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Fall 2022
In the first essay, I explore whether excess demand in commodity futures markets affects the spot price of oil. I use a sign restricted vector autoregressive oil market model that explicitly includes futures markets. This model allows for the detection of futures demand effects which feedback...
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Spring 2022
This research introduces the concept of phatic brand communication to marketing, and examines its use in the context of social media. The main function of phatic brand communication is for brands to create an atmosphere of sociability with consumers (e.g., “Hey YOU. Have a great day.”) rather...
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Nuanced Effects of Decision Effort on Decision Confidence in Matters of Quality versus Matters of Taste
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Consumers are largely considered cognitive misers because of their general aversion toward exerting mental effort in decision making. Prior research suggests that engaging in effortful decision tasks tends to undermine consumers’ decision confidence by increasing metacognitive difficulty. In the...
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Speaking Scientifically: The Role of Communication in the Translation of Novel Brain Science Research into Policy
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This project examines how addiction and mental health policy comes to incorporate novel research findings from brain and neurosciences by asking: “What role does communication play in the translation of research into policy?” I use a multiple case design to compare and contrast varying...
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Fall 2021
Mindsets play an important role in shaping consumers’ behavior and, in particular, their purchase decisions. A significant body of prior research has investigated different types of mindsets, such as power (Galinsky et al. 2015), regulatory focus (Hamilton et al. 2011; Higgins 1998), and...
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Spring 2021
I study whether the greater scalability of intangible assets results in a positive relation between firms’ use of intangible assets and shareholders’ perception of the permanence of earnings innovations (the earnings response coefficient or ERC). After documenting that ERCs increase with the use...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation explores theoretical mechanisms underlying organizations’ disengagement from social movements. Building on insights from institutional theory and the social movement literature, I examine the decertification of Certified B Corporations (also known as B Corporations or B Corps)...
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Fall 2021
The stigma literature is burgeoning in the field of management and organization studies. While much of the existing work has sought to unpack the sources and characteristics of stigma or the varied counter-responses by which individual organizations manage their stigma, stigma scholars only...
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Fall 2021
Humans are known to gain or lose utility by comparing their payoffs with those of their peers. I analyze how such social preferences affect incentive contracts and performance evaluation in principal-agent settings. In my models, agents dislike getting worse off than their peers (I say they have...
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Fall 2021
An industrial stigma spillover occurs when innocent firms’ survival and performance are compromised simply being in the same industry with other firms implicated in a negative event. An established body of research has adopted a cognitive view on stigma spillover and shown that as long as two...