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Playing with food: how touch facilitates a child’s intake of unfamiliar foods
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)Among the different methods to overcome picky eating and food neophobia (the fear of eating new or unfamiliar foods) in children, few have explored sensory engagement, more specifically haptic stimulation. There is little ... -
Political connections and informed trading: Evidence from TARP
(Wiley, 2021-09)We study insider trading behavior surrounding the largest bank bailout in history: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In politically connected banks, insider buying during the pre-TARP period is associated with increases ... -
Positioning new identities for appeal: Configurations of optimal distinctiveness amid ancestral identities
(Sage, 2023-08)The theory of strategic balance argues that organizations that are neither too similar to nor too distinct from their rivals will be best positioned to meet competing demands for legitimacy and competition. This is because ... -
Poverty and intersectionality: a multidimensional look into the lives of the impoverished
(Sage, 2014-06)Subsistence consumers are disadvantaged and marginalized on many levels, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization. The disadvantages experienced by subsistence ... -
Poverty in consumer culture: towards a transformative social representation
(2014-12)In this article, we consider the representations of poverty within consumer culture. We focus on four main themes – social exclusion, vulnerability, pleasure and contentment – that capture some of the associations that ... -
Predictability of emerging market local currency bond risk premia
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)This article investigates the source of predictability of emerging market (EM) local currency bond risk premia by using a dynamic factor approach based on a large panel of economic and financial time series. We find strong ... -
Predicting the performance of queues–A data analytic approach
(Elsevier, 2016)Existing models of multi-server queues with system transience and non-standard assumptions are either too complex or restricted in their assumptions to be used broadly in practice. This paper proposes using data analytics, ... -
Preferences for lottery stocks at Borsa Istanbul
(Elsevier, 2018-07)We investigate the existence of lottery-like preferences of investors at Borsa Istanbul. Proxying these preferences with demand for stocks with extreme positive returns (“MAX”), we establish that high-MAX stocks’ significantly ... -
Premium e-grocery: exploring value in logistics integrated service solutions
(12.02.2009)E-grocery is gradually becoming viable or a necessity for many families. Yet, most e-supermarketsare seen as providers of low value “staple” and bulky goods mainly. While each store has a large number of SKU available, ... -
Price and quality decisions of a service provider under heterogeneous demand
(Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 2019)A monopolist service provider's quality and price decisions are analyzed in a vertically differentiated market where customers demand different quantities of a service. We find that depending on the relative sizes of the ... -
Price of regulations: Regulatory costs and the cross-section of stock returns
(Oxford University Press, 2024-01)Regulations introduce significant fixed costs and add to operating leverage. Fixed regulatory costs that contribute to operating leverage should generate a risk premium. To explore whether such a premium exists, we introduce ... -
Pricing of national brands versus store brands: market power components, findings and research opportunities
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)Among the most important activities for supermarket retailers is the creation and marketing of store brands, also known as private label brands. Given the increasing quality-equivalence between national brands and store ... -
Private-label use and store loyalty
(American Marketing Association, 2008-11)The authors develop an econometric model of the relationship between a household’s private-label (PL) share and its behavioral store loyalty. The model includes major drivers of these two behaviors and controls for ... -
Product innovations, advertising, and stock returns
(American Marketing Association, 2009-01)Under increased scrutiny from top management and shareholders, marketing managers feel the need to measure and communicate the impact of their actions on shareholder returns. In particular, how do customer value creation ... -
Product market competition and the value of diversification
(Elsevier, 2023-12)I examine how industry concentration affects the value of diversification. I find that con- glomerates that operate mainly in concentrated industries (concentrated conglomerates) have higher diversification values. Using ... -
Production planning with flexible manufacturing systems under demand uncertainty
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)This paper delves into the impacts of an ongoing global crisis on the resilience of supply chains. Furthermore, it proposes measures to address and mitigate the disruptions caused by the prevailing uncertainties. For ... -
The productivity gap: Monetary policy, the subprime boom, and the post-2001 productivity surge
(Elsevier, 2015-03)It is widely believed that, in the wake of the dot.com crash, the Fed kept the federal funds target rate too low for too long, inadvertently contributing to the subprime boom. We attribute this and other Fed departures ... -
Professional school obsession: An enduring yet shifting rhetoric by U.S. business schools
(George Washington University, 2021-09)Over the past two decades, prompted in part by a series of corporate scandals, different views have been voiced about whyU.S. business schools have purportedly lost their originalambitiontobecomeprofessional schoolsand, ... -
Providing information for decision making: Contrasting description and simulation
(Elsevier, 2015-09)Providing information for decision making should be like telling a story. You need to know, first, what you want to say; second, whom you are addressing; and third, how to match the message and audience. However, data ... -
A prudential paradox: The signal in (not) restricting bank dividends
(Wiley, 2022)By restricting dividends in the weakest banks, prudential regulators counterintuitively induce more capital payouts in marginal banks. The potential for bank runs exacerbates the incentive to signal strength through dividend ...
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