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Competition and Defaults in Online Search

Social Science Research Network
This paper offers the first systematic quantitative assessment of default-option interventions designed to mitigate Google's search dominance. By analyzing interventions in the European Economic Area (EEA), Russia, and Turkey, we find that across all ...
Francesco Decarolis, Muxin Li, Filippo Paternollo   +2 more
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Competition in Pricing Algorithms

Social Science Research Network, 2020
We document new facts about pricing technology using high-frequency data, and we examine the implications for competition. Some online retailers employ technology that allows for more frequent price changes and automated responses to price changes by ...
Zach Y. Brown, Alexander Mackay
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Managers and Public Hospital Performance

The American Economic Review
We study whether the quality of managers can affect public service provision in the context of public health. Using novel data from public hospitals in Chile, we show how the introduction of a competitive recruitment system and better pay for public ...
Pablo Muñoz, Cristóbal Otero
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Remotely Productive: The Efficacy of Remote Work for Executives

The Review of financial studies
We study the efficacy of remote arrangements between CEOs and firms. Such arrangements attract executive talent and overcome labor market segmentation but introduce frictions.
R. Duchin, D. Sosyura
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Board Diversity and Shareholder Voting

Social Science Research Network, 2023
The lack of board diversity across gender and race has been one of the most controversial topics in corporate board governance in recent years. Given the central role that shareholders have in approving director appointments, we investigate whether ...
Ian D. Gow, D. Larcker, Edward M. Watts
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A Theory of Fair CEO Pay

Social Science Research Network
This paper studies executive pay with fairness concerns: If the CEO's wage falls below a perceived fair share of output, he suffers disutility that is increasing in the discrepancy.
Pierre Chaigneau, Alex Edmans, D. Gottlieb   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding

The Review of financial studies
We first document that, despite potential legal issues, overlapping directors are surprisingly prevalent among direct competitors. Using panel data regressions and plausibly exogenous shocks, we find that competing firms in markets with dense ...
Felipe Cabezon, Gerard Hoberg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Common Ownership in America: 1980–2017

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019
We empirically assess the implications of the common ownership hypothesis from a historical perspective using the set of S&P 500 firms from 1980 to 2017.
M. Backus, Christopher T. Conlon, Michael Sinkinson   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relational Dynamics in Earnings Management: Interplay of Celebrity CEOs, CEO-CFO Similarity, and Analyst Coverage

Business Research Quarterly
This study explores the relational dynamics between the CEO and the CFO that shape the CEO’s engagement in earnings management. Specifically, we investigate how CEO-CFO demographic similarity and analyst coverage interact to influence the CFO’s ...
Gilsoo Lee, Jonathan D. Arthurs, Eun Kyung Lee, S. Cho   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping the Landscape of Shariah Governance: An Analysis of Global Trends and Key Contributors

İslam Ekonomisi ve Finansı Dergisi (İEFD)
This study centers on Shariah governance, a critical component of Islamic financial institutions. The study conducts a bibliometric analysis to explore general trends in Sharia governance.
Ali Can Yenice
semanticscholar   +1 more source