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Book Chapter

Attitudes: Form, function, and the factors that shape them

Zakary Tormala, Derek Rucker
The Handbook of Social Psychology (6th Edition) Situational Press 2025
Journal Article

Beyond the Event Window: Earnings Horizon and the Informativeness of Earnings Announcements

Kevin Smith
The Accounting Review 2025 Vol. 100 Issue 2 Pages 351–382.

The impact of earnings announcements (EAs) on investor uncertainty depends not only on how much new information they contain but also on how long it would take comparable information to arrive in the future through alternative sources, which I…

Journal Article

Boosting Sales and Customer Welfare from Premade Foods (Let the Freshest Chicken Fly Off the Shelf First)

Dan A. Iancu, Jae-Hyuck Park, Erica Plambeck
Management Science (forthcoming) 2025

This paper examines a grocery retailer’s management of a premade food product. The retailer’s goal is to maximize a weighted sum of direct profit and customer welfare. Multiple items of the product are produced in batches, and immediately…

Book Chapter

Can Activists Change Business for Good?

Sarah A. Soule
Enterprises et Histoire (forthcoming) Eska 2025
Journal Article

Dynamic Information Acquisition, Investment, and Disclosure

Seung Y. Lee, Iván Marinovic
Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) 2025

We present a dynamic model of information acquisition and disclosure. The manager seeks to maximize future stock prices and collects information privately about the firm’s fundamentals. Information acquisition increases the arrival rate of…

Journal Article

Earnings per Share Targets and CEO Incentives

Christopher S. Armstrong, Jacky Chau, Christopher D. Ittner, Jason J. Xiao
Review of Accounting Studies 2025 Vol. 30 Pages 156–201.

We examine differences in CEOs’ achievement of earnings per share (EPS) targets related to (1) analysts’ forecasts and (2) internal cash bonus payouts. Our focus on firms with different benchmarks for the same performance metric…

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Electronic Health Record Use Patterns Among Well-Being Survey Responders and Nonresponders: Longitudinal Observational Study

Daniel Tawfik, Tait D. Shanafelt, Mohsen Bayati, Jochen Profit
JMIR Medical Informatics 2025 Vol. 13

Physician surveys provide indispensable insights into physician experience, but the question of whether responders are representative can limit confidence in conclusions. Ubiquitously collected electronic health record (EHR) use data may improve…

Working Paper

Geoeconomic Pressure

Christopher Clayton, Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger
2025

Geoeconomic pressure—the use of existing economic relationships by governments to achieve geopolitical or economic goals—is a prominent feature of global power dynamics. This paper introduces a methodology using large language models (LLMs) to…

Journal Article

How AI sources can increase openness to opposing views

Louise Lu, Zakary Tormala, Adam Duhachek
Scientific Reports 2025 Vol. 15 Issue Article 17170

Exposure to counterattitudinal information has been shown to yield mixed effects on attitude polarization. The current research explores the differential impact of such information when generated by artificial intelligence (AI) versus human…

Journal Article

Increase versus decrease framing: How framing a finding as an increase boosts its perceived magnitude

Courtney Lee, Christopher Bechler, Zakary Tormala
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2025 Vol. 154 Issue 10 Pages 2874-2894.

Researchers often present their findings as increases or decreases. For example, a researcher might conclude that X increases Y or that X decreases Y. Even describing an equivalent outcome, a researcher might frame that…

Journal Article

LLM-Generated Messages Can Persuade Humans on Policy Issues

Hui Bai, Jan G. Voelkel, Shane Muldowney, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Robb Willer
Nature Communications 2025 Vol. 16

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has made it possible for generative artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle many higher-order cognitive tasks, with critical implications for industry, government, and labor markets. Here, we…

Journal Article

Losing is Optional: Retail Option Trading and Expected Announcement Volatility

Tim de Silva, Eric C. So, Kevin Smith
Review of Finance 2025
Journal Article

Nonrecursive Dynamic Incentives: A Rate of Convergence Approach

Takuo Sugaya, Alexander Wolitzky
Theoretical Economics 2025 Vol. 20 Issue 4 Pages 1461–1520.

In repeated principal-agent problems and games, more outcomes are implementable when performance signals are privately observed by a principal or mediator with commitment power than when the same signals are publicly observed and form the basis…

Working Paper

On the Power of Delayed Flexibility: Balls, Bins, and a Few Opaque Promotions

Daniel Freund, Chamsi Hssaine, Kamessi Zhao
2025

Effective load balancing lies at the heart of many applications in operations. Frequently tackled via the balls-into-bins paradigm, seminal results established the power of two choices in load balancing: a limited amount of costly flexibility…

Journal Article

Optimizing Animation Speed: Convex Effects on Perceived Waiting Time and Digital Customer Experience

Yu Ding, Ellie Kyung
Journal of Consumer Research 2025

Incidental waits are an unavoidable element of the consumer experience on any digital platform. Firms typically utilize no animation or single-speed, repeated animations during these waits. How might the use of such animations and their visual…

Working Paper

Policy Brief: Generative Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities for the Future of Work in Chile

Gabriel Weintraub, Victor Morales, Juan Eduardo Carmach, Alvaro Soto
2025

We study the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Chile, focusing on opportunities for task acceleration-specifically, the reduction of execution time for tasks within the hundred most common jobs in the country, corresponding…

Journal Article

Power as a Moral Magnifier: Moral Outrage is Amplified when the Powerful Transgress

Rachel C. Forbes, Robb Willer, Jennifer E. Stellar
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2025 Vol. 121

Moral outrage in response to scandals involving powerful figures has become commonplace in modern life. These instances suggest that moral outrage may be disproportionately directed upward toward those with power over others. However, it remains…

Working Paper

Price Experimentation and Interference

Wassim Dhaouadi, Ramesh Johari, Orrie B. Page, Gabriel Weintraub
2025

In this paper, we examine biases arising in A/B tests where firms modify a continuous parameter, such as price, to estimate the global treatment effect of a given performance metric, such as profit. These biases emerge in canonical experimental…

Journal Article

Putting Economics Back into Geoeconomics

Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2025 Vol. 40

Geoeconomics is the use of a country’s economic strength to exert influence on foreign entities to achieve geopolitical or economic goals. We discuss how concepts of power in the political science and economics literature can be used to guide…

Journal Article

Sexual Orientation and Vocational Interests Across 48 Countries: The Moderating Effect of Cultural Tightness-Looseness

Yan Yi Lance Du, Michele J. Gelfand, Fritz Drasgow
Journal of Counseling Psychology 2025 Vol. 72 Issue 2 Pages 136–147.

Vocational interests are an important factor in individuals’ career choice and development. However, current understanding about the vocational interests of sexual minorities is underdeveloped. Using data from 31,348 men and 59,715 women (N = 91,…