We examine how the regulation of financial reporting frequency affects corporate innovation.
We use a difference-in-differences approach based on a sample of treatment firms that …

We examine the effect of short sellers on corporate innovation. To establish causality, we
use a policy experiment that exogenously removes the short-selling constraint for a …

We study a platform's incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the
platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a …

Should platforms be held liable for the harms suffered by users? A two-sided platform
enables interactions between firms and users. There are two types of firms: harmful and …

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 …

A tort is an action that causes harm or loss, resulting in legal liability for the person who
commits the act. The role of the tort system is to deter people from injuring others and to …

We examine the impacts of potential artificial intelligence (AI) regulations on managers'
perceptions on ethical issues related to AI and their intentions to adopt AI technologies. We …

We analyze the role of product liability for the emergence and development of smart
products such as autonomous vehicles (AVs). We develop, and calibrate to the US car …

The safety concerns for autonomous vehicles (AV) are shown to be a roadblock to their
adoption. This paper addresses these concerns by studying a unified, game-theoretic …

Over the last quarter century, a nationalized and increasingly conservative Republican Party
made unprecedented gains at the state level, winning control of twenty-four new state …