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WP 2013-13 Cautionary notes on the use of field experiments to address policy issues

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Published in 2014 in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 30, Issue 4.

AUTHOR: Glenn W. Harrison

ABSTRACT: Field experiments are popular again in policy circles. There are various types of field experiments, with complementary strengths and weaknesses for different policy questions. There is also a lot of needless hype about what… more »

WP 2013-12 Mandatory Portfolio Disclosure, Stock Liquidity, And Mutual Fund Performance

Posted On September 24, 2013
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AUTHORS: Vikas Agarwal, Kevin Mullally and Baozhong Yang

ABSTRACT: This paper studies the impact of mandatory portfolio disclosure of mutual funds on the liquidity of disclosed stocks and on fund performance. We consider a theoretical model of informed trading with different mandatory disclosure frequencies. Using a regulation change in May 2004 that increased… more »

WP 2013-11 Why Buy Accident Forgiveness Policies? An Experiment

Posted On September 4, 2013
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AUTHORS: Fan Liu

ABSTRACT. Risk and time preferences influence the insurance purchase decisions under uncertainty. Accident forgiveness, often considered as premium insurance," protects policyholders against a premium increase in the next period if an at-fault accident occurs. In this paper, by conducting a unique experiment in the controlled laboratory conditions, we examine… more »

WP 2013-10 Impact Evaluation and Welfare Evaluation

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Published in 2014 in The European Journal of Development Research, Volume 26, Issue 1.

AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison

ABSTRACT: The expression “impact evaluation” means different things to different people, but to most economists now it means the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or “quasi-experiments.” I want to focus on that side… more »

WP 2013-09 Identifying Time Preferences With Experiments: Comment

Posted On August 20, 2013
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AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau & E. Elisabet Rutström

ABSTRACT. Identifying time preferences with laboratory experiments demands attention to theoretical, experimental and econometrics issues. Andreoni and Sprenger [2012a] propose a single choice task and several econometric methods that seek to address these issues. The choice task requires subjects to make portfolio… more »

WP 2013-08 Subjective Beliefs and Statistical Forecasts of Financial Risks: The Chief Risk Officer Project

Posted On August 15, 2013
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Published in 2014 as a book chapter in Contemporary Challenges in Risk Management: published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, and edited by Torben Juul Andersen & Stanley Mayes.

AUTHORS: Glenn W. Harrison and Richard D. Phillips

ABSTRACT: Information about financial risks comes from many sources. We formally consider how one can elicit and… more »

WP 2013-07 Estimating the Subjective Risks of Driving Simulator Accidents

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Published in 2014 in Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 62.

AUTHORS: Vinayak Dixit, Glenn W. Harrison, E. Elisabet Rutström

ABSTRACT. We examine the subjective risks of driving behavior using a controlled virtual reality experiment. Use of a driving simulator allows us to observe choices over risky alternatives that are presented to the… more »

WP 2013-06 Product Market Linkages and Managerial Risk Taking

Posted On June 21, 2013
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AUTHORS: Jayant Kale, Simi Kedia and Ryan Williams

ABSTRACT. A firm’s customers and suppliers make relationship-specific investments (RSI) whose value reduces if the firm undertakes risky investments. We hypothesize that the risk-taking incentives in the firm CEO’s compensation will lower the RSI by firms up and down in the vertical channel. We provide… more »

WP 2013-05 Accounting Comparability and Loan Contracting

Posted On June 21, 2013
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AUTHORS: Xiaohua Fang, Yutao Li, Baohua Xin and Wenjun Jenny Zhang

ABSTRACT. This study examines whether accounting comparability is associated with the contracting cost of private loans. Using a sample of U.S. public firms from the years 1982 to 2009, we find strong evidence that accounting comparability is significantly negatively associated with private… more »

WP 2013-04 The Marginal Cost of Risk, Risk Measures, and Capital Allocation

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Published in 2016 in Management Science, Volume 62, Issue 5.

AUTHORS: Daniel Bauer and George Zanjani

ABSTRACT. Financial institutions define their marginal cost of risk on the basis of the gradients of arbitrarily chosen risk measures. We reverse this approach by calculating the marginal cost for a profit-maximizing firm with risk-averse counterparties,… more »