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Investor Sentiment for Corporate Social Performance

Accounting Review, 2018
We document time-varying investor sentiment for corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. We show that announcements of CSR activities generate positive abnormal returns during periods when investors place a valuation premium on CSR ...
J. Naughton, Clare H. Wang, I. Yeung
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Monitoring in Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Public Transit

The American Economic Review
Small firms struggle to grow beyond a few employees. We introduce monitoring devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomize which minibus owners have access to the data using a novel mobile app.
Erin M. Kelley   +2 more
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Comparisons of Signals

The American Economic Review
A signal is a description of an information source that specifies both its correlation with the state and its correlation with other signals. Extending Blackwell (1953), we characterize when one signal is more valuable than another regardless of ...
Benjamin Brooks   +2 more
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On Optimal Scheduling

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We consider a decision-maker sequentially choosing among alternatives when periodic payoffs depend on both chosen and unchosen alternatives in that period.
K. Eliaz, Daniel Fershtman, A. Frug
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Social Connectedness and Information Markets

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
This paper investigates information quality in a simple model of socially connected information markets. Suppliers’ payoffs derive from the fraction of consumers who see their stories.
R. Kranton, David McAdams
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Can Financial Incentives to Firms Improve Apprenticeship Training? Experimental Evidence from Ghana

American Economic Review: Insights
We use a field experiment to test whether financial incentives can improve the quality of apprenticeship training. Trainers (firm owners) in the treatment group participated in a tournament incentive scheme where they received a payment based on their ...
Gabriel Brown   +4 more
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Experimentation in Networks

Social Science Research Network
We propose a model of strategic experimentation on social networks in which forward-looking agents learn from their own and neighbors’ successes. In equilibrium, private discovery is followed by social diffusion.
Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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