Effects of Privacy Policy in the Online Advertising Industry

Funded Research Proposal

This study is aimed at evaluating the impact of third party cookie elimination on brands and consumers. Our proposed study aims to examine and answer the following questions: What are the effects of the third-party cookie policy ban on consumers and brandsRead More

Exclusivity in the Video Streaming Market

Funded Research Proposal

The main goal of this project is to enhance our understanding of the role that exclusive contracts play in shaping market structure, consumer demand, and innovation. The effect of exclusivity on consumer welfare is ambiguous.Read More

The Placeholder Effect: Using Break Days to Help Form Habits

Funded Research Proposal

This research aims to test a novel intervention to help people form healthy habits, such as exercise more. In particular, we will examine how encouraging people to have “placeholders” on their break days, or days off from pursuing their goals, affects their likelihood of reaching their goals.Read More

Work From Home: Who Gains and Who Does Not?

Funded Research Proposal

In this study, considering the benefits and costs of WFM, we consider two questions: (1) who has an incentive to work from home, (2) how is team coherence and work performance impacted when individuals work from home?Read More

Minority Entrepreneurship and Alternative Opportunities inside Established Organizations

Funded Research Proposal

Research has primarily focused on independently owned ventures, but individuals can also engage in startup activities via intrapreneurship—by launching and operating new ventures inside established organizations. We propose that these internal routes of new-venture formation offer a more inclusive pathway for racial minorities than external routes.Read More

To Diversify or Not? Multi-Platform Social Media Strategy and E-Commerce Performance

Funded Research Proposal

Xiaoning (Gavin) Wang, PhD Candidate, Lynn Wu, Operations, Information and Decisions, and Serguei Netessine, Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School Abstract: As the number of social platforms has grown dramatically in the past two decades, companies face an increasing number of options to choose among for their social media resourceRead More

Artificial Intelligence, Lean Method and Startup Product Innovation

Funded Research Proposal

As startups are at the forefront of adopting AI tools, it is important to understand whether AI can amplify the effects of lean methods in helping startups to be even more responsive to market conditions that before. And if so, to what extent and under what conditions AI can complement lean method in developing products.Read More

Innovation in Efficient Rate Design for Electricity Pricing

Funded Research Proposal

Using data over the period 2000-2020 for all seven wholesale power markets in the United States, we show that time-of-use electricity pricing schemes are poorly correlated with real-time wholesale market prices and that this phenomenon is widespread across space and time.Read More

Does it Pay to Stand Out?

Funded Research Proposal

In this research project, we study how the human resource (HR) practices firms use affect how much value they capture from this innovation. Specifically, we analyze how employers and their technology workers divide the value generated when firms invest in new technologies that require workers to invest in new human capital. Read More

Disagreement is a Short-hand for Poor Listening: How Listening Experience Shapes Communications in Organizations

Funded Research Proposal

Across three proposed studies, we aim to investigate 1) whether employees view colleagues/employers who disagree with them as bad listeners, despite objective signs of attentive listening; and 2) whether users are more satisfied with chatbots that signal a high level of attitude agreement with the user.Read More

The Consequences of Prosocial Signals That Leak Political Information for Job-Seekers

Funded Research Proposal

I will explore whether job-seekers use these signals in a sophisticated or naïve fashion with respect to the political information that leaks through. I will also examine how employers respond to job-seekers who include such signals in their applications.Read More

Medical Innovation with Competing Risks: Theory and Evidence

Funded Research Proposal

Are private and social incentives for medical innovation aligned? This question is important because improvements in health have been a major source of increases in human well-being.Read More

To Infinity and Beyond: Financing Platforms with Uncapped Crypto Tokens

Funded Research Proposal

In this project, we examine the conditions under which such ICOs are optimal and provide guidance for their design. Despite their popularity in practice, uncapped ICOs are understudied and not as well understood as their capped counterparts.Read More

Examining the Role of Local Boards of Health in Local Health Departments in the United States

Funded Research Proposal

Nearly 3,000 local health departments (LHDs) across the United States are tasked with improving, maintaining, and monitoring population health. LHDs are an administrative or service unit of local or state government concerned with health, and carrying out the responsibility for the health of a jurisdiction smaller than a state.Read More

The Closedness of Open Workspace: How Open-plan Offices Limit the Diversity of Job Applicants

Funded Research Proposal

However, we argue that open-plan offices can be detrimental to innovation by reducing the diversity of prospective employees. In particular, because this office design reduces privacy, increases informal oversight by peers, and escalates in-group vs. out-group social dynamicsRead More

Information Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Experimentation

Funded Research Proposal

Pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities is characterized by high uncertainty because entrepreneurs look to find unsatisfied demand with their new products or services. In an attempt to reduce uncertainty, entrepreneurs experiment with potential customers, seeking feedback through interviews or prototypes. It allows the entrepreneurs to learn about the targeted market and whether their idea can satisfy that demand.Read More

Managing Behavioral Hazard in Practice: Value-Based Health Insurance

Funded Research Proposal

Value-based health insurance plans have been introduced as an innovative policy to improve health as well as manage health care expenditures – generally through promoting high-value care and reducing low-value care. Standard theory would suggest that the more elastic the demand is for a particular medical service, cost-sharing should be set higher to curb overconsumption due to moral hazard.Read More

Understanding the Downstream Consequences of “Play to Earn”

Funded Research Proposal

This project examines the downstream consequences, both intended and unintended, of the “play to earn” experience. As the global pandemic was ravaging jobs around the world, blockchain-based “play to earn” games offered people in developing countries the opportunity to earn extra income and even make a living from playing these games.Read More

Patents: Ability or Choice?

Funded Research Proposal

This paper’s main contributions are to use a novel data set, introduce a new natural experiment, and exploit a quasi-random shock to show that patenting choices affect three important dimensions of innovation outcomes: the patent quantity, the patent quality, and the firm-level inputs (R&D, investment, and employees).Read More

Opportunities and Risks in Decentralized Lending

Funded Research Proposal

Currently, the amount of outstanding loans on the top 3 decentralized lending platforms are over $15 billion – this reflects phenomenal growth, as the space was nonexistent five years ago. What is decentralized lending? And what are the opportunities and risks associated with it?Read More