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OLIN RESEARCH QUARTERLY September 2005
Volume 1, Issue 1

Editor: Glenn MacDonald
Managing Editor: Elaine McClary

Journal Acceptances

ACCOUNTING

Davis: "Emphasis on Pro Forma versus GAAP Earnings in Quarterly Press Releases: Determinants, SEC Intervention, and Market Reactions" with R. Bowen and D. Matsumoto, forthcoming in The Accounting Review, October 2005.

Mashruwala: "Was The Bell System a Natural Monopoly? An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis," with H. Chang, forthcoming in Annals of Operations Research.

ECONOMICS

Chib: "Inference in Semiparametric Dynamic Models for Binary Longitudinal Data", with I. Jeliazkov, Journal of the American Statistical Association, in press.

Chib: "Analysis of High Dimensional Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models", with F. Nardari and N. Shephard, Journal of Econometrics, in press.

Chib: "Bayesian Model Selection for Joinpoint Regression Model with Application to Age-adjusted Cancer Rates'', with R.C. Tiwari, A. Cronin, W. Davis, E.J. Feuer and B. Yu, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser C, in press.

Chib: "Accept-Reject Metropolis-Hastings Sampling and Marginal Likelihood Estimation", with I. Jeliazkov, Statistica Neerlandica, 2005, 30-44.

Cripps: "Reputation with Equal Discounting in Repeated Games with Strictly Conflicting Interests," with E. Dekel & W. Pesendorfer, in Journal of Economic Theory vol. 121, 259-272, 2005.

Cripps: "Efficiency of Large Double Auctions" with Jeroen Swinkels, forthcoming in Econometrica.

Pollak: "Marital Disruption, Step Children, and Transfers to the Elderly" (joint with Liliana Pezzin and Barbara Schone), forthcoming in Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.

Swinkels: "Efficiency of Large Double Auctions", forthcoming in Econometrica.

Swinkels: "Information, Evolution and Utility", forthcoming in Theoretical Economics.

FINANCE

Faulkender: "Corporate Financial Policy and the Value of Cash" with Rong Wang accepted at Journal of Finance (June)

Thakor: "The Choice Between private and public Ownership", with co-authors, forthcoming in Journal of Finance.

Thakor: "Information Control, Career Concerns, and Corporate Governance" with Fenghua Song (doctoral student here), forthcoming in Journal of Finance.

MARKETING

Cheema: "Malleable Mental Accounting: The Effect of Flexibility on the Justification of Attractive Spending and Consumption Decisions," with Dilip Soman, forthcoming in Journal of Consumer Psychology, 16, 1, January 2006.

Chan: "Estimating a Continuous Hedonic Choice Model with an Application to Demand for Soft Drinks.", forthcoming in RAND Journal of Economics.

Kuksov: "Search, Common Knowledge, and Competition", forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory, 2005.

Narasimhan: "Salesforce Compensation: Revisiting and Extending the Agency-Theoretic Approach" with Anne Coughlan and Sanjog Misra, forthcoming in Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2005.

Narasimhan: "Modeling Selectivity in Households' Purchase Quantity Outcomes: A Count Data Approach", with Qin Zhang and P.B. Seetharaman, in Review of Marketing Studies, June 2005.

Pazgal: "Budget or Target: The choice between Input and Output Strategies" joint with Nolan Miller, forthcoming in RAND Journal of Economics.

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Bottom: "Pathways to Cooperation: Negotiation and Social Exchange between Principal and Agent", with J. Holloway, G. J. Miller, A. Mislin, & A.B. Whitford, forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly, 2005.

Bunderson: "Learning and performance in multidisciplinary teams: The importance of collective team identification", with G.S. Van der Vegt, Academy of Management Journal, 48, 532-547, 2005.

Dirks: "Direct and indirect effects of third party relationships on interpersonal trust", with D. L. Ferrin, P.P. Shah, forthcoming in Journal of Applied Psychology.

Dirks: "When more blame is better than less: The implications of internal vs. external attributions for the repair of trust after a competence- vs. integrity-based trust violation", with P.H. Kim, C.D. Cooper, & D.L. Ferrin. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, in press.

Langfred: "Autonomy and performance in teams: The multi-level moderating effect of task interdependence", Journal of Management, 31: 513-529, 2005.

Langfred: "Information sharing and group conflict: Going beyond decision making to understand the effects of information sharing on group performance", with N.A. Moye, International Journal of Conflict Management, 15: 381-410, 2005.

Sparrowe: "Two routes to influence: Integrating leader-member exchange and network perspectives", with R.C. Liden, forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly.

Sparrowe: "Do leaders’ influence tactics relate to members’ cooperative behaviors? It depends on the quality of the relationship", with B. Soetjipto and M.L. Kraimer, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal.

OMM

Aviv: "A Partially Observed Markov Decision Process for Dynamic Pricing, in Management Science, 51 (9), 2005.

Dong: "Markets for Surplus Components with A Strategic Supplier", with E. Durbin, forthcoming in Naval Research Logistics, 2005

Kouvelis: "Order Quantity and Timing Flexibility in Supply Chains: The Role of Demand Characteristics", with Joseph Milner, Management Science 51, 6, 970-985,2005

Kouvelis: "Dynamic Pricing Through Discounts for Optimizing Multi-Class Fulfillment", with Qing Ding and Joseph Milner, forthcoming in Operations Research.

Kouvelis: "The Multiobjective Discrete Optimization Problem: A Weighted Min-Max Two Stage Optimization Approach and Bicriteria Algorithm", with Serpil Sayin, forthcoming in Management Science.

Kouvelis: "Modeling and Managing the Percentage of Satisfied Customers in Hidden and revealed Waiting Line Systems", with Chester Chambers, forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.

Kouvelis: "The Structure of Global Supply Chain Networks", with Ping Su, forthcoming in Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management.

Kouvelis: "Manufacturing Operations: A Critical Review and Research Directions of Papers Published in the First 52 Issues of POM", with Dennis Yu, forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.

Olsen: "Finite Buffer Polling Models with Routing," with S. E. Grasman and J. R. Birge, European Journal of Operational Research, September 2005, Vol 165/3, pp. 794-809.

STRATEGY

Knott: "Is Failure Good?", with Hart Posen, Strategic Management Journal, 26 (7) 617-641, 2005.


Books & Conference Volumes

ECONOMICS

Chib: "Modeling and Analysis for Categorical Response Data," Handbook of Statistics, Volume 25: Bayesian Thinking: Modeling and Computation, (eds D. Dey and C.R. Rao), Elsevier Science, Oxford, in press.

Pollak: "Samuelson's ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Jekyll’ Problem: A Difficulty in the Concept of the Consumer," forthcoming in Samuelsonian Economics and the 21st Century, ed by M. Szenberg, L. Ramrattan, and A. Gottesman, Oxford University Press.

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McLean Parks: "The name game: Employability evaluations of prototypical applicants with stereotypical female and male first names", with f. smith, F. Tabak, S. Showail, & J. Kleist, Sex Roles, in press.


Conference Acceptances/Presentations

ACCOUNTING

Frankel: Presented a paper at the American Accounting Association annual meeting in August 2005.

Jenkins: In the last year presented at the WashU mini, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section and Florida Education Association Conferences and at the University of Wisconsin.

King: Presented research paper at European Accounting Association meeting, May 2005.

King: Presented two-day lecture at National Taiwan University in April 2005 as part of the National Science Council’s Outstanding Scholar Lecture Series Program.

Seethamraju: Presented a paper, co-authored with Nick Dopuch and Weihong Xu (former Olin Ph.D.), at the American Accounting Association in August 2005.

Zach: Presented at the January 2005 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association mid-year meetings – "Testing the accrual fixation hypothesis as an explanation for the accrual anomaly".

ECONOMICS

Chib: Presented at Princeton University, September 2005.

Chib: Presented at the Statistics and Computer Science Interface Meetings in St. Louis, July 2005 (invited presentation)

Chib: Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Minneapolis, August 2005 (invited presentation).

Chib: Organizer for 2005 National Bureau of Economic Research-National Science Foundation Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Economics and Statistics, August 2005.

Cripps: Presented at the Binmore Festschrift Conference -- University College, London in August 2005.

Freidenberg: Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, July 2005.

Freidenberg: Presented at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 2005.

Gowrisankaran: Presented seminars at Duke in September 2005, Kellogg in April 2005, the University of Missouri in April 2005 and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in June 2005, on a new paper on dynamic pricing decisions for consumer durables.

Hamilton: Presented at the Duke/UNC Structural Econometrics in Labor and Health Conference in September 2005.

MacDonald: Featured panelist, Atlantic Competitive Advantage Conference, June 2005.

Pollak: Presented on March 10, 2005 at the National Institutes of Health Conference on "Intergenerational Family Resource Allocation" in Bethesda, "Long-Term Care and Intergenerational Resource Allocation".

Pollak: Presented on April 1, 2005 at the Population Association of America in Philadelphia, "Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Spouses and Children", with Pezzin and Schone.

Pollak: Presented on April 21, 2005, at the University of Chicago, "Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Spouses and Children" with Pezzin and Schone.

Pollak: Presented on June 17, 2005, at the European Society for Population Economics in Paris, "Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Spouses and Children" with Pezzin and Schone.

Pollak: Presented on June 30, 2005, at the IZA/Society of Labor Economics Transatlantic Meeting Ammersee Bavaria in Germany, "Bargaining Power in Marriage: Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production".

Pollak: Presented on September 16, 2005 at the Carleton University in Ottawa, "Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Adult Children and Elderly Parents" with Pezzin and Schone.

Swinkels: Presented at the University of Edinburgh, May 2005.

Swinkels: Presented at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 2005.

FINANCE

Faulkender & Milbourn: Presented at National Bureau of Economic Research 2005 Summer Corporate Finance workshop (August).

Faulkender: Presented a seminar at University of Virginia -- Darden ,September 2005.

Gomes: Presented his paper "Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Securities?" with G. Phillips in a seminar at Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ) in August 2005 and at the 2005 National Bureau of Economic Research summer institute conference.

Kadan: Presented two papers at 2005 European Finance Association Meeting.

Kadan: Presented a paper on the program of 2005 Econometric Society World Congress.

Litov: Presented a paper at the 2005 National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Corporate Governance Workshop.

Litov: Presented a paper at the 2005 National Bureau of Economic Research Spring Corporate Governance Workshop.

Litov: Presented two papers at the 2005 Western Finance Association meetings.

Thakor: Presented at the Journal of Finance International-Amsterdam Institute of Law and Finance Conference in Zandvoort, Netherlands, Sep 16-17, " The Push for Privacy: why do Publicly listed firms delist?"

Zhou: Presented a paper at the International Finance Conference in China in July, 2005 .

MARKETING

Cheema: "Economics, Psychology, and Social Dynamics of Consumer Bidding in Auctions,", with Peter T. L. Popkowski-Leszczyc, Rajesh Bagchi, Richard P. Bagozzi, James C. Cox, Utpal M. Dholakia, Eric A. Greenleaf, Amit Pazgal, Michael H. Rothkopf, Michael Shen, Shyam Sunder, and Robert Zeithammer, forthcoming in Marketing Letters, 16, 3-4, 2005. Invited paper for proceedings of a session at the 6th Invitational Choice Symposium, Estes Park, CO 2004.

Chan: Presented at the Marketing Science Conference at Emory University, June 2005, "Managerial Expectations and Decision-Making in A Non-Profit Environment: Advertising for the Performing Arts", with Barton Hamilton and Chris Makler.

Chan: Presented at the Marketing Science Conference at Emory University, June 2005, "The Exercise of Buy-It-Now Prices in Auctions: Bidder Choices Drivers and Seller Revenue Implications", with Vrinda Kadiyali and Young-Hoon Park.

Chan: Invited to present at the 3rd SICS conference at University of California, Berkeley, July 2005, "An Empirical Analysis of Store Competition", with Yu Ma, Chakravarthi Narasimhan and Vishal Singh.

Kuksov: Presentations at Marketing Science Conference at Emory University, June 2005, "Feelings about Quality and Thinking about Feelings", and "When More Alternatives Lead to Less Choice".

Pazgal: Presented the slotting allowance paper with Dmitri Kuksov at the first "Strategic and Tactical Decision Making in Supermarket Retailing" Conference in NY, on August 11, 2005.

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Bunderson: Symposium presentation at the 2005 Academy of Management Meetings in Honolulu, "Learning from member differences in groups: The role of psychological safety", with A. Mislin.

Bunderson: Competitive paper presented at the 2005 Academy of Management Meetings in Honolulu, "Competence level diversity and interpersonal helping in groups: Why those who need the most help end up getting the least", with G.S. Van der Vegt, and A. Oosterhof.

Langfred: Paper presented at the 2005 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Honolulu, "A Longitudinal View of How Conflict, Information Sharing, and Team Creative Processes Unfold", with N.A. Moye.

Langfred: Paper presented at the 2005 International Association for Conflict Management Annual Conference, Seville, "The influence of conflict on creativity-relevant intragroup processes over time", with N.A. Moye and L.L. Gilson.

Long: Presentation at the 2005 Academy of Management (AOM) Meeting Honolulu, HI, "The Tightrope Walk: How Leaders Integrate Task Control, Trust-Building, and Fairness-Building Efforts".

Long: Presentation at the 2005 Academy of Management (AOM) Meetings, Honolulu, HI, "Managerial Action to Build Control, Trust, and Fairness in Organizations: The Effect of Conflict" with L. B. Cardinal.

Long: Presentation at the 2005 Academy of Management (AOM) Meetings, Honolulu, HI. "Fairness in the Face of Adversity: How Superior-Subordinate Affect Managers’ Efforts to Promote Fairness".

Long: Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643 (2005), "Managerial Action to Build Control, Trust, and Fairness in Organizations: The Effect of Conflict", with L.B. Cardinal.

Sparrowe: Presented at the 2005 Academy of Management meeting in Honolulu, HI., "Do leaders’ influence tactics relate to members’ cooperative behaviors? It depends on the quality of the relationship", with B. Soetjipto & M.L. Kraimer.

Sparrowe: Presented at the 2005 Academy of Management meeting in Honolulu, HI. (Invited Paper Presentation), "A portfolio approach to teaching leadership" with S. Seibert & S. Jackson.

OMM

Aviv: Presented at the 2005 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences International Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, "On the Benefits of Collaborative Forecasting Partnerships between Retailers and Manufacturers".

Chayet: Presented at Production & Operations Management Society, University of Chicago, May 3, 2005.

Dong: Presented at the 2005 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference at Northwestern University, "Equilibrium Forward Contract on Nonstorable Commodities in the Presence of Market Power".

Dong: Presented at the Second Mini-Conference on Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chain Management in Saint Louis, MO, 2005, "Equilibrium Forward Contract on Nonstorable Commodities in the Presence of Market Power".

Dong: Presented at the 2004 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Meeting in Denver, CO, "On The Integration of Production and Financial Hedging Decisions in Global Markets".

Kouvelis: Presented at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, September 2005, "On the Integration of Production and Financial Hedging Decisions in Global Markets".

Olsen: Presented at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Applied Probability Conference in Ottawa, Canada, July 2005, [invited talk], "Heavy-traffic Limits for Polling Models: Results and Open Problems".

Olsen: Presented at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Applied Probability Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005, [invited talk], "Service Levels Agreements in Call Centers" with J. Milner.

STRATEGY

Elfenbein: Presented to the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on "Academic Science and Entrepreneurship: Dual Engines of Growth?" Sante Fe, NM, April 1-2, 2005, "Publications, Patents, and the Market for University Inventions."

Knott: Presented at 2005 Academy of Management, "Entrepreneurial Risk and Market Entry", with Brian Wu (U.S. Small Business Administration best student paper award).

Knott: Presented at 2005 Academy of Management, "Firm Decomposition and Innovation: Capturing Exploration and Exploitation Complementarities".

Nickerson: Participated as a panelist at the 2005 Academy of Management meetings.

Nickerson: Two presentations at 2005 Academy of Management meetings.

Nickerson: Presented paper at International Society for New Institutional Economics meetings in Barcelona, Spain.

Zenger: Two presentations at the 2005 Academy of Management meeting.


Honors

ECONOMICS

Hamilton: Awarded a research grant from Pfizer, Inc. for project entitled "Exploring Heterogeneity in Treatment Effects" (with Anup Malani, University of Virginia), September 2005.

Pollak: Society of Labor Economists (Fellow), April 25, 2005.

MARKETING

Kuksov: Appointed to the Editorial Board of Review of Marketing Studies in August 2005.

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Bunderson: Co-organizer of the OMT/ODC/MOC doctoral consortium at the 2005 Academy of Management meeting in Honolulu, HI.

Dirks: Received the award for "Best empirical paper" from the Conflict Management Division, Academy of Management Meeting, 2005. The paper titled "Silence speaks volumes: The effectiveness of reticence for repairing trust violations’ was co-authored with D. Ferrin, P. Kim, and C. Cooper.

STRATEGY

Nickerson: Appointed to editorial board of Strategic Management Journal, summer 2005

Zenger: Appointed to new three-year editorial board term at Academy of Management Review, July 1, 2005.



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