{"title":"Made in CEO Factories","authors":"Ye Cai, Merih Sevilir, Jun Yang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2549305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2549305","url":null,"abstract":"We find that over 20% of CEOs appointed at S&P 1500 firms from 1992 to 2010 came from 36 CEO factories. CEOs originated from CEO factories, factory CEOs, have significantly higher cumulative abnormal returns at the appointment announcement than do non-factory CEOs. We show that CEO factories provide unique leadership development opportunities through which executives acquire general managerial skills. In their first three years, factory CEOs tend to discontinue large, underperforming segments, improve the performance of remaining segments, and invest heavily in R&D. As a result, firms hiring factory CEOs exhibit better long-run performance and award greater CEO compensation.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115006204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Climate Change and Cyber Attacks: Leveraging Polycentric Governance to Mitigate Global Collective Action Problems","authors":"Scott J. Shackelford","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2630333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2630333","url":null,"abstract":"Although the atmosphere and cyberspace are distinct arenas, they share similar problems of overuse, difficulties of enforcement, and the associated challenges of collective inaction and free riders. Moreover, “[m]illions of actors affect the global atmosphere[,]” just as they do the Internet. With weather patterns changing, global sea levels rising, and temperatures set to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, climate change is a problem affecting the entire world, but one in which benefits are dispersed and the harms are often concentrated. Similarly, the cost of cyber attacks is concentrated in a relatively small number of nations even as others are becoming havens for cybercriminals. Yet it is also true that actions taken by a multiplicity of actors on a small scale can impact both the global climate change problem and the cause of promoting a global culture of cybersecurity. This Article tracks the evolution of the climate change regime focusing both on top-down UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and bottom-up bilateral and regional efforts and then compares and contrasts this history with Internet governance. The potential of polycentric governance to mitigate the two global collective action problems of climate change and cyber attacks is assessed even as policymakers increasingly head in this direction such as may be seen by the preparations for the 2015 Conference of the Parties in Paris and statements made by the President of Estonia and Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114252389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Consensus Effect on Shared Treatment Experience in Online Healthcare Communities","authors":"L. Yan, Yong Tan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2603042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2603042","url":null,"abstract":"Online healthcare communities have become increasingly popular among patients, enabling them to access massive health-related information and to connect to a large population of patients who suffer from similar health problems. Extant research has demonstrated the important role that others’ shared opinions play in the decision-making process of individuals. In this paper, we are therefore interested in investigating how other patients’ inconsistency of treatment experience affects patients’ perceived treatment effectiveness. By viewing consensus as the exploratory cost for patients to find diversified health information and by controlling individual heterogeneity and the inhomogeneous weighting function of social influence on patients, we find that consensus has a positive impact on patients’ perceived treatment effectiveness. We also find that this effect is moderated by the discussion volume, the scope of discussed issues, and patients’ social connectedness. Because perceived treatment effectiveness is closely related to patients’ medical decisions about treatments, we provide a discussion of the implications of these findings on pharmaceutical marketing and public policies.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128297289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exercise Boundary Violations in American-Style Options: The Rule, Not the Exception","authors":"Robert H. Battalio, Stephen Figlewski, R. Neal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2544915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2544915","url":null,"abstract":"An exercise boundary violation (EBV) occurs when the current bid price for an American option in the market is below intrinsic value. A seller at this price leaves money on the table and the buyer receives an arbitrage profit. In a liquid market, competition among dealers should drive up the bid prices and eliminate the arbitrage. An analysis of intraday data shows that EBVs are the norm, not the exception, with near-term in-the-money equity calls and puts the most affected. In March 2010 48.6% of all in-the-money call options had EBV bid quotes and 11.5% of trading volume in those options occurred below the intrinsic value, costing the sellers an estimated $39 million. EBVs are highly persistent throughout the day, making it rational to liquidate an option by exercise rather than selling it in the market, in sharp contrast to textbook theory. Our empirical results show early exercise is strongly related to an option's EBV. In addition to altering optimal exercise strategy and the value of the early exercise premium, the possibility of early exercise to avoid an EBV makes intrinsic value the effective bid price. This narrows the spread and raises its midpoint, which affects customary measures of market liquidity, the option's market price, and its implied volatility.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"46 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116311843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Female Sexual-Self Schema in Reactions to Non-Explicit Sexual Advertising Imagery","authors":"J. Mayer, P. Peev","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2564640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2564640","url":null,"abstract":"We explore females' reactions to a non-explicit, but still sexually-themed, advertisement. Specifically, we consider the role of female sexual self schema (SSS) in the identification of the level of sex present in such an advertisement, and then resultant effects on attitudes and purchase intent. We find that while SSS has no effect on the perceived level of sex present, it does influence resultant dependent variables, particularly for low-SSS females. Informed by our study and extant literature, we also offer areas for further SSS-based advertising research, particularly regarding issues of females' perceptions of advertisement and brand fit with sexual themes.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126760437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Honesty and Adverse Selection","authors":"Michael T. Rauh, Giulio Seccia","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2426214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2426214","url":null,"abstract":"There is substantial evidence that generalized trust improves economic outcomes at both the individual and aggregate levels. Furthermore, certain institutions such as educational and religious institutions foster trust, trade, and economic growth. A specific mechanism through which trust might operate is honest communication. We consider the problem of a parent who can enroll her child in an institution which can make her child honest with probability less than one. We assume that whether the child is honest or not is the private information of the child but that institutional membership is observable so that institutions can serve as both imperfect socialization technologies and potentially informative signals of honesty. We consider the two main benchmark adverse selection models in the literature: the screening model and a game-theoretic version of the market for lemons. We provide conditions under which market institutions provide explicit monetary incentives for socialization. When socialization occurs in equilibrium it improves allocative efficiency in the screening model and reduces adverse selection in the market for lemons.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128944816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bank Asset Reallocation and Sovereign Debt","authors":"M. Fratianni, F. Marchionne","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2491613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2491613","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how banks around the world have resized and reallocated their earning assets in response to the subprime and sovereign debt crises. We also focus on the interaction between sovereign debt and the asset allocation process. We find that banks have readjusted asset shares and the overall regulatory credit risk by substituting government securities for loans. Furthermore, they have been sensitive to variables of direct interest to the regulator and the supervisor, a result that is consistent with high-debt governments having exerting moral suasion on banks to favor the purchase of government securities over loans to the private sector.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122721987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Trades with Whom? Individuals, Institutions, and Returns","authors":"Noah Stoffman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1029626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1029626","url":null,"abstract":"Using all trading in Finland over a 15-year period, I study the relation between price changes and the trading of individuals and financial institutions. On average, prices increase when institutions buy from individuals, and decrease when institutions sell to individuals. No such consistent pattern is observed when individuals trade with other individuals, or when institutions trade with other institutions. If prices do move while individuals trade among themselves, they quickly revert. These reversals occur as institutions trade with individuals in a direction that pushes prices toward previous levels.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114232215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tale of Two Channels: Incorporating Private Information in Limit Order Market","authors":"Zhong Zhang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2222671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2222671","url":null,"abstract":"This study empirically investigates informed investors’ choice between demanding and supplying liquidity, and the incorporation of private information through both liquidity demanding and supplying channel of limit order market. By extending the structural model of Easley, et al. (1996) to allow informed traders supplying liquidity through price improving and at-the-quote limit orders, I find that supplying liquidity becomes the dominating choice for informed traders after 2003. As a result, private information incorporated through the liquidity supplying channel increases to near seven times of the amount from the liquidity demanding channel. As supplying channel private information will be revealed in limit order book without initiating transactions, it makes the order book more informative, reduces information asymmetry, and is not priced in asset return.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"490-495 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127859914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William R. Kinney, Jr., R. Martin, Marcy L. Shepardson
{"title":"Some Observations about SOX 404(b) Control Process Audits","authors":"William R. Kinney, Jr., R. Martin, Marcy L. Shepardson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2155144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2155144","url":null,"abstract":"In the decade since the July, 2002 passage of the quickly-legislated Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit production in the U.S. has been substantially augmented by implementation of mandated internal control process audits. Audit production changes are important as the control audit mandate is unique and imposes substantial costs on U.S.-traded firms, yet little is known about the conduct of control process audits or the efficacy of substantially lower cost alternative mechanisms to provide auditor scrutiny and reporting on internal control quality. This paper reflects our collective experiences and observation of a consistent message across the decade from analyses of extensive public and limited non-public archival data, analytical studies, and numerous personal experiences of audit practitioners. Our primary observation is that, absent knowledge of any financial misstatements, auditors find it difficult to identify material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting. Conversely, with knowledge of misstatements, auditors can and do identify, at low incremental cost, most entities that have ineffective internal controls as identified by control audits. Financial misstatement detection is, of course, the primary tangible output of a financial statement audit. Thus, it appears possible to exploit this observation to obtain for investors information about companies with weak controls without incurring the cost of a full internal control process audit. We believe that U.S. markets could benefit from more transparency about the current U.S. audit production process and from informed debate about the best mechanism design for balancing the needs of all parties interested in internal control quality disclosure.","PeriodicalId":412480,"journal":{"name":"Indiana University Kelley School of Business Research Paper Series","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127338960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}