Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

Liberalizing Home-Based Business

Jian ZHANG, Sumit AGARWAL, Tien Foo SING, Changcheng SONG
Working at home benefits workers with low fixed costs and the ability to engage in joint market and household production. We evaluate a large-scale reform in Singapore that allows the possibility of business creation at one’s residential property and study whether the option of home-based entrepre...
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Home-Base Work, Experimentation
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2018

Panda Games: Corporate Disclosure in the Eclipse of Search

Kemin WANG, Xiaoyun YU, Bohui ZHANG
We show that firms strategically alter their disclosure behaviors when the channel to transmit information is severed. We conduct textual analysis and exploit an exogenous event—Google’s 2010 surprising withdrawal from mainland China, which significantly hampers domestic investors’ ability to ...
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2018

The Dark Side of Technological Progress? Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers

Sudheer CHAVA, Alexander OETTL, Manpreet SINGH, Linghang ZENG
Using an employer-employee payroll dataset for approximately 2.6 million retail workers, we analyze the impact of the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce retailer’s fulfillment centers on the income and employment of workers at geographically proximate brick-and-mortar retail stores. We find t...
Keywords: Technological progress, E-Commerce
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2018

The Relationship Dilemma: Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking

Prachi MISHRA, Nagpurnanand PRABHALA, Raghuram G. RAJAN
Credit bureaus and scoring were introduced in India in late 2007. We study the adoption of this technology in retail lending by private banks and state-owned public sector banks (PSBs). Both banks adopt scoring for new borrowers but PSBs significantly lag in adopting scoring for existing bank borrow...
Keywords: Credit Scoring Technology, Retail lending, Organizational culture
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Corporate Finance

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May 2018

Regional social capital and moral hazard in crowdfunding

Vesa PURSIAINEN, Tse-Chun LIN
We find a strong positive relationship between entrepreneurs' home-county social capital and their crowdfunding performance on Kickstarter. We exploit a quasi-experiment based on a Kickstarter rule change that strengthens entrepreneurs' obligation to provide backers with the promised rewards and fin...
Keywords: Crowdfunding, Social capital, trust, Kickstarter, Moral Hazard
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