Memories of the Brand Loyalist
In a new paper about false memories and brand commitment, marketing professor Priyali Rajagopal of SMU Cox and co-author Nicole Montgomery decode how brand commitment influences the consumer’s memories...
View ArticleEthics, Honor Codes, and Leadership: Infusing the Firm’s Climate
In the wake of yet another period of corporate scandals and heightened attention to social responsibility, there is a renewed focus on managing and working for an ethical organization. But firms with...
View ArticleLarge Secondary Loan Market Alters Role of Banks
Banks have played a distinctive role in the financial system. In a forthcoming Journal of Finance paper by Finance Professor Amar Gande and co-author Anthony Saunders, the nature of banks’ special role...
View ArticleCEO Risk-Taking Incentives at Financial Firms and the Financial Crisis
According to evidence from new research by Finance Professors Swaminathan Kalpathy and Amar Gande, U.S. Federal Reserve emergency financial assistance ("bailouts") is higher among firms whose CEOs have...
View ArticleInternet Activity Focusing More on Identity Work
The Internet has evolved from static web pages to e-commerce — and now to identity play — according to Professor Ulrike Schultze of SMU Cox. Through researching how people use their avatars and operate...
View ArticleDebt in a Venture Capital Context Sends Negative Signal
The findings about venture debt by Finance Professor Indraneel Chakraborty of SMU Cox School of Business and co-author Michael Ewens provides new insights into the nature of debt in an entrepreneurial...
View ArticleThe Internet, Search Engines, and the Marketing Mix
When advertising on the Internet don't be too pushy, according to findings from new research. We all understand that search engines drive website traffic on the Internet and that many firms pay for top...
View ArticleMaking Friends, Disarming Challengers: Deference in the Workplace
Although organizational hierarchies are often viewed from the assumption that people seek upward mobility and compete with one another, new research indicates there is more action going on between...
View ArticlePuzzles Surrounding Oil Market Exchange-Traded Funds Explained
On the surface, the typical investor may understand that holding crude oil exchange-traded funds (ETFs) shares is similar to investing in crude oil's gains and losses. But an underperformance story...
View ArticleWhy Americans Work More Than Europeans: It's Women...
Americans work more than Europeans, about 30% more. In the 1970s, this was not the case. What accounts for the difference? "It's women," states Finance Professor Indraneel Chakraborty of SMU Cox....
View ArticleBringing Innovation Down to Earth
There is a dark side for the innovating firm when the operational aspects of new product development are overlooked. SMU Cox Professors Bhaskaran, Ramachandran and co-author study and frame an ignored...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom and Happiness by Robert Lawson, Daniel Gropper and Jere...
From the Cato Journal. That liberty is necessary for greater happiness and a better life is a notion deeply rooted in the American sensibility. But is there a link between greater freedom and greater...
View ArticleInstitutions and the Impact of Investment on Growth by Robert Lawson, James...
From Kyklos. This paper focuses on the relationship between institutions and investment, and analyzes howinstitutional quality influences growth through its impact on both the level and productivity of...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom, Institutional Quality, and Cross-Country Differences in...
From the Cato Journal. In the past few decades, the issues in the literature on economic growth have broadened from the development of general theories of growth, largely based on Solow (1956), toward...
View ArticleThe Scope of Government and the Wealth of Nations by Robert Lawson, James...
From the Cato Journal. The evidence examined in this paper illustrates that there is a persistent robust negative relationship between the level (and the expansion) of government expenditures and the...
View ArticleCensoring and Destroying Information in the Information Age by Dwight Lee and...
From the Cato Journal. Few people recognize some of the most harmful forms of government censorship as being censorship. And since they don’t recognize it for what it is,many erroneously see censorship...
View ArticleThe Clergy and Economists: Two Windows on Common Objectives by Dwight Lee
From the Journal of Markets and Morality. Members of the clergy and economists form their understandings of the world by examining it through different windows. Yet, Lee argues that the differences...
View ArticleWhy Busnessmen Are More Honest than Preachers, Politicians and Professors by...
From the Independent Review. The case for the businessmen's relative honesty is not that they are more virtuous than preachers, politicians and professors. Instead, the argument is based on the...
View ArticleShrinking Leviathan: Can the Interaction Between Interest and Ideology Slice...
From the Independent Review. The political impact of the ideology favoring Leviathan was magnified by the mathematics of voting, but the same mathematics will magnify the political impact of a shift in...
View ArticleRent Seeking and Inefficiencies Resulting from Pecuniary Externalities by...
We shall argue that the rents resulting from pecuniary externalities created by voluntary exchanges can motivate unproductive competition for those rents that create inefficiencies without the help of...
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