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Authors: Kosuke Uetake, Nathan Yang

Publication: Marketing Science, Forthcoming

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We investigate the role of heterogeneous peer effects in encouraging healthy lifestyles. Our analysis revolves around one of the largest and most extensive databases about weight loss that track individual participants' meeting attendance and progress in a large national weight loss program. The main finding is that while weight loss among average performing peers has a negative effect on an individual's weight loss, the corresponding effect for the top performer among peers is positive. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our results are robust to potential issues related to selection into meetings, endogenous peer outcomes, individual unobserved heterogeneity, lagged dependent variables, and contextual effects. Ultimately, these results provide guidance about how the weight loss program should identify role models.

Classified as: Desautels 22, Marketing Science, Marketing
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Published on: 4 May 2018

Author: Laurent Barras

Publication: Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming

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Recent studies show that the standard test portfolios do not contain sufficient information to discriminate between asset pricing models. To address this issue, we develop a large-scale approach that expands the cross-section to several thousand portfolios. Our novel approach is simple, widely applicable, and allows for formal evaluation/comparison tests. Its benefits are confirmed in empirical tests of CAPM- and characteristic-based models. While these models are all misspecified, we uncover striking performance differences between them. In particular, the human capital and conditional CAPMs largely outperform the CAPM which suggests that labor income and time-varying recession risks are primary concerns for investors.

Classified as: Laurent Barras, finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Desautels 22
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Published on: 1 May 2018

Authors: Xiaoye Chen,Rong Huang, Zhiyong Yang, Laurette Dube

Publication:European Journal of Marketing, Forthcoming

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This paper aims to investigate the impact of different types of corporate social responsibility (CSR; i.e. value-creating CSR, promotional CSR and philanthropic CSR) on consumer responses and the moderating role of corporate competence.

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Classified as: Laurette Dube, Marketing, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 26 Apr 2018

Author: Hamid Etemad

Publication: Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 2018

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Classified as: Hamid Etemad, Marketing
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Published on: 6 Apr 2018

Author: Patrick Augustin

Publication: Journal of Monetary Economics, Forthcoming

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Classified as: Patrick Augustin, finance
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Published on: 6 Apr 2018

Authors:Peter Younkin, Venkat Kuppuswamy

Publication: Journal of Business Venturing, Forthcoming

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Classified as: Strategy and Organization, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 3 Apr 2018

Authors:Hamid Etemad, Hamed Motaghi

Publication: International Business Review, March 16, 2018

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Classified as: Hamid Etemad, Marketing
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Published on: 3 Apr 2018

Authors: Saeed Akhlaghpour, Liette Lapointe

Publication: Journal for the Association of Information Systems, Forthcoming

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Classified as: Liette Lapointe, Information Systems
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Published on: 2 Apr 2018

Authors: Sung Soo Kim, Donghoon Shin, Heather C Vough, Patricia Faison Hewlin and Christian Vandenberghe

Publication: Human Relations, Vol. 71, Issue 10, February 2018

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Classified as: Patricia Hewlin, Organizational Behaviour
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

Professor Ruslan Goyenko's paper "Illiquidity Premia in Equity Option Markets" with Peter Christoffersen, Kris Jacobs and Mehdi Karoui was selected as Editor's Choice article in the March 2018 issue of Review of Financial Studies.

Classified as: Ruslan Goyenko, finance, Review of Financial Studies, Desautels 22
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

Authors: Wei Qi, Lefei Li, Sheng Liu, Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 20, No. 4, Fall 2018

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Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

Authors: Anthony C. Masi

Publication: Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 44, No. 3-4, 2017

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Classified as: Anthony Masi, Organizational Behaviour, Research EDI
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

Authors: George M. Constantinides and Anisha Ghosh

Publication: Journal of Finance, Vol. 72, No. 1, February 2017

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We show that shocks to household consumption growth are negatively skewed, persistent, countercyclical, and drive asset prices. We construct a parsimonious model where heterogeneous households have recursive preferences. A single state variable drives the conditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth. The estimated model fits well the unconditional cross-sectional moments of household consumption growth and the moments of the risk-free rate, equity premium, price-dividend ratio, and aggregate dividend and consumption growth. The model-implied risk-free rate and price-dividend ratio are procyclical, while the market return has countercyclical mean and variance. Finally, household consumption risk explains the cross section of excess returns.

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Classified as: Anisha Ghosh, finance, Desautels 22, Journal of Finance
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

Authors:Anisha Ghosh, Christian Julliard, Alex P. Taylor

Publication:The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 30, No. 2, February 2017

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We consider asset pricing models in which the SDF can be factorized into an observable component and a potentially unobservable one. Using a relative entropy minimization approach, we nonparametrically estimate the SDF and its components. Empirically, we find the SDF has a business-cycle pattern and significant correlations with market crashes and the Fama-French factors. Moreover, we derive novel bounds for the SDF that are tighter and have higher information content than existing ones. We show that commonly used consumption-based SDFs correlate poorly with the estimated one, require high risk aversion to satisfy the bounds and understate market crash risk.

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Classified as: Anisha Ghosh, finance, Review of Financial Studies, Desautels 22
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

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