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Do Busy Bees Still Make Honey? Examining the Impact of Non‐CEO Executives’ Outside Roles on Firm Performance

open access: yesFinancial Review, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 229-260, February 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine how non‐CEO executives (NCEs) serving on outside boards affect their focal firm performance. Firms with such NCEs exhibit lower return on asset (ROA) and profit margins than those without. These effects begin after board service starts, are not explained by busy boards or CEOs, and persist at least a year.
Md Raihan Uddin Chowdhury   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate General Counsels and Investment Efficiency: Novel Evidence

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 578-608, February 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine whether the presence of corporate general counsels (GCs) is associated with investment efficiency using both conditional and unconditional regressions. Utilizing a large sample of publicly listed US firms, we find that GCs are associated with higher investment in environments prone to underinvestment and lower investment in ...
Nader Atawnah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culturally-attuned AI: Implicit learning of altruistic cultural values through inverse reinforcement learning. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Oliveira N   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mechanisms for Belief Elicitation Without Ground Truth

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 505-527, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the challenge of eliciting truthful information from multiple individuals when such information cannot be verified, a problem known as “information elicitation without verification.” This article reviews over 25 mechanisms designed to incentivize truth‐telling in such scenarios and their effectiveness in empirical ...
Niklas Valentin Lehmann
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding UK Productivity Using a Macroeconomic Lens

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 214-241, February 2026.
ABSTRACT We survey UK labor productivity over the long run, comparing it with other advanced economies, and focus on the sharp slowdown since the global financial crisis. Using a growth accounting framework, we highlight the primary role of total factor productivity (TFP), while noting that the contribution of capital shallowing is influenced by ...
Jagjit S. Chadha, Issam Samiri
wiley   +1 more source

Models in Decision‐Making Under Risk and Uncertainty

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 304-320, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper systematically compares dominant frameworks for modeling decision‐making under risk and uncertainty, evaluating their theoretical trade‐offs and practical relevance for economic research. We establish key criteria for model selection—including predictive accuracy, descriptive realism, computational tractability, and ecological ...
Martin Höppner
wiley   +1 more source

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