Publications

The genealogy process is a key bottleneck within forensic investigative genetic genealogy, which is a novel approach to solving violent crimes and identifying human remains. Building on our earlier work, we develop FIGGsolver: an interactive…

I investigate a generalized form of the Lucas (1972, 1073) Phillips curve, that allows different firms to learn aggregate information at different speeds, in otherwise standard textbook new-Keynesian models. This Phillips curve helps to reconcile…

Drivers in a voluntary monitoring program accept short-term tracking for potential discounts on future premiums. Using proprietary data from a major U.S. auto insurer matched with competitor price menus, we find that safer drivers self-select…

Understanding how workload shapes error occurrence remains a central challenge in safety research, particularly in complex service systems characterized by dynamic workflows and incomplete error reporting. From a Safety-I perspective, heavier…

Alternative funds differ sharply from mutual funds: institutional investors dominate, fees are performance-based and investor-specific, access is rationed, and some investors earn positive alpha. We show that these differences arise endogenously…

One of the primary responsibilities of the board of directors is to monitor the strategy and risk of the corporation. This Quick Guide provides a concise introduction to corporate strategy, key performance measures, and risk management. It…

Commercial products and services significantly – and often negatively – impact public health by shaping the health behaviors of their users. This paper explores a potential path to holding companies accountable for costly, negative public health…

Recommender systems are central to how modern digital platforms match consumers with content, yet state-of-the-art models are often black-box, limiting their interpretability and adoption in many business settings. Existing explainable AI…

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide the most credible estimates of advertising incrementality but are difficult to scale. We propose Predicted Incrementality by Experimentation (PIE), which reframes ad measurement as a campaign-level…

Game theory provides a language and a set of tools for analyzing behavior in a wide range of strategic interactions, including negotiation. Here, we illustrate behavioral game theory’s contributions to the study of negotiation, with a particular…

Consumer search has fragmented across an ecosystem of platforms that include not only search engines, but also e-commerce sites, discussion forums, social and video platforms, and now large language models. Different frameworks have captured…

The board of directors plays a central role in the corporate governance system. All countries require that publicly listed companies have a board. While their attributes vary across nations, they universally share common responsibilities.

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A board of directors requires professionals with a diverse mix of managerial, functional, and other specialized knowledge in order to properly advise and oversee management. This Quick Guide reviews the process by which companies select,…

The board of directors is generally described in terms of its prominent structural attributes, including size, composition, and independence. This Quick Guide examines the importance of these, and whether they contribute to board effectiveness…

A company offer a competitive compensation arrangement in order to attract, retain, and motivate a qualified CEO to manage the organization.

This quick guide examines the elements of executive compensation and the process by which the…

The board of directors is responsible for ensuring that correct management is in place to run the organization. This includes hiring, evaluating, and — when circumstances merit — removing or replacing the chief executive officer.

This…

A company offers equity incentives to encourage CEOs to take actions that are in the interest of shareholders. At the same time, equity incentives have the potential to encourage undesirable behaviors.

This Quick Guide examines the effects…

The governance system that a company adopts is not independent of its environment. Instead, it is shaped by a variety of factors inherent to the business setting. This Quick Guide explains the factors that shape governance systems around the…

Economic growth is typically measured in per capita terms. A long tradition in philosophy, however, suggests that social welfare may depend on the number of people as well. To illustrate how much this matters quantitatively, we decompose welfare…