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News or Noise?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-06)
This study investigates the quality of the U.S. News annual ranking of national universities and liberal arts colleges. The main finding is that current rankings changes have a strong tendency to revert over the following ...
Organizational and leadership virtues and the role of forgiveness
(2003)
The investigation of virtues in organizational life has been neglected. Systematic studies of the development and demonstration of virtue have been all but absent in the organizational sciences. This article highlights ...
Labor Laws and Corporate Governance: International Evidence from Restructuring Decisions
(2006-04)
Our results highlight the importance of interaction among management, labor, and investors in shaping corporate governance. We find that strong union laws protect not only workers but also underperforming managers. Weak ...
Unpacking Rapport: The Role of Behavioral Coordination and Culture in Workplace Interviews
(Administrative Science Quarterly, 2004)
This paper examines the influence of non-verbal coordination and culture on perceptions of interpersonal rapport and candidate performance in job interview settings. Mock interviews were conducted on-site at a Fortune 500 ...
Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under Threat of Audit
(2006-03)
We develop an economic model of "greenwash," in which a firm strategically discloses environmental information and a non-governmental organization (NGO) may audit and penalize the firm for failing to fully disclose its ...
On the Economics of Securitization: A Framework and Some Lessons from U.S. Experience
(2007-05)
The paper provides a framework for analyzing the development of securitization as a vehicle for funding loans. Broadly speaking there are two models for funding loans: the portfolio lender model, which typically involves ...
The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm
(2007-03-19)
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain ...