suggest that state-level politics and the politicization of an issue impacts institutional investors' votes …

Marketing and distribution expenses are responsible for about a third of the cost of active management in the mutual … fund industry. We develop and estimate a structural model of mutual fund marketing with learning about unobserved skill and … costly investor search. Our estimates suggest that marketing is nearly as important as performance and fees for determining …

Persuasive communication functions not only through content but also delivery, e.g., facial expression, tone of voice …

How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the … showing how a fall in communication costs can increase the rate at which scientific knowledge is exchanged and new ideas and … and urban economics positing that more ideas can emerge from communication between individuals …

The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …