Publications

We describe factors that make bidding in large spectrum auctions complex ó including exposure and budget problems, the role of timing within an ascending auction, and the possibilities for price forecasting ó and how economic and game-theoretic…

This chapter investigates the widespread claim that the billion dollar valuations of ‘unicorn’ start-ups are unreliable because of the manner in which founders bargain for these valuations with their venture capital (VC) investors. In particular…

Our objective is to show how the current setting of U.S.-dollar money markets limits the passthrough effectiveness of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. We focus on frictions associated with imperfect competition, regulation, infrastructure,…

Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership brings together new scholarship in this burgeoning…

In this chapter, we introduce and discuss some of the most important and widely used models of personality. Focusing on trait theories, we first give a brief overview of the history of personality research and assessment. We then move on to…

Although the legal profession has become much more diverse in recent decades, observed attainment still varies with a lawyer’s race (Gorman and Kay, 2010; Payne-Pikus, Hagan, and Nelson, 2010). Black lawyers, in particular, experience higher…

The Legends in Consumer Behavior series captures the essence of the most important contributions made in the field of consumer behavior in the past several decades. It reproduces the seminal works of legends in the field, which are supplemented…

The chapter applies the incomplete contract paradigm to the design of political systems and shows that some of the lessons from this inquiry were overlooked by studies focusing on firms, e.g., the importance of the voting rule in solving the hold…

For more than fifty years, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders.

And as America has become increasingly…

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art, innovative approaches to qualitative research for organizational scholars. Individual chapters in each area are written by experts in a variety of fields, who have contributed…

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The failure of financial regulation can, and did, cause significant harm to the economy. I argue that confusion about the nature of the problems in the financial system and about the trade-offs associated with key regulations has prevented…

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This chapter explores three issues in prostitution markets and their implications for prostitution law: bargaining, coercion, and entry. The discussion is organized around three different views on violence: prostitution as a product of…

In a reflective moment during his brief but crisis-prone presidency, the late President John F. Kennedy once observed:

The essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the observer—often, indeed, to the decider himself… . There…

This chapter reviews the literature on how changes in corporations, firms, and markets influence the dynamics of social movements. It describes the concepts of corporate and industry opportunity structure, and looks at the way…

Trust dilemmas arise whenever individuals perceive opportunities to benefit from engaging in trusting behavior with others, yet recognize that doing so entails the risk of exploitation. My research examines the determinants of judgment and choice…

This chapter evaluates the nature, relative incidence, and drivers of software piracy. The authors measure piracy for a specific product — Windows 7 — which was associated with a significant level of private sector investment. Using…

Within organizational theory, the term intergroup relations refers to individual interactions involving members from different groups, as well as the collective behavior of groups in interaction with other groups at either the intra- or inter-…

Politics are a ubiquitous and significant feature of organizational life. This entry provides a brief definition of the concept of organizational politics, as well as an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the antecedents and…