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Analyzing Pricing Strategies for Online-Services with Network Effect
(2011-03)
In this study, we model firms that sell a product and a complementary online service, where only the latter displays positive network effects. That is, the value each consumer derives from the service increases with the ...
Using the Resource-Based Theory to Determine Covenant Not to Compete Legitimacy
(2012-05)
This paper addresses the legitimacy of competing interests involved in the enforcement of covenants not to compete (“noncompetes”). To date, the courts and legislatures have not relied on a principled theoretical framework ...
Identification with Models and Exogenous Data Variation
(2016-07)
We distinguish between identification and establishing causality. Identification means forming a unique mapping from features of data to quantities that are of interest to economists. Establishing causality is synonymous ...
Cost-Effectiveness of Referring Patients to Centers of Excellence for Mitral Valve Surgery
(2015-05)
BACKGROUND
The 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines state that mitral valve diseases should be repaired at a Center of Excellence (CoE). We evaluate the ...
Climate Change as a Cultural and Behavioral Issue: Addressing Barriers and Implementing Solutions
(2010-07)
At the core, environmental issues like climate change are not primarily technological or economic, but behavioral and cultural. While technological and economic activity may be the direct cause of environmentally destructive ...
Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
(2011-02)
This paper analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change - the climate change "convinced" and climate change "skeptical" logics - are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that ...
Human Rights and a Corporation's Duty to Combat Corruption
(2013-10)
Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as ...
Bank Competition: Measurement, Decision-Making, and Risk Profiles
(2015-01)
This paper investigates how competition impacts the future operating decisions and risk profile of banks. We construct a comprehensive, time-varying, bank-specific measure of a bank’s competitive environment (BCE) using ...
Overcoming Gender Discrimination in Business: Reconsidering Mentoring in the Post #Me-Too and Covid-19 Eras
(2020-11)
Due to the #MeToo movement, awareness of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace is at an all-time high and the dividing line between the genders in the workplace may be at its greatest. Women, who were already at ...
Large Steps toward Small Donations: Reputational Benefits of Nominal Corporate Generosity
(2017-04)
Cause marketing campaigns often highlight two attributes: the percent-of-proceeds from each purchase to be donated, and the maximum amount the company will donate. For example, a recent campaign by Chipotle pledged to ...