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Opportunity Zones: An Analysis of the Policy's Implications

Rebecca Lester, Cody Evans, Hanna Tian
State Tax Notes 2018 Vol. 90 Issue 3 Pages 221-235.

This article summarizes the Opportunity Zone incentive in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by providing descriptive statistics on the selected zones, outlining considerations for investors, and using data on the New…

Working Paper

Optimal Exploration-Exploitation in a Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem with Non-stationary Rewards

Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
2018

In a multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem a gambler needs to choose at each round of play one of K arms, each characterized by an unknown reward distribution. Reward realizations are only observed when an arm is selected, and the gambler’s objective…

Journal Article

Path-Dependent Import-Substitution Policies: The Case of Argentina in the Twentieth Centur

Sebastian Galiani, Paulo Somaini
Latin American Economic Review 2018 Vol. 27 Issue 5

We use a simple three-sector model to narrate the economic history of Argentina during the twentieth century as seen through the prism of its integration into and dis-integration from the world economy. Assuming that capital moves between the…

Journal Article

Policy Development Monopolies: Adverse Consequences and Institutional Responses

Alexander V. Hirsch, Ken Shotts
Journal of Politics 2018 Vol. 80 Pages 1339-1354.

We analyze a model of policymaking in which only one actor, e.g., a bureaucratic agency or a well-funded interest group, has the capacity to develop high-quality policy proposals. By virtue of her skills, this actor has an effective…

Journal Article

Political identity, preference, and persuasion

Claire Kim, DaHee Han, Adam Duhachek, Zakary Tormala
Social Influence 2018 Vol. 13 Pages 177-191.

The current research examines how political identity shapes preferences for objects and messages that highlight either equality or hierarchy. We find that liberals show a greater preference for an object associated with less as opposed to more…

Journal Article

Radical Decentralization: Does community driven development work?

Katherine Casey
Annual Review of Economics 2018 Vol. 10 Pages 139-165.

Classic arguments for decentralization, augmented by ideas about how participation empowers the poor, motivate the widely used approach in foreign aid called community-driven development (CDD). CDD devolves control over the…

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Reimagining the ED: Ideas for Shaping the Emergency Department of the Future

Bryan Langlands, Durell Coleman, Troy Savage
The Facility Guidelines Institute 2018

The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI), a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1998, seeks to gather perspectives on challenges facing patients and clinicians in clinical spaces from which ideas can be gleaned to focus further research and…

Journal Article

A Simple Way to Maximize the Number of Hits From Ballistic Imaging When Processing Capacity is Limited

Can Wang, Mardy Beggs-Cassin, Lawrence M. Wein
AFTE Journal 2018 Vol. 50 Issue 3 Pages 175-178.

Many U.S. organizations lack the resources to enter all cartridge cases from crime scenes and test-fires into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network and search for hits. This paper summarizes the main question in (1): if ballistic…

Journal Article

Social Movement Theory’s Contribution to Understanding Activism around Corporations and Markets

Sarah A. Soule
Social Movements, Stakeholders and Non-Market Strategy (Research in the Sociology of Organizations) 2018 Vol. 56 Pages 129–139.

This chapter traces the development of research on social movement outcomes or consequences over three distinct phases, with an eye toward understanding how this research has impacted organizational studies research on how social movements impact…

Journal Article

Stable Predictions across Unknown Environments

Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Peng Cui, Susan Athey, Bo Li
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2018

In many important machine learning applications, the training distribution used to learn a probabilistic classifier differs from the testing distribution on which the classifier will be used to make predictions. Traditional methods correct the…

Working Paper

Supply Disruptions and Optimal Network Structures

Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Shayan Ehsani
2018

This paper studies multi-tier supply chain networks in the presence of disruption risk. Firms decide how to source their inputs from upstream suppliers so as to maximize their expected profits, and prices of intermediate goods are set so that…

Journal Article

Sustaining Smallholders and Rainforests by Eliminating Payment Delay in a Commodity Supply Chain---It Takes a Village

Joann de Zegher, Dan A. Iancu, Erica Plambeck
Management Science 2018

Millions of poor smallholder farmers produce global commodities,

often through illegal deforestation. Multinational commodity buyers have

committed to halt illegal deforestation and improve farmers’ livelihoods in

their…

Journal Article

The Competitive Facility Location Problem in a Duopoly: Advances Beyond Trees

Yonatan Gur, Daniela Saban, Nicolas Stier-Moses
Operations Research 2018 Vol. 66 Issue 4 Pages 1058-1067.

We consider a competitive facility location problem on a network, in which consumers are located on the vertices and wish to connect to the nearest facility. Knowing this, competitive players locate their facilities on vertices that capture the…

Working Paper

The Divergent Effects of Diversity Ideologies for Race and Gender Relations

Ashley Martin
2018

Both practitioners and scholars have shown interest in initiatives that reduce bias and promote inclusion. Diversity ideologies—or beliefs and practices regarding how to approach group differences in diverse settings—have been studied as one set…

Working Paper

The Effect of Economic Consequences on Social Judgment and Choice: Reward Interdependence and the Preference for Sociability versus Competence

Peter Belmi, Jeffrey Pfeffer
2018

Journal of Organizational Behavior, in press

Competence and sociability (warmth) are fundamental dimensions of social judgment in organizations. However, these qualities are frequently seen as negatively related, with mixed…

Book

The Motivation Toolkit

David M. Kreps
W. W. Norton & Company 2018

Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists…

Working Paper

What Did 1 Trillion Euros Buy Us? Evidence on the Real Effects of Quantitative Easing in Europe

Laura Blattner, Luísa Farinha, Gil Nogueira
2018

This paper studies the transmission channels of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) asset purchase programs via the banking sector using proprietary data from the Bank of Portugal. Banks that hold larger amounts of assets eligible for ECB purchase…

Journal Article

Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in U.S. Elections

Andrew B. Hall, Daniel M. Thompson
American Political Science Review 2018 Vol. 112 Issue 3 Pages 509–524.

Political observers, campaign experts, and academics alike argue bitterly over whether it is more important for a party to capture ideologically moderate swing voters or to encourage turnout among hardcore partisans. The behavioral literature in…

Journal Article

Why and When Hierarchy Impacts Team Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Examination

Lindred Greer, Bart De Jong, Maartje Schouten, Jennifer Dannals
Journal of Applied Psychology 2018 Vol. 103 Pages 591-613.

Hierarchy has the potential to both benefit and harm team effectiveness. In this paper, we meta-analytically investigate different explanations for why and when hierarchy helps or hurts team effectiveness, drawing on results from 54 prior studies…

Journal Article

Work Hours and Health: A Comment on "Beyond Nine to Five"

Jeffrey Pfeffer
Academy of Management Discoveries 2018 Vol. 4 Issue 1 Pages 94-96.

No abstract available.