor structure, it will be one with time-varying coeffcients. However, under certain assumptions regarding the portfolio's investment strategy, it is possible to estimate these time-varying alphas and betas.

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Journal Article
Date
2008
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Operations Research

Fast pricing of basket default swaps

Author
Chen, Zhiyong and Paul Glasserman

A basket default swap is a derivative security tied to an underlying basket of corporate bonds or other assets subject to credit risk. The value of the contract depends on the joint distribution of the default times of the underlying assets. Valuing a basket default swap often entails Monte Carlo simulation of these default times. For baskets of high-quality credits and for swaps that require multiple defaults to trigger payment, pricing the swap is a rare-event simulation problem.

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Journal Article
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2008
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Operations Research

Fast simulation of multifactor portfolio credit risk

Author
Glasserman, Paul, Wanmo Kang, and Perwez Shahabuddin

This paper develops rare-event simulation methods for the estimation of portfolio credit risk—the risk of losses to a portfolio resulting from defaults of assets in the portfolio. Portfolio credit risk is measured through probabilities of large losses, which are typically due to defaults of many obligors (sources of credit risk) to which a portfolio is exposed.

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Working Paper
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2008

Financing real options

Author
Sundaresan, M. Suresh and Neng Wang
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Type
Journal Article
Date
2008
Journal
Academy of Management Journal

From the head and the heart: Locating cognition- and affect-based trust in mangers' professional networks

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Chua, Yong Joo Roy, Paul Ingram, and Michael Morris

This article investigates the configuration of cognition- and affect-based trust in managers' professional networks, examining how these two types of trust are associated with relational content and structure. Results indicate that cognition-based trust is positively associated with economic resource, task advice, and career guidance ties, whereas affect-based trust is positively associated with friendship and career guidance ties but negatively associated with economic resource ties.

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