Finance & Accounting

Bonuses Despite Billion Dollar Bailouts

Managerial incentives, capital reallocation, and the business cycle

Careers

Learning to Use Regret

Studies in the negative emotions and how to use them

Rating the Raters of Corporate Governance

Independent examination reveals inconsistencies

Policy

Voters Love Winners (And So Do Endorsers)

How endorsers can gain the upper hand

Leadership

Get Over Yourself

Why we think we’re forces to be reckoned with

Finance & Accounting

Hedging Your Bets Is Still a Gamble

Hedge funds and other alternative assets can underestimate risk, overestimate returns

Marketing

Desire to Acquire

Powerlessness and compensatory consumption

Social Impact

Why Did They Stay?

Perspectives on Katrina survivors’ “choice” to stand their ground or evacuate

Economics

The Surprising Importance of Grades

Sending signals in the job market

Marketing

Surveying Sensitive Topics

New tools help correct for survey bias

Social Impact

And the Poor Get Poorer

The economics of higher global temperatures.

The Sounds of Silence

Consumers cue on corporations’ crisis communications

Policy

Pensions in Peril

The funding status of state-sponsored pension plans

Policy

Timing Is Everything

The duration of climate agreements influences their success

Corner Office Compensation

Post-employment benefits explain CEO compensation

Trusting the Stock Market

Impressions influence investors decisions

Policy

Congenital Defect

Systemic hospital cost inflation

Finance & Accounting

The Financial Hazards of Aging

Why older adults choose riskier investments

Marketing

The Devil Is in the Detailing

Modeling physician choice of prescription drugs

Policy

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?

Restricting restaurant meals may not trim Americans’ expanding waistlines