Adopting AI at Work: Attitudes, Threats, and Organizational Change
This seminar examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping communication management through both individual adoption and organizational change. Drawing on two empirical studies of public relations and communication professionals, it explores how perceptions of AI’s innovation attributes, particularly relative advantage and compatibility, alongside perceived threats influence attitudes toward AI ...
Sung-Un Yang, Boston University
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 10:15am-11:45am | Room 333
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Managing Perishable Inventory Systems with Positive Lead Times: Inventory Position vs. Projected Inventory Level
We study periodic-review perishable inventory systems with a fixed product lifetime, positive replenishment lead times, and a general issuance policy under the average-cost criterion. The optimal replenishment policy for such systems is notoriously complex and computationally intractable due to the curse of dimensionality. To address this challenge, we propose a class of projected inventory level (...
Xiting Gong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 333
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Technology Life Cycles: Investment, Growth, and Firm Value
We build a new century-long dataset of technology life cycles from USPTO patent titles, tracing 289 prominent technologies from initiation through emergence, prominence, and maturity over 1920-2023, and linking their patent histories to 9,047 global public firms. The earliest patents in prominent technologies are disproportionately influential and are primarily assigned to firms, especially large innovators....
Jan Bena, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 339
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Disclosure of Causal vs. Correlational Information in Markets with Correlation
We study disclosure of consumer information in competitive risk-sharing markets when consumers neglect correlation. Disclosure of a consumer trait mitigates adverse selection, thus improving welfare. It also leads to distorted risk assessment and incorrect participation decisions by consumers due to their lack of understanding of correlation, thus reducing welfare. The net effect on welfare depends ...
Andy Zapechelnyuk, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337
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Influencer Marketing: Boon Or Bane? Exploring Brand ROI
Influencer marketing has become central to brand promotion, yet it confronts firms with a fundamental trade-off between control and authenticity. While brands can govern paid collaborations, influence often extends beyond these boundaries, limiting firms’ ability to fully shape where messages appear and how they are framed. Using comprehensive data that combine influencer activity with brand sales ...
Katrijn Gielens, Tilburg University
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | 3:00pm-5:00pm | Room 333
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Green Coins
We propose a novel macrofinance model for the EU area comprising both climate damages and an Emission Trading System that interacts with credit markets with a bias for 'net-zero' brown firms and opaque voluntary carbon credit markets. Our model suggests that the implied allocation is far from the first-best. Relevant welfare gains can be obtained in a setting in which a Green Coin Central Bank (GCCB)...
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Bocconi University
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 339
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Interim Agreements in Matching with Incomplete Information
We study stability in matching markets with two-sided incomplete information. When a blocking opportunity arises, potential deviators draw inferences about one another’s types and iteratively refine their probabilistic beliefs. We first introduce a notion of stability based only on iterative reasoning about rational blocking behavior in the absence of communication. We then develop a refinement that ...
Ziwei Wang, PKU Guanghua School of Management
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337
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Public Responses to Corporate Social Advocacy: Dynamics, Antecedents, and Practice
As companies increasingly engage in controversial social issues, corporate social advocacy (CSA) has become a prominent yet often contested form of corporate communication. This talk explores how publics respond to CSA across contexts, while also examining how such engagement is understood and managed within organizations. It discusses how support and opposition emerge in social media environments,...
Hyejoon Rim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday, April 10, 2026 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 333
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Should Referral Programs Reward Customers for the Short-Term Performance of Their Referrals?
Referral programs are widely used by firms as a tool for new customer acquisition. In practice, most referral programs reward existing customers for the acquisition of their referrals (i.e., referred customers). Although such acquisition-based referral rewards incentivize existing customers to refer new customers, they can be ineffective in generating high-value referrals. To increase the value created ...
Yupeng Chen, Nanyang Technological University
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 333
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Consumer Demand with Price Aggregators and Low-Rank Cross-Price Effects
Estimating consumer demands is a bread-and-butter undertaking in applied economics. In general, demand for each good depends on the prices of all goods and services, but for most applications it is impractical to estimate models of such high dimension. In this paper, we consider consumer demand with a low rank of the matrix of cross-price effects, a property implicitly assumed in most empirical settings....
Thibault Fally, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 337
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