Now showing items 31-40 of 45
Tax Compliance and Enforcement: New Research and Its Policy Implications
(2016-01)
This paper reviews recent economic research in tax administration, compliance, and enforcement and discusses the implications of the results of this research for realistic policy options.
Ending Executive Manipulations of Incentive Compensation
(2016-02)
In this article, we analyze whether the manipulation of stock options still continues to
this day. Our evidence shows that executives continue to employ a variety of manipulative devices to increase their compensation, ...
Customer Acquisition via Display Advertising Using Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments
(2016-03)
Online advertisers regularly deliver several versions of display ads in a single campaign across many websites in order to acquire customers, but they are uncertain about which ads are most effective. As the campaign ...
A Dynamic Model of Crowdfunding
(2016-02)
Crowdfunding is quickly emerging as an alternative to traditional methods of funding new products. In a crowdfunding campaign, a seller solicits financial contributions from a crowd, usually in the form of pre-buying an ...
Achieving High Growth in Policy-Dependent Industries: Differences between Startups and Corporate-Backed Ventures
(2016-06)
This research examines which firms achieve high growth in policy-dependent industries. Using the European solar photovoltaic industry as our empirical setting, we investigate the impact of policy support on the growth of ...
Reflections: Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar
(2016-01)
Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage ...
Organizational Fields Past, Present and Future
(2016-01)
The central construct of neo- institutional theory has been the organizational field. Strictly speaking, the field is ‘a community of organizations that partakes of a common meaning system and whose participants interact ...
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 ...
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 ...