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Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Digital technologies have transformed the nature of production and the types of goods and services consumed in modern economies. Yet our measurement framework for economic growth has not fundamentally changed since the ...
Financial decisions of households
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Left-digit bias refers to the tendency of individuals to focus attention on the leftmost digit of numerical information when making decisions. This paper tests for the existence of left-digit bias in the consumer credit ...
Matching faces to expectations : the impact of political and business domain differences in gendered expectations on preferred appearance for leaders
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Prior research has demonstrated that feminine appearance is penalized in business contexts. However, a separate body of research, predominantly centered on electoral outcomes, has put forth conflicting results demonstrating ...
The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Recent reports suggest that female entrepreneurs are increasingly relevant to business dynamism and economic growth, but it appears that they may be forming different types of businesses relative to male entrepreneurs. ...
Space and networks in the labor market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Agglomeration economies occur when advantages are created and exploited due to the geographic clustering of firms within the same industry. We focus on one of the Marshallian microfoundational processes which produces ...
Growing Pains in financial development : institutional weakness and investment efficiency
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
There is little evidence that the expansion of microfinance has reduced poverty, but is instead increasingly associated with problematic multiple borrowing at high interest rates and high levels of debt and default. We ...
Private and government banks : a DSGE approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This paper studies the role of public banks in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogeneous financial intermediaries. In accordance with the empirical literature on the subject, this study shows ...
Managing operational capabilities in startup companies/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Hundreds of papers exist on entrepreneurial marketing and finance, whereas capabilities for operations get far less attention. Furthermore, much of the literature in operations management addresses challenges of companies ...
Is there momentum in Korean equity market?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Momentum, whereby past returns are positively associated with future returns, has been documented in most of global equity markets. However, momentum is known to be relatively mild in East Asian equity markets. The momentum ...
Weaponized disclosure : the feedback effect of disclosure externalities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Information about one firm has the potential to affect the stock price of another firm. I investigate whether managers recognize this potential and strategically alter their disclosure decisions when doing so is beneficial. ...