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Parallel Experimentation and Competitive Interference on Online Advertising Platforms
This paper studies the measurement of advertising effects on online platforms when parallel experimentation occurs, that is, when multiple advertisers experiment concurrently. It provides a framework that makes precise how parallel…
People Who Share Encounters with Racism Are Silenced Online by Humans and Machines, but a Guideline-Reframing Intervention Holds Promise
Are members of marginalized communities silenced on social media when they share personal experiences of racism? Here, we investigate the role of algorithms, humans, and platform guidelines in suppressing disclosures of racial discrimination. In…
Predicting Expert Evaluations in Software Code Reviews
Manual code reviews are an essential but time-consuming part of software development, often leading reviewers to prioritize technical issues while skipping valuable assessments. This paper presents an algorithmic model that automates aspects of…
Psychology of Personal Political Engagement in Russia: Unpacking Perceived Community Culture, Pluralistic Ignorance, and System Justification
This study explores the relationship between Russian citizens’ self-reported political engagement and their system justification beliefs, perceptions of the system justification beliefs of other citizens, and perceptions of their community…
Saving Millions in Government Procurement Through Data Science and Market Design
[Winner of the 2024 Informs Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award; Finalist of the 2025 MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management]
Framework agreements (FAs) are procurement mechanisms used in…
Service Quality in the Gig Economy: Empirical Evidence about Driving Quality at Uber
The rise of marketplaces for goods and services has led to changes in the mechanisms used to ensure high quality. We analyze this phenomenon in the Uber market, where the system of pre-screening that prevailed in the taxi industry has been…
The Perils of Isolationism: The World Still Needs America — and America Still Needs the World
This article examines the current global landscape and the challenges the United States faces in relation to China and Russia. It emphasizes that the current situation is not a repeat of the Cold War but rather a more dangerous one. The article…
The Problem of Good Conduct Among Financial Advisers
Households in the United States often rely on financial advisers for investment and savings decisions, yet there is a widespread perception that many advisers are dishonest. This distrust is not unwarranted: approximately one in fifteen advisers…
The Spiderweb of Partnership Tax Structures
U.S. partnerships control more than $40 trillion in assets, vastly outnumber U.S. public firms, and contribute significantly to the U.S. tax non-compliance of pass-through entities, which is larger than the non-compliance of publicly traded…
Recommending for a Multi-sided Marketplace: A Multi-Objective Hierarchical Approach
Recommender systems play a vital role in driving the long-term values for online platforms. However, developing recommender systems for multi-sided plat-forms faces two prominent challenges. First, recommending for multi-sided platforms typically…
Solar Flare Up: Systemic Organizational Risk in the Residential Solar Industry
The concept of systemic organizational risk is critically important in corporate governance. A systemic risk is one in which the system itself — through its incentives, structure, and culture — encourages or fails to detect behavior contrary to…
The Drivers and Implications of Retail Margin Trading
Using granular data covering both regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadowfinanced) margin accounts in China, we provide novel evidence on retail investors’ margin trading behavior and its price implications. First, we show that…
The Drivers and Implications of Retail Margin Trading
Using granular data covering both regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadowfinanced) margin accounts in China, we provide novel evidence on retail investors’ margin trading behavior and its price implications. First, we show that…
Assessing the Costs of Industrial Decarbonization
Companies in various industries are under growing pressure to assess the costs of decarbonizing their operations. This paper develops a generic abatement cost concept to identify the cost-efficient combination of technological and operational…
Can U.S. Treasury Markets Add and Subtract?
The CBO cost releases of legislative proposals contain valuable news about surpluses priced in by Treasury investors. Using daily event windows, we find that cost releases with large negative cash flows lowered Treasury valuations by more than 20…
Corporate Debt Structure with Home and International Currency Bias
We explore the consequences of global capital market segmentation by currency for the optimal currency composition of borrowing by firms. Global bond portfolios are driven by the currency of denomination of assets as investors prefer to lend in…
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?
We examine whether investors value workforce gender diversity. Consistent with the view that investors believe workforce gender diversity can be valuable in major firms, we use event studies to demonstrate that U.S. technology firms and financial…
Fading Corporate Survival Prospects: Impact of Co-selection Bias in Resource Allocation on Strategic Intent
Our field study of new business development in a German-based global pharmaceutical company reveals that the emergence of co-selection bias in project-level state-gate resource allocation engendered a corporate-level innovation portfolio…
Fair Market Valuation of Electric Vehicle Batteries in Second Life Applications
The rapidly growing number of lithium-ion battery packs deployed in electric vehicles (EVs) entails enormous economic potential for used EV batteries to be redeployed in a second life application, e.g., for behind-the-meter stationary energy…
Fiscal Redistribution Risk in Treasury Markets
Unfunded fiscal shocks are a significant source of risk premia in Treasury markets when central banks and governments decide to insulate taxpayers and expose bondholders’ wealth to government funding needs. We illustrate this bond risk premium…