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A Theory of Multi-Tier Ecolabel Competition
(2016-01)
We model competing ecolabels sponsored by an industry trade association and an environmental group. For either sponsor in autarky, multi-tier labels are more attractive when there are many producers with high cost of ...
Environmental Sustainability 2.0: Empirical Analysis of Environmental Erp Implementation
(2012-05)
We examined the implementation of a new and rapidly emerging class of enterprise software system for managing environmental resources such as energy and carbon emissions. Analysis of the implementation of an environmental ...
When Random Assignment Is Not Enough: Accounting for Intentional Selectivity in Experimental Research
(2013-04)
A common goal in marketing research is to understand how one evaluates products that have been filtered through some type of screening or selection process. Typical examples include postchoice satisfaction ratings, certain ...
Conditional Projection: How Own Evaluations Impact Beliefs about Others Whose Choices Are Known
(2012-04)
We study how a person’s evaluation of choice options influences her estimates of other people’s evaluations when their choices are known. People rely on the relation between their own evaluations and their final decision ...
Deadlines, Work Flows, Task Sorting, and Work Quality
(2013-08)
We examine deadlines-induced behavior using large-scale, high frequency data on about 5 million U.S. patents and published applications. We motivate the study with a model of rational agents facing discontinuous incentives ...
Using Patient-Centric Quality Information to Unlock Hidden Health Care Capabilities
(2016-08)
We document a wide variation in quality among 188 surgeons at 35 hospitals in New York state that perform mitral valve surgery. Our analysis shows that patients of different demographics and levels of acuity benefit ...
Ideation-Execution Transition in Product Development: Experimental Analysis
(2016-08)
Bringing a new product to market involves both a creative ideation stage, and an execution stage. When time-to-market constraints are binding it is an important question how to divide limited time between the two stages ...
Choice Architecture and the Locus of Fiduciary Obligation in Defined Contribution Plans
(2012-12)
The insights of choice architecture have led to expanded use of default settings in defined contribution (DC) plans in both the United States and Australia. The two countries have taken somewhat similar approaches to the ...
Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising
(2013-10)
Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the ...
Consumer Search Behavior on the Mobile Internet: An Empirical Analysis
(2015-05)
The increasing diffusion of smartphones and tablet computers has facilitated access to product information by providing Internet access anywhere and at any time. As a result, consumers are increasingly using the mobile ...