Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - 2016
We study a policy response to an increase in post-merger social stress. If a merger of groups of people is viewed as a … revision of their social space, then the merger alters people's comparators and increases social stress: the social stress of a … social stress as a proxy measure for looming social protest. As a response to the post-merger increase in social stress, we …