How learning about harms impacts the optimal rate of artificial intelligence adoption

JS Gans - Economic Policy, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines recent proposals and research suggesting that artificial intelligence
(AI) adoption should be delayed until its potential harms are fully understood. Conclusions …

Scandal, social movement, and change: Evidence from# MeToo in Hollywood

H Luo, L Zhang - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Social movements have the potential to effect change in strategic decision making. In this
paper, we examine whether the# MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein …

Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities

E Lyons, L Zhang - Strategic Management Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Abstract We examine whether salary transparency influences gender
pays inequality in the context of Canadian universities by exploiting a policy change enacted …

When does product liability risk chill innovation? Evidence from medical implants

A Galasso, H Luo - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also
affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in …

Laboratory safety and research productivity

A Galasso, H Luo, B Zhu - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by
exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California …

How do MNEs and domestic firms respond locally to a global demand shock? Evidence from a pandemic

A Adbi, C Chatterjee, A Mishra - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Global shocks bring unanticipated changes in the business environment of foreign
multinational enterprises (MNEs) and rival domestic firms. We examine whether there is a …

Consumers' risk perception, market demand, and firm innovation: Evidence from China

J Cao, H Jiang, X Ren, J Shi - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Major product safety incidents often cause widespread concern among consumers, and
these product safety incidents will stimulate consumers' psychology, change their risk …

Pharmaceutical product liability, litigation regimes, and the propensity to patent: an empirical firm-level investigation

M Kovac, S Datta, R Spruk - SAGE open, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Do different pharmaceutical product liability regimes in different countries induce propensity
to patent? We exploit the variation in pharmaceutical liability and litigation rules across firms …

Risk Analysis: Changing the Story with the Statistical Stochastic Process and VaR

L Wu - Axioms, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the dramatically increased demand for data analysis, statistical techniques play a key
role in modern society for both academics and practitioners. Statistical techniques have …

Profits, reputation, and the risk of medical malpractice liability

NE Cho, YM Zhou - Strategy Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We investigate the classic strategy choice between low cost and high quality when quality is
not directly observable and legal liability about quality is uncertain. In addition, we …