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The Firm as an Incentive System
The Impact of Economics on Contemporary Sociology
Stationary Markov Equilibria
The sinister attribution error: Paranoid cognition and collective distrust in groups and organizations
Recent social psychological research on paranoid cognition has shown that when individuals are self-conscious or feel under evaluative scrutiny, they tend to overestimate the extent to which they are the target of others’ attention. As a…
Trust and distrust: Its psychological and social dimensions
A Survey-Based method for Measuring and Understanding Brand Equity and its Extendibility
The authors develop a new survey-based method for measuring and understanding a brand’s equity in a product category and evaluating the equity of the brand’s extension into a different but related product category. It uses a customer-based…
Continuous Time Security Pricing: A Utility Gradient Approach
Efficient and Equilibrium Allocations with Stochastic Differential Utility
Fading Memories: A Process Theory of Strategic Business Exit in Dynamic Environments
This comparative study of the evolution of Intel Corporation’s strategic position in two semiconductor memory businesses and in the microprocessor business provides insight into the forces that drive strategic business exit in dynamic…
Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects
We investigate conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables. First we show that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify any meaningful average treatment effect. We…
Fair Value Accounting: Evidence from Investment Securities and the Market Valuation of Banks
This study investigates how disclosed fair value estimates of banks’ investment securities and securities gains and losses based on those estimates are reflected in share prices in comparison with historical costs. Fair value securities gains and…
Hidden sources of conflict (Review)
The article reviews the book “Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering the Behind-the Scenes Disputes, ” edited by Deborah M. Kolb and Jean M. Bartunek.
Negotiating Rationally
In Negotiating Rationally, Max Bazerman and Margaret Neale explain how to avoid the pitfalls of irrationality and gain the upper hand in negotiations.
For example, managers tend…
Public Disclosure, Private Information Collection, and Short-Term Trading
This paper examines how public disclosure affects private information acquisition activity in a market economy. We analyze a setting where traders with short-term investment horizons are allowed to trade on their private information prior to a…
The Liability of Collective Action: Growth and Change Among Early American Telephone Companies
An Evolutionary Model of Organizational Performance
Organizations vary in how well they perform. This can be due to differences in their strategic positions and to differences in their competitive abilities. We propose an evolutionary model in which there is a trade off between these two sources…
An Evolutionary Model of Organizational Performance
Organizations vary in how well they perform. This can be due to differences in their strategic positions and to differences in their competitive abilities. We propose an evolutionary model in which there is a trade-off between these two sources…
An Improved Method for Meta-Analysis with Application to New Product Diffusion Models
In meta-analysis multiple regression models, the dependent variable is a parameter estimate, and the independent variables are study descriptors. The error term in such a multiple regression model arises from two sources. First, the parameter…
Asymmetries in Attachments to Groups and to their Members: Distinguishing between Common-Identity and Common-Bond Groups
Two studies sought to validate the distinction between common-identity groups, which are based on direct attachments to the group identity, and common-bond groups, which are based on attachments among group members. Study 1 focused on members of…
Bid-Ask Spreads in Foreign Exchange Markets: Implications for Models of Asymmetric Information
The term “market microstructure” was coined in 1976 by Mark Garman to define “moment-to-moment trading activities in asset markets” (1976, Abstract). With the stated goal of providing insight and testable implications regarding the transaction-to…